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Kenyan project accreditedKenya - A Kenyan project backed by conservation group WWF that promotes carvings from sustainably harvested wood has been accredited with FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certification, for the first time in the nation's history. |
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Inauguration Opens Nearly 150,000 Acres of Protected Chilean Rainforest to the Public for First TimeValdivia, Chile - A history of deforestation and neglect comes officially to a close for a vast stretch of some of the most threatened and biologically rich temperate rainforest in the world. |
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China launches “green storm” against forest destructionBeijing, China - The State Forestry Administration (SFA) released a blacklist of 10 major cases of forest destruction since 2003 on Wednesday, unveiling a national campaign to crack down on deforestation. |
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Haida Nation Fights For Old ForestsQueen Charlotte Islands, Canada - The Haida Nation has set up a number of blockades around the Queen Charlotte Islands to protest the transfer of Weyerhaeuser's tree-farm licence to Brascan, complaining it wasn't properly consulted by British Columbia (B.C.) provincial government. |
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G8 agrees to take action over illegal loggingBreadsall, England - The Group of Eight industrialised nations agreed to take action on illegal logging on Friday, a problem that costs governments and legal timber companies billions of pounds a year. |
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Vancouver Island park nearly doublesVictoria - Water, Land and Air Protection Minister Bill Barisoff was announcing that Vancouver Island's MacMillan Provincial Park will almost double in size, thanks to a land donation by Weyerhaeuser. |
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‘No mercy’ for illegal loggers in Indonesia: presidentJakarta, Indonesia - Indonesia's president pledged to wage war against deforestation, promising harsh penalties for officials involved in the illegal logging that continues to destroy massive areas of woodland annually. |
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China starts trial calculation of green GDPBeijing - China has launched a trial calculation of its gross domestic product (GDP) that takes into account of environmental factors, as a way to check environmental deterioration and put its roaring economy on the track of sustainable development. |
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Firefighters Bring Blaze Under Control in Chile ParkSantiago, Chile - A wildfire in Chile's most famous national park, Torres del Paine in Patagonia, is mostly under control after a week in which it burned more than 55 square miles, the forestry service said on Friday. |
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African Loggers Begin to See the Light in ForestsCameroon - IN THE RAINFOREST OF SOUTHEASTERN CAMEROON - Standing in a clearing by a pile of recently felled tree trunks, Edmond Fouda says life as a woodcutter has changed in recent years. |
evironmental news headlines
- Old-growth B.C. forests worth more standing than fallen, study says
- EU parliament eases road for hydrogen cars
- Ghana, EU clinch deal to crackdown on illicit timber trade
- New era for sustainable investing
- New giant clam species found
- Beijing air measures ‘must stay’
- Ghana’s grass-roots bid to save country’s last forests
- Bombs away!—innovative concept of planting tree saplings
- Legislature takes aim at urban sprawl and global warming
- World’s Largest Marine Sanctuary Proposed by U.S.
- A New Biopesticide For The Organic Food Boom
- Denmark’s approves 400 MW offshore windmill park
- Wrapping up the problem of broken light bulbs
- Biodegradable Plastics Are Good for Atmosphere, Too
- Hawaii Recycles Record 72 Percent of Beverage Containers
- Little robin from Gabon is world’s newest species
- Pacific dives recover novel fish
- Eco-tower rising in Lower Manhattan to include hotel and meeting space
- Auto Painting Goes Green
- Some big whales recovering since 1980s hunt ban
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