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Over-hunting threatens Amazonian forest carbon stocks

2016-01-26 04:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: Over-hunting of large mammals in tropical forests could make climate change worse according to new research from the University of East Anglia (UEA). Tropical forests worldwide store more than 460 billion tonnes of carbon. The Amazon is the largest and most species-rich tropical forest on Earth. Researchers studied the large-scale impact of wildlife extinctions induced by over-hunting on carbon storage right across the Amazon. The research shows that much of the above-ground carbon stock...

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2016-01-25 23:37:54| PortlandOnline

Recordings of Boise-Eliot/Humboldt fourth-graders during a walk in the forest.

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Pakistani women nurture trees and pride in forest drive

2016-01-25 03:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Robina Gul has swapped her needle for a trowel. Until recently, the villager from northern Pakistan got by making clothes for family weddings and religious festivals, but now she is encouraging other women to set up tree nurseries like hers that can earn them a handsome monthly income. Gul is growing some 25,000 saplings of 13 different species crammed into the small courtyard of her two-room house in Najaf Pur, a village of around 8,000 people in the Haripur district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province....

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Forest River Accuses Winnebago of Trademark Infringement

2016-01-22 20:10:36| Mobile Homes - Topix.net

In a document filed last month in the U.S. District Court Northern District of Indiana, Forest River has accused Winnebago Industries and Winnebago of Indiana of trademark infringement in developing its new DROP teardrop travel trailer. The suit contends that Winnebago copied Forest River's "trade dress," that indicate the source of the travel trailers and distinguishes the travel trailer from all others through distinctive characteristics, including features such as size, shape, and color.

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Peru terminates head of forest watchdog agency

2016-01-16 02:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Rolando Navarro Gómez has been the executive president of Perus forestry monitoring agency, known as OSINFOR, or Organismo de Supervisión de los Recursos Forestales y Fauna Silvestre, since 2012. A forestry engineer educated in his native Peru and with extensive experience with USAIDs Proyecto Perú Bosques and the World Wildlife Fund, Navarro Gómez represented a shift in the Peruvian governments commitment to fight illegal logging. Under Navarro Gómez, Peru made big strides to coordinate with...

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