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Ecuador Sells A Third Of Its Amazon Rainforest To Chinese Oil Companies
Ecuador is planning to auction off three million of the country's 8.1 million hectares of pristine Amazonian rainforest to Chinese oil companies, Jonathan Kaiman of The Guardian reports. The report comes as oil pollution forced neighboring Peru to declare an...
Amazon Deforestation for January Hits Record
Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil more than doubled in January compared with the previous year, according to official data published Friday. More than 280 square kilometers (110 square miles) were cleared, an increase of 108 percent. It was the largest...
Cutting Trees Makes Forest Fires Worse Experts Say
Allowing logging in national parks would increase the intensity of bushfires by boosting the amount of flammable fuel and creating additional "kindling", experts have warned. Millions of hectares have been scorched in raging bushfires across Australia since October...
Metallica makes mega donation of $750,000 for Australian bushfire relief
The latest in a long line of celebrities and musicians to donate money to bushfire relief is Metallica, who have pledged $750,000 to the NSW Rural Fire Service and the Country Fire Authority in Victoria. In a series of tweets, the rock legends wrote they were "totally...
Over One Billion Animals Died in Australia’s Bushfires
Adelaide wildlife rescuer Simon Adamczyk holds a koala he rescued at a burning forest near Cape Borda on Kangaroo Island (Picture: EPA) The number of wildlife feared to have died in the bushfires ravaging Australia has soared to over one billion. Chris Dickman, an...
How Australia Became one of the Worst Deforesters in the World
Australia is the only nation in the developed world to make the World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) global list of deforestation hotspots. The biennial Living Planet Report, published this week, puts Australia alongside New Guinea, Indonesia, Congo and Brazil for...
Tribal Leader Who Guarded the Amazon Rainforest Murdered by Illegal Loggers
"The Bolsonaro government has the blood of natives on their hands. The increase in violence in native areas is a direct result of his hate-filled speeches. " A young tribal leader was murdered in the Amazon Rainforest on Friday in an ambush by illegal loggers who also...
VIDEO: How The Gambia is losing its forests in record speed
Gambians were full of hope when their new president Barrow was elected in 2016. Former president Jammeh was known for his love towards wildlife. Trees and forests however were not safe in any way. According to a 2015 report on the Chinese rosewood trade, around...
Notre Dame Received More Aid Than Amazon Fires
As the Amazon rainforest burns, resources are rejected and blame continues to shift. Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro said he would reconsider accepting aid Tuesday afternoon if he received an apology from French President Emmanuel Macron as a feud heightens between...
Vegan Company Buys 15.000 Acres Of Amazon Rainforest To Protect It
Israeli vegan company VeganNation has bought land in the Amazon rainforest to protect it from exploitation and fires from cattle farmers. The company — which launched its own cryptocurrency last year called VeganCoin — describes itself as a “global, vegan,...
Illegal logging and poverty fuel local tensions in southern Senegal
In the early hours of 6 April 2018 Mustapha Gueye awoke to the buzz of a chainsaw outside his home in Sam Yero Gueye, a small village in the scrublands of Kolda Region on the Senegalese border with Gambia. Mustapha got up to investigate; 300 metres outside his village...
Deforestation Of The Amazon Has Reached 3 Football Fields Per Minute!
Anthropogenic activities like logging and mining, combined with longer dry seasons, could exacerbate transition of the Amazon rainforests to drier savannah-like states. Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. The amazon is being clear cut away at a...
Elephants help forests store more carbon by destroying smaller plants
Naturally boosting the forest’s carbon-carrying capacity IAN REDMOND / naturepl.com Elephants do a lot of damage to plants as they stomp around the jungle, but, counterintuitively, by this activity elephants help the forest. The biomass of the forest will store more...
Pregnant Orangutan Photographed Clinging to Last Tree in Rainforest Destroyed for Palm Oil
Orangutans will be extinct in 10 years if deforestation for palm oil continues, conservation expert warns Bulldozers has cleared the forest around her — which had been teeming with life for thousands of years — in just a few days. While most orangutans had run for the...
The Gambia is losing more forest cover in record speed
Gambia is losing forest is record speed.. There will soon come a time when no big tree will be left in our terrestrial ecologies and no fish in our aquatic ecosystems with highly polluted environment, prevalence of diseases and unplayable Chinese loans, then, there...
Norway Becomes World’s First Country to Ban Deforestation
Unfortunately, the images that appear in our head when we think of the Earth as we know it are not completely accurate, as the planet has dramatically changed since our early school years. Satellite images of once densely forested areas have revealed that the greenery...
How Namibia Is Robbing Itself: 10.000 Logs Exported to China losing 24 million
A new report exposes the government's failure to curb the controversial timber trade, with revelations that 10 000 blocks of wood from northern Namibia have been exported to China and Vietnam since November 2018. Agriculture and environment ministries officials...
GAMBIA: Bamboo Forest At Jamburr Bulldozed
The only Bambo strip of forest situated behind the Nawec substation at Jamburr village in the West Coast Region of the Gambia, has been bulldozed to the ground by one Modou Jammeh, who claims ownership of the said Land. The whole strip of bamboo forest was bulldozed...
These Are The Countries With The Greatest Primary Forest Loss in 2018
1,500 square kilometres of terrain will be destroyed in Selous Game Reserve to make way for the Stieglers Gorge hydropower project © Richard Mortel/Flckr Around 12 million hectares of forest in the world's tropical regions were lost in 2018, equivalent to 40 football...
Deforestation Rate in The Netherlands is even Higher than in Brazil
The Sallands Heuvelrug The Climate Agreement states that much more forest must be added to store carbon dioxide (CO2). According to Staatsbosbeheer, tens of thousands of hectares of trees must be added. But the reality is the opposite: in practice, between 1500 and...
Indonesia Threatens To Quit Paris Climate Deal Over Palm Oil
A protected area of the Rawa Singkil wildlife reserve in Trumon, South Aceh is being burnt for a new palm oil plantation. Photograph: JANUAR/AFP/Getty Image A senior Indonesian minister warned on Wednesday Southeast Asia’s biggest economy could consider exiting the...
Pallets Made From Coconut Could Save 200 Million Trees A Year
Pallets made from coconut In the tropical landscape of peninsular India, coconut trees form a vital resource in everyday life. From extensive culinary use to generating a wide range of household items as by-products, coconut is virtually indispensable in Southern...
The Planet Loses 40 Soccer Fields Worth Of Forests Every Minute
In just 10 years the planet has lost 945,345 km2 of natural forests, a little over the total size of Venezuela. The rate of loss of forest covering has doubled since 2003 and the deforestation in tropical rainforests has also doubled since 2008, according to The...
South African Wonder Plant Removes More CO2 Than Amazon
Spekboom at Kuzuko Lodge. Image: Elise Kirsten Spekboom, also known as pork bush or elephant’s food, is our own indigenous South African wonder plant. Besides being edible (and high in Vitamin C), the medium-sized shrub found predominantly in the Eastern Cape is...
Namibia: 68.000 Rare Trees Cut Down Illegally In Kavango East
68 000 rare trees cut in Kavango East – Shifeta (Picture: The Namibian) ENVIRONMENT minister Pohamba Shifeta said about 68.000 rare trees were illegally cut down in Kavango East. Shifeta revealed these statistics in the National Assembly yesterday when he answered...
Tanzania: Lodge Closes As Loggers Move In Unexpected To Deforest Selous Game Reserve
1,500 square kilometres of terrain will be destroyed in Selous Game Reserve to make way for the Stieglers Gorge hydropower project © Richard Mortel/Flckr Azura Selous, a luxury game lodge situated along the banks of the Great Ruaha River in the remote Selous Game...
Orangutan Fighting Excavator In Borneo To Protect His Home
Every year, as a direct result of deforestation for palm oil, approximately 6,000 orangutans are killed. Not only is the ingredient (which is common in household products) devastating animals’ natural habitats, it is polluting the environment. This orangutan was angry...
Planting Trillions of Trees Could Cancel Out CO2 Emissions
Scientist: Trees are "our most powerful weapon in the fight against climate change." Forest near Baka village of Mayos, Cameroon Fresh Air An ambitious new analysis of the world’s forests found that there’s space to plant 1.2 trillion new trees. A number that would...
Tanzania Plans To Deforest 150.000 HA Of Its Largest Forest This Summer
Selous Wildlife Reserve is one of the last remaining wildernesses in Africa (Photo: Essiential Destinations) Tanzania will be going ahead with a $3 billion logging project in the middle of the Selous Game Reserve – a Unesco World Heritage Site, and one of the most...
Cameroon: 55.000 HA Of African Rainforest Is Cut Down RIGHT NOW
The Chinese Exim bank released a tweet today in which the bank openly announced its plans to deforest an extra 45.000 HA of the Meyomessala forest in Cameroon. 10.000 HA has already been deforested by the Chinese company last year according to Greenpeace. 55.000 HA Of...
Deforestation in West Africa
This is a mini documentary about the rampant deforestation in West Africa.
