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Stopping Illegal Logging Protect Endangered Species While Saving American Jobs
2015-11-22 17:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Second in size only to the Amazon, the Congo Basin rainforests are a hotbed of biological diversity. From lowland gorillas to African teak, more than 10,000 species of tropical plants are found alongside 400 species of mammals and 1,000 species of birds. Unfortunately, these rainforests and the communities that depend on them are under attack from illegal logging. As one of the largest consumers of wood products, the U.S. has the responsibility, and the tools in place, to help stop illegal logging...
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KATU: Lawyer says city's new rule on rent increases illegal, files suit
2015-11-19 22:56:35| PortlandOnline
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Leaked report reveals massive illegal logging in Laos
2015-11-06 20:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Systematic and rampant illegal logging are wreaking havoc on Laos forests on an astonishing scale, a recent report has found, painting a vivid picture of the dire ecological situation in one of Southeast Asias most opaque countries. Assessment of Scope of Illegal Logging in Laos and Associated Trans-boundary Timber Trade, a recently leaked WWF report dated June 2015, details the extent at which the impoverished socialist republic is felling its forests, primarily due to demand from neighboring...
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Four Technologies for Detecting and Preventing Illegal Logging
2015-11-05 17:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Participants at a recent technology summit examined the challenges and opportunities for applying and scaling up emerging technologies to monitoring forests and preventing illegal logging. Unmanned aerial vehicles, ground sensors, satellite imagery, and crowdsourcing apps can all empower people to monitor and defend forests in ways that were previously impossible. Better information must lead to action, including increasing funding, engaging local communities and governments, communicating...
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Europe failing clamp down illegal logging, report warns
2015-10-22 10:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A European bid to clamp down on the $100bn-a-year global trade in illegal timber has been poorly designed, badly managed and largely ineffective, according to a damning report by the EUs court of auditors. Illegal logging is thought to be responsible for around one-fifth of man-made greenhouse gas emissions more than from all the worlds ships, planes, trains and cars combined. It is also an existential threat to forest-dependent indigenous people, and to biodiversity. But 12 years after...
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