positive Forests news
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Norwegian government boycotts Malaysian timber giantThe Norwegian government has excluded the Malaysian timber giant Samling from its pension fund on ethical grounds. |
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A splinter of hope in the fight against illegal loggingIllegal logging has fallen by 22 per cent globally, and up to 75 per cent in the Brazilian Amazon and Indonesia. |
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Penalties promised for illegal wood salesAustralia - AGRICULTURE Minister Tony Burke yesterday promised that the government would make it a criminal offence to sell illegally logged timber. |
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Amazon deforestation in dramatic decline, official figures showLarge-scale deforestation in the Amazon rainforest fell dramatically last year, according to official figures released yesterday. |
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10,000km walk along the Amazon River nears the endEd Stafford, 34, from Leicestershire, central England, has been walking the length Amazon River since April 2, 2008, to raise awareness of the region. |
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Ecuador pledges no oil drilling in Amazon reserveEcuador has agreed to refrain from drilling for oil in a pristine Amazon rainforest reserve in return for up to $3.6bn in payments from rich countries. |
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European Parliament bans illegal timberThe European Parliament has voted to ban imports of illegal timber. |
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Canada’s boreal forest primed to be world’s best-protected ecosystemCanada’s boreal forest is on track to become the world’s best-protected ecosystem, says paper slated to be presented this week at an international conference on conversation issues. |
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GEF backs ‘Great Green Wall’ with 119 million dollarsThe Global Environment Facility announced Thursday at a summit in Chad that it will fund a "Great Green Wall" to reforest northern Africa to the tune of 119 million dollars (96 million euros). |
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Key Countries Partner to Reduce Deforestation EmissionsAt the Oslo Climate and Forest Conference in Norway on Friday, over 50 developed and developing countries signed a “Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation” (REDD) partnership, committing to spend over $4 billion in the next three years to reduce emissions from deforestation activities. |
evironmental news headlines
- Norwegian government boycotts Malaysian timber giant
- 100MW solar power plant to be built in the UAE
- New road concrete developed that actually cleans the air
- Russia and China vow to protect Siberian tigers
- Cannabis electric car to be made in Canada
- Fortune 500 Companies Flex Market Muscle, Reject Tar Sands
- New Study Shows Americans Used Less Energy and More Renewables in 2009
- Smallest frog in Asia discovered in Borneo
- Scientists hope to collect electricity from the air
- White House crackdown on dirty trucks gathers pace
- Spray-on film turns glass into solar panels
- Mexico City bans free plastic bags
- No deepwater drilling without environmental studies: U.S.
- A splinter of hope in the fight against illegal logging
- Solar power plant plans move ahead in California
- Cleanup of Superfund Site Completed in Morris County, New Jersey
- New Zealand retracts plans to open up rare frog habitat to mining
- Penalties promised for illegal wood sales
- EPA Rejects Claims of Flawed Climate Science
- Amazon deforestation in dramatic decline, official figures show
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