Archive for the EU-Africa-Mideast Tree News Category

• UK: Sudden Oak Death brings out the Chainsaws - December 13th, 2009
• Africa: Only 2% of tropical forests not yet stolen from traditional peoples - June 7th, 2009
• UK: Ancient woodland doesn’t need any more new bad neighbors - June 4th, 2009
• RIP: Thomas Berry (1914-2009) - June 2nd, 2009
• Krygzstan: Extinction threat to the original Apple species that led to all commercial species - May 9th, 2009
• Ethiopia: New Species of Acacia tree discovered an expanse of 3,100 square miles - May 2nd, 2009
• Madagascar: 11 conservation groups band together against logging in parks - March 31st, 2009
• Ivory Coast: Last stand last wild chimps is Taï National Park - March 29th, 2009
• UK: World famous artist David Hockney finds a “massacre” of a mighty group of trees he’s been painting in Yorkshire - March 29th, 2009
• Kenya: Indiscriminate cutting means Eldoret town has been experiencing water shortages - March 29th, 2009
• Kenya: Mau forest task force tension on evicting encroachers, meanwhile arsonists set it all on fire - March 24th, 2009
• Gambia: Please overlook profit and consider repercussions of deforestation on society! - March 24th, 2009
• Congo: Many wars converge at farthest navigable point upstream, capital city Kisangani - March 24th, 2009
• Madagascar: Rosewood thieves and political instability shuts down Marojejy National Park - March 23rd, 2009
• Nigeria: Highest rate of deforestation in all of Africa - March 23rd, 2009
• Scotland: Phoenix trees keep growing even after they fall - March 23rd, 2009
• 481 – EU-Africa-Mideast Tree News - March 22nd, 2009
• Pakistan: Timber mafia’s combat operations in Shangla district / devouring 600 sq. miles - March 22nd, 2009
• Sierra Leone: Gola forest workshop gets journalists excited about forest protection - March 21st, 2009
• Niger: Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration has re-vegetated 3 million hectares - March 21st, 2009
• Afghanistan: Rapidly cutting the last of the last of the forest in Nangarhar Province - March 21st, 2009
• UK: Imagine what the world would look like if we didn’t prune trees so much? - March 20th, 2009
• Burkina Faso: Forest once provided all they needed, now Women are regrowing these forests - March 20th, 2009
• Cameroon: Indigenous of Kupe-Muanenguba region are told they are the support, manure and fuel of State authority - March 18th, 2009
• UK: 57 year-old climbs tree to stop needless destruction in Cripley Meadow allotments - March 17th, 2009
• Germany: Robin Wood’s long term support of FSC ends in protest over certification of non-compliant forests - March 17th, 2009
• Ukraine: Gov will save and increase forest reserves? - March 16th, 2009
• Uganda: Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE) does some whistleblowing - March 16th, 2009
• Scotland: Success comes from persistence: Campaign to stop privatization of public forests has won! - March 16th, 2009
• UK: Battle to save Longridge Woods & Centre Square East from development continues - March 15th, 2009
• Africa: Jane Goodall speaks out against China’s massive continent-wide deforestation operation - March 15th, 2009
• France: Forbidden Beech forest covers Battle of Verdun - March 14th, 2009
• A Tree gift from Jill in South Africa - March 14th, 2009