Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...“The promises to the communities are vague and unpredictable and it’s like logging or mining or palm oil all over again.”...
...Although it was often difficult to establish the exact circumstances behind the attacks, about 10 per cent were linked to agriculture, mining and logging interests....
...The possible change of government has sparked a rush by criminal logging gangs, said campaigners. “People are racing to get hold of land because of the uncertainty....
...Almost all deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is unlawful, the result of illegal logging, mining and ranching....
...They could accelerate deforestation (acting against SDG 15, which is “life on land”) by opening up isolated areas to logging companies....
...land and fight back against the loggers, who were involved in a network of organised crime....
...Down the road, an unmarked stretch of dirt protrudes into the sea, bustling with trucks filling in land for a $1.5bn port under construction since May 2022 by Kampot Logistics and Port....
...Then came colonisation and the start of clear-cutting logging practices . . . and here we are....
...Earlier this month Estonia announced a relaxation of logging restrictions on state-owned land, which is home to about half of the country’s forests....
...Clearly visible even on his phone screen were the strips of bare land running eastward from the park’s boundary in a fishbone pattern: tell-tale signs of the way logging activity has penetrated ever deeper...
...“I was raised on Indiana Jones,” he said, as he drove us in his battered Land Cruiser. “Now I am living it.” We stopped on a high granite outcrop, where David’s team held up a large antennae....
...“My grandfather used to tell me about the Amur falcon, a bird that comes from a far land, across the seas,” begins Nuklu, as the tide of prayer subsides....
...There is a Land Registry record for it, but it’s unclear what area of land the record refers to, and whether it gets post....
...This is reflected in Mahku’s motto “sell art, buy land”....
...Replacing them with soya bean, coconut or sunflower would require between four and ten times as much land, leading to environmental degradation elsewhere....
...Some good news New tech such as drones and solar-powered camera traps are enabling indigenous guardians of the Amazon to fight illegal logging....
...Land costs would be lower. Integration expenses should also be more affordable, for the reason that the local grid would not have a lot of intermittent renewables in it already....
...project but more importantly they would provide employment for local people — well over 200 at last count — allowing their continued connection to this landscape, offering an alternative to cattle and logging...
...nature-based solutions by 2025, Most crucially — and controversially — they also want governments to stop their estimated $500bn incurrent annual subsidies to harmful activities such as logging....
...Unusually, most people use gas to cook, not charcoal, and laws against logging are relatively strict....
...Other catalysts of deforestation include agriculture, logging, unauthorised construction, mining projects and coca production....
...Limiting logging would also help. Although much of the boreal is undeveloped, logging is rampant in parts of Canada and Siberia....
...A small portion of the role involved logging UFO sightings and dealing with correspondence, though it had always been a “generalist, non-technical post”, Webb wrote....
...In the morning, Stein took me up in his gyrocopter, which he uses to show off the area to tourists and to try to spot any illegal logging or poaching....
...Avatars that represent us will be able to work, play or simply hang out in a digital space, be that a realistic copy of our actual offices or a fantastical land constrained only by our imagination....
International Edition