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Logging

Shafts of sunlight filtering through the forest canopy strike smoke from fires burning outside family huts at an Mbuti pygmy hunting camp in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve outside the town of Epulu, Congo

DR Congo faces criticism over plans to open Congo rainforest to commercial logging

Environment

Debate ensues over environmental issues and the need for economic advancement as Democratic Republic of Congo lifts a moratorium on logging the Congo rainforest.

Borneo rainforest

In Borneo, healthy people equals healthy forests

Health & Medicine
Bison in Poland forest

In Poland, a primeval forest is threatened by commercial logging

Environment

Technology is allowing us to watch the world’s forest disappear in real time, and hopefully halt it

Environment

Congressmen seek changes to environmental protection law

Environment
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VIDEO: Environmentalists find sensitive trees turned into building materials for Olympics

Environment

A war of words over logging in Australia has ignited between a large Malaysian logging company and environmentalists, and it’s captured the Olympics in London as well.

The World

Invoking Buddha to Protect Forests

Environment

A community of Buddhist monks in Cambodia is appealing to international concern about climate change to help preserve the region’s forests.

Old Growth Forest Interview with David Harris Continues

The newly owned and operated timber company now cuts timber around the clock, attracting the attention and protests of local environmentalists. Two anti-logging activists were seriously injured by a bomb blast, and the legacy remains.

The Last Stand: Protests Among the Old Growth Forest

Activist and author David Harris has written a book titled The Last Stand which documents the links between 1980’s corporate raiding, and subsequent intense logging and protests in the redwood forests of northern California. The one-time family-run Pacific Lumber was taken over with the help of some of Michael Milken’s junk bonds and Ivan Boesky’s […]

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