Victory! Activists Force California to Cancel Planned Redwood Logging
Editor’s note: Beginning in April 2021, activists in Northern California have been engaged in a sustained campaign to protect the Jackson Demonstration State Forest from logging. Jackson is the...
View ArticleRoad Network Spreads Destruction Across Amazon
Editor’s note: Roads in the middle of wildlife, both illegal and legal, cause habitat fragmentation. This, in turn, impacts wildlife. They disturb migration routes of many animals. Many die in...
View ArticleBiomass Firms Tell Bright Green Lies
Editor’s Note: Saplings cannot replace mature forests, with their hundreds of years of biodiversity and carbon sequestration. The biomass industry is destroying mature forests with a promise of...
View ArticleSubsistence Communities: Destroyers or Protectors of Forests?
Editor’s Note: The following Mongabay article is based on a recent study that found that marginalized subsistence communities are driving deforestation due to poverty. The article also writes that...
View ArticleGreen Deceit: Forest Management, EVs, and Manufactured Consent
Editor’s Note: Taking the context of Maryland’s forests, the following piece analyses how the mainstream environmental movement and pro-industry management actors have used deliberately misinterpreting...
View ArticleDGR France Visits Proposed Lithium Mine Site
Editor’s Note: Any alternative to fossil fuel is embraced as “green.” These include the so-called alternatives that require the destruction of the natural world on par with the destruction by fossil...
View ArticleThe Fight for Environmental Justice in Africa
Editor’s Note: As a continent with abundant “resources”, Africa has been a target of colonial powers, who have plundered her land for centuries. This is not merely ecocide, but a violation of...
View ArticleProtestors Arrested at Fairy Creek
Editor’s Note: One of the indicators of the success of any movement is the level of oppression by the powerful. The protests against logging at Fairy Creek on Vancouver Island, Canada, are an...
View ArticleStudy Exposes Forest Carbon Credit Schemes as ‘pipe dream’
Editor’s Note: Since the 2009 climate conference in Copenhagen, states and corporations alike have relied on the assumption that energy companies can be persuaded to rethink their business and initiate...
View ArticleBirdsong Rings Out Once Again in Togo’s Sacred Forest of Titiyo
Editor’s note: “A new study in Science indicates that reforestation projects, which restore degraded or destroyed forests, are the most effective land-based method for carbon removal and biodiversity...
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