deforestation
Bongo River Tree Restoration Project Launched
Posted on: 26 January 2012 - 3:16pmNews Coverage
Africa
forests
deforestation
Tree Aid, in collaboration with the Bongo Traditional Authority and the Bongo District Assembly, has started a project to restore and maintain vegetation around the major rivers in Bongo, Upper East Region.
Mr Philip Goodwin, Chief Executive officer of Tree Aid, said the major concern of his outfit was to create an opportunity for individuals particularly the poor to generate income to create forest enterprises and manage the resources more securely and ultimately protect the environment.
“Poverty creates greater problems for the environment but a degraded environment creates more poverty”, he said, noting that Tree Aid had made effective interventions to break that cycle of environmental decline.
Sulawesi’s future in jeopardy
Posted on: 26 January 2012 - 3:16pmInformation and Communication Products
Asia-Pacific
forests
biodiversity
environmental degradation
deforestation
mining
Sulawesi is the 11th largest island in the world and an Indonesian region blessed with unique biodiversity which inhabit its pristine terrestrial, coastal and marine ecosystems. The region also has an incredible amount of mineral deposits underneath its 12.5 million hectares of forest, according to Forestry Ministry data from 2009.
Timber poaching due to poverty - DENR 11
Posted on: 29 November 2011 - 1:35pmInformation and Communication Products
Asia-Pacific
deforestation
Timber poaching persists due to poverty.
This was declared by Environment Regional Director Jim O. Sampulna in a recent interview as he revealed that people in the hinterlands are “looking at trees as money and food.”
Poverty drives deforestation in northern Bekaa Valley
Posted on: 29 November 2011 - 1:35pmNews Coverage
Middle East
deforestation
With the beginning of winter, residents of villages and towns in northern Bekaa, many of whom are unable to afford fuel, are turning to wood from the area’s forests. While burning firewood is the only option for many to stay warm, the practice is driving deforestation and striking a blow to local conservation efforts.
Millions of coconut trees old and dying
Posted on: 8 September 2011 - 12:26pmNews Coverage
Asia-Pacific
deforestation
The trees of life are on the brink of death. Millions of coconut trees in the country are aging and dying, the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) said.
The country needs to replant a huge chunk of its coconut plantations as 44.8 million coconut trees are classified as old and senile, according to the PCA. Many are dying due to the stresses of weather and diseases, and should be cut to lumber, it said.
Sulu town launches greening drive
Posted on: 8 September 2011 - 12:08pmPollution and Health
News Coverage
Asia-Pacific
forests
deforestation
The Aquino administration’s National Greening Program in the countryside was formally launched here with over 2,000 people joining hands in planting about 5,000 seedlings of high-value forest and fruit trees along the roads of this municipality.
Mineral mining surge threatens India's forests
Posted on: 11 July 2011 - 2:55pmNews Coverage
Asia-Pacific
natural resources management
forests
deforestation
BHUBANESWAR, India (AlertNet) - India faces a tough choice between preserving its forests and digging up the valuable minerals that lie beneath them. Nowhere is this more obvious than in Orissa State - home to 35 percent of India’s iron ore resources, which it is exploiting fast.
Orissa’s production of iron ore alone increased seven times in the decade to 2009, topping 77 million tonnes as global demand, particularly from China, drove export prices higher. The state is also rich in bauxite, chromites and coal, holding 55 percent, 95 percent and 24 percent of India's total deposits respectively.
Habitat cleared in carbon sink forest
Posted on: 11 July 2011 - 2:50pmNews Coverage
Asia-Pacific
natural resources management
forests
deforestation
conservation
A forest in Oddar Meanchey province is facing environmental “disaster” after thousands of people destroyed up to 1,000 hectares of natural habitat, putting revenues from a carbon credit scheme worth tens of millions of dollars at risk.
Proceeds from a United Nations-backed Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation scheme are said to be in danger after waves of settlers destroyed parts of the forest in Samroang district, chief of the Romdoul Veasna community forest programme, Malis Hoeuth, said yesterday.
Brazil's Amazon settlers 'scratching out a living'
Posted on: 11 July 2011 - 11:44amNews Coverage
Americas
forests
deforestation
natural resource management
The charred tree stumps in the Amazon rain forest tell their own story.
Even though the trees here are probably the best-protected anywhere on earth - at least in theory - someone is still cutting them down and burning them.
For several years now, the Brazilian government has insisted that the rate of deforestation in the Amazon has declined sharply.
But earlier this year, it suddenly jumped again, to a rate five times higher than last year.
Poverty doesn't drive deforestation, argues new survey
Posted on: 17 June 2011 - 9:58amNews Coverage
Global-Multiregion
deforestation
Income from forests and other ecosystem generates a significant proportion of household income in developing countries, finds a six-year survey of 8,000 families from 60 sites in 24 countries. The research, which will be published by the Poverty and Environment Network, found that income from forest use accounts for more than 20 percent of rural household income across the surveyed sites.
