481 - EU-Africa-Mideast Tree News

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1) UK: Direct Action group “Plane Stupid” takes on Donald Trump’s

Aberdeen airport expansion http://bit.ly/nKrg5

2) UK: Neighbors vow to continue to speak out for protecting Longridge

Wood from development http://bit.ly/16VOrv

3) UK: Battle to save Longridge Woods & Centre Square East from

development continues http://bit.ly/12Uv1

4) UK: New Species of Whitebeam tree discovered and named after

no-parking sign nailed to it http://bit.ly/ml3ov

5) UK: 57 year-old climbs tree to stop needless destruction in Cripley

Meadow allotments http://bit.ly/MtMF6

6) UK: Imagine what the world would look like if we didn’t prune trees

so much? http://bit.ly/ubHJ

 

7) Scotland: Success comes from persistence: Campaign to stop

privatization of public forests has won! http://bit.ly/13s4pd

 

8) Sweden: FSC Smartwood value in dramatic decline http://bit.ly/18doGw

 

9) France: Forbidden Beech forest covers Battle of Verdun http://bit.ly/x7MY1

 

10) Germany: Robin Wood’s long term support of FSC ends in protest

over certification of non-compliant forests http://bit.ly/fZtw9

 

11) Poland: Last of the European Woodland Bison http://bit.ly/4iY5l

 

12) Georgia: Economy Ministry to auction licenses for long term

exploitation of forests http://bit.ly/pmYA

 

13) Africa: Jane Goodall speaks out against China’s massive

continent-wide deforestation operation http://bit.ly/14ey8

 

14) Cameroon: We need your help to save a million hectares in Ngoyla

Mintom rainforest http://bit.ly/12vXUt

15) Cameroon: Indigenous of Kupe-Muanenguba region are told they are

the support, manure and fuel of State authority http://bit.ly/uyTpj

 

16) Sierra Leone: Minister to Raze all settlements and developments

outside Greenbelt area http://bit.ly/MFKQS

17) Sierra Leone: Gola forest workshop gets journalists excited about

forest protection http://bit.ly/GdWYH

 

18) Uganda: Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment

(ACODE) does some whistleblowing http://bit.ly/GaFU

19) Uganda: Overview of president’s forest protection & destruction

efforts http://bit.ly/5LBnP

 

20) Nigeria: CERCOPAN protects monkeys, advocates for forest http://bit.ly/4o3mA

21) Nigeria: Illegal Bulldozing for ruling elite rubber plantation is

starving 20,000 people http://bit.ly/17WQeE

 

22) Niger: Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration has re-vegetated 3

million hectares http://bit.ly/praa2

 

23) Congo: Gov decides to ramp up genocide & exploitation of

indigenous peoples territory http://bit.ly/1asjMo

 

24) South Africa: A Tree gift from Jill http://bit.ly/2forj0

 

25) Ethiopia: Social affects of deforestation in Southwest http://bit.ly/Y8QhD

 

26) Chad: Desert expansion leads to brutal crackdown on Charcoal

production http://bit.ly/1ahJIC

 

27) Mozambique: Coastal forest turned into firewood means land is

turned into ocean http://bit.ly/fI2E8

 

28) Kenya: Eburu Forest holds newly discovered population of almost

extinct Bongo http://bit.ly/17DwQ

 

29) Burkina Faso: Forest once provided all they needed, now women are

regrowing these forests http://bit.ly/cGxe3

 

30) Jordan: Another request to circumvent chainsaw importation ban

approved http://bit.ly/mVDcO

 

31) Afghanistan: Rapidly cutting the last of the last of the forest in

Nangarhar Province http://bit.ly/VvY1n

 

32) Pakistan: Timber mafia’s combat operations in Shangla district /

devouring 600 sq. miles http://bit.ly/VulJQ

 

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