Land Use/Forests | https://ens-newswire.com We Cover the Earth for You! Thu, 25 May 2023 01:22:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.7 https://ens-newswire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/favicon.jpg Land Use/Forests | https://ens-newswire.com 32 32 UNESCO Designates 18 New Gorgeous Global Geoparks https://ens-newswire.com/unesco-designates-18-new-gorgeous-global-geoparks/ Thu, 25 May 2023 01:21:07 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=98798 PARIS, France, May 24, 2023 (ENS) – The United Nations is adding 18 new sites to its network of outstanding Geoparks, showcasing some of the most marvelous sites of natural [...]

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]]> Amazon’s ‘Dark Earth’ Secret Promises Global Forest Renewal https://ens-newswire.com/amazons-dark-earth-secret-promises-global-forest-renewal/ Mon, 08 May 2023 01:53:30 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=98702 SAO PAULO, Brazil, May 7, 2023 (ENS) – Millions of Amerindian people living centuries ago in today’s Amazonia transformed the originally poor soil. The result is Amazonian dark earth, ADE, [...]

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]]> Biden Guards ‘Breathtaking’ Lands as Nevada, Texas Monuments https://ens-newswire.com/biden-guards-breathtaking-lands-as-nevada-texas-monuments/ Fri, 31 Mar 2023 00:13:49 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=98615 WASHINGTON, DC, March 26, 2023 (ENS) – At the White House Conservation in Action Summit Tuesday, President Joe Biden established two new national monuments, one in Nevada and one in [...]

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]]> Biden Rouses Tribal Protests With 1st Monument Designation https://ens-newswire.com/biden-rouses-tribal-protests-with-1st-monument-designation/ Fri, 14 Oct 2022 20:24:41 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=97864 LEADVILLE, Colorado, October 14, 2022 (ENS) – President Joe Biden established the first new national monument of his presidency on Wednesday – the 53,800-acre Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument in [...]

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]]> Greenland to Host One of Few Rare Earth Mines Outside China https://ens-newswire.com/greenland-to-host-one-of-few-rare-earth-mines-outside-china/ Fri, 26 Aug 2022 01:06:22 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=97657 TORONTO, Ontario, Canada, August 23, 2022 (ENS) – A new deal between two Canadian corporations is about to make the now-unknown name of the Sarfartoq Rare Earth Element Project famous [...]

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]]> Penan Stop Loggers in Culturally Sensitive Conservation Area https://ens-newswire.com/penan-stop-loggers-in-culturally-sensitive-conservation-area/ Tue, 26 Jul 2022 00:06:39 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=97444 BARAM, Sarawak, Malaysia, July 25, 2022 (ENS) – Indigenous Penan communities have filed a police report and erected blockades to put a permanent stop to logging of the mountain Batu [...]

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]]> Mexico, US Cooperate to Help Central Americans Thrive at Home https://ens-newswire.com/mexico-us-cooperate-to-help-central-americans-thrive-at-home/ Thu, 21 Jul 2022 20:33:05 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=97401 WASHINGTON, DC, July 21, 2022 (ENS) – Mexico and the United States are taking action on a new development cooperation framework that addresses the root causes of irregular migration from [...]

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]]> Natural Thirst Inspires Global First: a Law Restoring Nature https://ens-newswire.com/natural-thirst-inspires-global-first-a-law-restoring-nature/ Tue, 28 Jun 2022 00:41:27 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=97324 BRUSSELS, Belgium, June 27, 2022 (ENS) – The European Commission has adopted proposals for its first Nature Restoration Law so that the damaged ecosystems across 80 percent of Europe can [...]

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]]> Interpol Finds Organized Crime’s Fingerprints on Gold Mining https://ens-newswire.com/interpol-finds-organized-crimes-fingerprints-on-gold-mining/ Tue, 03 May 2022 01:06:31 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=97227 LYON, France, May 2, 2022 (ENS) – A new analysis for law enforcement by Interpol, the international police force, shows “the clear involvement of organized criminals in illegal gold mining, [...]

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]]> Coal Mine Expansion Authorized in India’s Tribal Forest https://ens-newswire.com/coal-mine-expansion-authorized-in-indias-tribal-forest/ Fri, 22 Apr 2022 02:15:31 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=97144 JAIPUR, Rajasthan, India, April 21, 2022 (ENS) – State governments in India have approved two giant new coal projects on the land of the Adivasi Indigenous people, defying a determined [...]

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]]> Australia Fortifies Antarctic Territory Sovereignty, Science https://ens-newswire.com/australia-fortifies-antarctic-territory-sovereignty-science/ Sun, 27 Feb 2022 00:27:54 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=96707 CANBERRA, Australia, February 26, 2022 (ENS) – To strengthen Australia’s strategic and scientific capabilities in Antarctica, the Liberal government of Prime Minister Scott Morrison is making an A$804.4 million investment [...]

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]]> Salt Intrusion Threatens Vital American Coastal Wetlands https://ens-newswire.com/salt-intrusion-threatens-vital-american-coastal-wetlands/ Fri, 11 Feb 2022 21:11:00 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=96542 By Benjamin Seidman

CHESAPEAKE BAY, Maryland, February 11, 2022 (ENS) – In the eternal struggle between the ebb and flow of tides, high tides now have the upper hand as [...]

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]]> Canada’s First Nations Score Two Environmental Victories https://ens-newswire.com/canadas-first-nations-score-two-environmental-victories/ Sat, 04 Dec 2021 02:36:04 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=95450 VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada, December 3, 2021 (ENS) – The British Columbia government and its logging agency BC Timber Sales, BCTS, have pulled three more cutblocks from their sales plan [...]

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]]> Illegal Logging Robs Mexico of Its Forests https://ens-newswire.com/illegal-logging-robs-mexico-of-its-forests/ Sat, 27 Nov 2021 04:15:08 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=95401 MEXICO CITY, Mexico, November 26, 2021 (ENS) – Forests in about 15 percent of Mexico’s territory are disappearing due to illegal logging carried out by criminal groups, according to Mexico’s [...]

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]]> Biden Renews Protections on National Monuments Trump Defiled https://ens-newswire.com/biden-renews-protections-on-national-monuments-trump-defiled/ Fri, 08 Oct 2021 01:23:52 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=94905 WASHINGTON, DC, October 7, 2021 (ENS) – President Joe Biden is poised to sign three proclamations restoring protections for Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante, and Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Monuments, [...]

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]]> Indigenous Penan Block Logging on Their Ancestral Lands https://ens-newswire.com/indigenous-penan-block-logging-on-their-ancestral-lands/ Fri, 17 Sep 2021 02:59:36 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=94679 LONG AJENG, Sarawak, Malaysia, September 16, 2021 (ENS) – In Malaysian Borneo, a dozen indigenous Penan communities of Sarawak’s Upper Baram region have acted in concert to stop the bulldozers [...]

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]]> RCMP Arrest 900+ in Conflict Over Old-Growth Forest Logging https://ens-newswire.com/rcmp-arrest-900-in-conflict-over-old-growth-forest-logging/ Wed, 15 Sep 2021 04:46:46 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=94594 PORT RENFREW, British Columbia, Canada, September 14, 2021 (ENS) – The battle over protest blockades raised on southwestern Vancouver Island to prevent logging of some of Canada’s largest old-growth trees [...]

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]]> IUCN to Coordinate Sustainability of Nature-based Solutions https://ens-newswire.com/iucn-to-coordinate-sustainability-of-nature-based-solutions/ Fri, 10 Sep 2021 00:15:39 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=94530 MARSEILLE, France, September 9, 2021 (ENS) – The IUCN World Conservation Congress amplified its environmental decision-making on Wednesday by introducing a plan to develop a collaborative certification system for Nature-based [...]

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]]> 2,500 Scientists Take the Pulse of Earth’s Tropical Forests https://ens-newswire.com/2500-scientists-take-the-pulse-of-earths-tropical-forests/ Sat, 03 Jul 2021 23:53:12 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=94101

LEEDS, UK, July 3, 2021 (ENS) – A global network of researchers is cooperatively investigating tropical forests wherever they grow on the planet to explore the effects of climate change [...]

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]]> 90+ NGOs Urge EU Parliament to Rethink ‘Green’ Finance List https://ens-newswire.com/90-ngos-urge-eu-parliament-to-rethink-green-finance-list/ Mon, 21 Jun 2021 21:43:04 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=93954

BRUSSELS, Belgium, June 21, 2021 (ENS) – More than 90 environmental and consumer groups have appealed to the European Parliament to postpone their judgement on sustainable finance rules that would [...]

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