Environmentalists are hailing it as grand victory for the Tongass National Forest, and for taxpayers to boot. But it looks to us more like the Mexican victory for which the Cinco de Mayo is celebrated: a mere delaying action against formidable forces still on the march. The House of Representatives recently approved, 222-205, an amendment limiting money for logging-road construction in the Alaskan rainforest, for years a battleground between tree-huggers and woodcutters.
Campesino demands for land titles were united with indigenous demands for territorial rights, while federations representing small miners, Brazil-nut harvesters, Puerto Maldonado moto-taxi drivers, and other sectors also joined the strike, uniting in an Alliance of Federations. "Laws are being systematically ignored by the company and the government," Corisepa charges.\n Citing potential damage to aquifers, the tribunal ruled against a consortium including Repsol, Petrobras, and Occidental Petroleum, ordering a halt to exploration in the reserve until a master plan is in place.
... time, indigenous leaders from the rainforest are in direct dialogue with the highest levels of ... opening indigenous lands to oil drilling, logging, and other forms of resource extraction as never b...
THIS ARTICLE CONSIDERS HOW CRIMINOLOGISTS CAN BEST ANALYZE THE CRIME AND harm involved in the destruction of forests around the world. Although "illegal logging" as conventionally defined is undoubtedly a major form of transnational organized crime, the boundary between "legal" and "illegal" logging is ambiguous and conceptually unsatisfactory.
...The destruction of these unique rainforests through clear-felling and napalm-first removing al...
The Senate should copy the House's recent move to protect the world's last temperate rainforest from logging. In preserving the Tongass National Forest, the Senate also would be protecting the taxpayers from more federal payoffs to the logging industry. The Tongass, in southeastern Alaska, is an exception to the massive destruction of old-growth forests in the United States. ... Yet even within the Tongass, the federal government has kowtowed to the timber industry, allowing logging of more than 1 million acres and the building of thousands of miles of roads -- destructive both to the forest and its creatures.
PARAMARIBO, Suriname - It looks like a meteor strike: From out of nowhere, a huge clearing appears in the jungle - a deep rust- colored pit surrounded by mounds of dirt and thick stands of trees pushed to the side in dense piles of overturned soil. But this is no act of nature. It is the result of the steady labor of fewer than a dozen barefoot men, who have blasted away at the earth for three days with high-pressure water hoses and earth- movers, searching for gold and destroying a swathe of rainforest.
... environmentalists for placing limits on logging and setting aside large rainforest preserves. The ...
... because they feared that the influence of logging industries in developed countries would produce a ... was introduced by the Coalition of Rainforest Nations in 2005 at COP-11. (131) Elements of this ...
The right to say no to corporate invasions is most often referred to as the right to "free, prior, and informed consent." A number of international treaties and conventions cite the right of affected communities to be "consulted" and to "participate" in decisions about industrial projects that would affect them and their natural resources, but these are fuzzy terms that do not ensure the right to say no. I once asked a VP of Newmont Mining what it would take for the company to take "no" for an answer from a community where Newmont wanted to mine. He said, "Given enough time [read enough money], we believe we can convince any community that mining is in their best interest More than 40 million Congolese people, including some 500,000 Pygmies, depend on the forests for their livelihoods....
..., oil and gas drilling and industrial logging. Some of the signatory governments, however, are a..., with international support from the Rainforest Foundation and Global Response, the Pygmies filed ...
..., including extensive areas of lowland rainforest. Furthermore, the crimson shining parrot is report...; there are no reports of illegal logging on the islands of Kadavu and Ono. Most of Fiji's f...
A Lancaster County native has won one of Brazil's highest honors for his work helping to preserve the Amazon rainforest. Eric R. Stoner was recognized in the Chico Mendes Awards for the Environment competition for his leadership in pioneering low-impact logging techniques.
...Illegal logging in the African rainforest is threatening the habitat of gorillas and chimpan...
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