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The pace of deforestation has increased in line with the government’s clampdown on environmental defenders. February 25, 2021 This 2013 file photo shows a clearing in the middle of the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary in northern Cambodia. Credit: Sebastian Strangio Advertisement In Cambodia, few protected areas are under as much threat from deforestation as the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary. For years, this protected area, which covers some 430,000 hectares across Kratie, Stung Treng, Kampong Tho...

Police Target the Most Lucrative of Environmental Crimes   LYON, France, February 16, 2021 (ENS) – A decade of forestry crime operations, fighting the looting of natural resources such as timber and charcoal in some of the world’s poorest countries, has given the international police force, Interpol, some powerful tools to carry on the fight against its powerful adversaries. Al-Shabaab, a violent terrorist group responsible for major attacks in Somalia and Kenya, has been one of the main b...

Given that the authorities have launched SUMAL 2.0 in an untested and incomplete form, which generates blockages in the market, WWF Romania...

There is abundant proof of the mens activities. even notes on how many trees they cut down. this wood goes to local cattle ranchers, who build fences around their area and theyre selling the stakes for those fences. and it even shows right here how much money theyre making. the leader, whose name is laercio guajajara, lectures the suspects. why did you agree to do this work? "because," he says, "i dont have anything." laercio says more than a third of his ancestral homeland has been destroyed. s...

Raised millions of dollars and protected more than 33 million acres of rainforest. their tireless campaigning has helped launch groundbreaking projects that have empowered indigenous communities to lead, putting the protection of their homes and human rights in their own hands. using cutting edge mobile apps and drone technology, the rainforest fund is revolutionizing the way communities are able to record, report, and monitor illegal logging and mining to protect the land theyve lived on for ce...

Imports come from illegal logging and thats not all humanity also destroys forests to create farmland for the production of other bomb materials like palm oil soybeans sugar cane or beef billions of dollars worth of those products are bought and sold every day and how many of the companies that depend on these raw materials are trying to participate in whats called the green economy which seeks to ease humanitys impact on nature only around 13 percent. if humanity needs more farmland or space fo...

Major el niño in 2015-16. and were beating that in a normal year. this is a warning. we had a tremendous dismantling of the environmental agencies and policies in brazil just in seven months. and we still have 3 1/2 years to go in the bolsonaro administration. a lot could happen. >> we know deforestation has been a growing issue, cattle farmers want land to graze their herd, soy farmers need space to grow crops, theres widespread illegal logging. i understand last week rancherers organizrancher...

Im david gura. catastrophic fires continue to burn in the amazon, the worlds largest rain forest. it could mean our battle against climate change is reaching an irreversible tipping point. it provides 40% of the planets oxygen. more than 74,000 fires just this year alone. the space research center says thats a 79% increase in fires from the same period in 2018. its being linked to brazils deforestation policies and illegal logging. growing international outrage has brought environmental policies...

Just like anyone else searching for gold should i go out and steal instead you lot are against it and donate money to greenpeace and co. but such complaining doesnt help the police destroy the machines even though these will almost certainly be replaced in a matter of days president both n.r.o. is critical of the environmental also overseas including best stance on illegal logging. but i will find those responsible for these excessive measures its unacceptable to set others property alight to de...

The fact that these 2 points are the one keep getting the go to shows that really this whole discussion is about washington and its vauxhall avant its not about the on people and its definitely not about on the island yemen has had to see how this latest attack came from the taliban really play into those talks and if you thank you very much for that update from the afghan capital kabul. now to russia where firefighters are struggling to contain massive wildfires the air forces join the fight to...