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Professional registered forester Judy Thomas said 70 per cent of harvested spruce beetle stands she analyzed had only 10 per cent beetle infestation. "There was no need to salvage it, " said Thomas, who lodged a complaint with BCs Forest Practices Board. Thomas is pictured here in a Northern B.C. spruce-dominant forest. Rob Norwell Investigation findings by B.C.’s forestry watchdog avoided criticizing government or industry for beetle salvage logging practices, and missed the ‘smoke and mi...

Date Time Share Alicia Bárcena Calls for Implementing a Big Push for Sustainability to Build a Future with More Equality ECLAC’s Executive Secretary delivered a keynote lecture at a seminar inaugurating the 21st edition of the School of Latin American Development Studies. “The world is at a crossroads: development needs to be reformulated and economic policies, reshaped,” Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, indicated today...

11 gennaio 2021 RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Jan. 10, 2021 PRNewswire/ — His Royal Highness Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince and Chairman of the NEOM Company Board of Directors, today announced THE LINE, a revolution in urban living at NEOM, and a blueprint for how people and planet can co-exist in harmony. THE LINE, a 170km belt of hyper-connected future communities, without cars and roads and built around nature, is a direct response to some of the most pressing challenges facing humanity today ...

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ECLAC’s School of Latin American Development Studies will commence its activities in 2021 on Monday, January 11 with an inaugural seminar on geopolitics, trade and economic integration, which will be held virtually. This is the twenty-first session of the School, which has been bringing postgraduate students from across the world together every year since 2000 to study development-related problems in Latin America and the Caribbean. The School convenes prominent experts and researchers from u...

Posted: Jan 02, 2021 7:00 AM PT | Last Updated: January 3 As British Columbias stock of old growth trees dwindle, tensions have been rising between conservationists and loggers. All sides say changes need to be made for endangered ecosystems and the forestry industry to survive.(Kieran Oudshoorn/CBC) As the hereditary chief of the Kwakiutl First Nation, the forests and ocean waters off the north east coast of Vancouver Island are David Mungo Knoxs sacred responsibility. Hes lived his life gathe...

Posted: Jan 02, 2021 7:00 AM PT | Last Updated: January 3 As British Columbias stock of old growth trees dwindle, tensions have been rising between conservationists and loggers. All sides say changes need to be made for endangered ecosystems and the forestry industry to survive.(Kieran Oudshoorn/CBC) As the hereditary chief of the Kwakiutl First Nation, the forests and ocean waters off the north east coast of Vancouver Island are David Mungo Knoxs sacred responsibility. Hes lived his life gathe...

In a year-end interview, BC’s premier looks at challenges ahead for his majority government. Andrew MacLeod is The Tyee’s Legislative Bureau Chief in Victoria and the author of All Together Healthy (Douglas & McIntyre, 2018). Find him on Twitter or reach him at . SHARES Premier John Horgan says Site C status won’t likely be known until ‘late January, February.’ Photo via the BC Government. Like many other provincial governments, British Columbia has pour...

The Ministry of Tourism has drafted a strategy to serve as its roadmap to rehabilitate and promote the tourism industry during and after the Covid-19 crisis. This comes as the sector begins to show signs of a recovery after countries around the world roll out Covid-19 vaccine campaigns. A meeting between the National Tourism Development Committee and relevant stakeholders on December 24 agreed to divide the 2020-2025 strategy into three main phases. These are Crisis Management in the New Normal...

Courtesy of Sasaki "Designed with the very best of Louisiana’s natural and cultural environments in mind, the new park serves as a place to both get away and come together. The balanced nature-based and active program elements are stitched together by a network of multi-modal trails that connect people to this place. The reimagined BR Zoo, now opening into the park, becomes part of a larger constellation of community uses that serve people of all ages, from all walks of life. The new Greenwoo...