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Former Malaysian chief: legal logging also 'destructive' forests
2014-11-30 00:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Former Malaysian prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad is calling for limits on legal logging in the Southeast Asian nation. In an oped published today in the Malaysia Mail Online, the long-serving ruler called legal logging "destructive". "We are reading a lot about illegal logging and illegal workers. It is right that illegal logging should be stopped and illegal workers arrested and deported," he wrote. "But what about legal logging? They may be legal but they are also destroying even more...
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Surprising reasons be optimistic about saving forests
2014-11-14 02:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: In the 1990s, the world watched with alarm as vast tracts of tropical rainforest were torn down for timber and croplands, dug up for minerals and energy, and flooded for hydroelectric projects. Conservation groups, governments, philanthropists, and institutions like the World Bank collectively spent billions of dollars on programs to stop the carnage. But as viewed from satellites high above Earth's surface, those efforts barely dented deforestation rates. Nearly a decade and a half into the 21st...
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Australia: Coalition bid strip Tasmanian forests world heritage cover 'disappointing'
2014-11-09 21:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The head of the worlds leading conservation organisation has criticised the Australian governments attempt to strip world heritage protection from Tasmanias forests, as new data laid bare the vast number of ecosystems in Australia at risk of collapse. Julia Marton-Lefvre, director general of the IUCN, the body that advises the United Nations on conservation matters, told Guardian Australia it was disappointing that the Abbott government had launched a bid to remove 74,000ha of Tasmanian...
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Changing climate changing forests: How best to help Pennsylvanias forests
2014-11-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: In a 19th-century farmhouse deep in northern Pennsylvania`s Bradford County, Nancy Baker is looking at family photos dating back four generations. One shows her grandfather with a team of horses on clear cut land. Another shows her mother and aunt on the same farm as a small child. Baker also has a series of aerial photos going back to 1939, which show how the forest cover has evolved in the past 70 years. Her home was built by her great grandfather, Joseph Morrow Gamble, a Scots-Irish immigrant...
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Siam Kubota works on reforesting Thailand's mangrove forests
2014-10-26 03:06:59| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
Mangrove forests are important for coastal areas and a valuable resource to sustain the economy and environment of the country. However, Thailand's mangrove forest areas have declined in recent years and are likely to decrease further.
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