Ewell Smith is the Executive Director of the Carolina Loggers Association, which represents North Carolina's professional loggers.
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Dimitri's team examine the wood abandoned by the illegal loggers.
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But that doesn't help catch illegal loggers in the act.
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"The loggers never made it up here," Mr. Tatko said.
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Illegal loggers and miners set fires to cover their tracks.
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In 2013, he was beaten in a dispute with loggers.
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Though the laws are widely ignored and loggers are almost never arrested for logging, said Mathieu Pellerin of the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights, that doesn't mean loggers want publicity.
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Indeed, the clan has not been able to stop the loggers.
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They oversee loggers who want to access timber in public forests.
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We're farmers, loggers, millworkers, lawyers, doctors, and now the Yale students.
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Loggers want the big trees, not the stuff that catches fire.
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Hidden away in remote pockets are ancient forests overlooked by loggers.
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Loggers are still going in and taking out truckloads of timber.
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Miners and loggers understand that they have a friend in office.
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"You don't get any hunters or loggers now," Mr. Limbert said.
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What if you could catch illegal loggers before they swing the ax?
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Some 22100,4053 square kilometres (2405,23 square miles) was cleared, mainly by loggers.
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But illegal loggers in Romania use legal operations to hide their acts.
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This increase is deliberate, coming from farmers and loggers clearing the land.
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The loggers include an accelerometer, to record movement, and a light sensor.
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Loggers usually harvest valuable trees and leave the rest; miners cut everything.
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Law enforcement officials cracked down on rogue ranchers, loggers and land speculators.
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The international community can also support Congo's government in punishing illegal loggers.
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Ross Tuesday lamented that Canadian softwood is grown on public land, which puts Canadian loggers at an advantage compared to U.S. loggers, who have to hit the open market to negotiate with landowners to cut down their trees.
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Valuable time is also being lost as insurance claims are processed, loggers say.
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The letter detailed mysteriously large footprints that loggers in northern California had found.
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In some places they encountered loggers standing in deep sawdust from their labors.
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Every day, loggers, anthropologists, traders and tourists get a step closer to them.
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In recent years, loggers and ranchers have aggressively cleared land for cattle production.
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Loggers and truckers are suing Xcel in an effort to save the plants.
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Their affairs with loggers and oil palm plantations are filtered through the government.
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The Uru-eu-wau-wau have faced invasions by illegal loggers and farmers before.
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First come the loggers, who illegally extract valued lumber sold in far-off cities.
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The loggers disappear by running into the forest when the agents arrive at camps.
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The loggers use vanilla to launder their profits, propelling demand ever higher, he said.
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People set the forest ablaze — usually farmers and loggers who clear land for agriculture.
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ASRI also replants forests and trains ex-loggers to farm and run alternative businesses.
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The team attached roughly two-ounce data loggers to 169 adult and juvenile birds.
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The Tembé have about 30 trained rangers to patrol the forests and defend against loggers.
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After loggers began clearing the forest, local protesters assembled in the forest to protect it.
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Two self-powered data loggers with built-in sensors are also integrated into the Frankenapple.
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Since then at least three Guajajara guardians have been killed in conflicts with illegal loggers.
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So Appalachian coal miners and Northwest loggers are now stocking shelves at the local Walmart.
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The Ocean Sentinel loggers used an Argos system, a GPS and a miniature radar detector.
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Read: Old cell phones are spying on illegal loggers Current monitoring methods rely on paperwork.
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Across the Amazon, networks of indigenous people gather information about illegal loggers that satellites can't access.
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Read more: He told me of his battle to save the monarch butterfly from illegal loggers.
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Despite the Mexican government reportedly outlawing logging there, tensions between environmentalists and loggers seemed to rise.
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In the second half of the 19th century loggers felled around a quarter of the sequoias.
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Today, the number-one threat to tropical rainforests no longer comes from ranchers, loggers and miners.
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A pretty stiff price to pay for a reform that helped loggers as much as anyone.
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The sugar maple only became a major component after loggers slicked the landscape in the 1900s.
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Their way of life remains under threat from loggers, mining concerns, ranchers, dams and road-building.
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To miners, loggers, ranchers and conservative politicians in resource-dependent areas, it would be about time.
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She spoke to loggers and learned that they cut and sold trees to pay for medicine.
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Ex-loggers have left their chainsaws with ASRI in exchange for farms, fish ponds and cafés.
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Kröger said these changes have also spurred loggers and ranchers to better coordinate land-clearing efforts.
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Versions of this route have been traveled for centuries — by indigenous residents, fishermen, loggers and explorers.
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Fires are also used by illegal loggers and miners to drive indigenous people off their lands.
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Then a park ranger caught one scurrying out of a tree that loggers had cut down.
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If successful, it could transform the timber sector by making it easier to prosecute illegal loggers.
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Various administrations have long accused Canada of allowing loggers to cut down trees on public land.
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Despite those efforts the country remains a target for the illicit wildlife trade and illegal loggers.
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They are becoming increasingly well organized and sophisticated in their tactics, law enforcement, loggers, and politicians say.
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But Wanjiku accused the government body of allowing loggers to illegally fell indigenous species - charges it denies.
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"Loggers, miners, hunters, fishermen who invade reservations think the president is on their side now," he said.
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When peace returned, the woodlands drew loggers and charcoal burners who had already devastated forests further south.
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But threats are also looming from illegal loggers and gold miners encroaching on quilombola land, activists said.
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Loggers are cutting down the island's old-growth forests and sending them to Japan as wood-chips.
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Most of these fires were started by farmers and loggers to clear land for crops and pastures.
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Loggers and furniture makers, keen to harvest the trees for coffee tables or guitars, began sniffing around.
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He started as a tallyman, making $5.95 a day for tallying the lumber output from the loggers.
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The unit set fire to the tractor and chain saw before resuming the search for the loggers.
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Paulo Paulino Guajajara, the "forest guardian" killed last month was shot in a confrontation with illegal loggers.
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As loggers, miners, and narco-traffickers moved in, aislados fled across the border into Brazil, seeking sanctuary.
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First come the loggers; clear-cutting and burning follow, to make way for palm-oil or timber plantations.
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Many believe they were lit by cattle ranchers and loggers who wanted to clear the land for use.
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For years, a tribe in Guyana has been compiling evidence that loggers were illegally tearing down their forests.
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The bases are used to prevent invasions by loggers and miners and to communicate with recently contacted tribes.
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As miners, loggers and farmers charge into the Amazon, legally or not, the landscape is being radically reshaped.
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The vast majority of the fires have been set by loggers and ranchers to clear land for cattle.
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Scientists and activists blame Bolsonaro's development plans in the Amazon for emboldening illegal loggers, ranchers and land speculators.
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Scientists and activists blame Bolsonaro's development plans in the Amazon for emboldening illegal loggers, ranchers and land speculators.
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Woldegiorgis, on the other hand, thinks tougher punishments for illegal loggers in the Chilimo Forest Reserve are needed.
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No shots were fired this time, but the loggers managed to elude the squad, fleeing into the forest.
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Conflicts with illegal miners and loggers have intensified in the Amazon region states of Pará and Maranhão, FUNAI said.
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Currently, Mattern's team is tracking 48 Tawaki penguins with tiny data loggers over the course of an entire year.
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So if Weyerhaeuser comes down to a 4-4 divide, the croakers, not the loggers, will reap the benefits.
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Trash and recycling collection is fifth most dangerous job in the US, after loggers, fishermen, aircraft pilots, and roofers.
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It believes encroachment and attacks by farmers and loggers that began in the 1980s decimated the man&aposs tribe.
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Tiny Laos is increasingly unhappy at being a Chinese client state, with locals chafing at Chinese loggers and plantations.
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Archer said that if the loggers return, he will show them his certificate to prevent them from cutting trees.
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The fight has sometimes come at a heavy cost as farmers and loggers have sometimes retaliated with hired guns.
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The two are linked, with loggers clearing away trees in forests and creating paths for poachers to hunt tigers.
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This category includes keystroke loggers that can steal your credit card numbers and passwords as you type them in.
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Rangers in Indonesia also used alerts from the system to catch illegal loggers in the act, driving them way.
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Salesmen carry sucker lists, loggers carry a lost man's boots and miners carry something to scrawl goodbye notes on.
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The Amazon rainforest is in trouble as well, largely because farmers and loggers are cutting it down so rapidly.
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Although the loggers quit clearcutting the mountains in the 1980s, the rest of us didn't stop superheating the planet.
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Known for its rowdy gambling parties during the Prohibition era, Workers became a hub for fisherman, loggers and debauchees.
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Ranchers, illegal loggers and settlers in the Amazon have taken all this as encouragement to power up their chainsaws.
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Growing deforestation by illegal loggers also threatens the existence of Beka's 13,000 fellow Mundurukus who live off the forest.
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Some wondered if there could be moles in Ibama's ranks that could have tipped loggers off about their patrols.
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Polsat News, a private television broadcaster, said that two loggers attacked its film crew on Saturday in Bialowieza Forest.
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And in the Amazon they are often caused by loggers, farmers and others wanting to clear land for their businesses.
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But it's not easy to stand up against illegal loggers and oil companies who want to clear-cut the tropics.
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Nearly one third of territories demarcated for Brazil's indigenous people have faced invasions from illegal loggers or farmers, Buzatto said.
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In many areas, however, these fires have been suppressed for over a century by the needs of loggers and residents.
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Loggers and environmentalists have long disagreed on what should be allowed in the forests that cover about half of Tasmania.
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Last year, Sieng Darong, a forest ranger, and Sab Yoh, a police officer, were shot and killed by illegal loggers.
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"They come, buy up the (illegal) timber and leave us to clear up the debris," Kobylkin said of Chinese loggers.
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We had to hike in to mark the trees to cut, and then the loggers hiked in to cut them.
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Trump must invest in infrastructure, including mills, contractors and loggers, that can provide sustained solutions and market-based funding options.
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Some of these fires were started by farmers and loggers seeking to use Amazonian land for industrial or agricultural purposes.
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Some of these fires were started by farmers and loggers seeking to use Amazon land for industrial or agricultural purposes.
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But Mro'ô was adamant about preserving the traditional Kayapo way of life, and tried to keep out loggers and prospectors.
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And Brazil's latest administration has given more leeway to miners and loggers to chip away at protected swaths of rainforest.
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Most of the blazes were set deliberately — and illegally — by farmers and loggers to clear land for crops and pastures.
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The plants support at least 100 jobs, the loggers and truckers say, and bolster the state's commitment to renewable energy.
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Consider TimberUnity, which passes itself off as a grassroots group of rural Oregonian loggers and truckers against the climate bill.
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The same mosquitoes then transmit the virus to humans who make incursions into jungles, like gold prospectors, hunters or loggers.
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Some of the fires were started by farmers and loggers wanting to use the land for industrial or agricultural purposes.
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Thousands of people came up with $220 million to buy the land in British Columbia and protect it from loggers.
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Read: Old cell phones are spying on illegal loggers Siddique says the UN forces have a "delicate" role in Cyprus.
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A tract of the Amazon burns as it is cleared by loggers and farmers in Porto Velho, Brazil, Aug. 24.
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It's not as massive as the sinuous, sprawling kapok tree, nor as precious to loggers as the chocolate-colored mahogany.
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Another irony is that it's far from clear that local control would be an economic panacea for ranchers and loggers.
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Loggers have been protesting intermittently outside the Capitol for weeks, circling the building in their logging trucks on some days.
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American loggers have long complained that their Canadian competitors pay too little to harvest trees, which grow mostly on public land.
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And even when so-called "strong" passwords are required, they are still vulnerable to phishing attacks, key-loggers and other compromises.
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They want the federal government to turn the Malheur National Forest over to local ranchers, miners, and loggers for commercial use.
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They would rather see the land in state hands or, preferably, directly under the ownership of local ranchers, miners, and loggers.
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Company in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, where he sold his handcrafted work boots for four dollars a pair to the local loggers.
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Experts say the reason is a surge in activity by illegal loggers encouraged by the easing of environmental protections under Bolsonaro.
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Loggers fell burned trees after forest fires, to avoid pest outbreaks, and cut firebreaks and routes for electrical wires, he said.
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Loggers, miners, cattle ranchers and drug traffickers have encroached on the territories of these groups, exposing them to violence and disease.
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He has threatened to weaken or eliminate the Environment Ministry and withdraw funding from agencies that punish illegal loggers and miners.
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Now, researchers have developed the "Ocean Sentinel" method whereby animals equipped with loggers are used to monitor fisheries in remote areas.
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The team fitted foraging albatrosses with loggers which detected the presence of vessels and immediately transmitted the information to the authorities.
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Not only did his device work, but he says his team found a group of illegal loggers in under 1003 hours.
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According to Greenpeace, loggers have now moved into the oldest parts of the forest and the logging has entered a "decisive phase".
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The loggers own some 1,544 acres of land in Louisiana that the federal agency says are essential to the frog's continued existence.
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After loggers extract wood, speculators burn the remaining vegetation to clear it in hopes of selling the land to farmers and ranchers.
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From time to time, though, they bite a human instead—for example, when loggers bring those canopies crashing to the forest floor.
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Bruce, trapped in a coastal town of loggers and farmers, escapes into the worlds of Jack London, Ernest Hemingway and Herman Melville.
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It alleged loggers were working in cahoots with government officials, military and police to get logs onto boats bound for Hong Kong.
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But Ammon Bundy has also reportedly said he wants to hand over federal land in the area to loggers, miners and ranchers.
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Its capture was opportunistic; the loggers in this video did not go out looking for sloths, they just happened to find one.
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Last year, southern Guyana's Wapichan community wanted the government to take action against illegal loggers and miners, but they didn't have proof.
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"There are thought to be probably no more than 30 left, the others having been massacred by campers and loggers," Mazower explained.
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In the Amazon, most of the fires were started by farmers and loggers seeking to use land for industrial or agricultural purposes.
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But the program at present cannot fund more than 10 ex-loggers, and it will take several years to prove its success.
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And while encouraging loggers to give up their chainsaws might seem like a great idea for the forests, it could also backfire.
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You fly over it and see all that forest, but down there, it's full of people — drug dealers, illegal loggers and others.
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This is a story of loggers, an energy company and turkey droppings — and a dispute that's putting a dent in Minnesota's Thanksgiving.
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PAKAN RABAA, Indonesia — This village in West Sumatra, a lush province of volcanoes and hilly rainforests, had a problem with illegal loggers.
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If you prevent an area of rainforest from being cut down, those loggers shouldn't just move their operation to an unprotected area.
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It took two people about 10 minutes to tape one of the solar-powered loggers onto the back feathers of an albatross.
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No one knew there was tin at what became the Bom Futuro mine in Brazil until a chance discovery by loggers in 1986.
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Bundy is currently demanding that the federal government turn over the entire 187,000-acre Malheur National Wildlife Refuge to ranchers, loggers, and miners.
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If more guns come to the region, illegal loggers, miners, and others who are violently claiming rainforest territory could be even more emboldened.
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They also protect the forest from encroachment by illegal loggers or agri-business companies, explained Sri Margana, a historian at Gadjah Mada University.
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Both sides signed a peace deal four years ago under a former Labor state government that protected more forests and bought off loggers.
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To keep themselves safe, the Snuol journalists said, they had to hustle, confronting the loggers with a mix of double-dealing and deception.
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Greenpeace has accused the government of letting loggers take trees for profit, threatening the habitat of the European bison, lynx and rare birds.
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ATTACKS ON THE RISE Conflicts with illegal miners and loggers have intensified in the Amazon region states of Pará and Maranhão, FUNAI said.
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Ms. Ríos said that a pending legal case against the loggers could eventually help prosecutors build a bigger one against the syndicate's leader.
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"We detain illegal loggers and charcoal producers and snatch their vehicles and any other equipment used," he told Thomson Reuters Foundation by email.
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But this year — emboldened by Bolsonaro's rhetoric and a reduction in fines for illegal deforestation — farmers, loggers, and land-grabbers have doubled down.
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My sister and brother-in-law are farmers and a good portion of my friends are teachers, loggers, and work in service jobs.
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In short, United compromised users' security by adopting keystroke loggers rather than something reasonable like two-factor authentication, and then lied about it. Shame!
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One member of Atiriri was shot dead by security guards earlier this year as several group members patrolled the area looking for illegal loggers.
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Balbuena said authorities did not encounter any members of the Isconahua tribe during last weekend's operation, adding that it was unclear if loggers had.
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Below those emerald caps, the rainforest is patchy — trees have been felled by loggers and the land has been used as water buffalo pasture.
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The fires are believed to have been nearly all set by humans -- cattle ranchers and loggers who want to clear and utilize the land.
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James Nabinson Kidega, the central government's representative in Lamwo district, said loggers use people on the ground, such as local councillors, to sidestep regulations.
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Much of the area was logged about a decade ago, and the farmers - afraid loggers would return - did not replant timber trees, Archer said.
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Many believe that rural journalists like Sa and Taing are little more than extortionists, using their journalistic credentials as an excuse to blackmail loggers.
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The government's electronic system requires loggers to use a registered phone number to text out information when they leave a logging site, for example.
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Environmentalists have warned that right-wing President Bolsonaro, who took office this year, is emboldening Brazilian loggers, ranchers and land speculators to destroy forest.
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Ammon Bundy said in several media interviews this weekend that the Oregon protesters want federal lands in Harney County returned to ranchers and loggers.
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But it was criticized by environmentalists and French president Emmanuel Macron after large swaths of Amazon rainforest were burned by illegal loggers and farmers.
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Employee monitoring ranging from video surveillance to keystroke loggers lets companies know what their workers are up to at any moment of the day.
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In addition to miners and loggers, soy farmers and cattle ranchers have also infiltrated the area, clearing huge tracts of forest, mostly by fire.
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"During the change in government, nobody was paying attention, and people didn't miss this moment" to make some money, he said of the loggers.
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Farmers and loggers set fire to the rainforest during the summer months each year to clear swaths of Amazon for industrial or agricultural use.
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He pointed out how much nature has shrugged off traces of the loggers and cowherds who had mined the terrain to profit the Blacks.
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Other elephants were put to work by illegal loggers along the border with Myanmar to harvest timber and haul it out of the forest.
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Guajajara Indians detain a logger during a search for illegal loggers on Arariboia indigenous land near the city of Amarante, Brazil, on Sept. 17.
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In the absence of federal agents, waves of loggers, ranchers and miners moved in, emboldened by the president and eager to satisfy global demand.
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Around 2014, Brazil started sliding into a deep recession, and deforestation began to rise as ranchers and loggers searched for new land to exploit.
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In the absence of federal agents to enforce environmental laws, waves of loggers, ranchers and miners moved in, feeling emboldened to satisfy global demand.
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Many of the fires in the Brazilian Amazon were started by farmers and loggers seeking to use the land for industrial or agricultural purposes.
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The Mura clan plans to fight against loggers and others exploiting the land by filing complaints with the country's environmental enforcement agency and public prosecutors.
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Hagedorn - who hailed from a family of loggers - vowed in his victory speech to make the city "clean and green", and protect its natural resources.
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If this catches on, and it really ought to, it could drastically improve the efficiency of the rangers and loggers who care for our forests.
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Those killed included longtime activists as well as individuals embroiled in specific disputes -- for example, a forest guard who was killed by loggers in Senegal.
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His death comes as illegal miners, loggers and land grabbers are making more, and bolder, incursions into Indigenous land under the far-right Bolsonaro administration.
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In August, the state's head of human rights wrote to the federal police to say loggers were threatening the Guajajara in the Araribóia Indigenous Land.
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Some of the blazes are started by farmers aiming to clear land, some by illegal loggers trying to cover their tracks, and some by negligence.
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Though farmers, ranchers, miners, and loggers have extracted tremendous value from clearing the rainforest, Brazil does have laws on the books to preserve the jungle.
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Bands of miners, loggers and farmers have been clearing the forest at a rate environmentalists call unsustainable, radically reshaping the land and harming indigenous communities.
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From Mexico to Brazil, Indigenous tribes moving against stop ranchers, loggers, miners and other business interests — sometimes aggressively — are hoping to reclaim their community land.
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Now, environmental organizations say he has encouraged ranchers, farmers, and loggers to exploit and burn the rainforest like never before with a sense of impunity.
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Blame the world's meat consumption The vast majority of fires in the Amazon have been set by loggers and ranchers to clear land for cattle.
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The fires spell disaster for the local environment and ecology -- and environmentalists and researchers say the blazes were likely lit by cattle ranchers and loggers.
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Many are demanding accountability from Brazil's pro-business President Jair Bolsonaro, who activists say encouraged ranchers, farmers and loggers to exploit and burn the rainforest.
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Now, environmental organizations say he has encouraged ranchers, farmers and loggers to exploit and burn the rainforest like never before with a sense of impunity.
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The loggers, who risk losing their jobs, and turkey farmers, who would be left with a whole lot of surplus bird poop, are not happy.
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Small outbreaks are occasionally set off in rural towns when loggers, miners or other forest workers catch the disease and transmit it to local mosquitoes.
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Experts say farmers, loggers and miners have since taken advantage of relaxed controls on deforestation in the country and seized on those areas for development.
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His family had a long history in the region, working as guides for the rubber barons and, more recently, for oil explorers and mahogany loggers.
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Deforestation in the area began four years ago, and only last year did authorities chase out loggers and those extracting rocks to build a nearby roadway.
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Last year, he said, there was a sighting of a suspected Sasquatch by seven loggers, who were surprised to see a huge creature ambling their way.
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Of course, the Amazon rainforest is already incredibly dense and difficult to navigate, let alone coordinate a united response to loggers, who themselves may be armed.
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It was once cloaked in lush forests but huge expanses have been cleared by loggers and to make way for roads, fields and vast rubber plantations.
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Conservationists blame the spike on Brazil's new government, headed by far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro, saying he has encouraged farmers and loggers to clear the forest.
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During a night patrol followed by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, a balaclava-clad guardian interrogated a Guajajara Indian whom he suspected of working with illegal loggers.
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Roberto Cabral Borges, coordinator of operations and enforcement at Ibama, said he worried that escalating violence with illegal loggers could make the area even more dangerous.
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BOLSONARO POLICIES Environmentalists have warned that right-wing President Bolsonaro, who took office this year, is emboldening Brazilian loggers, ranchers and land speculators to destroy forest.
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While Mayantuyacu faces many threats, from loggers to would-be energy developers, the coalition to protect its unique natural and cultural heritage grows stronger every day.
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In Mozambique, however, timber operators last year urged the government to burn all confiscated timber, saying this would send the strongest market signal to illegal loggers.
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Tribal people struggle in the South American nation where many lack property rights and face violence from miners, ranchers and loggers eyeing their land, they say.
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Critics say his rhetoric has emboldened loggers, ranchers and informal miners, resulting in a dramatic acceleration of deforestation and in violence against the rainforest's indigenous inhabitants.
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Daniel Guajajara is one of Arariboia's "Forest Guardians," a team of 20 men who patrol the territory to fend off invasions of loggers, hunters, and fire.
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Skydivers, motorbike racers, loggers and pilots face less risk of being killed than the small, compact jockeys on thoroughbreds, according to one report published in 2009.
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As Reuters notes, Paulino Guajajara's death comes as Brazil sees a rise in illegal loggers invading reservations and forest lands since President Jair Bolsonaro was elected.
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As Insider previously wrote, Bigfoot has been called a "ferocious beast who attacks loggers and hikers, or a gentle giant who wants to be left alone. "
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He salvaged huge chunks of it that washed up on beaches or remained from building and clearing projects, often using massive burls that loggers left behind.
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The home of 21,000 people in southern Amazonas state was long protected by its remote location from illegal loggers, ranchers and farmers who clear the forest.
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He and some other activists had stopped inside Virachey National Park, near the Vietnamese border, to ask some loggers for directions to a nearby timber concession.
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In 2014 and 2015, they recaptured 19 swifts carrying these data loggers and found that, as expected, the swifts were spending their winters in West Africa.
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The group has been continuously threatened by loggers who experts say have taken advantage of reduced controls and less oversight to seize control of forest lands.
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Since then, Mr. Bolsonaro has given free rein to illegal loggers, clandestine gold miners and criminals who masquerade as meat and soybean producers, occupying protected lands.
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" On another occasion, he referred to the endangered spotted owl, a source of contention among loggers in the Pacific Northwest, as "that little furry-feathery guy.
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"Xcel Energy has really left us with no choice," said Scott Dane, who heads the Associated Contract Loggers and Truckers of Minnesota, a forestry industry group.
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Whereas most of the Amazon fires were deliberately set by ranchers and loggers looking to clear land, Australia&aposs bushfires mostly started due to natural causes.
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The new president has weakened environmental protections, and he's encouraged cattle ranchers, loggers, and farmers to expand their businesses by clearing new land in the Amazon.
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He had just returned from an even more remote area, where he had followed up on reports of aislados whose territory was being threatened by loggers.
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It remains one of Mr. Clinton's finest environmental achievements, and putting Alaska's old-growth trees back in the hands of the loggers would be a disgrace.
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Guns belonging to Guajajara "forest guardians" are seen in a loggers camp on Arariboia indigenous land near the city of Amarante, Maranhao state, Brazil, on Sept. 11.
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The decree comes after the government reduced the area of the Jamanxim National Forest in July, in which conflicts between loggers and indigenous people became more frequent.
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At COP230, the U.N. climate summit in Paris, I met Diana Rios, from Soweto, Peru, whose father allegedly was killed by illegal loggers because of his activism.
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His government also plans to pave road through pristine parts of the Amazon, which would open up access to illegal loggers, ranchers and wildcat miners, environmentalists fear.
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De Paula said lack of land titles also made the quilombolas more vulnerable to pressure and violence from illegal loggers and gold miners encroaching on their land.
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In the past, he would rely on tips from local people about encroachment by loggers, then look at older satellite images to try and corroborate the claims.
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In April, members of the Guajajara Indigenous group went to the capital, Brasília, to plead for protection from loggers invading their land in the state of Maranhão.
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When the few animals that have survived a fire start to venture forth from their shelters, the last thing they need to see is loggers' big-rigs.
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He was reportedly shot by illegal loggers while he was on a hunt in Maranhao, a state in northern Brazil that spans part of the Amazon rainforest.
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Bundy said people interested in archeology are welcome to explore the refuge, but that cattle ranchers and loggers should have priority when it comes to land use.
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There are now more than 600 of them, encompassing more than 13 percent of the country — a fact that has long rankled Brazilian loggers, miners and farmers.
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Yellow fever normally circulates in forest monkeys and forest mosquitoes, and it occasionally kills people who live or work there, such as loggers, miners and small farmers.
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The change reduced potential penalties for farmers, ranchers and loggers charged with past illegal deforestation, and made it easier for landowners to clear more of their holdings.
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Taking office in January, Mr. Bolsonaro's government set about systematically dismantling all state agencies that enforce environmental protection and indigenous rights, empowering illegal ranchers, loggers and miners.
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The apparent goal of the takeover is ultimately to induce the federal government to turn over government-owned land to local ranchers, loggers, and miners for their use.
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Among other tactics, the community used direct action such as the burning of already cut timber in order to eliminate profits and force loggers to incur extra costs.
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They tracked the birds by attaching tiny GPS loggers to their bodies, which reported information about their locations, altitudes and whether or not they were flapping their wings.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads RIO DE JANEIRO — In Tupi-Guaraní mythology, there exists the Boitatá, a fiery serpent that protects the forests and sets loggers aflame.
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A 2019 investigation by ProPublica found Brazilian forest-based carbon offset projects failed because loggers cut down trees after the offsets were sold to US and European corporations.
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The new data proves their customary ownership of the area, which can be used in courts and in other negotiations to stave off incursions from loggers and poachers.
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He said that loggers caught by his organization and handed over to the authorities have received what he sees as lenient prison sentences of only a few months.
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In the South, forest managers swiftly cut down trees that have been infested, selling the timber to salvage loggers and paper mills — a strategy that pays for itself.
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Bolsonaro has been blamed by researchers and environmentalists for emboldening ranchers and loggers by calling for the Amazon to be developed and for weakening the environmental agency Ibama.
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Some farmers and loggers in Brazil illegally burn the forest to clear land for crops and pastures; so far, Brazil has experienced more than 193,000 fires in 2019.
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We see this through his lens as he introduces us to indigenous activists fighting to protect the forest and shows the destruction wrought by loggers and land grabbers.
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Environmentalists and researchers blame President Jair Bolsonaro's rhetoric in favor of economic development in the Amazon for emboldening loggers, ranchers and informal miners since he assumed office in January.
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Sagehen had been in the works for nearly a decade, but Brown eventually achieved the impossible: a plan that everyone—environmentalists, scientists, loggers, and the Forest Service—agreed on.
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That second approach is unlikely in the face of a lone outbreak, but if others follow as loggers push deeper into the rainforest, it might have to be considered.
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Instead of v-loggers, often popular with the younger demographic on YouTube, Vimeo is targeting indie filmmakers, documentary producers and others to use its service to distribute their content.
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LUSAKA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Zambian authorities have begun exporting timber confiscated from illegal loggers who continue to fell trees despite a nationwide ban to protect the country's dwindling forests.
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In 2015, after environmentalists kicked up a fuss in the Kenyan press about the loss of Nyakweri, a KFS camp was set up to protect the forest from loggers.
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In some cases farmers even destroy trees pre-emptively so that loggers won't come, according to a study this year led by United States-based non-profit Winrock International.
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A number of groups have employed the technology to catch illegal loggers in the act — something that isn't easy to do when it's happening in the middle of rainforest.
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The Amazon Basin Conservation Association in Peru started using toy planes made of foam to snap photos of loggers and miners, and the ensuing deforestation happening in the Amazon.
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The group insists that under the Constitution, the federal government has no legal right to Harney County land and that is should be relinquished to ranchers, loggers, and miners.
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USDA office move may have broken law, watchdog says MORE's statement that fire borrowing, not excessive environmental laws, is what is preventing the Forest Service from meeting loggers' needs.
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Channels cut by loggers and oil companies eroded much of the island, and decades of flood control efforts have kept once free-flowing rivers from replenishing the wetlands' sediments.
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The murder is one of a string of losses for Brazil's indigenous communities, as miners and loggers make more and bolder incursions into Indigenous territories and other protected areas.
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A member of an indigenous group in northern Brazil that works to protect the Amazon rainforest was killed by illegal loggers during an ambush over the weekend, Reuters reports.
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As countries burn oil, coal and natural gas for energy, and as industrial farmers and loggers eliminate forests, heat-trapping emissions of greenhouse gases have soared in recent decades.
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Farmers, ranchers, loggers, miners and others unfortunate enough to harbor threatened or endangered species on their property find themselves in the ESA's straightjacket of potentially ruinous land-use restrictions.
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Scientists and conservationists attribute the accelerating deforestation to President Jair Bolsonaro, who issued an open invitation to loggers and farmers to clear the land after taking office in January.
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The clinic offers up to 70 per cent discounts on medical fees to villages that stop logging, and ASRI aims for this to pile pressure on loggers to stop.
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Bigfoot is essentially a gigantic giant ape-creature who is either a ferocious beast who attacks loggers and hikers, or a gentle giant who wants to be left alone.
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Among the biggest risks for loggers are being hit by falling objects while they're felling trees or having an accident operating the equipment that allows them to do so.
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That data shows that Amazon workers in Staten Island face greater risks of serious injury than coal miners, loggers, and waste collectors, according to a copy reviewed by Motherboard.
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A Guajajara Indian "forest guardian" holds a gun as he prepares to search for illegal loggers on Arariboia indigenous land near the city of Amarante, Brazil, on Sept. 123.
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When nearly 2,000 acres in the Princess Louisa Inlet in British Columbia went on the market, a parks foundation crowdsourced help to buy it, to protect it from loggers.
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Boner believes that if law enforcement authorities can use World Forest ID to identify illegal loggers, then the threat of prosecution will prompt the industry to regulate from within.
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But loggers and dairy farmers have a lot of political clout in provinces like British Columbia and Quebec and in prior trade talks protested suggestions for creating more competition.
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Flores lived in the Madre de Dios region—a vast jungle surrounded by an even vaster wilderness, frequented mostly by illegal loggers, miners, narco-traffickers, and a few adventurers.
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"Brazil has been vigorous in controlling and restricting irregular activities involving land grabbers, loggers and miners so as to reduce deforestation and the invasion of indigenous lands," the circular says.
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Officials have not confirmed any connection between the two deaths, and there are no public leads, but many are drawing a line to the conflict between conservationists and illegal loggers.
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With a yearly salary of $35,0003 and negative job growth outlook, logging is also one of the most dangerous professions, says Eric Johnson, an editor for the Northeastern Loggers' Association.
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The areas at the edges of the forest, where tree cover is thinner, and the areas that have been deforested by loggers or farmers, do not have this same protection.
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The Guaraní—the first indigenous people contacted by the Europeans who arrived in South America 500 years ago—have suffered huge land losses in recent years to loggers and farmers.
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Instead, the topics that irk Sarawakians include shabby road and power networks, land-grabbing loggers and the royalties which Petronas, the state oil firm, pays for access to its wells.
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Land conflicts have worsened under Bolsonaro, whose calls for economic development on native lands sound to many like an endorsement of land grabs by farmers, ranchers, loggers and wildcat miners.
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OTTAWA — As the extradition case against a Chinese tech executive moves into its next phase in Canada's courts, manufacturers, farmers, loggers and fishermen across Canada are looking on with apprehension.
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Environmental campaigners blame this uptick on Bolsonaro, who they say has encouraged ranchers, farmers, and loggers to exploit and burn the rainforest like never before with a sense of impunity.
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Gomez, known as the Defender of the Monarch Butterfly, might have come into conflict with illegal loggers while carrying out his conservation work, Mexico's State Commission for Human Rights said.
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Researchers and environmentalists blame right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro for emboldening ranchers and loggers by calling for the Amazon to be developed and for weakening the government environmental agency Ibama.
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The History According to "Livingston: The Story of a Community," a book sponsored by the township, loggers were among the first European residents, because neighboring areas needed plenty of wood.
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Manser, the film's main character, campaigned to protect the Penan's ancient way of life from modernisation and to fend off loggers before he disappeared in the Malaysian rainforest in 2000.
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Howard Frank Mosher, whose novels brought to life whiskey runners, trappers, farmers, loggers and other characters of a hardscrabble region in rural Vermont called the Northeast Kingdom, died on Jan.
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There is little oversight or monitoring, so in many villages, people end up taking conservation money from the government to preserve the rainforest while also taking bribes from illegal loggers.
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As the government has pared back protections of indigenous territories in recent years, miners, farmers and loggers have established a presence in hundreds of sites, in violation of the law.
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Loggers, roofers, farmers, and taxi drivers are all more likely to die on the job than police officers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2014 Census of Fatal Occupation Injuries.
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She added that the illegal loggers posed a threat to the health of Isconahua tribal members who live deep in a rainforest inside the reserve, which spans some 1,000 square miles.
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Google uploaded a video of White using the devices alongside the Tembé, Pará's indigenous people who are fighting to regain their land from loggers chopping down trees, burning fields, and hunting.
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Commercial loggers are keen to step into the fray, but they are most interested in harvesting bigger trees that are more resilient to fire — which scientists agree should be left behind.
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Alongside dairy farmers, he put loggers and energy producers on his Canadian enemies list and launched an investigation of imported steel, of which Canada is the biggest single supplier (see article).
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But he said it was a complicated situation as loggers paid some of the locals to co-opt them into their activities which was also pitting indigenous tribes against each other.
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But although citizens' arrests are legal under certain circumstances, authorities have warned against the danger of indigenous people going head-to-head with loggers and taking justice into their own hands.
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But other environmental groups including Greenpeace have accused the government of letting loggers take large numbers of trees for profit, threatening the habitat of the European bison, lynx and rare birds.
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The device is able to travel more than 30 miles at a time, and its photos help stitch together a map of tribal land that is being abused by the loggers.
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And the loggers themselves, Global Witness found in a 2006 investigation, were the very people whose job it was to protect the forests: the police and the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces.
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Merwin bought the property in 1977, and began restoring the ancient trees lost when loggers and the commercial pineapple and sugar farmers started to move in more than a century ago.
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But when loggers, foresters and truckers convened on the county fairgrounds here for the annual timber industry expo last month, the star of the "celebrity log-loading" contest was a Republican.
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He has already started Predict Plus, with some of the "super-loggers" from the first study, and is recruiting participants for an expanded version of the original study, called Predict Two.
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KUALA LUMPUR, March 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - S outheast Asia's rainforests face a heightened threat from illegal loggers and poachers as coronavirus restrictions hamper conservation efforts, green groups warned on Thursday.
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In July, they got more than they expected: a treetop surveillance system that uses recycled cellphones and artificial intelligence software to listen for rogue loggers and catch them in the act.
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This year has also been disappointing with some 30,000 separate fires recorded this summer in the Brazilian Amazon, many of them set by loggers or ranchers seeking to clear land illegally.
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The agency, known as FUNAI, has been hit with budget cuts that have sharply limited its ability to monitor indigenous territories that have been invaded by wildcat miners, farmers and loggers.
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Read: How old smartphones are being used to find illegal loggers Other high-profile vertical farms include Berlin-based InFarm, which builds hydroponic modular systems that can be used in supermarkets.
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But what the American engineer couldn't hear was the roar of chainsaws and noise of the illegal loggers he knew were relentlessly tearing down trees and endangering the gibbons' natural habitat.
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But it's a race against time as loggers — both legal and illegal — reach deeper into the forest to satisfy the insatiable market for this wood in the US, Europe, and China.
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NAIROBI, Aug 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Initiatives to restore African forests, decimated by loggers and land-hungry farmers, must include indigenous people if they are to succeed, experts said on Wednesday.
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The choice governments and loggers make now is fundamental: People can continue to exploit Afrormosia as we are and drive it to extinction, or, through sustainable forest management, ensure its survival.
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Senate Republicans, however, pledged to walk out so there wouldn't be enough lawmakers present for a vote on House Bill 2020, which is extremely unpopular among loggers, truckers and many rural voters.
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To harvest wood legally in Brazil, loggers must submit a management plan to authorities indicating roughly how much timber will be cut and the status of the land it is coming from.
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And as the lands and forests of the east disappeared to loggers and encroaching plantations, he threw his support behind the political opposition of Sam Rainsy and the Cambodian National Rescue Party.
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Customers at the time were mostly local miners, loggers, and fishermen who would roll in from the docks looking for a deep-cleanse after traveling the coast for months at a time.
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Since the killing, the Brazilian state of Maranhao has set up a police task force to protect the tribe from illegal loggers, and Federal Justice Minister Sergio Moro vowed a thorough investigation.
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Since the killing, the Brazilian state of Maranhao has set up a police task force to protect the tribe from illegal loggers, and Federal Justice Minister Sergio Moro vowed a thorough investigation.
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Formal ownership by small farmers also makes it easier to protect the Amazon's environment as poachers and illegal loggers thrive in areas where no-one holds responsibility for the land, Assuncao said.
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But the loggers, their suspicions aroused, summoned a cadre of Cambodian soldiers, who searched the activists and then ordered them at gunpoint to drive to a ranger station about four hours away.
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Environmentalists say Bolsonaro's strong remarks calling for development of the Amazon and criticizing environmental enforcement agency Ibama for handing out too many fines would embolden loggers and ranchers seeking profit from deforestation.
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In early 236, the yellow fever virus broke out of its usual pattern: limited spread by forest mosquito species from monkeys to loggers, hunters, farmers and other residents of the Amazon basin.
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The policy marked the beginning of the Sagebrush Rebellion, a grass-roots revolt among ranchers, loggers and miners against environmental laws, like the 1964 Wilderness Act and the 1973 Endangered Species Act.
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A report last year by the Rainforest Foundation UK revealed that, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the total tax bill for all industrial loggers amounted to a paltry $0.03 per capita.
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Mexico's State Commission for Human Rights said they believe Gomez, known as the "Defender of the Monarch Butterfly," might have come into conflict with illegal loggers while carrying out his conservation work.
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The Guajarara tribe, who work to protect the rainforest, has been threatened by loggers who experts say have taken advantage of reduced controls and less oversight to seize control of forest lands.
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The farmers, who have the government's permission to plant trees and safeguard against fires in protected forests once they have registered as an association, said that they help to protect against illegal loggers.
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Though the country's forestry ministry has previously said it had toughened regulations to combat illegal logging, Global Witness said a lack of enforcement capacity increased the risk of loggers cutting more than permitted.
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While most people believe a site won't see the login data they type into a website unless they hit submit, the sites used key loggers to steal login data even if they didn't.
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Similar moves in other countries have proved controversial, with opinion divided between whether selling confiscated timber sends the wrong signal to illegal loggers, or is acceptable in order to provide much-needed income.
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The sloth is minding its business, chilling on top of a tree, when the loggers fell it and proceed to toss the animal into a black bag before taking it away to sell.
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Ammon Bundy has said they plan to continue the occupation of the wildlife refuge headquarters indefinitely, until the government hands over the national forest land to ranchers, loggers, and miners for commercial use.
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During the 1970s and 1980s, a movement called "the Sagebrush Rebellion" witnessed the clash of private landowners—ranchers, miners, loggers, and even state officials—and the federal government over rights to public lands.
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Some did rest occasionally at night for brief periods, but the data loggers showed that all the birds stayed in the air more than 99 percent of the time when they weren't nesting.
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Huge stumps—the remnants of ancient giants—are scattered throughout, marked by notches where hand-loggers would have inserted their springboards to fell these enormous trees with nothing more than axes and handsaws.
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Mr. Bolsonaro supports making it easier for miners, loggers and farmers to get access to protected parts of the Amazon and believes indigenous groups have too much land set aside for their control.
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But as loggers move in, environmental activists say their clearcutting allows vital topsoil to wash away, weakening the ability of the earth to hold extra moisture -- and making the region vulnerable to flooding.
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Unlike all the other trees of its kind in the area, it was never cut down, because it was runty and twisted and situated on a rocky slope; it appeared unprofitable to loggers.
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Just as loggers might swing an alternative ax And fell a great tree with alternative whacks When the truth won't cooperate, try some new tacks We live in an age of alternative facts!
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The plan undergoing revision for eastern Colorado will determine the future management of millions of acres of public lands over the next 20 years and beyond, affecting outdoorsmen, grazers, loggers, miners and conservationists.
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Those accusations came despite arguments from groups like Amnesty International, which attributed the fires to Bolsonaro and his policies that have led to increased land-clearing in the rainforest by loggers and ranchers.
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The attack took place not far from where Paulo Paulino Guajajara, a prominent tribesman and part of a vigilante group defending the forest, was shot in a confrontation with illegal loggers last month.
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Early last year, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen called for a bigger effort to curb illegal logging and said he had ordered police to fire on loggers from the air if need be.
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What this means is that states that need to raise extra money could, and likely will, lease or sell lands to oil companies, loggers or ranchers instead of maintaining them for public use.
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In April, the Brazilian Minister of Justice, Eugenio Aragao, created a permanent, protected territory for the uncontacted Kawahiva tribe in the Amazon after years of land raids by illegal loggers threatened them with extinction.
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The census found that loggers have the most dangerous job in America, suffering almost 111 fatal injuries per 100,000 people in 2014, compared to 13.5 for police officers, who placed fifteenth on the list.
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The group aims to stay at the facility "for year," Ammon Bundy said in a Facebook video, adding that they want to turn the land over to loggers, miners and ranchers Here it is.
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Brazil is still losing the equivalent of two football fields of rainforest every minute as illegal loggers and ranchers exploit the Amazon's unspoiled reaches, according to the National Forest Commission's former director, Tasso Azevedo.
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Arevalo's murder had prompted outrage in Peru following other unsolved murders of indigenous activists who had repeatedly faced death threats related to efforts to keep illegal loggers and oil palm growers off native lands.
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The Word attachments in these spear-phishing attempts were malicious, loaded with customized remote access trojans—which let hackers gain access to and control the computer—and keystroke loggers for stealing usernames and passwords.
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They were able to fly into otherwise inaccessible places, and confirmed not only that loggers were felling trees in protected areas, but also that illegal mines were polluting water sources their community relied on.
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He and Laércio Guajajara were members of the forest guardians, a group the Guajajara created to defend themselves and their land against miners, loggers and others interested in illegally taking resources from the reserve.
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The fires were started by farmers and loggers to clear land for agricultural and industrial use in the next year, Business Insider's Morgan McFall and Aylin Woodward reported, but have since spiralled in scale.
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Environmental organizations and researchers say the wildfires blazing in the Brazilian rainforest were set by cattle ranchers and loggers who want to clear and utilize the land, emboldened by the country's pro-business president.
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PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Malaysia is set to beef up its decades-old forestry laws this year in an effort to protect its rainforests from illegal loggers, a senior minister said on Friday.
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The foundation supplies them with legal support as well as technological equipment and training so they can use smartphones, drones, and satellites to monitor illegal loggers and miners, and take action to stop them.
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"It's very hard to lump everyone together, from North Korean loggers in Siberia who do work under pretty appalling conditions to North Korean waitresses in Chinese restaurants who actually live pretty well," he said.
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Environmentalists blame right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, who has called for the development of protected reserves and railed against environmental fines, emboldening loggers and farmers who seek to clear the land, sometimes by setting fires.
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She cited how indigenous people in the central Mexican town of Cheran had declared autonomous control over their land, risen up against the loggers and drug cartels that had damaged their forest and replanted it.
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North Idaho, by contrast, is filled with mountains and sprawling lakes, with people who minded their own business and liked you to mind yours, with hardworking loggers and miners, with hunters and fishermen and land.
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I asked Apple about all this and the company told me that a lot of people want to know how their calorie input relates to their calorie output for use in food loggers like LoseIt.
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By sticking two sea loggers off the coast of Port Hedland, Western Australia for 18 months, McCauley and his colleagues managed to identify seven distinct choruses, most of them occurring at sunrise, sunset, or both.
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By the late 1980s, when environmentalists sought the end of logging in the Northwest's ancient forests, many activists had open contempt for the loggers who feared for their jobs, telling them to work at Walmart.
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet described the death as "a disturbing sympton of the growing problem of encroachment on indigenous land - especially forests - by miners, loggers and farmers in Brazil".
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In a statement, Bachelet said that the murder of Emyra Waiapi in Amapa was a "disturbing symptom of the growing problem of encroachment on indigenous land - especially forests - by miners, loggers and farmers in Brazil".
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Bolsonaro, who took office in January and has been referred to as "Captain Chainsaw," gutted funding for agencies protecting the massive rainforest, essentially giving wink-and-nudge approval for illegal loggers to do their thing.
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By the height of the dry season in July and August, some experts feared that criminal loggers and ranchers, who use fire to prepare land for crops and pasture, were clearing the Amazon with impunity.
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As loggers moved in with chain saws to clear trees for cattle pasture north of Manaus, he asked them to leave untouched several small "islands" of forest to see how the animals within them fared.
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"The indigenous peoples want to protect the land, but they don't have the firepower to take on the illegal loggers or gunmen hired by ranchers," Survival International campaigner Fiona Watson told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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"Researchers have been putting satellite tags and data loggers on these fish and found they will come to the surface and lay on their side on the surface, hence the name the sunfish," Foster said.
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A leader of the Tarahumara people who live among the jagged peaks of the western Sierra Madre, Mr. Baldenegro defended the area's old-growth forests against powerful local strongmen allied with drug traffickers and loggers.
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In the late 1970s and the 19703s, many Western ranchers, miners and loggers felt increasingly threatened, partly by globalization, which created new competition, and partly by federal regulations that seemed to value wildlife more than people.
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The loggers' land caught the eye of the agency because it is home to a rare and peculiar geographical feature crucial to the frogs' reproduction: "ephemeral ponds" that fill up annually and dry out by summer.
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But instead of falling to the same low levels as in past years, deforestation remains unseasonably high, with illegal loggers and land speculators still acting aggressively, three field operatives for environmental enforcement agency Ibama told Reuters.
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It was bad enough that Canada's loggers cut the forests from top to bottom, "scarred the land, changed the course of our streams and rivers, and choked off the salmon runs...with their sluices and booms".
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PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia's prime minister on Thursday called for a bigger effort to curb illicit timber trade, saying he had ordered military police to fire rockets from helicopters if they saw illegal loggers at work.
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"We didn't have the Awá's permission to film, but we know that it's important to use these images because if we don't show them around the world, the Awá will be killed by loggers," said Guajajara.
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In a video seen by Reuters and provided by the conservationist Wild Poland Foundation, guards from an agency that oversees state-run forests used force to carry away several protesters who tried to block the loggers.
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Sonia said the EU deal would grant countries from the South American trading bloc Mercosur greater access to markets in the European Union, which could result in farmers and loggers invading indigenous lands to drive production.
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But those warnings didn't help Paulo Paulino Guajajara during a hunting trip with a friend in the Araribóia reserve on Friday, when they were ambushed by a group of five loggers working illegally in the area.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Brazilian authorities have expelled a group of illegal loggers and ranchers from a remote area of the Amazon in a risky and rare operation to protect a threatened indigenous tribe.
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The company obtained a large land concession in order to protect a forest from loggers, and uses a share of the money earned from selling carbon credits to benefit people living there, said president Mike Korchinsky.
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He has become a symbol of the resilience of the more than 100 isolated communities estimated to survive in remote parts of Brazil, under pressure as farmers, miners and loggers push further into the Amazon jungle.
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Last year was the deadliest on record for land rights campaigners with more than three people killed each week in conflicts over territory with mining companies, loggers, hydro-electric dams or agribusiness firms, Global Witness said.
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In a brief news conference Tuesday, Ammon Bundy, the son of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, says the land of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge must go into the hands of local loggers, farmers, ranchers and others.
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Early-warning satellite data recently showed Brazil's deforestation sped up in May to the fastest rate in a decade, as experts pointed to illegal loggers encouraged by the easing of environmental protections under President Jair Bolsonaro.
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Bolsonaro, a far-right populist who is due to take the reins of power in Brazil in January, ran a campaign backed by illegal loggers and miners who want him to open the Amazon for more business.
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Before they started, Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro was working to weaken environmental agencies and existing protections for nature reserves and indigenous territories, paving the way for miners, loggers, and farmers to exploit the forest for commercial gain.
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This is an armed militia using the threat of violence to get the federal government to change the law — specifically, the gunmen want the feds to give up publicly managed land to local ranchers, loggers, and miners.
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Green campaigners told Reuters they had seen commercial loggers as recently as Thursday morning in Bialowieza forest - an area that has become a focal point in a widening standoff between the EU and its biggest eastern member.
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Green campaigners told Reuters they had seen commercial loggers as recently as Thursday morning in Bialowieza forest - an area that has become a focal point in a growing standoff between the EU and its biggest eastern member.
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Cheam Mom, his wife, had watched with increasing unease as he left time after time, heading out to range the woods with camera and cellphone, looking for caches of illegal logs and the loggers who felled them.
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The fund supports Brazil's environmental agency Ibama in its efforts to go after illegal loggers in the world's largest rainforest, which scientists see as vital to fight climate change because it absorbs vast amounts of carbon dioxide.
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Among the biggest tracts of public land in America, the western forests have for over a century inspired conflict between ranchers and rangers; loggers and greens; the federal government and some of those who hate it most.
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During this dry season, if farmers and loggers set fire to the rainforest for industrial or agricultural use, hot temperatures and dry air caused by climate change can allow the blazes to spread further and more rapidly.
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Anders Hedenström, a biologist at the University of Lund, and his colleagues determined how much time swifts spend in the air by capturing them in southern Sweden, where they summer and nest, and attaching micro data loggers.
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Nationwide, sanitation and recycling work remains more dangerous than policing or firefighting; in 2016, only loggers, fishermen, airplane pilots and roofers suffered a higher rate of job-related fatalities in the United States than did waste workers.
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Users called them out (and call out each other) for not mentioning the root causes of the fires, such as the Brazilian government's pro-business agenda, which has spurred large-scale deforestation by loggers and cattle farmers.
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In past decades, indigenous communities have suffered fatal epidemics, including swine flu which killed at least seven Yanomami Indians in 2009, while influenza and malaria - often brought in by miners and loggers - have hit other forest tribes.
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In past decades, indigenous communities have suffered fatal epidemics, including swine flu which killed at least seven Yanomami Indians in 2009, while influenza and malaria - often brought in by miners and loggers - have hit other forest tribes.
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Bolsonaro's promises, action and general pro-business stance may have emboldened ranchers, farmers and loggers to seize control of a growing area of Amazon land, Carlos Rittl, executive secretary of Observatorio do Clima told CNN en Español.
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Over time, a powerful lobby of ranchers, loggers, land speculators and mining companies has consolidated its political power, forming a pivotal congressional bloc — the ruralistas — who recently intervened to shield Mr. Temer from a federal corruption investigation.
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Bolsonaro has also unveiled a bill to allow mining on protected reservations, a move most indigenous leaders oppose as a threat to the survival of their communities that are facing increasing invasions by illegal loggers and miners.
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Environmentalists have warned that Bolsonaro's strong remarks calling for the development of the Amazon and criticizing the country's environmental enforcement agency Ibama for handing out too many fines would embolden loggers and ranchers seeking to profit from deforestation.
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Rittl says loggers, farmers and miners emboldened by Bolsonaro's pro-business stance have jumped on the opportunity, taking advantage of reduced controls and less oversight to seize control of a growing area of land within the Amazon forest.
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Environmentalists like Silva, a minister under former left-wing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, say Bolsonaro's push to open the Amazon to development is emboldening industry, illegal loggers and ranchers to clear land and exploit natural resources.
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TORONTO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Taken from outer space, the satellite images show illegal loggers cutting a road into a protected area in Peru, part of a criminal enterprise attempting to steal millions of dollars worth of ecological resources.
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The people in Kettering show their real identities as lies get told at every level: between environmentalists who live in the trees and loggers at the sawmill; inside the police force; between families; and inside Macy's own head.
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Sonia Guajajara, the head of APIB which represents many of the country's 900,000 native people, urged lawmakers to refuse the deal after an indigenous warrior was killed and another injured in an ambush by illegal loggers on Friday.
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Every six to ten years, during the hot season, mosquitoes would pick it up from infected monkeys and spread it to a few loggers, hunters, and farmers at the forests' edges in the northwestern part of the country.
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Rather than proceeding in a systematic march across a continent, a wild cast of characters — miners, farmers, ranchers, loggers — raced into the West, locating natural resources, extracting them and refining them into commodities to place on the market.
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New rules curtailed logging in the Pacific Northwest, setting off a clash between loggers and conservationists that came to be known as the Timber Wars (a bumper sticker from the era read "Save a Logger, Eat an Owl").
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The circumstances of his disappearance and death remain unclear, though an official with Michoacán's human rights commission told Reuters in the days after he vanished that he might have run afoul of illegal loggers working in the area.
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Still, the report said swathes of indigenous lands have been lost, taken over by hydroelectric dam projects, private mining companies and cattle ranchers, and destroyed by illegal loggers who cut down precious timber such as redwood and mahogany.
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Loggers from the U.S. Forest Service, who believe that forest thinning can prevent wildfire and keep both animals and people safe, tax locals up to $1,200 per acre to essentially destroy the landscape that Colorado residents call home.
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That meant that I spent most of the week at Allingham learning how to use a crosscut saw, which is the old-timey saw seen in sepia-toned videos with a comical frame rate and handlebar-mustachioed loggers.
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When I visited the area in 2016, I experienced the violence hands on, after visiting the protest encampment with several friends, later that night a group of loggers smashed the windows of protesters and hurled rocks at those within.
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This information contains the phone's GPS location to make sure that loggers are where they say, but the map clearly shows records generated in places other than the Romanian forest: as far away as France, Dubai, and even California.
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Since the late 2500s, critics have argued that the act limits industry and also hurts ranchers and loggers, for instance, by preventing ranchers from shooting wolves that prey on their livestock (a prohibition that has now largely been repealed).
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While Cortes Island's forests were largely high-graded by loggers in the early 20th century, "a fierce culture of environmentalism," as Kellhammer puts it, ensured that the majority of the island's second-growth forests have had decades to regenerate.
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As one drives farther into the Black Hills—a region considered sacred by its original residents, who were displaced by settlers, loggers, and gold miners—the roadside attractions offer a vision of American history that grows only more uncanny.
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But Wong assures us that the loggers are designed to simply record things like word counts and "conversational terms," such as when a new topic is introduced, rather than serve as word-for-word recordings of your daily life.
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"Researchers have been putting satellite tags and data loggers on these fish and found they will come to the surface and lay on their side on the surface, hence the name the sunfish," Foster explained to the news outlet.
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It gets confusing: The federal government, partly at the behest of an underhanded corporation, sabotaged a community of hardworking and benevolent utopians — but only to create something fundamentally idealistic and to protect an irreplaceable ecological wonder from capitalistic loggers.
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Timber from plantations can be legally sold, but ELCs are quickly cleared so loggers continue to decimate protected forests to get more lucrative timber, and falsely claim it came from ELCs — more or less with impunity, thanks to rampant corruption.
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Bales doesn't know how many of the modern slaves fit his argument, but the number of miners, loggers and fishers in debt bondage or coerced by warlords looks to be much smaller than his figure of 35 million slaves worldwide.
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Carlos Rittl, executive secretary of the environment NGO network Observatorio do Clima (Climate Observatory), told CNN that loggers, farmers and miners are already taking advantage of reduced oversight to seize control of a growing area of land within the Amazon forest.
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Experts say loggers, farmers and miners have been emboldened by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's pro-business stance on the Amazon, taking advantage of reduced controls and less oversight to seize control of a growing area of land in the forest.
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"It's part of a larger strategy to remove 'obstacles' that limit access by land speculators, ranchers, illegal loggers and mining companies to territories and their natural resources, especially in the Amazon," said Brent Millikan, Amazon campaign director for NGO International Rivers.
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The factory, run by the Acre state government, uses latex gathered from Amazon rubber trees by tappers who are employed by a government-run program designed to protect their traditional livelihood, foster sustainable use of the rainforest and deter illegal loggers.
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The taskforce, which was appointed to study the extent of deforestation in Kenya, said the Kenya Forest Service was largely responsible for the reduction in forest cover due to its opaque processes for licensing loggers and allowing outright illegal logging.
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He learned that, out west, loggers were paying upwards of $10 for a pair of calked logging boots — a small fortune back then — and moved the family and business out to Oregon to take full advantage of a lacking market.
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In a statement, INA cited evidence that his murder occurred in retaliation for Santos' role in combating illegal invasions by hunters, loggers and gold miners in the Vale do Javari reservation, home to the world's highest concentration of uncontacted indigenous tribes.
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One of the groups most vocally opposed to the latest climate bill is new to the political scene: a self-organized group called Timber Unity, which is largely comprised of truckers, loggers, and others from rural parts of the state.
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Bolsonaro's pro-business stance may have emboldened loggers, farmers and miners to seize control of a growing area of Amazon land, Carlos Rittl, executive secretary of the environmental nonprofit organization Observatorio do Clima (Climate Observatory), told CNN en Español last month.
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Some is the result of illegal loggers looking for the fine woods so prized in making instruments or furniture; others clearing the way for cattle ranching, soya crops; and in Colombia particularly, coca farmers are clearing jungle to sow drug crops.
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Over the last half-century, roughly 273 percent of the Brazilian Amazon has disappeared as a result of deliberately set fires and relentless bulldozing to make room for cattle ranchers and to clear paths for loggers, road builders and other developers.
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This is perhaps understandable given the fact the rest of the man's tribe is believed to have been murdered by loggers, the unfortunate fate for many tribespeople who live in areas with valuable natural resources, even those with legal protection.
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McNab pointed at a spot on the line, where a group of about 30 well-financed families of loggers was playing cat and mouse with the park guards, pushing back into the reclaimed forest and vanishing before they could be caught.
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It is probably his embrace of the role of anti-establishment outsider that has won him support at home from the pickup-truck voters — the tradesmen, farmers, loggers — who have been willing to overlook his liberal views on issues such as gay rights.
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The man, reportedly in his 50s, is believed to be the last survivor of his tribe after a small group of six was killed by farmers in 1995, following years of attacks from local loggers and private farmers that decimated the population.
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Leaders from half a dozen ethnic groups gathered recently in Atalaia do Norte, a town outside an indigenous territory the size of Austria, to discuss a rise in invasions by illegal miners and loggers emboldened by Brazil's far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro.
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Tribes will now be able to better protect the rainforest and continue living on the land because new roads and other infrastructure will not unlock the area's pristine landscape for loggers, said Cacique Celso Tawe, a leader of the indigenous Munduruku Indians.
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When it comes to stealing identities, hackers seem to have an unlimited stash of weapons, including brute-force attacks, dictionary attacks, phishing, social engineering, man-in-the-middle, key-loggers, password resets from recovery emails and wholesale theft of passwords from databases.
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Biologists at the University of Lund, led by Anders Hedenström, made the discovery that common swifts are able to stay aloft for at least 10 months by capturing some in southern Sweden, where they nest, and attaching micro-data loggers onto the birds.
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Google also helped produce a nice little documentary about one situation where Guardians could help native populations deter loggers and poachers: That's in the Amazon, obviously, but Rainforest Connection has also set up stations in Cameroon and Sumatra, with others on the way.
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For the anniversary, Saint Croix National Scenic Riverway between Minnesota and Wisconsin is highlighting its Evening Stillwater Island Tours, boat trips among the limestone bluff islands that explore the history of travelers here from Native Americans and loggers to artists and writers.
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Video: Choi et al; Scientific Reports In their study published Thursday in Scientific Reports, the team describes how they collected 598 calls from 10 penguins over two years, using bio-loggers—devices that connect to a living animal to log their behaviour.
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With deforestation threatening the capital's water supply, the government has launched 24-hour military patrols of the country's major forests, with authorization to arrest loggers and confiscate their equipment, said Sangwani Phiri, a spokesman for the Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indigenous tribes in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, who have had little or no contact with the outside world, are facing "annihilation" from illegal loggers, ranchers and miners who want their land, a campaign group said on Tuesday.
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To enforce these restrictions, it's vital to be able to identify exactly where timber comes from, but most illegal loggers get away with the crime because law enforcement officials have such a difficult time tracing a wood product back to its origins.
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During the experience, I lived the life of a tree, from the planting of the seed breaking through the soil, through my growth—amongst ants and apes and birds—to becoming the tallest tree in the forest, to finally being chopped down by loggers.
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Back when the Western territories were seeking statehood, part of the deal was turning over tracts of land to the government, but the militiamen believe that the federal land should be returned to the ranchers and loggers, based on a single clause in the legislation.
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But not only does this lack the detail of the previous approach, but the loggers who are to cut the trees will move more slowly as they rely on their discretion to determine what fits the prescription's bill, or argue over which zone they're in.
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A once thriving community, it has gradually lost its economic base since the regional timber industry was largely shuttered partly thanks to a series of government rulings in the 22s that prevented loggers from cutting down trees in areas where endangered spotted owls lived.
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BRASILIA, Nov 4 (Reuters) - The government of the Brazilian state of Maranhao plans to set up a police task force on Monday to protect the Guajajara tribe from illegal loggers that killed one of its warriors in a clash over deforestation on their Amazon reservation.
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Brazil's respected National Institute for Space Research (INPE) has documented an explosion of deforestation in June and July of 2019—the logical outcome of Bolsonaro's efforts to weaken protected areas, reduce fines for environmental crimes and offer a green light to loggers and miners.
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For example, Zinke's leaked recommendations to the White House to shrink the boundaries of national monuments and open up some of the land to the fossil fuel industry and loggers -- first reported Sunday by the Wall Street Journal -- were met with opposition and confusion.
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Luna said last week's deadly clash was the first inside a reserve set up for the Nahua, Indians who had lived in isolation up until the 1980s when illegal loggers captured a group of them and spread disease among their members that killed scores.
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According to Amazon Watch, a non-profit advocacy organization working to protect the rainforest and indigenous peoples' rights, at least 14 cases of illegal advances into indigenous territories by land grabbers, loggers and wildcat miners were documented across Brazil in the first three months of the year.
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After decades of conflict—which peaked in the 1990s, when a row between loggers and greens over an endangered owl led to violence, a shutdown in logging across the West and the near-collapse of the USFS—many former foes now collaborate to manage forests better.
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In the months before an Indigenous leader was killed with a gunshot in the face in the Amazon reserve he had spent much of his life protecting, at least two efforts were made to warn Brazil's government of the risks posed by illegal loggers in the region.
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Many observers compared the dispute over land management — the Bundys want federally protected lands opened up to ranchers, miners, and loggers — and the timing of the verdict with recent events in North Dakota, where Native American tribes have been protesting against the construction of an oil pipeline.
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When INPE released those numbers last month, Bolsonaro—who has long wanted to abolish indigenous territorial rights so that loggers, farmers, and miners could extract value from the land—made unfounded accusations that the government organization, which collects satellite image data, was harming the country's image with lies.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Europe must press Brazil to end killings of indigenous people by refusing to sign off on a major trade deal, a community leader said on Monday after a young member of the country's protected Guajajara tribe was shot dead by illegal loggers.
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Last week, he falsely accused the actor Leonardo DiCaprio of bankrolling fires in the Amazon, and for months he has also dismissed Indigenous people's concerns about increasing invasions of protected land by loggers and miners, even as Indigenous groups have pleaded with the government for protection from growing violence.
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Viewing imagery of these sites or peoples from above with no permission is no less of a colonialist act and may cause harm to communities that did not choose to be imaged, like "uncontacted" tribal groups in Brazil, who could then face further attacks from loggers or miners.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil sped up in May to the fastest rate in a decade, according to data from an early-warning satellite system, as experts pointed to activity by illegal loggers encouraged by the easing of environmental protections under President Jair Bolsonaro.
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Around the same time, a documentary about the aislados ran on Peruvian TV. In it, a BBC film crew flew with José Carlos dos Reis Meirelles, a prominent agent from Brazil's National Indian Foundation, over a part of the Amazon where aislados ' land was being invaded by illegal loggers.
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"I strongly agree with Wisconsin's farmers, ranchers, loggers and sportsmen that future gray wolf listing decisions should come from the experts, and not from judges," Johnson said in a statement last year after introducing similar legislation Johnson, who is expected to face a close reelection race against former Sen.
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By outfitting 24 adult birds and 25 juveniles with a variety of instruments, from GPS trackers to loggers measuring the beating of the birds' wings as well as heart rate, the researchers were able to gain insight into the phases of flight that are most and least energy intensive.
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No organization immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, but pamphlets left at the sites of the first three bombings alluded to several issues, including the plight of the Mapuche, an indigenous people who have been battling loggers and farmers in the impoverished region of Araucanía in southern Chile.
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Look at the coal miners in the Rust Belt that are getting out of work…the loggers and the timber workers and the paper mills on the West Coast…the ranchers or farmers in the Midwest…We're talking about smarter regulations that actually help us grow jobs in this country.
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The House's version included multiple controversial provisions, such as expanding opportunities for loggers to remove trees after fires, doubling the size of areas that could be exempt from environmental review for logging, loosening rules protecting imperiled species from forest management practices and letting some roads get built in areas that were previously protected.
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"Brazil has the highest rate of deforestation in the world, and most of it is illegal," said Tasso Azevedo, head of MapBiomas, an alerts platform launched on Friday that is aimed at speeding up action against illegal loggers using high resolution satellite images and automated data processing in partnership with Google Earth Engine.
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In the capital, especially among the professional English-language journalists and Cambodian law enforcement, it is more or less dogma that the economy of the Cambodian forests has now become so full of violence and black money that everyone who works there—from loggers to cops to park guards to journalists—has been corrupted.
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With a team composed of the sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the University of Washington's eight-oar crew team was never expected to defeat the elite teams of the East Coast and Great Britain, yet they did, going on to shock the world by defeating the German team rowing for Adolf Hitler.
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When Ammon Bundy, the son of a Nevada rancher who led an armed confrontation with federal agents last year, claimed that the occupation of federal property in Oregon was about "freeing up" land and ending government "tyranny" that hamstrings miners, loggers, and ranchers, he gave voice to a deeply held, common-sense belief among many libertarians and conservatives.
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The local district ranger at the time was worried, too, and asked Brown whether she and her team could help reduce the forest's fuel load by doing some thinning—something the Forest Service does either by sending in loggers with chainsaws or by using a backhoe-like machine called a masticator, which shreds anything in its path.
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And while we're here, what we're doing is we're going to be freeing these lands up and getting the ranchers back to ranching, the miners back to mining, getting the loggers back to logging, and where they can do it under the protection of the people and not be afraid of this tyranny that's been upon them.
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There are toasts to Traverse City throughout the cosmopolitan Hotel Indigo (263 West Grandview Parkway): rugs in guest rooms were inspired by the flannel shirts once worn by area loggers and the rooftop bar, H & L Social, takes its name from Hannah Lay & Company, a prominent timber and retail business in the city in the 1800s.
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When the local army commandant refused to give him soldiers to chase loggers, McNab had gone to Guatemala City, secured a meeting with the army's chief of staff (its highest official), and gotten the men assigned to the base for six months—an unimaginable luxury for park guards used to being terribly outgunned by the invasores.
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Cutler wanted Wells and Papaleo to have complete freedom to do what they wanted for the project, but did ask each to read two books for inspiration: a book of the Kinsey brothers' photographs of early 20 century loggers in the Pacific Northwest and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1915 novel Herland, an early feminist utopian tale of an isolated society of women who reproduce through parthogenisis.
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Privacy advocate Cindy Cohn, executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, listed some of the methods the government may use when encryption blocks access to information shared by suspects: They install key loggers on devices to discover passwords, stop computers on their way to being shipped and install backdoors or send fake messages masquerading as popular services like Facebook to trick suspects to divulging passwords.
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