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Group recovers riverbank reserve

Green fingers: A reforestation team member carrying the native tree seedlings along the Kinabatangan river.

 

June 5, 2014, www.thestar.com.my | “A community-based group has ‘recovered and restored’ an 8ha stretch of riverbank reserve along the Kinabatangan river that was encroached on by an oil palm reserve by planting it with native trees.  The community eco-tourism cooperative known as Kopel took two weeks to uproot some 400 oil palm trees and replace them with 4,600 native trees after the Sabah government gave it the green light to take the land back.”

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Group recovers riverbank reserve – Nation | The Star Online
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KOTA KINABALU: A community-based group has “recovered and restored” an 8ha stretch of riverbank reserve along the Kinabatangan river that was encroached on by an oil palm…

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Protecting the Amazon for Life

http://www.animalnational.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Amazon-Rainforest-Animals.jpgMay 21, 2014, www.worldwildlife.org | “It has taken millions of years for the Amazon to evolve into the most biologically diverse place on Earth. In just a tiny fraction of that amount of time humans have radically changed our natural world, and not for the better. The government of Brazil, working in partnership with WWF and others, envisioned a better way forward, a bold and aggressive move in how large-scale conservation is achieved.”

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A model for conservation, the Amazon Region Protected Areas ensures 150 acres—three times the size of all US parks combined—of the Amazon are protected for life”
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Ecological Restoration work in Oregon and northern California

Ecological Restoration work in Oregon and northern California.
Empowering the green collar workforce is a win/win for people and planet!
Restoration workers use their bodies and minds to plant the trees along the streams and clearcuts, pull the invasive weeds, thin the dense, fire-suppressed forests, stabilize the slopes, seed the native grasses back to the woodlands, stack the sticks to reduce fire hazards and carry the drip torches across the steep slopes in an effort to carefully reintroduce fire back to these landscapes.

Empowering the Green Collar Workforce and honoring the vital role these individuals play in the restoration process is highly regarded within the Lomakatsi social philosophy. The treatment of the workers is reflected in the treatment of the land. The two are inseparable. As one of our principles states “Remember the Workers- Happy respected people do the best work”.

Photo: Restoration workers use their bodies and minds to plant the trees along the streams and clearcuts, pull the invasive weeds, thin the dense, fire-suppressed forests, stabilize the slopes, seed the native grasses back to the woodlands, stack the sticks to reduce fire hazards and carry the drip torches across the steep slopes in an effort to carefully reintroduce fire back to these landscapes. Empowering the Green Collar Workforce and honoring the vital role these individuals play in the restoration process is highly regarded within the Lomakatsi social philosophy. The treatment of the workers is reflected in the treatment of the land. The two are inseparable. As one of our principles states “Remember the Workers- Happy respected people do the best work”.
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Primary school children build fuel-efficient stoves in Uganda

Students in the process of making the bricks. Photo courtesy of Kasiisi Project / Camp Uganda.January 10, 2014, news.mongabay.com | “A group of young children have become a catalyst in the effort to save Kibale National Park from deforestation. Children from Iruhuura Primary School in Uganda have collaborated with the Kasiisi Project and Camp Uganda to build fuel-efficient stoves, developing a more sustainable method of wood consumption around the hugely-biodiverse Kibale National Park.”

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“Primary school children build fuel-efficient stoves in Uganda — a win-win for people and planet
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A group of young children have become a catalyst in the effort to save Kibale National Park from deforestation. Children from Iruhuura Primary School in Uganda have collaborated with the Kasiisi Project and Camp Uganda to build fuel-efficient stoves, developing a more sustainable method of wood cons…”
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ACTIVIST PROFILE — Patricia Gualinga, Ecuador

Photo: ACTIVIST PROFILE -- Patricia Gualinga, Ecuador"We will not sit back as our government tries to sell our land—the Amazon is not for sale. I'm running for local office and am committed to building the indigenous woman's movement in the Amazon. We will continue to mobilize and we need your support!" - Patricia Gualinga, Kichwa leaderIt's #GivingTuesday - Show your support for Patricia and our indigenous partners with a donation to The Pachamama Alliance: http://bit.ly/1c9czzh

December 3, 203, www.pachamama.org | “Our mission is to empower indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest to preserve their lands and culture and, using insights gained from that work, to educate and inspire individuals everywhere to bring forth a thriving, just and sustainable world.”

 

ACTIVIST PROFILE — Patricia Gualinga, Ecuador
“We will not sit back as our government tries to sell our land—the Amazon is not for sale. I’m running for local office and am committed to building the indigenous woman’s movement in the Amazon. We will continue to mobilize and we need your support!” – Patricia Gualinga, Kichwa leader
It’s #GivingTuesday – Show your support for Patricia and our indigenous partners with a donation to The Pachamama Alliance: http://bit.ly/1c9czzh
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Yakama Win in $97 Million Historic Land Mega-Deal

November 22, 2013, indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com | “It took three years and $97 million, but the largest land purchase in Washington State history to benefit resource and conservation management has just been finalized, and the Yakama Nation was instrumental in its orchestration.”

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Yakama Win in $97 Million Historic Land Mega-Deal
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The biggest public land purchase in Washington State history has been finalized for $97 million, and the Yakama Nation was instrumental.
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PROFILE: Siskiyou Regional Education Project staff in 1997

PROFILE: Siskiyou Regional Education Project staff in 1997
These folks helped save millions of acres of forests throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Throwback Thursday! Siskiyou Project staff circa 1997. KS Wild joined with the Siskiyou Project in 2011.
Photo: Throwback Thursday! Siskiyou Project staff circa 1997. KS Wild joined with the Siskiyou Project in 2011.
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Sustainable Forest Innovations Revitalize Hard Hit Communities

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September 18, 2013, www.triplepundit.com | “From Maine to Georgia to Arizona to Oregon, new forest-based enterprises are coming on line with financial support from New Markets Tax Credits every day. These tax credits provide incentives for private investors to fund projects that create or preserve jobs and diversify economies in distressed communities. The result is re-invention and job creation within the supply chain of an age-old industry: growing new forests, sustainably harvesting and moving the timber, and then processing it in 21st century ways by breaking down the trees into fiber and even into molecules with a variety of potential uses.”

Several examples of projects using New Markets Tax Credits to provide incentives for private investors to fund projects that create or preserve jobs and diversify economies in distressed communities.
For more info about this program funded with US federal tax dollars, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Markets_Tax_Credit_Program
Sustainable Forest Innovations Funded by Federal Legislation Revitalize Hard Hit Communities
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The New Markets Tax Credit program supports sustainable, forest-economy innovations and businesses that create jobs in economically distressed communities.
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Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters

 

Photo: Darryl Cherney leads a "guerrilla tree planting," All Species Grove, 1988.

headwaterspreserve.org | “This is an incomplete, abbreviated, but fairly representative chronology of the Headwaters Forest campaign. There are times of intense activity (Redwood Summer, for instance) for which exist separate and more detailed chronologies. In addition, the Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC) has on their website a history of their courageous litigation, little of which is included here for that reason.”

Good News from 1988
After strong grassroots efforts like that shown here, in 1999 this forest was protected as the Headwaters Forest near Eureka, CA.
For more info see http://headwaterspreserve.org/headwaters-forest-campaign-history/
Darryl Cherney leads a “guerrilla tree planting,” All Species Grove, 1988. — with Darryl Cherney.
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Keystone Ladies

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June 2013, www.motherjones.com | “A few of the women fiercely defending ecosystems the world over.  Read about their accomplishments.”

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A few of the women fiercely defending ecosystems the world over.
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