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[https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/03/climate/gabon-logging-oil-economy.html by Dionne Searcey 3/11/22 The New York Times] | [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/03/climate/gabon-logging-oil-economy.html by Dionne Searcey 3/11/22 The New York Times] | ||
LOANGO NATIONAL PARK, Gabon — Evening and the rainforest. A riverbank packed with elephants. Treetops so dense they obscure all but a chimpanzee’s hairy arm. And, as the sun sets, a twinkle on the horizon: an offshore oil platform. | LOANGO NATIONAL PARK, Gabon — Evening and the rainforest. A riverbank packed with elephants. Treetops so dense they obscure all but a chimpanzee’s hairy arm. And, as the sun sets, a twinkle on the horizon: an offshore oil platform. | ||
=====Trees older than America: a primeval Alaskan forest is at risk in the Trump era===== | |||
[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/22/alaska-tongass-forest-at-risk-logging-trump by Brendan Jones 22/3/18 The Guardian] | |||
At south-east Alaska’s last industrial-scale sawmill, wheel loaders stack debarked logs two storeys high on the frozen ground. A bumper sticker on a battered Ford in the parking lot reads “Cut Kill Dig Drill”, a mantra that many in the 49th state appreciate re | |||
