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Jeff Lane felled the equivalent of 12 football pitches without the appropriate licence.

Daniel Kabichi’s telephone has been ringing a lot lately. As head of law enforcement operations within Malawi’s Department of Forestry, he represents the country’s latest strategy to fight deforestation and the increasingly worrisome trend of illegal and unsustainable charcoal. There is no investigative unit for forestry-related crimes in Malawi, so the Forestry Department’s work is […]

When Dongi Kacaw was asked to write three articles about indigenous wild greens 26 years ago, she responded with surprise. “I don’t know how to do that,” she says. “I just know how to eat them!” But after returning to Hualien, the indigenous Pangcah (Amis) now known as the “godmother of wild greens” (野菜教母) could not stop thinking about the request. She couldn’t find anything in the library about the plants she grew up with — so she went home to ask her parents. “I started taking photos, visiting sunset markets, going foraging with old people … I completely thre...

Illegal picking of reef pemphis, a maritime plant, is becoming a serious concern in Pingtung County’s Kenting (墾丁), prompting an investigation by Kenting National Park Headquarters. Reef pemphis, which grows along the coast and only on coral reefs, can be found around the Hengchun Peninsula and at one time was used as potted plants or herbal medicine by locals, the park said on Tuesday. Removal of the plants compromises the protective function of the natural coastline and disrupts coastal habitats, park administration Deputy Director Hsu Shu-kuo (許書國) said. Flower picking has alway...

Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue has welcomed the signing into law of new legislation relating to fur farming and forestry.