September 3, 2009 – 7:07 pm
The US Forest Service and the Ad Council have launched the Where The Other You Lives campaign to try to reconnect our kids to nature.
From Climate Ark and Forests.org, projects of Ecological Internet: Australia’s new “climate friendly” government preaches global forest protection for climate benefits internationally, while continuing to industrially clear its own native primary forests in Tasmania and elsewhere, and this unseemly hypocrisy must end. Australia continues to industrially clear their last native ancient forests, even as their [...]
January 31, 2008 – 5:12 am
The digital textbooks site iChapters.com has announced a new green campaign. For one month, buyers of eBooks and eChapters will have a tree planted in their name. See below for full program details: iChapters.com Helps Environmental Activism Take Root Online College Textbook Store Pledges to “Plant a Tree” for Each eChapter or eBook Purchased Through [...]
January 30, 2008 – 3:08 am
Ponderosa pines in Caton Lake Roadless on Payette NF, nine years after prescribed fire – Photo courtesy of John McCarthy/ TWS Last week, conservationists gathered in our nation’s capital to toast 10 years of Roadless Forests. They were marking the anniversary of a key piece of legislation that has helped to safeguard our public woodlands. [...]
September 1, 2007 – 5:03 am
Friends of the Earth Teghut’s forest is located in Armenia and is an ancient, pristine forest in a largely deforested nation. Over 1,500 acres of this forest is about to be destroyed to accommodate a massive, open-pit copper mine. Environmental activists in Armenia are trying to battle the mine, but without the freedoms of speech [...]
August 25, 2007 – 1:14 am
T. V. Padma 16 August 2007 Source: SciDev.Net Commuity forestry aims to mix pine with more broad leaf plants Leafy forests replanted by communities in Nepal are flying in the face of accepted conservation practice, reports T. V. Padma. The shaded path, insect buzz and distant calls of birds signal the beginning of a small [...]
TreeHugger The third year of university had come to end and I was interviewing for a summer job – it would be my first job in a forestry research lab. Prof. Terry Blake from University of Toronto’s Faculty of Forestry liked my resume, but had a few questions to ask. “Is it possible to measure [...]
Deforestation can be tracked by satellite images Zablon Odhiambo 27 July 2007 Source: SciDev.Net Mapping and remote sensing technology can be used by developing countries to conserve forests and biodiversity, say experts. Such ‘geospatial’ technology is helping African countries to conserve forests and identify areas in need of intervention, said scientists at a meeting [...]
From: SierraClub At nearly 17 million acres, an area the size of West Virginia, the Tongass National Forest is the largest reserve of coastal temperate rainforest in the world. Stretching for more than 500 miles along the southeast coast of Alaska, the Tongass covers an island landscape fragmented by narrow inlets and glacier-carved fjords. Today, [...]
Forest protection needs to take place on many levels and must be embraced by the government, the public and businesses GreenPeace Not to Log The integrity of our national forests is gravely threatened under the mismanagement of the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management. We are calling for an immediate moratorium on [...]
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