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UK: World famous artist David Hockney finds a “massacre” of a mighty group of trees he’s been painting in Yorkshire http://bit.ly/qTLj
Scotland: Phoenix trees keep growing even after they fall http://bit.ly/25Q1f

Congo: Many wars converge at farthest navigable point upstream, capital city Kisangani http://bit.ly/pCka8

Ivory Coast: Last stand last wild chimps is Taï National Park http://bit.ly/gZgct

Nigeria: Highest rate of deforestation in all of Africa http://bit.ly/bIzrF

Kenya: Indiscriminate cutting means Eldoret town has been experiencing water shortages http://bit.ly/dqzOJ
Kenya: Mau forest task force tension on evicting encroachers, meanwhile arsonists set it all on fire http://bit.ly/17ivJ3

Sierra Leone: Gola forest workshop gets journalists excited about forest protection http://bit.ly/GdWYH
Gambia: Please overlook profit and consider repercussions of deforestation on society! http://bit.ly/aiOtl
Madagascar: 11 conservation groups band together against logging in parks http://bit.ly/18y1cL
Madagascar: Rosewood thieves and political instability shuts down Marojejy National Park http://bit.ly/17nDcx
 
 
olyecology
29 August 2009 @ 08:34 pm
Why carbon sequestration / credits from forests not likely to be developed any time soon http://bit.ly/FybZ
UN-FAO’s State of the world’s forests report http://bit.ly/wF84q
How you’re the one who makes for illegal logging around the world possible http://bit.ly/zuxqx
Monbiot: Even greater than all the Biofools are the misguided advocates of Biochar http://bit.ly/Yp2R2
Poetry: How the Sahara feeds the Amazon http://bit.ly/Tqsrz

Nature Con accuses Forest Policy Research of illegal Blogging! http://bit.ly/Rw3s

United Nations to use social networking to defend indigenous peoples from extractive industries http://bit.ly/Kikbl

Stats on Biofuels in Indonesia and Africa http://bit.ly/1Px1Yh

Greenpeace says adding forests to carbon market will derail efforts to tackle global warming http://bit.ly/CnKg2
 
 
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China: Leading world in treeplanting means leading world in greenwashing biodiversity’s decline http://bit.ly/HjBB

India: Uttarakhand forest officers get military equipment to stop poaching of flora and fauna http://bit.ly/RMzJl
India: Vandana Shiva on Women’s right to water, fertile soil & the forests that produce water http://bit.ly/ZYbz
India: Despite Ban on Felling green trees they keep falling in Himachal state http://bit.ly/LODA2

Kashmir: Illegal deforestation in Jammu and Kashmir happening at an alarming rate http://bit.ly/22vqt3

Nepal: Farmers slash-burning last forests in National Parks http://bit.ly/iLeS
Nepal: Water sources in Dadeldhura district are drying up due to deforestation http://bit.ly/4Nbd3

Vietnam: Dac Nong Province underestimates destroyed areas & feeds protection rumors that encourages cutting Frenzy http://bit.ly/4YKZN
Vietnam: Yet to be stopped is llegal logging of a rare waterfall park in Khanh Hoa province http://bit.ly/yorOf
Vietnam: Forests fall to yet another gold rush in northern province of Thai Nguyen http://bit.ly/14NjJ

Japan: Imports made forest growth abundant, yet debt on planted forests outrageously high http://bit.ly/NConw
Japan: Industry claims job growth? Training record number of poor people for poor-paying logging jobs http://bit.ly/11GOrt

Philippines: Haribon Foundation’s million signature campaign to restore forests, end logging & mining http://bit.ly/2qCO84
Philippines: Raids in Infanta, Quezon, Tanay & Rizal nets lots of illegal logs and chainsaws http://bit.ly/WZOq8

Sarawak: Gov that failed to stop illegal logging caused flooding says conscience is clear http://bit.ly/lLjVt

Borneo: Large unknown population of Orangutans found in East Kalimantan http://bit.ly/Rw3s

Malaysia: Wealthiest people in the nation are the ones funding illegal logging in Kedah http://bit.ly/19oxBG
Malaysia: Forest Research Institute & its 80-year-old ‘man-made’ forest http://bit.ly/OlfZS
Malaysia: Asking for the rights of Orang Asli (aborigines) to be returned to them http://bit.ly/mW9SE
Malaysia: Another 250 hectares of Sungai Jelok forest reserve lost to previous government dealmaking http://bit.ly/1XDePl
 
 
olyecology
29 August 2009 @ 08:30 pm
Fiji: Native Land Trust Board forces loggers into zero-cut until issues are resolved http://bit.ly/fymRG

Java: Hunting down illegal loggers who are targeting teak forests in Lumajang http://bit.ly/P8CMh

Solomon Islands: No policy to reduce logging by 25%, but maybe soon? http://bit.ly/FyCIO

Sumatra: Tripa Swamp Forest loss means after less than two decades only 250 of 1,500 Orangutan remain http://bit.ly/lwcoL
Sumatra: Asia Pulp & Paper is the primary cause of tiger attacks and tiger killings http://bit.ly/2O7yJw
Sumatra: As technology develops a tree falling in the forest will soon be heard by all http://bit.ly/3uGyPL

Indonesia: UN suggests racism & genocide will again prevail if REDD oriented forest conservation occurs http://bit.ly/qpPHl
Indonesia: Greenpeace Direct Action on destroyer / big sinner: Sinar Mas http://bit.ly/153or0

Papua New Guinea: More than 50 undocumented species discovered during expedition http://bit.ly/lc05i

Australia: 500 year old forest destruction on a daily basis in East Gippsland is confirmed http://bit.ly/16fdl4
Australia: Gov forestry yet again caught logging in direct contravention of species protection http://bit.ly/eFIwL
Australia: One arrest in direct action against political leaders who destroyed Chester forest http://bit.ly/pySDX
Australia: Direct action shuts down logging of last old growth forest along Delegate River, E. Gippsland http://bit.ly/Y1nAP
Australia: Logging of once protected College creek forest has begun in Strzelecki Ranges http://bit.ly/YQnP
Australia: More on Citizen effort to save Chester forest http://bit.ly/1ZiWVP
Australia: Tasmanian greens still battling the last of the native forest destroyers http://bit.ly/4iLt3m
Australia: Climate diplomacy repercussions of corrupt Aussie politicians laying waste to Tiwi Island http://bit.ly/KDxX
Australia: A very high level of illegal clearing that the Minister is powerless to stop? http://bit.ly/161a0H
Australia: Stop Tasmanian Devil extinction, Save Tarkine from eco-tourism road http://bit.ly/73UaI
Australia: More on Gunns Ltd. giving up and giving 1/4 million dollars to Wilderness Society http://bit.ly/mnOhM
 
 
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02 April 2009 @ 09:55 am
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1) North America: A wolf named Pluie who taught us conservation on a mind-boggling scale (Y2Y) http://bit.ly/UaJt

2) British Columbia: BC voters rally to defend ancient forests http://bit.ly/D51S
3) British Columbia: How industry’s extreme wood waste policies makes for a 5% increase in emissions http://bit.ly/P06PL

4) Pacific Northwest: Re-educating misguided USFS about fire salvage harms http://bit.ly/EbV8C

5) Canada: Native peoples may win back some logging rights, but will they log it? http://bit.ly/m3mia
6) Canada: Judge’s inaction and lack of public accountability is incomprehensible http://bit.ly/w4Vy9

7) Alaska: Northern forests first grew faster with more carbon emissions, now they grow slower http://bit.ly/iyBgt

8) Washington: No one wants to think about, talk about, regulate, plan for: landslides http://bit.ly/112QF
9) Washington: Interpretation of pending all-terrain vehicle ban on Okanogan-Wenatchee NF http://bit.ly/GW7Ws

10) Oregon: Scientists unite in defense of East Cascades forest ecosystems http://bit.ly/4BCyyz
11) Oregon: Questions about stimulus for “fuels reduction” http://bit.ly/1767j
12) Oregon: Say thanks for saving old growth in state parks & also ask ‘em to do it more often! http://bit.ly/odjQz
13) Oregon: Summary of State’s Wilderness protections under new federal bill that just passed http://bit.ly/iYhL6

14) California: Sierra Pacific is destroying a public & private roadless forest on Underwood Mountain, help us stop ‘em! http://bit.ly/niPre
15) California: US Fish & Wildlife says it’s green-minded to sell out future survival of Spotted owls on Van Eck land http://bit.ly/oLj4e
16) California: Preservation ranch has become a hell a developer wants to cover in housing & pavement http://bit.ly/prLRl

17) Idaho: Retired forest service employees denounce corrupt Upper Lochsa Land Exchange http://bit.ly/DtEnO

18) Montana: Comment on Lolo NF post fire road removal plan that’s been stalled for six years http://bit.ly/ZuS3Z

19) Texas: Centuries long war against trees appears to be failing http://bit.ly/B4HHt
20) Texas: Stop Border Patrol from using aerial spraying to kill all vegetation along Mexican border http://bit.ly/SKkuf

21) Illinois: Only you can stop Shawnee NF’s plan to start logging after being shut down by courts for 12 years http://bit.ly/oGIs

22) New York: Lyme Timber’s Adirondack park ‘conservation easement’ pays them to cut the forest down http://bit.ly/4fdRx

23) Massachusetts: Biggest US forest fraud campaign against FSC and inept dying industry http://bit.ly/lb6P

25) New Hampshire: Save vernal pool fairy shrimp who feed many http://bit.ly/183lm

26) Kentucky: How Artists get involved in saving hemlock trees http://bit.ly/lx4e

27) Florida: Culverts and subdivisions are killing mangrove forests in the Marco islands area http://bit.ly/prgl0

28) USA: Gov tells judge they’re withdrawing from Bush-era Spotted Owl extinction plan http://bit.ly/WSHe
29) USA: Army Corps of engineers sets itself up for a big fall regarding Mt. Top Removal http://bit.ly/iIBuC
30) USA: FLAME Act legislation seeks to redesign how USFS spends money fighting fires http://bit.ly/aWlz
31) USA: Timber industry’s wildly misleading attempt to promote increased logging on public lands http://bit.ly/1bfx8
 
 
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30 March 2009 @ 02:06 pm
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1) Latin America: How Jaguar habitat protects people from infectious disease http://bit.ly/LeTu7

2) Central America: Young Leaf forest medicines as relates to bioprospecting agreements http://bit.ly/xpISN
3) Central America: Costa Rica and Nicaragua are on fire! http://bit.ly/LoX0

4) Panama: Indigenous Bocas people to fight till death to protect culture & land from cattle & mega projects http://bit.ly/18b9we

5) Guatemala: Instead of GOV a NGO named AIR is treeplanting & building better stoves http://bit.ly/Bnbjk
6) Guatemala: Deforestation in the mountains of Sololá http://bit.ly/15yLVx

7) Nicaragua: Hurricane Joan in 1988 increased forest diversity http://bit.ly/PqOna

8) Amazonia: Rainforest civilizations dated further back than elsewhere http://bit.ly/veJ4J
9) Amazonia: UNEP & ACTO’s report: Environment Outlook in the Amazonia http://bit.ly/CZKh3
10) Amazonia: How the Sahara feeds the Amazon http://bit.ly/Tqsrz

11) Ecuador: Images4life.org defends Jima Tambillo forest http://bit.ly/IzQdG

12) Belize: Help stop over-harvesting of floral industry’s Xate http://bit.ly/yus4w

13) Suriname: Alcoa & Newmont threaten mining on vulnerable Nassau Plateau rainforest http://bit.ly/xnmhq
14) Suriname: Will REDD destroy or preserve indigenous cultures & forests they depend on? http://bit.ly/m3ESF

15) Uruguay: New pulp mills and plantations will dev... http://bit.ly/14vv7e

16) Chile: Karukinka Nature Reserve is much the same as when Darwin first saw it http://bit.ly/LE1qu

17) Peru: New Marginal Highway creates mad scramble ... http://bit.ly/fNBAc

18) Argentina: Killer landslide as relates to failed landslide logging prevention efforts http://bit.ly/7XgVa
19) Argentina: Please send a letter for forest and indigenous peoples protection in Salta http://bit.ly/ucn9Z

20) Brazil: Support for Genocide, Ecocide & Imperialism: Words of Brazilian leader Silva http://bit.ly/1dH2z
21) Brazil: World Wildlife report on what must be done for the survival of the Amazon http://bit.ly/3yFX5
22) Brazil: Prince Charles in Rio makes a speech for trees http://bit.ly/uW4fr
23) Brazil: Supreme Court sides with Indigenous peop... http://bit.ly/18IPOu
24) Brazil: Save world’s largest wetland! A River delta of the upper Paraguay near Bolivia http://bit.ly/msOtI
25) Brazil: Counting recent species extinction to 26 with 644 on the way http://bit.ly/hVt0Q
26) Brazil: Unlimited ‘economic development’ to rare indigenous cultures is called Genocide http://bit.ly/FMuOn
27) Brazil: Amazon so vast slavery thrives amid crack downs http://bit.ly/NFgYo2:00 PM Feb 23rd from Twuffer
28) Brazil: After a harsh paramilitary publicity stunt, genocide returns http://bit.ly/sL
29) Brazil: Forest land cover drives cloud cover which is being lost due to deforestation http://bit.ly/W1Gy5
30) Brazil: Forest Defending Catholic Rural Radio by Father Edilberto Sena in Santarem http://bit.ly/T2bfA
31) Brazil: Lula da Silva’s government has shown an indulgent attitude to violations of basic rights http://bit.ly/182LmQ
 
 
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22 March 2009 @ 06:30 pm
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1) UK: Direct Action group “Plane Stupid” takes on Donald Trump’s Aberdeen airport expansion http://bit.ly/nKrg5
2) UK: Neighbors vow to continue to speak out for protecting Longridge Wood from development http://bit.ly/16VOrv
3) UK: Battle to save Longridge Woods & Centre Square East from development continues http://bit.ly/12Uv1
4) UK: New Species of Whitebeam tree discovered and named after no-parking sign nailed to it http://bit.ly/ml3ov
5) UK: 57 year-old climbs tree to stop needless destruction in Cripley Meadow allotments http://bit.ly/MtMF6
6) UK: Imagine what the world would look like if we didn’t prune trees so much? http://bit.ly/ubHJ

7) Scotland: Success comes from persistence: Campaign to stop privatization of public forests has won! http://bit.ly/13s4pd

8) Sweden: FSC Smartwood value in dramatic decline http://bit.ly/18doGw

9) France: Forbidden Beech forest covers Battle of Verdun http://bit.ly/x7MY1

10) Germany: Robin Wood’s long term support of FSC ends in protest over certification of non-compliant forests http://bit.ly/fZtw9

11) Poland: Last of the European Woodland Bison http://bit.ly/4iY5l

12) Georgia: Economy Ministry to auction licenses for long term exploitation of forests http://bit.ly/pmYA

13) Africa: Jane Goodall speaks out against China’s massive continent-wide deforestation operation http://bit.ly/14ey8

14) Cameroon: We need your help to save a million hectares in Ngoyla Mintom rainforest http://bit.ly/12vXUt
15) Cameroon: Indigenous of Kupe-Muanenguba region are told they are the support, manure and fuel of State authority http://bit.ly/uyTpj

16) Sierra Leone: Minister to Raze all settlements and developments outside Greenbelt area http://bit.ly/MFKQS
17) Sierra Leone: Gola forest workshop gets journalists excited about forest protection http://bit.ly/GdWYH

18) Uganda: Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE) does some whistleblowing http://bit.ly/GaFU
19) Uganda: Overview of president’s forest protection & destruction efforts http://bit.ly/5LBnP

20) Nigeria: CERCOPAN protects monkeys, advocates for forest http://bit.ly/4o3mA
21) Nigeria: Illegal Bulldozing for ruling elite rubber plantation is starving 20,000 people http://bit.ly/17WQeE

22) Niger: Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration has re-vegetated 3 million hectares http://bit.ly/praa2

23) Congo: Gov decides to ramp up genocide & exploitation of indigenous peoples territory http://bit.ly/1asjMo

24) South Africa: A Tree gift from Jill http://bit.ly/2forj0

25) Ethiopia: Social affects of deforestation in Southwest http://bit.ly/Y8QhD

26) Chad: Desert expansion leads to brutal crackdown on Charcoal production http://bit.ly/1ahJIC

27) Mozambique: Coastal forest turned into firewood means land is turned into ocean http://bit.ly/fI2E8

28) Kenya: Eburu Forest holds newly discovered population of almost extinct Bongo http://bit.ly/17DwQ

29) Burkina Faso: Forest once provided all they needed, now women are regrowing these forests http://bit.ly/cGxe3

30) Jordan: Another request to circumvent chainsaw importation ban approved http://bit.ly/mVDcO

31) Afghanistan: Rapidly cutting the last of the last of the forest in Nangarhar Province http://bit.ly/VvY1n

32) Pakistan: Timber mafia’s combat operations in Shangla district / devouring 600 sq. miles http://bit.ly/VulJQ
 
 
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22 March 2009 @ 06:25 pm
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1) Alaska: Congress doesn’t ask anyone, yet it ends most all timber sale funding on Tongass NF http://bit.ly/PjTPO

2) British Columbia: Campaign to save the rainforest http://bit.ly/n5asO
3) British Columbia: Expanding tribal logging rights is for industry’s dream of one giant clearcut http://bit.ly/qhZob

4) Canada: Friends of Red Tail to save 300 acres of Acadian semi-wilderness: Want to Help? http://bit.ly/19hg8J

5) Pacific Northwest: Re-educating misguided USFS about fire salvage harms http://bit.ly/EbV8C

6) Washington: No one wants to think about, talk about, regulate, plan for landslides http://bit.ly/112QF
7) Washington: Last Honorable Boy Scout leader speaks out against executive scout corruption http://bit.ly/36oa
8) Washington: Seattle P-I newspaper goes out of business after 40 years of tree protection efforts http://bit.ly/DQIir
9) Washington: History channel is going to jail for aiding & abetting felony theft / illegal logging http://bit.ly/Ykdii
10) Washington: Forest defense innovation happens when Rainforest Action Network gets on Web of Change http://bit.ly/oZAgw
11) Washington: Boy Scout honor means if you don’t like logging rules you get the rules changed http://bit.ly/WDBfg

12) Oregon: Boy Scouts back in the news, this time making state regulators look bad http://bit.ly/1696G
13) Oregon: Citizen’s and Gov purchase protection for 24 more acres of Canemah Bluff natural area http://bit.ly/Dl3pa
14) Oregon: Rising Tide and you can speak out to help Orville Camp stop herbicide spraying! http://bit.ly/nA5Yh

15) California: Encinitas Tree Sitter makes city address it’s tree carelessness http://bit.ly/oSIU8
16) California: Spy Rock Ranch, along Hwy 101, acquired by the Wildlands Conservancy http://bit.ly/dbM7t
17) California: Last chance to get Hurwitz for, among other things, thieving 16,000 acres of ancient redwood forest http://bit.ly/u8ksP
18) California: Mendocino County Women Taking the Lead to Save Our Planet! http://bit.ly/4dwoYS
19) California: With Water Board rulings of recent years loggers are pressured to curtail winter logging http://bit.ly/T4DY
20) California: State Fish and Game backs down on faux Fisher protection planning http://bit.ly/4M1gn
21) California: Citizen’s want to Halt Green Diamond’s subdivsioning and clearcutting http://bit.ly/tzbrB

22) Montana: Plant lots of trees, let dead trees be, it makes future forests more diverse, more resilient http://bit.ly/4lSyR
23) Montana: Has the most unprotected wilderness / roadless areas in the lower 48 http://bit.ly/12RHPx

24) Minnesota: Gullible school district lets loggers destroy forest for a measly $7,000 http://bit.ly/14LfU

25) Ohio: Yellow Creek watershed preserve has biodiversity damaged by clean-up crew clearing downed wood http://bit.ly/196ZOL

26) West Virginia: Is anyone willing to take on Big Coal’s Senator Robert Byrd http://bit.ly/HzRvy
27) West Virginia: More on Direct Action opposing Mt. Top Removal http://bit.ly/8zKHp
28) West Virginia: Monongahela NF’s tree research in Fernow harmed by unregulated natural gas drilling http://bit.ly/5OMkm
29) West Virginia: Thunderstruck Con. sells Nature Con. an easement for 272 acres in Monongalia NF http://bit.ly/wnRga

30) Maine: Citizens of Portland get ready to review Forester’s plan for Tree cutting in your city forests! http://bit.ly/cCvgb

31) USA: Research results on fuel treatments and fire: National Fire and Fire Surrogate Study http://bit.ly/10ly0I
32) USA: Wuerthner on USFS’s ‘temporary’ roads which are nearly the same as permanent roads http://bit.ly/UcQ3
33) USA: Global warming reinvigorates movement to end all commercial logging on federal lands http://bit.ly/18D4a4
34) USA: Research results on fuel treatments and fire: National Fire and Fire Surrogate Study http://bit.ly/10ly0I
35) USA: First Annual State of the Birds Report http://bit.ly/AiyY3
36) USA: What makes America great is native species, native peoples & Earth First! http://bit.ly/16RxDn
37) USA: An abundance of reasons why abundant deadwood is essential to forest health http://bit.ly/k2T2d
 
 
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17 March 2009 @ 06:34 pm
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Forest Restoration done the right way:

1) To everyone all over the word PLEASE leave your dead trees standing! http://bit.ly/N7CQ0
2) An abundance of reasons why abundant deadwood is essential to forest health http://bit.ly/k2T2d
3) ‘Restoring’ an old growth forest? The more slow growing the trees the better! http://bit.ly/cb2DK
4) Consider NOT thinning crowded forest stands: http://bit.ly/MWW92

Biodiversity:

5) Tropical turmoil - a biodiversity tragedy in progress http://bit.ly/EFVsV
6) Shifting Baselines syndrome makes it hard to “stand in the way of progress” http://bit.ly/zvxnj
7) Report & Case Studies on Biodiversity Governance http://bit.ly/JVAYJ
8) Why do the world’s armies fight most all their wars in biodiversity hotspots? http://bit.ly/bIlaX
9) How do we assess non-market values of our world’s plantation forests? http://bit.ly/wGlMl

Social Science:

10) Women raise their voices against tree plantations http://bit.ly/6nlxm
11) Panarchy theory: How forest & civilizations grow & decline http://bit.ly/D0enJ
12) Millennium Ecosystem Assessment gap analysis http://bit.ly/12cYW
13) Psychologists suspect their might be a connection between deforestation and corruption? http://bit.ly/Jdz6w
14) Stop Crime: You can survive and thrive if it’s green outside! http://bit.ly/d4kX
15) Christian top 10 reasons to speak out for the rainforest http://bit.ly/1O4n1D
16) You aren’t using a paper cup are you? http://bit.ly/jdj0

Art, music, Poetry:

17) Everyone can create art to help save the rainforest http://bit.ly/xnw2K
18) Poetry: What we owe on our own home, our own true home… http://bit.ly/mlIUq
19) Poetry: Recording on the writings of Dennis Fritzinger http://bit.ly/tC0Jw
20) Poetry: For you from Deane-make-most-of-da-day http://bit.ly/Gmr8o
21) Poetry: What is Muse? http://bit.ly/SV1dq

Forest Climate Policy:

22) Study of forest clearing for food & Biofuel: Holly Gibbs http://bit.ly/GSDNc
23) Forests and Climate according to a Forest Ecology special issue of Science http://bit.ly/14YYKn
24) Paying true cost of land use emissions will inspire you to use land in less emitting ways http://bit.ly/HulaR
25) Wave of ecomigration sweeps global population http://bit.ly/vNQQG
26) Ecological Internet on the enormous amount of carbon sequestered every day they remain standing http://bit.ly/cXOnN
27) UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) wants 10 million new tree planting jobs http://bit.ly/5JBJZ
28) World governments! Take immediate action to halt deforestation and forest degradation http://bit.ly/OvV06

REDD issues:

29) Reflections on what UN’s state of REDD really looks like http://bit.ly/uyVB
31) UN adds more documents to REDD development http://bit.ly/i43KE
32) To the extent REDD lacks Transparency, is the the extent to which it fails http://bit.ly/1VQOZ

Natural Science:

33) Awesome photo-essay on how Beavers maintain habitat / water flow http://bit.ly/39LRu7
34) What are Mangroves all about? http://bit.ly/13Jr7

Important Forest Policy Research links:

35) Top 8 ways / links to know more about Earth’s trees http://bit.ly/bZcQC
 
 
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17 March 2009 @ 02:57 pm
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1) Papua New Guinea: Deforestation study in journal Biotropica http://bit.ly/LpLPS
2) Papua New Guinea: has created its first national conservation area http://bit.ly/13XdL

3) Solomon Islands: Aussie greenwash politician guilty of outrageous deforestation http://bit.ly/5LzCE
4) Solomon Islands: An ‘academic’ view on why indigenous peoples / citizens deforest? http://bit.ly/vrC1Z

5) Sumatra: Illegal logging in Way Kambas National Park, East Lampung http://bit.ly/13zx25
6) Sumatra: Tiger eats illegal loggers http://bit.ly/ZE1KS
7) Sumatra: Nine illegal loggers eaten by Tigers might bring ‘temporary’ halt to logging http://bit.ly/sMKRk

8) Java: More tree ring drought research, this time with Teak http://bit.ly/QBkCs

9) Indonesia: Mother Jones on the destruction brought by Palm oil / biofuels http://bit.ly/14NvGo
10) Indonesia: Industrial agriculture has set our planet on fire http://bit.ly/13mpUL
11) Indonesia: Transmigration & extinction along Wallacea Line http://bit.ly/m0NgS
12) Indonesia: Ban on logging largest hi-emmission generating peatbogs is lifted http://bit.ly/yS6yy
13) Indonesia: Tesso National Park to increase in size http://bit.ly/Pf54a
14) Indonesia: Illegal log seizure in Aceh turns into gun fight with Nagan Raya Police http://bit.ly/DJZyc
15) Indonesia: Korea to help destroy last rainforests for new Acacia & Lyptus pulp plantations http://bit.ly/ShEkp
16) Indonesia: Losing US$1 Billion a year from release of stored carbon in forested peatlands http://bit.ly/ULhsK
17) Indonesia: A man who in four years organized the reforestation & repatriation of a 1000 species http://bit.ly/JxAjl

18) Australia: Weld Valley defenders set up new camp to stop planned logging road http://bit.ly/N8u4
19) Australia: Report details how Japanese destroy ancient forests for paper http://bit.ly/ULyhJ
20) Australia: Road building for Eco-tourism will lead to Tasmanian Devil extinction http://bit.ly/VsL3k
21) Australia: Arresting ‘em for trespass on public land is a “blatant intrusion of politics” http://bit.ly/g1kGj
22) Australia: Aboriginals to ‘benefit’ from wood supply coming from stripping forest bare for Bauxite mine http://bit.ly/kGzMo
23) Australia: John Seed on Direct Action and Deep Ecology http://bit.ly/Poss6about 7 hours ago from Twuffer
24) Australia: Still Wild Still Threatened activists arrested shutting down Tasmanian logging http://bit.ly/6H06
25) Australia: State forest hiding how plantation logging funds Native forest logging http://bit.ly/Wf8z4
26) Australia: $37 Million timber industry package encourages nepotism & ecological destruction http://bit.ly/ne4zV
27) Australia: FSC Certified Smartwood is corruptible unaccountable eco-damaging dumbwood http://bit.ly/17vXYx
28) Australia: John Seed: thinking like a mountain http://bit.ly/RBQCM
29) Australia: 15 activists shutdown logging coupe on Waterfall Creek road http://bit.ly/gmnDg
 
 
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1) British Columbia: Outrage of almost bankrupt loggers cutting costs by logging last big trees closest to town http://bit.ly/2zYgB
2) British Columbia: Remember all those enviro regulations & local jobs? http://bit.ly/A9OVb
3) British Columbia: Citizens to take action on gov inaction for Great Bear Rainforest protection http://bit.ly/AnGym
4) British Columbia: When public representatives let big timber do whatever they want http://bit.ly/ow4wi
5) British Columbia: Ancient forest river island logging ruins politician’s campaign launch http://bit.ly/TOF2X
6) British Columbia: Movie Green Chain is Science of forests & logging, culture & economy? http://bit.ly/pZZOA

7) Canada: Lawsuit to prevent financing of life & culture destroying Copper Mesa Mining in Ecuador http://bit.ly/FyAcU

8) Pacific Northwest: RIP: Forest Defender John Dolato, aka: Akasha, Taz, Aki http://bit.ly/vgY0W

9) Washington: St. Helens to be kept as underfunded USFS monument, no national park status? http://bit.ly/IzJgV
10) Washington: Frustration of family forest owners who wrote failed conservation plan http://bit.ly/iduxc
11) Washington: Seattle tree protection lurches ahead http://bit.ly/HjIUx
12) Washington: Nalini Nadkarni speaks for the trees! http://bit.ly/AM1P4

13) Oregon: Cash-strapped county gives loads of money to lobbying group to increase clearcutting http://bit.ly/JL18
14) Oregon: Mosaics of radical enviros by Jeffrey St. Clair http://bit.ly/uoPAF
15) Oregon: Popular rock climbing site gets park status & partial end to logging http://bit.ly/18t9Ha

16) California: RIP: Wukchumni elder Melba Whitebird http://bit.ly/2gChk
17) California: Got an angry voicemail for “causing” the Shutdown of Quincy’s Sierra Pacific Sawmill http://bit.ly/JzAw
18) California: Irresponsible land users deserve to lose Private property rights! http://bit.ly/v4Oo2
19) California: Oak forest on 29 acres of Ranch land near San Luis Obispo is protected http://bit.ly/AakYM
20) California: Effort underway to “Preserve” 871 acre Stewarts Point Ranch as “Working Forest” http://bit.ly/EJL8f
21) California: Expanding Taylor Territory preserve & suspicions of HCP planning in Napa http://bit.ly/Whlt3
22) California: Hike to the top of Sonoma mountain with me http://bit.ly/10aF7k
23) California: 10 years after we saved world’s largest unprotected ancient Redwood forest http://bit.ly/w2M69
24) California: Land trust conference & land trust history links http://bit.ly/Z1D5j
25) California: Citizens to stop Sierra Pacific’s plan to clearcut one million acres of Sierra forest http://bit.ly/UMzp
26) California: UPDATE! Cruz County’s public planning for Large Woody Debris (LWD) in streams http://bit.ly/S3TJj
27) California: 2,800 acres of oak woodlands in San Rafael Wilderness Area foothills protected http://bit.ly/HxCxp
28) California: High Sierra Rural Alliance’s Settlement agreement with Sierra Pacific Ind. http://bit.ly/g6Z5G

29) Arizona: Forest Service forcing forest plans into shovel ready stimulus status as fast as possible http://bit.ly/v6qhJ

30) Texas: Austin city beholden to developers no matter how many old oaks they cut without authorization http://bit.ly/1JK7X

31) Eastern US: Pine Voles prefer eating oak roots which causes of high mortality http://bit.ly/127XHx
32) Eastern US: Private Oil & Gas on USFS land might finally be held accountable for lawlessness http://bit.ly/LKOUq

33) Southeast US: World Resources Institute & Toyota’s new plan to save forests http://bit.ly/ypf2k

34) Kentucky: Citizen’s against mountain top removal get kicked out of former Boy Scout Camp Blanton http://bit.ly/dE2e

35) Vermont: Long term forest resiliency is threatened by chainsaws that mimc ‘natural’ forests http://bit.ly/MWW92

36) New Hampshire: Center for Biodiversity on White Mountain NF roadless area destruction http://bit.ly/PtWkn

37) Pennsylvania: Survivor Trees of Gettysburg Battlefield cut down for authentic restoration? http://bit.ly/6FKw

38) Massachusetts: State con & rec uses FSC shield to illegally strip public forest to bare ground http://bit.ly/4oYPI
39) Massachusetts: Deforestation of Worcester in such haste that 250 healthy trees were accidentally http://bit.ly/3jrHDu

40) New Jersey: Three dozen hikers on trail of 500 year-old Bear Swamp giants http://bit.ly/co5VQ

41) Maine: Plum Creek caught logging for powerline clearance, mudslides, habitat destruction http://bit.ly/YkV17
42) Maine: Judge punishes community servants by forcing them to do community service http://bit.ly/138JD

43) USA: What makes America great is native species, native peoples & Earth First! http://bit.ly/16RxDn
44) USA: What’s makes America great is native species, native peoples & Earth First! http://bit.ly/16RxDn
45) USA: Enviros petition to protect Fisher’s of the old growth http://bit.ly/677ZI
46) USA: Lynx threats limits logging on 39,000 square miles http://bit.ly/13tvgm
47) USA: Oil Palm pyro-plantation makers see marketing power marginalized http://bit.ly/117mTJ
48) USA: USFS’s large volume forest liquidation infrastructure replaced with pairing http://bit.ly/RdJs9
49) USA: How will Obama forests be affected by Stimulus Bill? http://bit.ly/8NDXG
 
 
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1) China: Landslides following Earthquakes have massive carbon footprint http://bit.ly/pJ0Fa
2) China: Oregon hybrid poplar grower finds greater opportunity planting forests in Asia http://bit.ly/Png4H

3) Taiwan: Despite treesit by green party leader, the last giant Songshan Camphor is cut http://bit.ly/MI385

4) Russia: Corrupt Primorskii Gov sells 400 logging plots in nut harvest / wildlife reserves http://bit.ly/M4N1p

5) India: Who is a tribe? Who is an Encroacher? 2006 Forest Rights Act sorts it all out? http://bit.ly/ZrTmD
6) India: K M Chinappa has been a Karnataka forest defender for 30 years http://bit.ly/yhXPP
7) India: Protection from foreign pharmaceutical industry’s army of bio-pirates http://bit.ly/O66ht
8) India: Aravali forest officer transferred moments before presenting corruption evidence to high court http://bit.ly/107AFY
9) India: High court declares privately owned Mangroves as protected forests http://bit.ly/UyRhi
10) India: Children’s Chipko revival to protect trees http://bit.ly/LX50b
11) India: Marauding Tigers need a forest reserve http://bit.ly/pdVEQ
12) India: Hundreds unemployed because of end of Japan funded forest conservation project http://bit.ly/bP9Ib

13) Kashmir: Gov promises to go after illegal loggers http://bit.ly/hIsHi

14) Nepal: Transition from passive to active and equitable management of community forests http://bit.ly/HuovC
15) Nepal: If you are only allowed to cut dead trees, then well… why not help ‘em along? http://bit.ly/FUIFm

16) Cambodia: Distilleries make ‘ecstasy’ by boiling out rare tree oil & it’s harming streams http://bit.ly/DKPeI

17) Thailand: Requests 3 helicopters to patrol & protect http://bit.ly/2T76l
18) Thailand: Indigenous expelled from homeland for interfering with illegal logging http://bit.ly/3VRJt

19) Vietnam: Ancient Fujian Cypress tells of drought that once ended Indochina’s civilizations http://bit.ly/ZExws
20) Vietnam: Deforestation rates again double this past year http://bit.ly/UdUUU

21) South Korea: Tree Sap season renews Gorosoe tree medicine for the people’s bones http://bit.ly/nkgXp

22) Japan: Woodland Preservation buys another 296,070 sq. meters in Nagano outside Kurohime http://bit.ly/2A0Ao

23) Philippines: Landslide summary http://bit.ly/ZuTkx

24) Malaysia: Defending 59 Selangor forest reserves from illegal logging is not easy http://bit.ly/FOHzO
25) Malaysia: Mass fish kill caused by resettlement and logging related to dam construction http://bit.ly/dk33a
26) Malaysia: Nationwide campaign to stop logging plan for Ulu Muda forest reserve http://bit.ly/RWdl
27) Malaysia: Sarawak Indigenous highlighted in latest edition of SPEAK OUT http://bit.ly/SrdGJ
28) Malaysia: Accor hotel construction linked to genocide of Penan people http://bit.ly/nLd12
 
 
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1) EU: How Thinning can ruin your forest http://bit.ly/rfeu
2) EU: Plantations, poverty and power http://bit.ly/dbyr

3) UK: Kids teach how you can save rainforest in every meal? http://bit.ly/I106o
4) UK: End of an era for Cuckoo trail rationalizations of overly-chainsawed management http://bit.ly/YLwjN
5) UK: Cutting down centuries old trees in order to restore the natural environment http://bit.ly/12ElMm
6) UK: Dude, National Beanpole Week is the schiz’ http://bit.ly/j4YO
7) UK: Stop Leach Homes cutting down trees in Chells Manor http://bit.ly/VsOjA
8) UK: Judge rules that the smallest sapling was, legally speaking, a tree http://bit.ly/Z0Qd2

9) Scotland: Privatization of public land turns into a scandal http://bit.ly/YUKLc
10) Scotland: If someone cut all the trees in your neighborhood garden down http://bit.ly/xi12

11) Finland: Defying human rights opposition gov to clear indigenous reindeer herders forest http://bit.ly/GMqV
12) Finland: Truth vs. Industry promoting their great compromise of lil’ less destruction http://bit.ly/dbYw

13) France: Brazilian dam building debacle leads to the bust of Jirau for illegal logging http://bit.ly/7BlB6

14) Macedonia: Save the Balkan Lynx http://bit.ly/UpkGd

15) Mozambique: Report on small to medium sized forest enterprise to reduce poverty http://bit.ly/5pK9z
16) Mozambique: Julian Bayliss, the last scientist to get to ‘discover’ 7000 African hectares http://bit.ly/wQT1a

17) Liberia: 20,000 poor people log, mine and hunt in Sapo National Park http://bit.ly/gr3dl
18) Liberia: Truth & Reconciliation on logging to fund the war & continuing corruption http://bit.ly/el2Yx
19) Liberia: President sells off more of the last rare old forests http://bit.ly/RqQlq

20) Uganda: Supervisor & patrolman hacked to death trying to stop illegal loggers http://bit.ly/SAnG
21) Uganda: Lake Victoria was once surrounded by forests http://bit.ly/2esXI
22) Uganda: John Ken Lukyamuzi says saving forests is a local and global responsibility http://bit.ly/Fo8pN
23) Uganda: forest reserves, encroachers and resettlement http://bit.ly/2W8YOL about 22 hours ago

24) Tanzania: More on the illegal log trade http://bit.ly/3mhLKS
25) Tanzania: Gov aquires speed boats to thwart illegal loggers http://bit.ly/18DoUF

26) Kenya: Volunteer forest patrols protecting forests http://bit.ly/pIAx
27) Kenya: Only 17% of ag land is still fertile and more forest clearing is not a solution http://bit.ly/YRLvF

28) Ghana: Global interest in keeping Newmont mine out of Ajenua Bepo Forest Reserve http://bit.ly/VINRB

29) Gabon: Chinese businessmen to dam the Pygmy and Bantu people’s sacred Kongou Falls http://bit.ly/4phfS

30) Congo: Firewood harvesting in Virunga National Park http://bit.ly/yXGk

31) Malawi: How forest loss floods have turned their lives into reforestation http://bit.ly/CduP

32) Nigeria: Alternatives to Firewood desperately needed http://bit.ly/3IORLN

33) Ethiopia: Shade grown coffee in uncleared forests decreases bird diversity http://bit.ly/7Xbej

34) Africa: Forest sequestration second only to South America http://bit.ly/19cN1R

35) Lebanon: Cedars of Lebanon need snow and frost to survive http://bit.ly/cxc

36) Pakistan: Ajaz Ahmad’s letter: Deforestation in the Kalash http://bit.ly/9hooF
37) Pakistan: Rock crushing, deforestation & development in Margalla Hills http://bit.ly/x9YCJ
 
 
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1) Alaska: Forest science academics still say: Not if we log, but how we log http://bit.ly/wA3n3

2) British Columbia: Katzie First Nation challenges gov attempts to redraw park boundaries http://bit.ly/9fGNj
3) British Columbia: Birding for the Varied Thrush in Stanley Park’s forest http://bit.ly/gECkr
4) British Columbia: Loggers lay ruin to popular tourist destination which was ’saved’ http://bit.ly/ab1NC
5) British Columbia: Something is wrong with claims of Great Bear Rainforest protection http://bit.ly/12EizZ
6) British Columbia: Forest Defenders of Europe unite to act local and global http://bit.ly/SF21j
7) British Columbia: Forest Destruction endangers lives of documentary workers http://bit.ly/zB6EA
8) British Columbia: Forest Defenders of Europe unite to act local and global http://bit.ly/SF21j
9) British Columbia: Forest Destruction endangers lives of documentary workers http://bit.ly/zB6EA

10) Washington: Seattle tree protection lurches ahead http://bit.ly/txqEl
11) Washington: Skokomish logging filled rivers with so much gravel that water has lost its way http://bit.ly/dJce5

12) Oregon: Boy Scout Biscuit Fire Salvage Logging http://bit.ly/iqhnR
13) Oregon: BLM can’t ‘improve’ forest health by clearcutting old growth back to a fire hazard http://bit.ly/WZphP
14) Oregon: Nez Perce peoples slowly reclaim ancestral territory http://bit.ly/12KHYt
15) Oregon: Beetle kill planning for 7000 acres in Fremont-Winena NF http://bit.ly/5TQTv

16) California: It remains to be seen if “natural forestry” is credbile http://bit.ly/C8sZW
17) California: Background on what Green Diamond logging protests are all about http://bit.ly/7ad9u
18) California: New Northern Sierra partnership announced http://bit.ly/15SAwC
19) California: Trees and plants of 982-acre Perazzo meadows now protected! http://bit.ly/yTG4j
20) California: Aaron’s Top 5 Online-Nature-Nerd Sites: http://bit.ly/GPvIZ
21) California: Riparian habitat protected by Ventura Hillsides Conservancy http://bit.ly/Xbddw

22) Arizona: Consensus management as “continuity trigger” http://bit.ly/gdSrF

23) Montana: Enviros overpay Plum Creek Timber for 100,000 acres of land around Missoula http://bit.ly/dWwJz

24) Wyoming: Enviros challenge Bridger-Teton NF logging notions http://bit.ly/NnTxG

25) Wisconsin: Help define management of Coulee Experimental State Forest http://bit.ly/XRNEN

26) Minnesota: State may buy a conservation easement for 292 square miles of timber land http://bit.ly/dB3dr

27) Texas: Biggest Sycamore in the state gets a new trail http://bit.ly/lDKIY

28) Louisiana: Big Al is saved! http://bit.ly/j9sN5

29) Arkansas: Ancient forest trees survive by disguising themselves a stunted little trees http://bit.ly/TXE3z

30) New Jersey: Three dozen hikers on trail of 500 year-old Bear Swamp giants http://bit.ly/6LivL

31) Delaware: Multi-generational forest land transfers http://bit.ly/nNg9U

32) Virginia: Forest plans and the latest in new wilderness http://bit.ly/4PK9r
33) Virginia: State's history reveals clear-cutting legacy http://bit.ly/X5SkA

34) Maine: Largest east coast carbon sink? http://bit.ly/E0sxE

35) USA: Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act introduced by NY Congresswomen Maloney http://bit.ly/n6brL
36) USA: How will Obama forests be affected by Stimulus Bill? http://bit.ly/O56K8
37) USA: Former Forest Service Chief Mike Dombeck on what an Obama Forest is http://bit.ly/12it1i
38) USA: Climate policy on private forest lands http://bit.ly/14ryfr
39) USA: Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act introduced by NY Congresswomen Maloney http://bit.ly/n6brL
40) USA: Indicator Species policy on USFS lands http://bit.ly/E8tfk
 
 
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1) North America: Forests grow quieter ‘cuz every year there are fewer and fewer birds http://bit.ly/Ha1eZ

2) British Columbia: Marmots facing economic challenge? http://bit.ly/mX35w
3) British Columbia: Beautiful Ancient forest Island on Englishman River is right now being destroyed http://bit.ly/7j5FO
4) British Columbia: New Coalition to defend Cathedral Grove http://bit.ly/18ULkE
5) British Columbia: Timber West’s plan to turn 11% of Vancouver island into Real Estate http://bit.ly/10OD9Q
6) British Columbia: Giant community forest Clearcuts, but they’ll plant trees again? Oh yea we forgot about that. http://bit.ly/O3LC

7) Washington: 11 days ago Commissioner said he wasn’t gonna let logging slow down? http://bit.ly/U4ejR
8) Washington: Seattle P-I Blog summarizes & updates Boy Scout logging http://bit.ly/Z5lK9
9) Washington: Tribal Chairman of Fisheries, Billy Frank, speaks for roadless areas http://bit.ly/2DkhjV

10) Oregon: You ask, we Answer. So ask: What’s with all this Forest Health logging? http://bit.ly/15Ajt7

11) California: Treesitter fails to protect Tipuana Tipu trees http://bit.ly/L8jJD
12) California: Imagine a greenbelt around Los Angeles, connecting with parks & USFS lands http://bit.ly/12IdqB
13) California: Logging pollutes streams so industry must prevent rules that protect streams http://bit.ly/13necj
14) California: Santa Cruz County’s public planning for Large Woody Debris (LWD) in streams http://bit.ly/S3TJj
15) California: RIP: Redwood Forest Defender Harold Short http://bit.ly/m5Ugi

16) Arizona: Enviros limit thinning & burning on 30,000 acres of Kaibab NF http://bit.ly/E6zAj

17) Colorado: Politicians look to get federal land for “affordable housing” http://bit.ly/Bb3e

18) Montana: State to log 21 million bd. ft. of the last old growth in Swan Valley http://bit.ly/5qESG
19) Montana: Custer NF approves two timber sales in Fork Rock and Benbow http://bit.ly/eJsUn

20) New Jersey: Ancient surviving Tulip trees still alive and growing http://bit.ly/o5JU
21) New Jersey: Ancient Poplar tree old as Abe Lincoln’s birth http://bit.ly/ObePh

22) New Hampshire: Another court loss for enviros & Judd Gregg says something about it http://bit.ly/xZIWI

23) Massachusetts: Quabbin protected with $3.5 million in conservation grants http://bit.ly/12IuB

24) Virginia: 2nd most successful year in conservation easements in Piedmont in 2008 http://bit.ly/wfih

25) West Virginia: Direct Action star to host Summer campaign to oppose Mt. Top Removal http://bit.ly/8CqZg

26) North Carolina: Off-highway vehicle trails on Nantahala NF are out of control http://bit.ly/jyS8z
27) North Carolina: Donated for conservation is a 6 acre island on Long lake in Liberty Township http://bit.ly/Cy0g9

28) North Carolina: Comment on USFS rules and fees for special forest product harvesting http://bit.ly/zCWT

29) Maine: Plum Creek caught illegally logging rare Deer wintering habitat http://bit.ly/2ZMMfP
30) Maine: Plum Creek makes big clearcut and 900 ft-long musdlide for eco-friendly wind farm http://bit.ly/xtheP

31) USA: Is Obama’s big billion dollar USFS budget backed with big eco-minded changes? http://bit.ly/hvYY
32) USA: EPIC wins as best forest defender in the court room http://bit.ly/4b3l
33) USA: Eight Boy Scout Videos of Doom with special commentary from Comedy Central http://bit.ly/2AD200
34) USA: Avoided Deforestation Partners coalition http://bit.ly/1eX6HH
35) USA: More bloggers on Boy Scout’s mertiless badge in forestry http://bit.ly/162GJ
 
 
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1) Latin America: Tauroniro tree is latest greatest natural insect reppellent http://bit.ly/48Lb3h

2) Mexico: Community Forests http://bit.ly/KqTe
3) Mexico: Why massive tree planting promises come to naught http://bit.ly/3kpjNv

4) Haiti: One of their biggest problems is deforestation http://bit.ly/24TeXR

5) Costa Rica: Children’s Eternal Rainforest http://bit.ly/EwK

6) Panama: A Blogger’s view of Smithsonian symposium http://bit.ly/zwkns

7) Columbia: 10 new amphibians species discovered in threatened forest http://bit.ly/J4V3

8) Bolivia: Indigenous rights and climate politics http://bit.ly/43jmOA

9) Ecuador: Plight of the Jaguars http://bit.ly/1QRrPc
10) Ecuador: Tiputini Biodiversity Station near Yasuni Reserve http://bit.ly/22Dr
11) Ecuador: A high canopy wetland of great diversity http://bit.ly/knhR
12) Ecuador: Forest Camera traps try to document Jaguar http://bit.ly/GpZR

13) Guyana: Indigenous made to rely less on forest is not as good as capitalists relying less on forests http://bit.ly/3Zng
14) Guyana: A Better understanding of how deforestation will develop http://bit.ly/JoD7
15) Guyana: President pushes forest saving / destroying agenda at social forum http://bit.ly/Q1m0

16) Brazil: REDD / Indigenous people are both cutting edge & a long way away from that edge http://bit.ly/v8vTf
17) Brazil: 322 families in Juma reserve now paid by Marriot Intl. to defend their forest http://bit.ly/19HaJW
18) Brazil: Gov gave indigenous people small pox clothes and arsenic sugar in the 1970’s! http://bit.ly/ZR2RY
19) Brazil: After a harsh paramilitary publicity stunt, genocide returns http://bit.ly/sL
20) Brazil: Sea change turns to protection from Amazon Basin Indigenous Peoples Organization http://bit.ly/8Ldyu
21) Brazil: Juma Reserve and Amazonas Sustainable Foundation http://bit.ly/1S6c
22) Brazil: More on plight of indigenous at World social forum http://bit.ly/E1WY
23) Brazil: Rebel Bishop forest defenders need bodyguards http://bit.ly/Bzzt
24) Brazil: Greenpeace and Mongabay’s report and reporting on Cattle http://bit.ly/12jRcB
25) Brazil: It’s all about the Cows http://bit.ly/wYCc
26) Brazil: Global commodity markets define increase or decreases in deforestation rates http://bit.ly/qFSs
27) Brazil: Call of Samauma Tree http://bit.ly/Xxq3
28) Brazil: Lost cities of the Amazon video http://bit.ly/17pCQ
29) Brazil: What it takes to ensure a rainforest’s survival http://bit.ly/187Aa
30) Brazil: Forest fragmentation for birds and importance of stepping stone fragments http://bit.ly/4EHC2T
31) Brazil: Photo Essay on tribes uniting to save the Amazon! http://bit.ly/PEqh
32) Brazil: If all of Brazil’s wrong way policies aren’t stopped soon… http://bit.ly/17oq8
33) Brazil: Amnesty for deforesters who have been required to replant? http://bit.ly/NS3h
34) Brazil: Land Rights, clip from “Quilombo Country” http://bit.ly/2kGm8B
 
 
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1) Solomon Islands: Lack of forest means 9 deaths and a 1000 families homeless http://bit.ly/hpwf

2) Sumatra: Oil palm crop takes over forest at a football field a minute http://bit.ly/jomA
3) Sumatra: Satellites & cops source worst coffee-based logging to unenforced low labor cost areas http://bit.ly/1anSwL

4) Sulawesi: Gold Rush means Kabaena’s forest is now hosting millions who plunder http://bit.ly/RNP9
5) Sulawesi: Endangered “warriors” also known as Civets http://bit.ly/MJbU

6) Indonesia: Poor Spatial Planning jeopardizes forests http://bit.ly/AGuG
7) Indonesia: Preserve & Sustain tribal rules & cultures that preserve forest! http://bit.ly/QAlao
8) Indonesia: Elephant and tiger attacks on humans escalate as habitat diminishes http://bit.ly/f8n2
9) Indonesia: Nation of forests given for bribes soars to new heights in upcoming election http://bit.ly/4EkLzP
10) Indonesia: Treeplanting program turns into cut & run clearcut logging http://bit.ly/ENJL
11) Indonesia: Criminal investigation into illegal slash-and-burn methods http://bit.ly/v0UHM
12) Indonesia: (article update) Smallest most important Mangrove forest threatened by fresh water & pollution http://bit.ly/blJi
13) Indonesia: Japanese debt means ban on Teak exports ends? http://bit.ly/1PuI0u
14) Indonesia: Forest conversion must stop or many, many lives will be lost http://bit.ly/1Nphtw
15) Indonesia: Defense leader’s “economic security” is using school funding to destroy heart of Borneo http://bit.ly/NSAj
16) Indonesia: Local control is a solution that can backfire http://bit.ly/2Hbfq6
17) Indonesia: Ecolabel Institute facilitates rainforest destruction http://bit.ly/Q0YoN
18) Indonesia: Belantikan Conservation program for Orangutan http://bit.ly/88iN
19) Indonesia: Government rulemakers say REDD entrepreneurs are moving too fast http://bit.ly/4hBVZM

20) New Zealand: Invasive Monterey Pines wilding themselves across the landscape http://bit.ly/Tl1R
21) New Zealand: Logging plan gets bird watchers arguing in court http://bit.ly/3iKx18
22) New Zealand: One tree hill used to have three trees http://bit.ly/13mpE

23) Australia: Blaming enviros for firestorm is absurd http://bit.ly/LEutY
24) Australia: Illegal logging of too many rare Karri trees in Burnside Forest http://bit.ly/11KUxS
25) Australia: Bermagui State Forest destruction resumes http://bit.ly/eS4k
26) Australia: forest defenders being sued return favor by suing the logers who sued ‘em http://bit.ly/blWT
27) Australia: Bauxite mine to destroy state rainforest delayed by activists & economy http://bit.ly/CRys
28) Australia: Another 550 people do Direct Action to halt ancient forest logging http://bit.ly/UH0V
29) Australia: Garrett & Wong give up on forest protection at home & abroad http://bit.ly/GEg4
30) Australia: E. Gippsland forest defenders win 2 week reprieve due to rare species find http://bit.ly/480uD3
31) Australia: 10,000 hectares of cows per year upstaged by monocrop forests http://bit.ly/2QtV5f
 
 
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15 February 2009 @ 12:45 pm
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1) Asia: Desertification and food scarcity http://bit.ly/2zWUB1

2) Taiwan: Illegal cypress logging gets worse on Chilan mtn. http://bit.ly/IqZr5

3) China: Heilongjiang Province is home to nation’s most valuable timber / loggers http://bit.ly/37do
4) China: New species found in Yinggeling Nature Reserve http://bit.ly/2ssjzb

5) India: Bombay Environmental Action Group defends Mangroves in court http://bit.ly/xWZ0U
6) India: 12 new species of frogs discovered in Western Ghats http://bit.ly/3HQEZA
7) India: Land rights in reserve forests are limited by courts, but only for some http://bit.ly/eLbI
8) India: Raintree in Behrampore town saved again! http://bit.ly/17fKT
9) India: Wild forest cows or Mithuns require community-based Lura forestry http://bit.ly/CJNf
10) India: History of regularization of appropriation of forest lands http://bit.ly/wkpU
11) India: Rajaji National Park and survival of the last remaining species of elephants http://bit.ly/1kAPI

12) Nepal: Friends of Nature Nepal’s conservation campaigns http://bit.ly/b1EM

13) Cambodia: A land where landmines protect the forests http://bit.ly/2vbC

14) Thailand: 7,306 registered community forests http://bit.ly/YBjb

15) Myanmar / Burma: Citizen’s win reprieve for last big tree forest on Border SE border http://bit.ly/3Lp4

16) Burma: Low-priced high-quality furniture & flooring makes it to your home because of Biofuels http://bit.ly/4ElKH6

17) Philippines: Illegal loggers operating in Northern Sierra Madre National Park http://bit.ly/3GGFYO
18) Philippines: Citizen’s must be vigillant to help stop logging http://bit.ly/13NN0p
19) Philippines: Isabela Gov. Maria Gracia Cielo makes forest defense her centerpiece program http://bit.ly/OiDI
20) Philippines: The Guimaras oil spill afflicts Mangroves with albinism http://bit.ly/ccJgO
21) Philippines: Promotion of Participatory Forest Management in Critical Watershed of Nueva Vizcaya Province http://bit.ly/1MaumV
22) Philippines: Forest protection stakeholders gather behind Isabela Governor http://bit.ly/4tA2Xb
23) Philippines: Illegal loggers demand green jobs or else! http://bit.ly/23KWUO
24) Philippines: History on landslides & forests & lives lost http://bit.ly/4irtcV
25) Philippines: 30 Million in poverty in hope of finding the one thing that’s is key to survival - wood http://bit.ly/QqvTp
26) Philippines: Does illegal logging stop if there’s fewer illegal logging arrests? http://bit.ly/186E4
27) Philippines: Logging and Mining causing flash floods in S. Mindanao http://bit.ly/by6J

28) Sarawak: logging caused landslide kills loggers at logging camp http://bit.ly/av5y

29) Malaysia: Illegal logging still on in Selayang and Ulu Yam http://bit.ly/nUDq
31) Malaysia: Sabah forestry department on illegal palm oil plantations http://bit.ly/3263NG
32) Malaysia: Entrusted to protect but instead destroy is called Pagar Makan Paddy http://bit.ly/3aVuvN
33) Malaysia: 6 Indigenous forest defenders arrested http://bit.ly/VJb4
34) Malaysia: Forest Economics in Sarawak http://bit.ly/4cWpGb
35) Malaysia: What Rainforest? Wake up and smell the Palm Oil http://bit.ly/2B31
36) Malaysia: Anti-Corruption Commission will crack down on illegal logging? http://bit.ly/kJCx
 
 
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08 February 2009 @ 11:58 pm
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1) Alaska: Senators introduce same old bill giving away 80,000 acres of public land http://bit.ly/uffEz

2) British Columbia: Timber west has big plans to pave and build their “sustainable” forests http://bit.ly/33c81D
3) British Columbia: Ahousaht and Hesquiaht First Nations reassert control of territory http://bit.ly/4w5xU5
4) British Columbia: Save all the biggest trees! http://bit.ly/Qcaj

5) Western US: Verbenone is found in herbal tea and works to discourage beetle kill http://bit.ly/fTbt

6) Pacific Northwest: Dead & dying trees stabilize biodiversity, logging ends it! http://bit.ly/RLpT
7) Pacific Northwest: Boy Scout justice dealt out by fading newsprint empire http://bit.ly/Ms7C


8) Washington: Blogger tells his story of Boy Scout corruption http://bit.ly/3a39k5
9) Washington: Last days of a hard-hitting investigative newspaper journalism http://bit.ly/1NTiMM
10) Washington: Timber industry gets a kinder more gentler regulatory leadership http://bit.ly/GJnd

11) Oregon: USFS intends mushroom silvics for thinning of Deschutes NF http://bit.ly/3oVYsM
12) Oregon: The last of Bush’s illegal old growth timber sales http://bit.ly/z2yY
13) Oregon: Treasures Bill may protect Rogue River Canyon & Oregon Caves National Monument http://bit.ly/5b77
14) Oregon: Thinning to eliminate slow growing runts is another cause of mass forest die-off http://bit.ly/QIVZ

15) California: Timber industry wants to maximize logging of carbon credit forests http://bit.ly/Ra3q
16) California: SF Bay Area conservation report called: Golden Lands, Golden Opportunity http://bit.ly/P40a
17) California: Fisher relocation is ultimate in fake species restoration without habitat allocation http://bit.ly/Uq39
18) California: Enviro suit against water board says they’re stalling for industry http://bit.ly/3zZibg
19) California: Sumas Sierra Pacific’s destruction destroys neighbors land & stream http://bit.ly/4CPcTK
20) California: Problem here is the removal / lack of dead trees http://bit.ly/ujlP
21) California: Cutting down of trees because long ago neighbors were promised uninhibited views http://bit.ly/etUp5
22) California: Boy Scout forest destruction a state-wide problem http://bit.ly/11Sfo

23) Montana: Lawsuit filed to stop Lonesome Wood Timber Sale on the Gallatin NF http://bit.ly/6z2L
24) Montana: Lewis & Clark National Forest responds to lawsuits by withdrawing timber sales http://bit.ly/BPBY

25) Texas: Why George H. Russell quit the Boy Scouts http://bit.ly/10zOW3
26) Texas: How Boy Scouts destroyed a forest they were entrusted to protect http://bit.ly/1K9Dg2

27) Illinois: New Coal mine threatens Great Chandler Timbers http://bit.ly/2XR8L1

28) Indiana: Your help needed to prevent state wilderness from being destroyed by logging http://bit.ly/3Ksl3a

29) New Jersey: More Direct Action opposing rainforest wood for the Boardwalk http://bit.ly/DOa1

30) New York: Cool video on recovering lower Hudson woodland through all 4 seasons http://bit.ly/9sXO

31) New Hampshire: Forest protection purchased along Piscataquog River http://bit.ly/1QpRhM

32) Northeast US: Chesapeake Bay’s Forestry for the Bay http://bit.ly/4AbxnJ

33) Pennsylvania: Enviros get Governor Dick logging to only log half gypsy moth kill http://bit.ly/2cQf

34) Virginia: Two Conservation easements to prevent development on tree farm land http://bit.ly/jybI

35) Kentucky: Red Cedar’s Migration North http://bit.ly/yxqf

36) USA: 16th Chief of the USFS, Abigail R. Kimbell http://bit.ly/3owSm0
37) USA: Sally Collins runs Obama’s Office of Ecosystem Services and Markets http://bit.ly/e8mG
38) USA: The Act to Save America’s Forests http://bit.ly/1VBpjX
39) USA: 29 page Boy Scout reply to wrong doing… http://bit.ly/z47G
40) USA: Environmentalists partnering with recreationalists can be dangerous to biodiversity http://bit.ly/3xPe9O
41) USA: Wanna get a Boy Scout merit badge in nature? Sign ‘da petition! http://bit.ly/H93dD

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01 February 2009 @ 11:07 pm
Today for you 33 posts about earth's trees! (468th edition)
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1) EU: New forest economics data-base released http://bit.ly/74z6
2) EU: Detailed maps of invasive species impacts on European landscapes http://bit.ly/Kj5L

3) UK: Park to lose streamside poplars, unneeded thinning planned too http://bit.ly/176Oy
4) UK: Update on Wattling Wood forest defense http://bit.ly/4Cl6
5) UK: Vandalism in the Urban forest http://bit.ly/J4WT
6) UK: Video on how much forests contribute to mitigation of climate change? http://bit.ly/3pXWzt
7) UK: Government & Forest advocates unite to write a five-year action plan http://bit.ly/2z05
8) UK: Corrupt Country care cuts Oak forest heart out of Norton Heath Preserve http://bit.ly/GTp
9) UK: Move to privatize woodland makes many march to keep it free http://bit.ly/WQoa
10) UK: Forests Defenders protest embassy on behalf of Tasmanian Forests http://bit.ly/G60s
11) UK: Destroyed lands need to be ‘restored’ to the original state of destroyedness? http://bit.ly/onsz
12) UK: A Greenbelt forest much loved by Gypsies is destroyed without a permit http://bit.ly/xkdr

13) Scotland: Privatization of public forest wins by one vote http://bit.ly/14Klsd

14) France: Timber industry in south gets recognized for a mono-crop windfall http://bit.ly/wfWH
15) France: Beech tree planted for Marie Antoinette has fallen http://bit.ly/GPW

16) Finland: Petition against Biofuels http://bit.ly/DrrQ

17) Germany: History of their fascination and love of forests and trees http://bit.ly/V2rc

18) Turkey: 100 trees cut down for 2011 winter games http://bit.ly/494XeO

19) Greece: Bulldozing of park leads to even more riots http://bit.ly/cP6E

20) Cameroon: British High Commission and Department for International Development visit http://bit.ly/Pwz

21) Congo: World Bank sponsored review of the logging industry http://bit.ly/KjXD

22) Tanzania: Illegal logging and gov’s effort to ‘rescue’ logs? http://bit.ly/tjQZ

23) Gabon: harvest ban on four species of hardwood http://bit.ly/dyhw

24) Uganda: Forest protection president suspends gov worker for stopping illegal logging http://bit.ly/UjlG

25) Kenya: Charcoal is consumed by all, yet sourcing & manufacture is illicit http://bit.ly/smw8

26) Nigeria: Desert encroaches on nation at 600 meters per annum http://bit.ly/SGb2

27) Burundi: Culture cannot be separated from forestry or vegetation cover http://bit.ly/XDoH

28) Chad: Charcoal Ban takes it’s toll http://bit.ly/QIyo

29) Malawi: Minister of Finance wants a tree planting culture http://bit.ly/ZnPm

30) Madagascar: Giant $4 billion mine project is causing Lemur extinction http://bit.ly/2RGNJ

31) Palestine: Remembering forests lost to the Israeli occupation http://bit.ly/BOWP

32) Pakistan: Details of Land grabbers selling 7,000 Kanals of land and getting caught http://bit.ly/16hGiu
33) Pakistan: Gov blames ‘influential mafias’ for rapid deforestation http://bit.ly/12HGf

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