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Orangutans rescued from Indonesian forest fires released back into wild
2016-07-01 10:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Three orangutans rescued when forest fires destroyed their Indonesian rainforest habitats were returned to the wild on Borneo island last week. Karmele Llano Sanche, International Animal Rescue program director in Indonesia, made a three-day journey by car, boat and through the forest to release the animals in Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park. "You know, it's amazing to see a big orangutan like that moving across the forest, this is home, home, back home," Sanche said. Sabtu, 25, was...
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Amazon biodiversity at risk despite Brazil's forest protection law - study
2016-06-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: "Many of the forests that remain standing are shadows of the pristine forests that once stood in their place" Selective logging, road building and fires are threatening biodiversity in Brazil's Amazon despite a requirement that rural landowners maintain at least 80 percent of their forest cover in the world's largest rainforest, researchers said on Wednesday. In 2012, Brazil enacted a law to protect forests and help establish clearer rules for the ranchers, soy growers and other producers who...
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Forest Service Plan Would Perpetuate Destruction of Tongass Old-Growth
2016-06-30 15:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Earth Justice: Forest Service Plan Would Perpetuate Destruction of Tongass Old-Growth Proposed plan continues the controversy of old-growth logging for years to come, fails to protect real economic drivers, and impairs the countrys ability to combat climate change This plan also costs our country tens of millions of dollars every year unsustainable old-growth logging continues. The Forest Service is forcing taxpayers to write the check to subsidize an industry that cant survive on its own. Holly Harris...
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California tree deaths part of global wave of forest mortality
2016-06-23 04:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Summit County Voice: California`s multiyear drought killed even more trees than previously thought, the U.S. Forest Service announced this week. Aerial and ground surveys show that 26 million trees across six counties in Southern California died, in addition to the 40 million trees that died statewide from 2010 to October 2015. Four years of drought, high temperatures and an outbreak of tree-killing bark beetles all contributed the historic levels of tree die-off, the agency said. The tree mortality in California...
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Britain, Greece, Israel help fight forest fire in Cyprus
2016-06-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Greece, Britain and Israel sent planes and helicopters to Cyprus on Monday to fight one of the largest forest fires to hit the island in years, and a firefighter was killed when a water carrier overturned, authorities said. It was the first fatality among firefighters reported in years in Cyprus, which has frequent brush fires during its hot summer months but on a considerably smaller scale. The blaze, possibly triggered by an attempt to burn dry stubble, broke out on Sunday in the foothills...
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