Deforestation
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Illegal loggers remain hidden in Peru’s forest but timber finds global buyers
14 Oct 2014: State exercises little control over remote Amazon region blighted by poverty and illiteracy, and organised crime fills the vacuum
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20 Oct 2014:
While the largest landowners have cut their contribution to deforestation by two-thirds, that of smallholders has increased
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19 Oct 2014: Data indicates 190% rise in land clearance in August and September compared with same period last year
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15 Oct 2014:
Hi-tech undercover operation used GPS tracking on timber trucks for the first time, as well as satellite and aerial images to reveal extent of illegal logging in Brazilian Amazon
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14 Oct 2014: State exercises little control over remote Amazon region blighted by poverty and illiteracy, and organised crime fills the vacuum
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Guardian Professional, 9 Oct 2014: From the growth of palm oil to the popularity of rhino horn as a status commodity, business can take its share of responsibility for the species loss statistics in WWF’s latest report
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7 Oct 2014:
As Norway gives $150m to Liberia to fight illegal logging, Katherine Purvis asks whether aid should have a conservation catch
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7 Oct 2014: Eleven holders of prestigious prize say excessive consumption threatening planet, and humans need to live more sustainably
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6 Oct 2014: Global Biodiversity Outlook 4 paints a damning picture of governments’ efforts to meet a set of targets agreed in 2010
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2 Oct 2014:
Andrew Simms: Letting people living in forests become nature’s guardian is bringing both development and saving ecosystems
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Guardian Professional, 2 Oct 2014: Global Forest Watch uses open data to monitor changes in the Earth’s forests. Nigel Sizer, Loretta Cheung and share the lessons they’ve learnt from the project
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1 Oct 2014: George Monbiot: Our consumption is trashing a natural world infinitely more fascinating and intricate than the stuff we produce
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30 Sep 2014:
Guardian Australia: WWF has found that Australia requires 6.25 ‘global hectares’ of productive land and ocean per person per year
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25 Sep 2014: Funds will be used to improve forest governance as some scientists speculate that deforestation may be linked to disease
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23 Sep 2014: New York declaration on forests could cut carbon emissions equivalent of taking all the world’s cars off the road
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17 Sep 2014:
For 30 years activists and loggers battled over Tasmania’s old-growth forests. Finally, in 2012, came a historic peace deal. But on 2 September the state’s newly elected Liberal government tore it up. So what next for both sides?
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