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One of man’s closest and most enigmatic cousins, the Orang Utan, may disappear from the earth in just five years! Blame the booming palm oil industry, illegal logging and fires that are eating their rainforest habitat away even more rapidly than had..
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A memorandum of understanding has been signed between the United States and China to stop illegal logging. The memorandum is aimed at fighting deforestation, fight...
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We choose Oil palm plantations instead of orangutans, quick bucks over later losses. Even as their limited habitats are destroyed, they cling precariously to life. From...
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The Brazilian government was on Wednesday set to announce near record deforestation rates in the Amazon rainforest, the world’s leading source of biodiversity and...
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Poaching being one of the major causes of declining animals of the wild, and ironically, especially in the reserved forests, the human conspiracies against the giant...
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Roads pierce the last green heartland of the Amazonian rain forests to make it more accessible even as greedy land grabbers kill the trees at an unprecedented scale....
made popular Jun 15 2007
Illegal logging is mowing down the tropical forests of the Southeast Asian country. Astoundingly, the estimated loss of 72 percent of its original frontier forest is...
made popular Jun 4 2007
With so many reasons leading to climate change, it might appear confusing on what might be the best solution to climate change!
Just stop the loggers. It is perhaps...
made popular May 14 2007
Illegal logging has been a major concern because it’s not just a thriving black business but also a major contributor to climate change. Thanks to a new global...
made popular Mar 23 2007
Rampant illegal logging has been taking place in Indonesia. Logging for wood products is responsible for about one-third of total global deforestation. Deforestation...
made popular Feb 8 2007
To combat and track illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest, Brazil’s environment ministry got innovative by unveiling an electronic registry for the transport...
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Rainforests across the world are facing dire consequences. According to a new report, only 5% of this vast forest base is being treated in a sustainable way....
made popular May 26 2006
The ‘ayurvedic’ branch of medicine survives on medicinal plants, which in turn heal a wide range of serious diseases. But, what if these pants are lost from...
made popular Apr 27 2006
Increased and continuous illicit logging has pushed the 130 million-year-old tropical rainforest in Malaysia under threat. Environmental activists warned on this at the...
made popular Apr 22 2006
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Increased and continuous illicit logging has pushed the 130 million-year-old tropical rainforest in Malaysia under threat. Environmental activists warned on this at the...
made popular Apr 22 2006
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