456 Oceania Tree News
Today for you 30 new articles about earth’s trees! (456th edition)
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1) Hawaii: Tourism Strategic Plan: 2005-2015 (TSP)
2) West Java: Efforts to Protect the Silvery Gibbon thwarted by villager’s entitlement
3) Sumatra: 700 villagers firebombed and beaten for corportate ag’s forest rights re-interpreted as complete ownership
4) Sumatra: Save the tigers of Kerinci Seblat National Park
5) Indonesia: Foreign industry still flocking to country ‘cuz of nearly free natural resources
6) Indonesia: Policies that allow for them to destroy forests faster than any other nation
7) Indonesia: Saving the Seram cockatoo from loggers and poachers
8) Indonesia: Developer’s deforestation is flooding villages and killing children
9) Indonesia: Upcoming Election means more giveaways to illegal loggers & more promises to stop ‘em
10) Indonesia: Bali Reforestation efforts underway
11) Indonesia: Mangroves in coastal areas of Pandeglang District are seriously degraded http://bit.ly/DRCV
12) Indonesia: Gov makes more promises to not be so corrupt and destructive again http://bit.ly/BUwm
13) Indonesia: Save Meru Betiri National Park http://bit.ly/6YrW
14) Indonesia: Deforestation rate gets in Guinness book of world records again http://bit.ly/a0Ws
15) Indonesia: New Illegal logging bill aims to put more teeth in toothless system http://bit.ly/T6Jh
16) Indonesia: The 13 main forestry companies engaged in illegal logging will no longer be investigated
17) Indonesia: Old laws of military dictatorship days still cause deforestation
18) Papua New Guinea: Chinese empire expands at great cost to forest and its people http://bit.ly/Dt7E
19) New Zealand: Forestry is not what they claim it to be http://bit.ly/Xcoq
20) New Zealand: Greenpeace’s good wood guide
21) Australia: Update on Direct Action versus logger’s violent escalation http://bit.ly/bSzI
22) Australia: 80,000ha of national parks will be created in Victoria
23) Australia: Big Scrub Landcare Group http://bit.ly/1s3lz7
24) Australia: Logging industry restructure must include ending all logging in Native forests http://bit.ly/VezJi
25) Australia: Mamu Rainforest Canopy Walkway is finally open http://bit.ly/CDG0 about 14 hours ago from web
26) Australia: 15 arrested protesting Federal Gov’s White Paper on climate change / Gunns continued decimation http://bit.ly/I8Q2
27) Australia: South-west Liberal MP to make last native forests available because eco-tourism failed http://bit.ly/T25g
28) Australia: They not only need to be arrested but they need to be forced to wear hardhats until they’re arrested! http://bit.ly/3rih4c
29) Australia: Natives need to beware of Carbonbaggers http://bit.ly/12r7k
30) Australia: 7 more forest defenders arrested in Tasmania http://bit.ly/EA4d