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Xerox no longer buys from Asia Pulp & Paper

March 21, 2012, www.mongabay.com | “Xerox no longer buys paper products from Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), a Singapore-based paper giant under fire for its forest management practices in Indonesia, according to a statement published on the company’s official blog late last week.

Xerox made the announcement in response to a Greenpeace investigation that linked APP to illegal harvesting of ramin, a protected tree species.”

“Xerox: we no longer buy from Asia Pulp & Paper
3/21/12 Xerox no longer buys paper products from Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), a Singapore-based paper giant under fire for its forest management practices in Indonesia, according to a statement published on the company’s official blog late last week..”
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Filed under: Business Policy, Forests, Materials

Belize enacts moratorium on rosewood

Illegally harvested rosewood from the Sarstoon Temash National Park in Belize. Photo by: Anisario Cal.

March 20, 2012, www.news.mongabay.com | “The Belizean Government has banned the harvesting and export of rosewood with immediate effect, in response to the widespread clearing of the hardwood species for the Asian market.”

“Belize enacts moratorium on rosewood
news.mongabay.com
The Belizean Government has banned the harvesting and export of rosewood with immediate effect, in response to the widespread clearing of the hardwood species for the Asian market. A government statement released on Friday, March 16th claimed the moratorium was necessary”
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Full Circle Schools Restoration Ecology Program . . . . . . . Feb. 2012 Monthly Report: 282 People -> 510 Native Plants

March 6, 2012. “During the month of February, our Full Circle Schools Restoration Ecology Program hosted 6 volunteer and student events for 282 participants at our Medford Bear Creek site.  As part of restoring this site, a total of 510 native plants were planted thanks to everyone’s hard work!” — Full Circle Schools Program of the Lomakatsi Restoration Project, Oregon, USA, from the Lomakatsi Restoration Project website, Posts from our Facebook page

If you want to stay tuned to these kind of activities, and others in ecological restoration, go to their Facebook page at  and “Like” it  http://www.facebook.com/Lomakatsi   At GoodNews For the Earth, Rosie Carnam, Diana Hartel and Timothy Donald Jeffrey (Denman Island, British Columbia), Regina Siegel (Dietikon Switzerland), Rita Jacinto (Willow Creek, CA), Peggy Bradley Bowers “Like” this.  For more information, go the Full Circle Schools Program page on the Lomakatsi website.

STREAMSIDE FOREST RESTORATION along Bear Creek, Medford, Oregon, USA

   

 

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Filed under: Children & Youth, Forests, Outdoor Programs, Restoration

Loggers give unique Oregon ponderosa pine a lifeline

March 19, 2012, www.hcn.org | “In the last decade, Volz, a retired engineer for the lumber company Weyerhaeuser, has planted roughly 1,500 Willamette Valley ponderosa pines — a type of the ubiquitous Western conifer that’s found only in this valley. Unique genetic characteristics have been discovered in the pine’s chloroplasts, the part of a plant cell that conducts photosynthesis.”

“Loggers give unique Oregon ponderosa pine a lifeline
www.hcn.org
In the Willamette Valley, a rare tree makes a comeback. But is it really a victory for restoration?”
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Filed under: Animals & Plants, Forests, Plants, Restoration

APP affiliates in U.S., Australia, pledge to drop controversial pulp supplier linked to deforestation

March 17, 2012, www.news.mongabay.com | “Two affiliates of Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) have announced they are severing at least some ties with the beleaguered paper giant, according to the Northern Virginia Daily and Greenpeace, an environmental group whose recent undercover investigation found ramin, a protected species, at APP’s pulp mill in Sumatra.”

 

“~ Boycott participation increases against rainforest logger, Asia Pulp & Paper
APP affiliates in U.S., Australia, pledge to drop controversial pulp supplier linked to deforestation
news.mongabay.com
3/17/12 Two affiliates of Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) have announced they are severing at least some ties with the beleaguered paper giant, according to the Northern Virginia Daily and Greenpeace, an environmental group whose recent undercover investigation found ramin, a protected species, at APP’s pul…”
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Reforesting Afghanistan Top Priority with 420,000 Trees

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March 16, 2011, www.isaf.nato.int | “Nearly 420,000 trees are scheduled to be planted throughout Afghanistan during the two weeks of the Afghanistan Nowruz [New Year].  “These trees are representative of the future, of the new year, and in many ways of our partnership as we work together toward a common and prosperous future,” said U.S. Navy Rear Adm.”

Leila Bee shared a link
“Reforesting Afghanistan Top Priority with 420,000 Trees
www.isaf.nato.int
ISAF – International Security Assistance Force, The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) is a key component of the international community’s engagement in Afghanistan, assisting the Afghan authorities in providing security and stability while creating the conditions for reconstruction and …”
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Filed under: Forests, Protection, Restoration, Sustainable Forestry, Tree-plantings

Norway Gives $1.2 Million to Armenia Reforestation Project

Yerevan, Armenia, March 15, 2012 (ENS) – The Armenia Tree Project’s 18-year-long effort to reforest the Caucasus country with tree planting, environmental education, and sustainable development was rewarded this week with a $1.2 million grant from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since 1994, the nonprofit organization has …  

 

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The Amazon’s Internet Indians

March 13, 2012, www.aljazeera.com | Amazonia is much more than just the earth’s lungs: it is home to 20 per cent of the world’s fauna, 20 per cent of its fresh water reserves and countless animal species.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Brazil started the conquest of the massive ancient forest in order to increase the country’s prosperity – a people without land moved to a land without people, built roads, dams and cities.

Since then, two million hectares of tropical rainforest have been burned down and cleared in the Amazon every year.  An area approximately the same size as France, 65 million hectares, has now disappeared.

Today, the earth’s largest forest is home to 20 million people: All of them have their own, usually conflicting, ideas about the future development of the Amazon region.

 

“Way cool!”
Meet the tribe using the internet to tackle the logging mafias targeting their villages.
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In Africa’s Vanishing Forests, the Benefits of Bamboo

March 13, 2012, www.opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com | In the district of Asosa, the land is thick with bamboo.   People plant it and manage the forests. They rely on its soil-grabbing roots to stabilize steep slopes and riverbanks, cutting erosion. They harvest it to burn for fuel, to make into charcoal sticks to sell to city dwellers and to build furniture.

Asosa is not in China, not even in Asia.    It is a district in the west of Ethiopia, on the Sudanese border.   To many people, bamboo means China.   But it’s not just panda food — mountain gorillas in Rwanda also live on bamboo.   About 4 percent of Africa’s forest cover is bamboo.

Soon it may be much more.  Bamboo may provide a solution to a very serious problem:  deforestation.  In sub-Saharan Africa, 70 percent of the people cook their meals over wood fires.  The very poorest cut down trees for cooking fuel; those slightly less poor buy charcoal  made from wood in those same forests.  Every year Africa loses forest cover equal to the size of Switzerland.  Terence Sunderland, a senior scientist at the Indonesia-based Center for International Forestry Research, said that in southern Africa, even trees that can be used for fine carving, such as ebony and rosewood, are being cut down and made into charcoal.

Robert Brothers shared a link.

“300 micro small enterprises with over 2,000 out growers propagating 11,733 seedlings. 7,000 low income local households are expected to use bamboo charcoal as fuel wood by the close of the project year in 2014.” — Additional info from this article in Ghana Business News, http://www.ghanabusinessnews.com/2011/12/30/new-bamboo-charcoal-technology-promises-to-jump-start-africas-bio-energy-sector/
via Polly Howells
In Africa’s Vanishing Forests, Charcoal from Bamboo Plantings can substitute for the cutting of wild
In the fight to reverse deforestation and environmental ruin in Africa, some are using a fast-growing, renewable weapon.
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Filed under: Animals & Plants, Forests, Plants, Protection, Restoration, Sustainable Forestry

Loggers give unique Oregon ponderosa pine a lifeline

March 19, 2012, www.hcn.org | “In the last decade, Volz, a retired engineer for the lumber company Weyerhaeuser, has planted roughly 1,500 Willamette Valley ponderosa pines — a type of the ubiquitous Western conifer that’s found only in this valley. Unique genetic characteristics have been discovered in the pine’s chloroplasts, the part of a plant cell that conducts photosynthesis.”

“Loggers give unique Oregon ponderosa pine a lifeline
www.hcn.org
In the Willamette Valley, a rare tree makes a comeback. But is it really a victory for restoration?”
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Filed under: Animals & Plants, Forests, Plants, Restoration