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    2 Butterfly Defenders Found Dead Within a Week in Mexico

    2 Butterfly Defenders Found Dead Within a Week in Mexico

    Two men connected to a famous monarch butterfly reserve in Mexico have been found dead within a week of each other, raising concerns for the safety of environmental activists in the country. Homero Gómez González, 50, who managed a butterfly reserve in Mexico’s Michoacán state and campaigned against illegal logging in the butterflies’ winter habitat, […]

    Koalas Found ‘Massacred’ at Logging Site

    Koalas Found ‘Massacred’ at Logging Site

    Australia‘s iconic koalas cannot catch a break. Nearly one third of the koalas in the state of New South Wales may have died in the country’s devastating wildfire season, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC). And now, reports have emerged that dozens of the animals were killed at a timber plantation in the state […]

    Trump Admin Manipulated Wildfire Science to Encourage Logging

    Trump Admin Manipulated Wildfire Science to Encourage Logging

    Respecting scientists has never been a priority for the Trump Administration. Now, a new investigation from The Guardian revealed that Department of the Interior political appointees sought to play up carbon emissions from California’s wildfires while hiding emissions from fossil fuels as a way to encourage more logging in the national forests controlled by the […]

    Illegal Loggers Murder Amazon Forest Guardian

    Illegal Loggers Murder Amazon Forest Guardian

    Illegal loggers shot and killed an indigenous defender of Brazil‘s Amazon rainforest, the Guajajara tribe announced Saturday, as Reuters reported. Paulo Paulino Guajajara, in his 20s, was a member of the Guajajara group Guardians of the Forest, which was formed in 2012 to protect the Araribóia reservation in Brazil’s Maranhão state. In an interview with […]

    Trump Admin Moves Closer to Slashing Protections for World’s Largest Temperate Rainforest

    Trump Admin Moves Closer to Slashing Protections for World’s Largest Temperate Rainforest

    The Trump administration has moved one step closer to opening Earth’s largest intact temperate rainforest to logging. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service announced it would draft an environmental impact statement exempting Alaska’s Tongass National Forest from the 2001 Roadless Rule, which prohibits road construction and timber harvesting on 58.5 million acres […]

    First Crowdfunded Park in BC Saves 2K Acres From Loggers

    First Crowdfunded Park in BC Saves 2K Acres From Loggers

    A Canadian charity has successfully crowdfunded $3 million to save 800 hectares (approximately 1,977 acres) of wilderness from development. Instead, the property on British Columbia’s Princess Louisa Inlet will now be one of the first crowdfunded parks in the country, CBC News reported. The BC Parks Foundation, the official charity partner of BC Parks, set […]