Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

After analysing satellite images, tracing logging licenses, filming drone footage and following a truck from a mill, a team of journalists from the BBC's Panorama programme have today accused Drax of driving the logging of natural forests to produce its feedstock for electricity generation in the UK.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

logging and woods products industry has positioned itself as a purveyor of “natural climate solutions.” As our civilization begins the slow process of jettisoning fossil energy, logging interests assure us that wood products are not a retrogression but a way forward. This rosy view of logging, however, is hotly contested.

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Grist

JULY 14, 2020

But conservation areas are often vulnerable to illegal logging, poaching, mining, and other activities that threaten biodiversity. Sound has long been used by soundscape ecologists to assess biodiversity and other metrics of ecosystem health. How can land managers detect these kinds of human impacts on protected ecosystems?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Governments urged to double down on efforts to tackle illegal logging ahead of COP27. With escalating climate and biodiversity crises, now is the time for governments to double down on efforts to tackle illegal logging.".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Environmental Audit Committee report also describes government biodiversity efforts to date as 'lacking' and argues ‘bold and ambitious action’ is required. While this issue is bigger than any one person's habits, if we all take action to tackle unsustainable consumption, we can make a lasting impact to halt biodiversity loss.".

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Eco-Business

JUNE 8, 2022

In celebration of environment month in the Philippines, Eco-Business asks local conservationists about the biggest challenges they face in preserving wildlife in one of the world’s richest ecosystems.

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS), an international conservation organization founded in 1858 focuses on maintaining biodiversity and conserving wildlife and ecosystems in protected areas and outstanding wild places.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Instead, communities hosting wood pellet facilities are not only further burdened by pollution and other local dangers, they are also entangled in yet another climate damaging trend — the destruction of biodiverse hardwood forests and the rise of monoculture tree plantations to produce energy that appears to pose climate threats similar to coal. .

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Eco-Business

JULY 14, 2020

Conservationists and indigenous communities have warned that the road could devastate the ecosystem, create more habitat fragmentation and facilitate further encroachment for logging, hunting and agriculture.

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GreenBiz

MAY 3, 2021

For example, the group in Ireland recently prioritized the distribution of wildflower seeds to cultivate awareness of biodiversity. As of the webcast Tuesday, more than 87,000 actions had been logged by more than 6,000 participants. Each group focuses on projects that are meaningful locally, she said. .

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Grist

APRIL 27, 2022

A new United Nations report released Wednesday shows farming, mining, and logging has marred more than half of the planet. If these trends continue, experts expect growing disruptions to human health, food supplies, migration, and biodiversity loss driven by climate change, in what the authors calls a “confluence of unprecedented crises.”.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

More than 38,000 trees across hundreds of English Heritage estates and historic sites are to be digitally managed using software designed to help the charity more accurately assess threats or damage to woodland and better sustain wildlife and biodiversity on its land.

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Grist

AUGUST 28, 2023

Still, the Amazon covers a land area roughly twice the size of India , and is among the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth, with over 3 million species of flora and fauna. But deforestation has slowly eaten away at its edges, and drought and fire have limited rainforests’ ability to withstand extreme temperatures.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

They are also home to much of the world’s biodiversity, and regulate key aspects of the carbon cycle. In short, forests are vital in global and national efforts to combat climate change and biodiversity loss, and eradicate hunger and poverty. Around the world, 1.6

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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 12, 2023

In addition to forest carbon mapping, Salo brings technologies and expertise in mapping patterns of forest structure, wildfire risk, and biodiversity change around the world. Combining artificial intelligence with ecological models, Salo Sciences converts satellite data into precision insights on vegetation fuels and wildfire hazard.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 1, 2021

Converting land to biofuel production can have a disastrous impact on both the climate and biodiversity. But when an energy company burns millions of tonnes of wood sourced from clearcutting trees in highly biodiverse forests in a power station, all their energy is classified as “modern bioenergy” and therefore by definition “zero carbon”.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Illegal logging continues to encroach on protected areas, cutting down trees to later burn the land. In response to the petition, the Government said: “The United Kingdom shares concerns about deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, and the severe impact on the climate, biodiversity and livelihoods.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The harvesting of trees to make fabrics has more than doubled over the past 30 years and is expected to grow by another 50-60 per cent within the next decade alone, according to Canopy, with more than 200 million trees currently being logged every year to produce materials such as viscose and rayon.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Europe’s endemic trees are threatened by extinction, states a recent International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assessment on biodiversity. The unfortunate decline is due to the combination of three paramount factors: problematic invasive species , unsustainable deforestation from logging and wood harvesting and urban development.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Illegal logging continues to encroach on protected areas, cutting down trees to later burn the land. In response to the petition, the Government said: “The United Kingdom shares concerns about deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, and the severe impact on the climate, biodiversity and livelihoods.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

Many local people are furious at the damage done to their forests by logging corporations ripping out whole trees with Star-Wars machinery that first churns up and then compacts the soil. Some debris from felling must be left on the forest floor to maintain soil condition and biodiversity.

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2020

A Greenpeace investigation into the vessels published today notes that 25 supertrawlers, none of which are UK-owned, logged the equivalent of 123 consecutive days fishing in 39 different Marine Protected Areas around the country.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

In addition, the firm has teamed up with rainforest charity Cool Earth as part of an initiative that will see VOXI donate over £60,000 towards supporting "biodiversity, people, and trees".

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 30, 2020

Charcoal burning and logging have damaged the forest, eroding soil and frightening people with impending mudslides. Since its founding in 2014, One Tree Planted has worked in Africa, Asia, North America and South America to restore forests, create jobs and protect biodiversity. In 2018, the nonprofit planted 1.3 million trees. +

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Unsustainable

APRIL 11, 2020

Extensive logging of the trees in the past three or so decades has been a major contributor to the current situation in which a healthy mangrove ecosystem in Kenya is in danger. Continued deforestation of mangrove areas disturbs habitats and damages biodiversity, a key effect of this being the decline in fishery yields.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 26, 2021

Since president Jair Bolsonaro took over, logging and forest fires have been the order of the day. Everyone in the field of planetary health is worried about what is happening to biodiversity , climate and public health in Brazil,” Morand said. Morand is concerned with the continued deterioration of the Amazon.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 26, 2021

Since president Jair Bolsonaro took over, logging and forest fires have been the order of the day. Everyone in the field of planetary health is worried about what is happening to biodiversity , climate and public health in Brazil,” Morand said. Morand is concerned with the continued deterioration of the Amazon.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In addition to revealing a litany of human rights abuses at the East New Britain Resources Group, the Rimbunan Hijau Group, and Bewani Oil Palm Plantations Ltd, the investigation found all three companies were involved in the destruction of tropical rainforests that provide a vital defence against climate change and are a hotbed for biodiversity.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Biodiversity and abundant water are crucial to the stability of local ecosystems , regulating climate variability and governing global water cycles. They contaminate water supplies, build giant hydroelectric dams, scar the landscape with open-pit mines and log indiscriminately. On the minus side: humans.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 3, 2020

This sobering deforestation figure highlights the harsh landscape changes caused by intentional human encroachment for commercial development purposes, such as logging, mining and cattle ranching. For one, the Amazon rainforest is a biodiversity hotspot, home to thousands of plant and animal species at risk of endangerment and extinction.

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Grist

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Out in the wild, these bees often nest in holes in fallen logs, dead trees, and broken branches of bushes. These efforts are really good because hopefully they set up a lifelong commitment to preserving biodiversity.”. Bee hotels are like birdhouses for wild bees.

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Green Roof Technology

MAY 27, 2021

These specialty fabrics often reverse natural capillarity of engineered soils what dries out the soils faster or when infiltrated with organics particles there is water-logging and rotting. This and the additional risk of water-logging increase the stress on plants. High organic content (over 50%) in growth media (soil).

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

The plan calls for sourcing wood from areas that encompass eight National Forests, and activists in California have raised concerns that the production of this “renewable” power could endanger vital biodiversity in the forests, home to California’s endangered gray wolves. Credit: California Department of Fish and Wildlife ( CC BY 2.0

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Business Green

JANUARY 29, 2021

But the practice is highly controversial due to the damage it causes to some of the UK's most biodiverse habitats, which double as huge natural stores of carbon that could help the UK meet its climate goals.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2020

Every business is inevitably dependent upon - and has impacts on - ecosystems, biodiversity, and the land. What are your dependencies and impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity? The first thing to do is to frame the problem, Macpherson advises. Think about why your business should care about nature," he says.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Separately, Environment and International Development Minister Zac Goldsmith - who has also been tipped as a prospective COP26 Summit - announced that the Department for International Development was working on plans to work with developing countries to lead a crackdown on illegal logging and timber exports.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The letter was written by prominent climate and biodiversity scientists from universities and organisations in top biomass sourcing countries – the U.S., Forests are home to more than 80% of terrestrial biodiversity, supporting plants, animals, fungi, and other species found nowhere else on Earth.

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