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‘We are perilously close to the point of no return’: climate scientist on Amazon rainforest’s future https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/jun/26/tippping-points-amazon-rainforest-climate-scientist-carlos-nobre #AmazonRainforest #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Brazil #FossilFuels #IllegalLogging #IllegalMining

Liberia's forests at risk. Europe threatens progress made since timber-fueled civil war. #Liberia #IllegalLogging #ForestProtection

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/may/09/if-logging-starts-again-liberia-could-lose-more-than-its-beloved-pygmy-hippos?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1746768074

“Cambodian journalist Uk Mao was arrested on May 16 & released on bail 9 days later in connection with his reporting on #deforestation & #illegallogging in #Cambodia's #PreyLang wildlife sanctuary. His arrest was denounced by civil society groups, media watchdogs, & …a special rapporteur of the UN, who said the Cambodian government was engaging in an alarming pattern of persecuting & targeting journalists & environmental activists who criticized the state.” | GlobalVoices https://globalvoices.org/2025/06/05/cambodian-journalist-faces-more-than-a-dozen-charges-after-reporting-on-deforestation/

वन अपराध: सुकेत वन प्रभाग ने जय देवी रेंज में पकड़ी 1.65 लाख रुपए की अवैध लकड़ी, चालक गिरफ्तार

Himachal News: हिमाचल प्रदेश के सुकेत वन प्रभाग ने वन अपराध पर कड़ा प्रहार किया। जय देवी रेंज में 3 जून, 2025 को एक वाहन से 29 देवदार स्लीपर जब्त किए गए। वाहन चालक तारा चंद को गिरफ्तार किया गया। लकड़ी का आयतन 1.657 घन मीटर और कीमत ₹1,65,382 आंकी गई। यह कार्रवाई ग्राम नेहरा के पास हुई।

वन अपराध के खिलाफ सख्त कार्रवाई

सुकेत वन प्रभाग की टीम ने डिप्टी रेंजर श्री राम लाल के नेतृत्व में यह अभियान चलाया। टीम में सीनियर वन रक्षक रितेश कुमार, वन रक्षक कुसुम कुमार, अश्वनी सैनी और वन मित्र राहुल शामिल थे। संदिग्ध वाहन (HP30A-2029) को रोका गया। जांच में वन अपराध का खुलासा हुआ। जब्त लकड़ी को सुरक्षित रखा गया।

कानूनी प्रक्रिया शुरू

वन अपराध की इस घटना में पुलिस ने प्राथमिकी दर्ज की। भारतीय वन अधिनियम की धाराओं 41, 42, 52 और अन्य के तहत कार्रवाई शुरू हुई। साथ ही, भारतीय न्याय संहिता (बीएनएस) धारा 303 और जैव विविधता अधिनियम, 2002 की धारा 7, 55 के तहत भी मामला दर्ज किया गया। सिविल कोर्ट और डीएफओ कोर्ट में कार्यवाही चल रही है।

वाहन और चालक पर कार्रवाई

जांच के दौरान वाहन चालक और मालिक तारा चंद को मौके पर गिरफ्तार किया गया। वाहन को जब्त कर लिया गया। वन अपराध से जुड़े इस मामले में लकड़ी की कीमत ₹1,65,382 आंकी गई। वन विभाग ने इसे गंभीरता से लिया और चालक के खिलाफ त्वरित कार्रवाई की।

वन विभाग का संकल्प

सुकेत वन प्रभाग ने वन अपराध रोकने के लिए अपनी प्रतिबद्धता दोहराई। क्षेत्र की जैव विविधता को बचाने के लिए नियमित गश्त बढ़ाई जा रही है। संवेदनशील वन क्षेत्रों में निगरानी तेज की गई। हिमाचल वन विभाग ने कहा कि ऐसे अपराधों पर सख्ती जारी रहेगी।

#forestCrime #illegalLogging

Trotz #Abholzungsverbot verliert #Albanien weiter massiv #Waldfläche.

Illegale #Holzeinschläge, fehlende Kontrollen und schwache Umsetzung des Moratoriums von 2016 gefährden vor allem die #Buchenwälder im Norden.

Recherchen zeigen, dass ein Großteil des Holzes über Firmen wie #Alxhef bei Abnehmern in #Italien landet, teils unter Umgehung geltender EU-Regeln.

https://www.dw.com/de/italiens-appetit-nach-holz-eskaliert-abholzung-zerstoerung-der-waelder-albaniens-trotz-moratorium/a-72351670

#Waldschutz #Waldrodung #Rohstoffhandel #EUHandel #IllegalLogging #Westbalkan #Raubbau

Brazilian authorities have confiscated the equivalent of 5,000 truckloads of illegally cut timber in the Amazon rainforest as part of the newly launched Operação Maravalha in Amazonas, Pará, and Rondônia. The operation https://zurl.co/AtWqR
#IllegalLogging
#ARTCSolution

Brazil seizes 5,000 truckloads of illegal timber

Welcome to Edition 2 of my Environment newsletter! Featuring:

➡ the $1 trillion raised for fossil fuel development by banks committed to ‘net zero’

➡ the shortcomings in human rights protections in the electric vehicle industry

➡ illegal logging in Europe and South America

➡ the alarming spills from the fleet of ageing oil tankers Russia is using to evade sanctions

https://open.substack.com/pub/richardnield/p/environment-update-2?r=2gnt1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#environment #netzero #humanrights #oilspills #illegallogging #sanctions

“Six environmental activists in #Cambodia have been released without charge after being arrested & held for nearly 3 days by Cambodian military. The activists, including #OuchLeng, a winner of the…Goldman Prize for grassroots environmentalists, had been investigating an #illegallogging operation in a national park. Their arrest is just the latest in a string of crackdowns against #environmentalists & #journalists in…[Cambodia].” | Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry, Mongabay https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/six-activists-arrested-in-cambodia-while-investigating-illegal-logging/

sustained two days earlier while reporting on illegal logging in a local #NatureReserve.

RSF called it appalling and urged the Cambodian government not only to severely punish all those involved, but also “to take concrete actions to end violence against journalists” as press freedom in the country deteriorates and journalists covering #IllegalLogging face violence.

A 63-year-old #ChhoeungChheng was a reporter for online media #KampucheaAphivath

2/7

https://kiripost.com/stories/online-journalist-seriously-injured-in-shooting-by-unknown-gunman-in-siem-reap

‘A #Cambodian #journalist died…after he was shot this week while investigating #IllegalLogging in the country's northwest, police said. #ChhoeungChheung, 63, who worked for local news outlet Kampuchea Aphivath, "…went to investigate problems at a community forest when he was shot,". … the journalist died at a hospital in the early hours of Saturday... Chhoeung Chheung had faced "many threats" from illegal loggers due to his reporting.’ | Barron's https://www.barrons.com/news/cambodian-journalist-investigating-illegal-logging-shot-dead-0dfda9c1

#CTVNews : Watchdog calls for #BC to boost oversight of old-growth forest on #QuadraIsland

"British Columbia's independent forest-practices watchdog says there's a risk that a coastal island won't have enough old-growth trees in the future due to inadequate monitoring of harvesting."

#TimberWest #Forest Corp. (and therefore #Mosaic Forest Management) is caught again. Something something "dangerous repeat offenders"?

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/watchdog-calls-for-b-c-to-boost-oversight-of-old-growth-forest-on-quadra-island-1.7027915

#bcnews #news #environment #IllegalLogging

‘Lawless’ loggers?

'Rogue' government agency Forestry Corporation of NSW accused of more illegal logging

"There are fresh claims that a NSW government agency is illegally logging the habitats of threatened species. A New South Wales government agency has now racked up more than $1.1 million in penalties for more than a dozen instances of unlawful activity in less than five years, including seven criminal convictions.It also faces three more criminal prosecutions that could result in up to $12 million in additional penalties, if found guilty, and is under investigation for a further 18 potentially-illegal actions."

"That agency is the state government-owned logging company, Forestry Corporation of NSW...The ongoing breaches by Forestry Corporation, despite strong enforcement action by the EPA, suggested there was an ingrained culture of non-compliance at the logging agency.'"
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-24/nsw-government-forestry-corporation-illegal-logging-allegations/104126534
#StopNativeForestLogging #NSWlogging #BellingenLogging #IllegalLogging #EndangeredSpecies #extinction #koalas #gliders #breaches #FCNSW #governance

🪵Keen to uncover the mesmerizing meanings behind #biodiversity's terms?💡

#DYK Illegal logging is a global problem? 🌎

It damages #forests, devastates communities and wildlife, & aggravates #ClimateChange.🌡️

But what's the definition of #IllegalLogging according to IPBES?⤵️

The struggle between Indigenous people, loggers and pastoralists

"UN report in 2021 described the Indigenous peoples of Latin America as the “best guardians” of the rainforests." They "protect 80% of the remaining biodiversity on the planet. At least 600 of us land defenders have been murdered since 2014."

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/14/we-are-guardians-documentary-hrw-film-brazil-rainforest-indigenous-conservation-logging
#IllegalLogging #governance #crimes #IndigenousPeoples #documentary #deforestation #Governmental Indifference #violence #crime #biodiversity #Amazon

‘Not a great legacy’: Troubled state-owned VicForests to close within months

"Victoria's troubled state-owned forestry operation will close on June 30 after years of financial losses and allegations of mismanagement and spying on environmentalists. In the 2022-23 financial year, VicForests returned a net loss of $60.1 million, despite receiving a $149 million bailout from the state government."

"VicForests described the financial result as having been “fundamentally impacted by litigation” brought by environment and community groups against its logging operations."

"Across the state, 1.8 million hectares of public land had been available for timber harvesting. The government will establish an advisory panel to consider what parts of this land could be turned into national parks"

"The government-owned business harvests, sells and oversees the regrowth of timber from state forests."
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/not-a-great-legacy-troubled-state-owned-vicforests-to-close-within-months-20240313-p5fc53.html

“Here in NSW
we’ve got a situation where illegal activities and unethical activities and destruction of habitat with endangered species are carried out by the very organisation that is part of the government that’s supposed to be protecting it.”

https://www.smh.com.au/environment/sustainability/i-don-t-like-to-lose-well-connected-warrior-geoff-cousins-is-gearing-up-for-one-last-battle-20240307-p5faho.html
#LoggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #biodiversity #climate #NSWLogging #degradation #FCNSW #failure #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #litigation #protests #IllegalLogging #biodiversity #climate

Young Voters Care About Climate Change. Politicians Don’t
#Indonesia #World #Politics #ClimateChange #GenerationZ #Politicians #ClimateConcerns #YouthVoices #PoliticalSilence #AirPollution #Drought #CorpFailure #IllegalLogging #Mining #Deforestation #YoungVoters
https://the-14.com/young-voters-care-about-climate-change-politicians-dont/

RT by @catherinemep: ICYMI - Check out our latest #podcast in which we talk about the new addition to our Environmental Crime Tracker, a dashboard to help assess prosecutions of environmental crimes

🎧 Listen now at https://loom.ly/7EGpLLU

#illegalwildlifetrade #illegallogging

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/EIA_News/status/1742200489805005191#m

[2024-01-02 15:05 UTC]

"The hollows would have been visible when the tree was standing."

"Forestry Corporation NSW sentenced for felling hollow-bearing trees in Mogo State Forest. FCNSW was fined $20,000 and ordered to pay more than $84,000 in legal costs to the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA)."

FCNSW "was also ordered to widely publicise the judgement on its social media accounts and through a paid advertisement in the local newspaper and the Sydney Morning Herald within 60 days of the judgement."

"Under the Coastal Integrated Forestry Operations Approval (CIFOA), the state-owned timber corporation responsible for managing more than 2 million hectares of public land is required to retain any hollow-bearing trees during harvesting operations. Such hollows typically form in trees more than 150 years old."

"Hollow bearings are protected in NSW legislation because they take so long to form, and more than 300 Australian native species rely on them for shelter.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-22/forestry-nsw-sentenced-after-illegal-logging-mogo-state-forest/103258554
#NativeForests #NSWLogging #NSWForestry #FCNSW #MogoSF #IllegalLogging #crime #governance #TallagandaSF #biodiversity #gliders #wildlife #habitat #hollows #extinction makers