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Forest Service Ignores Environmental Law, Logs Old Growth Forest and Critical...
Sick to the stomach. That’s how I felt after reading this story. But surprised? No. The USFS and other government agencies commonly ignore regulations and prioritize the economy over the natural...
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Pinyon-Juniper Forests: BLM’s False Claims to Virtue
By Will Falk / Deep Green Resistance Featured image: The author surveying the devastation of Pinyon-Juniper deforestation (Photo: Max Wilbert) Once I recovered from the shock I experienced witnessing...
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Death Threats and Detention in Paraguay
NEW REPORT DOCUMENTS CHALLENGES OF DEFENDING INDIGENOUS LAND RIGHTS IN THE PARAGUAYAN CHACO By Fionuala Cregan / Intercontinental Cry Featured image: Members of the the Ayoreo community of Cuyabia....
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Inside the indigenous movement to protect India’s commons
By Pushpa Achanta / Waging Nonviolence In early October, news emerged that India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change was blocking the implementation of a high-level government panel’s...
View ArticleRenewed Defense of British Columbia’s Central Walbran Ancient Forest
Bobby Arbess aka Reuben Garbanzo / Friends of Carmanah/Walbran Sixty years of logging have left only five percent of the primary low-elevation ancient temperate rainforests of Vancouver island...
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Pinyon-Juniper Forests: An Ancient Vision Disturbed
By Will Falk / Deep Green Resistance Standing in a pinyon-juniper forest on a high slope above Cave Valley not far from Ely, Nevada, I am lost in an ancient vision. It is a vision born under sublime...
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Pinyon-Juniper Forests, Pine Nuts, and True Sustainability
by Will Falk / Deep Green Resistance A windmill blade knocks the head off a Cooper’s hawk interrupting the late afternoon peace in Spring Valley, just outside Ely, Nevada. The blade tosses the...
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Amazon Guardians Travel to City for Landmark Protest
Featured image: Guajajara Guardians protest for the protection of their land. © Guajajara Guardians by Survival International A group of Brazilian Indians hailed as heroes for patrolling the...
View ArticleDominick A. DellaSala: The Importance of Fire in Resilient Ecosystems
Editor’s note: The following is the testimony of Dr. Dominick A. DellaSala, Chief Scientist of Geos Institute, Ashland, Oregon, before the U.S. House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee,...
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We’ve Got To Fight For Their Right To Party
by Heidi Hall / Deep Green Resistance Great Basin A group of jays is quite appropriately called a party. A group of Pinyon Jays is a big party–the kind of party the neighbors would call the cops...
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Dignified Resistance in Malaysia
Featured image: Blockade in Gua Musang Photo: SAM – Friends of the Earth Malaysia by Real World Radio via Intercontinental Cry For the past two months, approximately 800 Orang Asli Indigenous...
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India: A Changing Landscape for the Bonda Highlanders
Featured image: Typical Bonda house in Baunsupada village. The Bondas have always led sustainable lives in the forest, but deforestation and changes in traditional farming practices now threaten their...
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Giving a Platform to the Tribal Guardians of the Natural World
Featured image: With support from Survival, the Guajajara are able to expose illegal logging and threats to their uncontacted neighbors in real time. © Survival by Sarah Shenker / Survival...
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“Guardians of the Amazon” Seize Illegal Loggers to Protect Uncontacted Tribe
Featured image: Guardians of the Amazon from the Guajajara tribe: “We patrol, we find the loggers, we destroy their equipment and we send them away. We’ve stopped many loggers. It’s working.” ©...
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India: With Just Sickles And Sticks, Adivasi Women Save A Forest
Featured image by Souparno Chatterjee by Chandan Sarma / Youth Ki Awaaz Hakim Sinan village, Ranibandh Block, Bankura District, West Bengal: It was getting dark in the forest. At a distance, light...
View Article46% of Forests Have Been Destroyed by Civilization…and Counting
by Max Wilbert / Deep Green Resistance “Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.” – François-René de Chateaubriand New research in the prestigious journal Nature estimates that “the...
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Indigenous Environmental Defender Killed, Logging Mafia Targets Tribe
Featured image: The Guardians of the Amazon recently destroyed a logging truck they discovered in their territory. © Guardians of the Amazon by Survival International Warning: some people may find...
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Redwoods: Only The Tallest Trees Because The Rest Have Been Logged
By Max Wilbert / Images: public domain Here is a familiar fact to many people across the United States and the world: the Redwoods of Northern California are the tallest trees in the world at nearly...
View ArticleWar on the Amazon Rainforest
By Max Wilbert The Amazon Rainforest is on fire. But the fire is merely a symptom of deeper problems, not root cause. Therefore, simply putting out the fires does not solve the problem. To protect the...
View ArticleRuin of the American West: An Interview with Chris Ketcham
Featured Image: thousands of acres of Pinyon-Juniper forest bulldozed by the BLM in Nevada / by Max Wilbert / CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Christopher Ketcham is a freelance writer for Harper’s, The New Republic,...
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