Logging Effects
From WikiDemocracy
HAS BIG TIMBER FINALLY BROUGHT USGBC TO HEEL?
Environmental groups, forward-thinking companies, and social interest groups concerned about the destruction of the world’s forests come together to form the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). FSC’s goal was and is to promote environmentally and socially responsible forest management practices globally. FSC’s governance system is organized into three chambers with equal power—an environmental chamber concerned with protecting forest ecosystems, an economic chamber concerned with making a profit from forest products, and a social chamber concerned with human and worker rights.
Beyond the Timber Wars
by Lisa Bramen 31/7/15 The Nature Conservancy
It's a rare mild February morning in southwestern Washington, a place so famous for winter squalls that beachfront hotels here offer storm-watching packages. A few miles inland, project manager Tom Kollasch is following faint elk trails through a stand of coastal rain-forest on The Nature Conservancy’s Ellsworth Creek Preserve.
Tree Keepers: Where Sustaining the Forest Is a Tribal Tradition
by FRED PEARCE 24/7/23 YaleEnvironment360
Mike Lohrengel looks up in awe at trees he has known for 30 years. “This is one of the most beautiful places I know. This forest has it all: the most species, the most diversity. Many trees I know individually. Look at this one behind us. It’s got a split way up there. I’ll never forget that tree till I die.”
Timber Wars
In the 1980s and ’90s, loggers and environmental activists faced off over the future of old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest. In this episode, Reveal partners with the podcast series Timber Wars from Oregon Public Broadcasting. Reporter Aaron Scott explores that definitive moment in the history of the land – and the consequences that reverberate today.
The ‘timber detectives’ on the front lines of illegal wood trade
by Peter Yeung 9/3/22 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Hamburg, Germany — Under tungsten light on a bleak winter day, Gerald Koch gazes up from a black microscope, adjusts his rimless glasses, and gestures at a monitor displaying a slice, thinner than a hair, of suspected illegal timber.
Corruption, Forestry Workers, and Siberian Tigers: the Story of Illegal Logging in the Developing World
There’s a dark past behind the pieces of paper sitting right in your printer, right in your notebook— may be right beneath your pencil. Potentially dark, that is. According to the EIA (Environmental Investigation Agency), up to 90% of timber logged in some developing countries is done so illegally. Therefore—assuming you didn’t buy some specialty paper from a country without rainforests and a fragile government— there is a strong likelihood that the wood products you’ve purchased in America are more tainted with corruption than you’d like to believe.
Illegal Logging
Illegal logging is an immense, multi-billion dollar industry threatening forests worldwide.
Illegal logging is the catalyst to deforestation around the globe, threatening some of the world’s most important forests in terms of conservation value. Predatory logging brings roads deeper into the forest, which in turn fuels more logging, impacts Indigenous Peoples and traditional local communities, as well as harming wildlife. Illegal logging is a global-multi-country issue Greenpeace offices around the world have worked to investigate, document, and stop.
To Save the Redwoods, Scientists Debate Burning and Logging
by Becki Robins 16/12/19 UNDARK
Redwoods draw crowds, but they are also ecologically important. They act as natural water filters, processing trillions of gallons of clean, drinkable water every year. Redwood forests store at least three times as much carbon as any other kind of forest, and because the individual trees live for thousands of years, the carbon storage is long-term. That makes them important actors in the story of California’s changing climate.
