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KSAC to get tough on illegal signs, billboards
2013-02-16 20:18:04| Wireless - Topix.net
Mayor of Kingston, Senator Angela Brown Burke, says the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation will be cracking down on illegal signs and billboards erected in the Corporation.
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Politician moves to make vulgar Photoshopping illegal
2013-02-14 00:21:47| CNET News.com
A state lawmaker in Georgia is so perturbed that someone used Photoshop to put his head on a porn star's body that he now wants any kind of lewd Photoshopping to be banned. "No one has a right to make fun of anyone," he says. [Read more]
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Alberta demolition firm fined in labyrinthine illegal dumping case
2013-02-11 16:08:00| Solid Waste & Recycling magazine Headlines
The website homepage for McColman & Sons Demolition Ltd. offers visitors a slideshow of company projects, but unbeknownst to clients, the demolition waste from these projects may have been illegally dumped, damaging local wetlands in rural...
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The Orangutans Road: Illegal Logging and Mining in Indonesia
2013-02-10 05:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Brookings: Like in a desolate Edward Hopper landscape, the orangutan was clinging to the one last tree that stood next to the river in Kutai National Park in eastern Kalimantan. The joy of seeing this magnificent primate was spoiled by his destroyed habitat -- under normal circumstances, the orangutan would never venture so far out of trees. But here he was in a beyond-degraded and marginal habitat, probably looking for food he could no longer find inside the forest. Although once a jewel of biodiversity...
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Report: nearly half the timber from Mozambique to China is illegal
2013-02-07 21:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Forty-eight percent of the timber making its way from Mozambique's forests to Chinese companies was harvested illegally, according to a new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), which blames the problem on widespread corruption and poor governance. The illegal logging cost Mozambique, the world's fourth least-developed country in the world according to the UN, $29 million in tax revenue, says the report. "Despite recent commendable efforts by the Mozambican Government to control...
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