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Tropical forests overexploited by unsustainable logging
2016-07-14 03:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Widely hailed as a renewable natural resource, tropical timber from old-growth tropical forests is selectively logged worldwide at an unprecedented scale. But research from the University of East Anglia reveals that these sources of timber are far from sustainable or entirely environmentally friendly. A study published in PLOS ONE reveals that once prime tropical hardwoods -- such as Brazilian cedars, ipe (Brazilian walnut), and rosewood -- have been logged, they do not grow back to commercial...
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Even reduced-impact logging in the Amazon may be unsustainable
2016-07-13 20:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Researchers in the Brazilian Amazon say they have found no evidence that the composition of timber species and total forest value recover even after highly selective logging, suggesting that the most commercially valuable species must inevitably become rare or even economically extinct in old logging frontiers. Brazil accounts for 85 percent of all native neotropical forest roundlog production, but the sustainability of timber harvests beyond the initial, typically selective rounds of logging,...
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Dams, Logging, Poaching Threaten World Heritage
2016-07-13 09:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Of all the world`s unique natural areas threatened by logging, poaching, dam development and gillnet fishing, the International Union for Conservation of Nature is advising the UNESCO World Heritage Committee to place five of them on the List of Heritage in Danger. "When pressures on the planet's outstanding natural sites exceed the strong protection expected under the World Heritage Convention, additional action is needed," says Tim Badman, director of IUCN's World Heritage Programme. "The Danger...
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Hardwood from illegal logging makes way into UK stores
2016-06-26 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: British shoppers could be unknowingly buying wooden furniture, flooring and even food items that are byproducts of destructive illegal logging in the Amazon, environmental campaigners are warning. Friends of the Earth is calling on ministers to make companies reveal the source of their products in order to stop the black market trade. Last week human rights watchdog Global Witness revealed that 185 environmental activists were killed in 2015, many of whom had been trying to stop illegal logging...
Proceedings Begin Over Illegal Logging in Poland
2016-06-17 13:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The Polish Government has one month to respond following the start of infringement proceedings over illegal logging by the European Commission. Proceedings have begun following the call from ClientEarth urging the European Commission to halt the destructive plans to introduce logging in the Bialowieza Forest. Poland could receive large fines if the case ends up before the European Court of Justice. ClientEarth Lawyer Agata Szafraniuk said: "Starting legal proceedings shows the Commission agrees...
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