forest.org: RELEASE/VICTORY!
“Ecological Internet Successfully Leads in Protection of the Serengeti Wildlife Migration.” Read more here
forests.org: Action Alert: Protect Moscow’s Khimki Forest and Russia’s Other Old Forest Remnants from Roadways and Ecocidal Industrial Capitalism
“Activists continue to battle road construction equipment in the old-growth Khimki Forest just outside of Moscow, setting an example for old forest protectors and global ecological sustainability protestors globally. Industrial development that destroys ecosystems is ecocidal, destroying possibility for future human advancement. For years Russian activists and journalists have survived beatings, arrests and intimidation to…
cbc.ca: B.C. forest in major carbon-offset play
“The Nature Conservancy of Canada is selling the forest to save the trees. The group is raising millions from its protected forest land by selling carbon credits for protecting the land.” Read more here
Action Alert: Papua New Guinea: Push for Commission of Inquiry into Illegal Rainforest Logging/Oil Palm Land Grabs
“Papua New Guinea (PNG) has some of the world’s largest rainforests but sadly industrial logging and oil palm are booming. “Special Agriculture and Business Leases” covering 5.2 million hectares (12.8 million acres) have been granted 74 times by the PNG government over recent years, skirting forestry laws and allowing clearcuts of primary rainforests on customary…
Russian forest experts shocked by Swedish forestry
An 800 hectares big clear-cut, in a former natural forest landscape in the north of Värmland, Sweden, made in the 2000s. Stora Enso has on Bergvik land placed several large clearings adjacent to each other that create this huge clear-cut. Photo: Viktor Säfve / Protect the Forest 2011 Due to intensive forestry, the natural taiga…