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Gabon seeks sustainable path as it cuts part of vast forest
The west African nation of Gabon is trying to wean itself off oil revenue and maintain the bulk of its gigantic forest with judicious cutting of old growth trees and the creation of local jobs. (Chistophe Van Der Perre/Reuters)
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How green is Gabon’s logging industry?
With its oil reserves in decline, Gabon is betting that regulated logging can safeguard the vast wealth of its forests, halving carbon emissions associated with the industry while producing more timber. But how green are Gabon’s logging...
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Project opponent Todd Towle
Todd Towle, a fly-fishing guide and photographer in northern Maine who opposes the Hydro-Québec project.
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‘Code red for humanity’: 5 key climate change facts
Effects of human-caused global warming are happening now and will only worsen if action to decarbonise is not urgently taken, researchers say.
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'Lungs of Europe': Romania under severe illegal logging threat
The Carpathian Mountains in Romania are known as the "Lungs of Europe", but that title is under threat.
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Spanish farmers test growing crops in desert-like area
A group of farmers in southern Spain is testing a new approach to agriculture. Hernan-Valle is a desert-like area that gets very little rain in the winter.
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Poland accused of driving plight of migrants and refugees
Poland plans to spend more than $400m on a wall along its border with Belarus, following a surge in refugees and migrants trying to get into the country.
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Mozambique conflict: Displaced people waiting to return home
Many people were displaced in northern Mozambique during a four-year conflict between an armed group and the government.
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Indian villages’ dangerous coexistence with tiger reserves
Efforts to preserve the tiger population in central India has created a dangerous coexistence for the nearby villages, where residents are having more close calls and deadly encounters.
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Over 100 NGOs want EU to end use of biofuel as 'renewable' energy
European citizens pay more than €6 billion per year to subsidise wood burning as renewable energy.
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Chile’s Indigenous Mapuche resist loggers and state control
Unrest in Chile's Indigenous Mapuche regions is becoming increasingly volatile.
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Brazilian photographer Salgado highlights Amazon Forest destruction
Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado teamed up with musician Jean-Michel to highlight the destruction of the Amazon forest, and to slam Bolsonaro
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Rash of tree thefts on Vancouver Island sparks calls for more enforcement
Some residents on Vancouver Island are calling for stricter enforcement and stiffer penalties following a recent rash of tree theft in the area, which may be linked to the rising price of lumber. Around 100 trees have been taken from a...
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The divisive fight over Vancouver Island’s old-growth trees
A fight to protect old-growth trees from logging on Vancouver Island has some activists risking arrest by defying a court order to leave several protest camps. The Fairy Creek dispute has also pitted members of a local First Nation...
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Uttarakhand Forward | RK Sudhanshu on how Uttarakhand balances development with sustainability
In an exclusive interview as part of TOI’s Uttarakhand Forward series, RK Sudhanshu, Principal Secretary for Forest and Environment, Uttarakhand, shared insights into the state’s innovative strategies for balancing development with...
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Forests must be protected for 'people, planet and prosperity,' says UN chief
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called on people and governments to increase their efforts to protect forests and support forest communities, in order to achieve global sustainability goals.
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Forest fires, logging create big crisis in Australia
Leaders are now under pressure to come up with fresh policies to protect biodiversity.
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Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon surges to 12-year high
Destruction of the world’s largest rainforest in 2020 rose 9.5 percent from a year earlier according to government data.
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India demolishes homes of nomadic tribes in Kashmir
Local authorities say the community is illegally occupying forest land, but the tribes argue they have lived there for generations.
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Brazil's urban residents turn to farming amid virus fallout
As COVID-19 decimates jobs in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro's slum residents find new sustenance from the land
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Amazon wildfires: Fears rainforest may turn into savannah
During the first nine months of 2020, 76,000 fires tore through the rainforest, the most for that period in 10 years.
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Uganda: Bugoma forest reserve facing destruction
Environmentalists say a planned sugar plantation threatens a protected rainforest and hundreds of its animal species.
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US bans palm oil imports from Malaysian producer FGV
US customs agency ban follows probe into forced labour allegations; FGV says it upholds labour standards.
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Quebec mother mourns 2 daughters; police narrow search for father
The mother of two girls found dead in a Quebec forest visited a growing memorial while police narrowed the search area for the girls’ father, Martin Carpentier, who is wanted in connection with their deaths.