Tag: NATURAL_FORESTS
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Guinea-Bissau Forests Protected by Communities
Tuesday, 12 November 2019Super UserAverage ratingClick to subscribe
Tradition and taboo keep Guinea-Bissau’s forests standing Albino Moreira Mendes is the Baloberu, a kind of spiritual gatekeeper, for the Cobiana sacred forest in Guinea Bissau. Image by Ricci Shryock By Ricci Shryock - 12 November 2019 Guinea-Bissau is home to countless sacred forests, where cutting down a tree is strictly prohibited by the community. Efforts are also underway to develop communit ...
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Rain stops Amazon Forest Fires As Lula is Released
Friday, 08 November 2019Super UserAverage ratingClick to subscribe
Rain stops Amazon Forest Fires As Lula is Released Rains bring some relief to surging deforestation in Brazil's Amazon Smoke billows during a fire in an area of the Amazon rainforest near Porto Velho ...
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Burning Down The House
Wednesday, 06 November 2019Super UserAverage ratingClick to subscribe
How Unilever and other global brands continue to fuel Indonesia’s fires Fires in peat land in Cengal of South Sumatra’s Ogan Komering Ilir district, Indonesia. Image by Nopri Isim/Mongabay Indonesia. ...
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11,000 Scientists Sound Climate Crisis Warning
Tuesday, 05 November 2019Super UserAverage ratingClick to subscribe
Climate crisis: 11,000 scientists warn of ‘untold suffering’ A man uses a garden hose to try to save his home from wildfire in Granada Hills, California, on 11 October 2019. Photograph: Michael Owen ...
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Climate Impacts of Forest Damage Underestimated
Thursday, 31 October 2019Super UserAverage ratingClick to subscribe
Climate emissions from tropical forest damage 'underestimated by a factor of six' Smoke billows during a fire in an area of the Amazon rainforest. Greenhouse gas emissions from changes in forests do ...
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Amazon Deforestation Investors
Thursday, 24 October 2019Super UserAverage ratingClick to subscribe
Deforestation in the Amazon and the role of investors and their clients BlackRock under CEO Larry Fink is World's largest investor in Amazon deforestation and destruction. The Amazon deforestation an ...
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Eco-Feminists in Uganda
Wednesday, 23 October 2019Super UserAverage ratingClick to subscribe
Uganda’s eco-feminists are taking on mining and plantation industries The Bukigindi Tree Planting Women’s Group has replanted 18 hectares (45 acres) of degraded land near Bugoma with indigenous speci ...
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Defaunation hampers natural forest regeneration
Monday, 14 October 2019Super UserAverage ratingClick to subscribe
Quantifying the impacts of defaunation on natural forest regeneration in a global meta-analysis Loss of fauna triggers also loss of flora - especially hardwood tree species. By Charlie J. Gardner, Ja ...
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Save Nallamala from Uranium Mining
Saturday, 05 October 2019Super UserAverage ratingClick to subscribe
Save Forest and Tiger Reserve from Uranium Mining Dyfi Telangana started this petition to the President of India and 5 others - plus here: PM Narendra Modi Already over 200,000 have signed - SIGN ON ...
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Tutsi Feud over DR Congo Loot
Friday, 04 October 2019Super UserAverage ratingClick to subscribe
FAMILY FEUDS: How Kagame and Museveni became the best of frenemies When it comes to the looting of DR Congo many best friends have become enemies. The presidents of Rwanda and Uganda, Paul Kagame (L) ...
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