positive Forests news
World’s largest rain forest national park created in Northern AmazonIn an effort to halt illegal land occupancy and deforestation, the Governor of the State of Amazonas, Eduardo Braga, has signed a decree creating nine new areas of conservation in the southern part of the state totaling 3,070,058 hectares. |
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Lawsuit presses for sequoia logging banEnvironmentalists sued the federal government Thursday over plans to log in central California's Giant Sequoia National Monument, home to two-thirds of the world's largest trees. |
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London Underground Saves Piles of Paper with Smartcard SystemLondon's Oyster card system is saving a huge amount of paper waste and is an environmental asset to the U.K., Transport for London (TfL) and Friends of the Earth (FoE) have stated. |
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Boreal region gets protectionLarge parts of Finland and Sweden's boreal (woodland) region is to be added to the European Commission's Natura2000 conservation scheme, in a move that will benefit various sensitive species and habitats. |
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Endangered animals make comebackThere has been a steady increase in the number of rare and endangered wildlife, including the rare and endangered giant panda, because of enlarged habitats and improved ecosystems. |
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Indian Village Beats Tsunami with Tree PowerTwo years ago, drought-stricken farmers in a village on the southern coast of India walked into the Guinness Book of World Records by planting the highest number of saplings in a 24-hour period. |
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Green Christmas: Tips for an Eco-Friendly HolidayYes, the holidays draw out the best in most of us each year. But they also bring what seems like an environmentalist's worst nightmare: tons of extra garbage, millions of chopped-down trees, and megawatts of flashing lights. With a little tweaking, however, everything from holiday gift-giving to light-stringing can celebrate the environment, too. Here's how: |
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Wildlife treaty moves to protect Asian hardwoodThe global treaty regulating trade in threatened wildlife moved to protect ramin, the Asian hardwood whose forests and their inhabitants have been devastated by rampant commercial logging. |
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Environmentalists claim victory on government’s working forest planEnvironmentalists claimed victory Thursday on the government's feared working forest initiative, saying the Liberals whittled down their plans to open much of British Columbia's forest land to future development. |
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Provincial government launches plan for “spirit bear” sanctuaryEndangered bears indigenous to B.C.'s West Coast may soon have a new sanctuary after government and stakeholders released their recommendations for a land use agreement Saturday. |
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Crews making progress battling B.C. firesFire officials lifted evacuation orders for two small northern B.C. settlements Friday, but fires continue to plague many parts of the province. |
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Woodless paper interest growsAlberta's pulping sector is kick-starting a new trend that could see local farmers plant crops for paper production instead of food. |
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Canada’s boreal forest would be spared under conservation accordMore than half of Canada's vast northern forest, about 1 million square miles in all, would be exempt from logging and other industrial development under an agreement announced Monday by a coalition of native tribes, environmentalists, and businesses. |
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Costa Rican Rainforest preserved by Utah Businessmen as Conservation and Education ModelThe Bosque Lluvioso is a rain forest and field exploratory located in central Costa Rica. The Bosque reserve was originally established in 1996 by two Utah businessmen who purchased the core mountain landscape for conservation and education purposes before it was to be deforested by commercial logging plans. While Costa Rica covers barely 0.3% of the earth's land surface, its ecosystems contain between 5-9% of all of the earth's biological species. The Bosque helps expand this protected area in Costa Rica. |
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Environmental news headlines
- EU to ban pesticides in bee scare
- New law to protect Puerto Rico leatherback turtles
- China, world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gasses, will tax carbon
- New wind power cheaper than coal or gas in Australia
- Gorillas to Be Protected with New Congo National Park
- From the brink of extinction: elephant seals stage remarkable comeback
- Nations agree on legally binding mercury rules
- Six million turn out for global garbage clean-up
- Obama triples area of protected California coastline
- Swiss Parliament Passes Plastic Bag Ban
- This week, a shark sanctuary the size of Australia has been established
- French move boosts shark sanctuaries
- Canada introduces new rules to curb future vehicle emissions
- Brazil says Amazon deforestation at record low
- Australia outlaws illegally-logged wood from abroad
- Tokelau islands shift to 100% solar energy
- Another city in BC bans shark fins
- EU on track to exceed Kyoto emissions goal
- Victory for Forests: Disney Stands Up for Endangered Forests and Animals
- new mammal menagerie uncovered in remote Peruvian cloud forest
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