456 - Oceania Tree News

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Today for you 30 new articles about earth's trees! (456th edition)

 

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1) Hawaii: Tourism Strategic Plan: 2005-2015 (TSP) http://bit.ly/yTCl

 

2) West Java: Efforts to Protect the Silvery Gibbon thwarted by

villager's entitlement http://bit.ly/OqL7

 

3) Sumatra: 700 villagers firebombed and beaten for corporate ag's

forest rights re-interpreted as complete ownership

http://bit.ly/4Ed03Q

4) Sumatra: Save the tigers of Kerinci Seblat National Park http://bit.ly/13kWO

 

5) Indonesia: Foreign industry still flocking to country 'cuz of

nearly free natural resources http://bit.ly/sTKe

6) Indonesia: Policies that allow for them to destroy forests faster

than any other nation http://bit.ly/nyzf

7) Indonesia: Saving the Seram cockatoo from loggers and poachers

http://bit.ly/3ZcG

8) Indonesia: Developer's deforestation is flooding villages and

killing children http://bit.ly/12FvX

9) Indonesia: Upcoming Election means more giveaways to illegal

loggers & more promises to stop 'em http://bit.ly/iKEI

10) Indonesia: Bali Reforestation efforts underway http://bit.ly/1Xun

11) Indonesia: Mangroves in coastal areas of Pandeglang District are

seriously degraded http://bit.ly/DRCV

12) Indonesia: Gov makes more promises to not be so corrupt and

destructive again http://bit.ly/BUwm

13) Indonesia: Save Meru Betiri National Park http://bit.ly/6YrW

14) Indonesia: Deforestation rate gets in Guinness book of world

records again http://bit.ly/a0Ws

15) Indonesia: New Illegal logging bill aims to put more teeth in

toothless system http://bit.ly/T6Jh

16) Indonesia: The 13 main forestry companies engaged in illegal

logging will no longer be investigated http://bit.ly/ZpZm

17) Indonesia: Old laws of military dictatorship days still cause

deforestation http://bit.ly/QaUc

 

18) Papua New Guinea: Chinese empire expands at great cost to forest

and its people http://bit.ly/Dt7E

 

19) New Zealand: Forestry is not what they claim it to be http://bit.ly/Xcoq

20) New Zealand: Greenpeace's good wood guide http://bit.ly/UZOn

 

21) Australia: Update on Direct Action versus logger's violent

escalation http://bit.ly/bSzI

22) Australia: 80,000ha of national parks will be created in Victoria

http://bit.ly/f5zN

23) Australia: Big Scrub Landcare Group http://bit.ly/1s3lz7

24) Australia: Logging industry restructure must include ending all

logging in Native forests http://bit.ly/VezJi

25) Australia: Mamu Rainforest Canopy Walkway is finally open

http://bit.ly/CDG0 about 14 hours ago from web

26) Australia: 15 arrested protesting Federal Gov's White Paper on

climate change / Gunns continued decimation http://bit.ly/I8Q2

27) Australia: South-west Liberal MP to make last native forests

available because eco-tourism failed http://bit.ly/T25g

28) Australia: They not only need to be arrested but they need to be

forced to wear hardhats until they're arrested! http://bit.ly/3rih4c

29) Australia: Natives need to beware of Carbonbaggers http://bit.ly/12r7k

30) Australia: 7 more forest defenders arrested in Tasmania http://bit.ly/EA4d

 

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