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GUEST COLUMN: State must reform policies, restore damaged forestlands | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS For The Daily Gazette The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and Adirondack Park Agency (APA) were found this month to have violated the famed “forever wild” clause in New York’s constitution. Neither agency has been able to muster a meaningful response. Damaged public Forest Preserve lands need to be restored, official state policies that debased the state constitution must be reformed, and plans for a motorized trail network that violated forever wild need to be rescinded. Ye...

Since New York’s top court ruled last week that the state violated its own constitution by cutting trees for Class II snowmobile trails on the Forest Preserve, state agencies have given scant response on what this might mean for the future of...

International aid to Africa needs an overhaul. Tips on what needs to change Format Disclosure statement Tigist Mekonnen Melesse does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. The fact that foreign aid as currently practised has failed to achieve its poverty reduction targets in Africa is clear from the data. Over 75% of the world’s poor live in Africa today. In 1970 the figure was 10%. Some forecasts suggest it could rise to 90% b...

The fact that foreign aid as currently practised has failed to achieve its poverty reduction targets in Africa is clear from the data. Over 75% of the world’s poor live in Africa today. In 1970 the figure was 10%. Some forecasts suggest it could rise to 90% by 2030. Africa is the only continent in the world where official aid inflow outstrips private capital inflow by a large margin. This is problematic since no country in the world has achieved substantial development based on reliance on aid. This points to the need for reform. One is that Africa’s aid-dependent economic model provide...

In a sweeping and decisive decision last week, New York’s highest court ruled in favor of Protect the Adirondacks that a new type of wide snowmobile trail is