Word: timbered
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...absolute cop-out." But for the P.M., it was an effective political strike: after hinting in the first week of the campaign he would move on the contentious issue of logging in the island state's old-growth forests, the Prime Minister waited until Labor had been attacked by timber workers over its plans to protect vast new areas of forest - which ended up costing it two seats in Tasmania - before releasing his own plan. In the last few days, the campaign got personal. In a speech to the National Press Club, Howard labeled Latham "a behavioral policeman"; Latham pointed...
...have time to evaluate the impact of your work. WHAT DO YOUR ACTIVITIES HAVE TO DO WITH PEACE? Many of the wars that are being fought are over resources: oil and water in the Middle East. Here in Africa, we have minerals, we have land, we have timber. I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace. THE GREEN BELT MOVEMENT HAS PLANTED OVER 30 MILLION TREES. WHY TREES? The original idea was to give women firewood...
...Nearby is the Styx Valley, where loggers and protesters argue over stands of E. regnans earmarked for woodchipping, and the Wilderness Society conducts tours along logging roads. Many timber workers pass through Niven's door, but in past months it's tourists who've been flocking to stay. They come, says Niven, "because they have to see the forest before it disappears." After this weekend, they may not have to be in such a rush...
...program has been a success in southern Nepal's Bagmara Forest, where the WWF and the King Mahendra Trust for Nature Conservation helped local people set up a tree nursery. Tigers returned to the area, and locals are able to harvest timber, fuel wood and grasses according to a strict management plan. Local people also benefit directly from the return of wildlife. They collected about $73,000 last year from tourists who came to see tigers, elephants and rhinos in their forest...
...handicrafts, particularly the fine, handblown glassware from the factories in nearby Marinha Grande. The delicate glass, often richly colored, was a by-product of Portugal's maritime ambitions: 700 years ago, the monarchy needed ships and ordered the planting of 12,000 hectares of pine forest to provide timber and control the shifting coastal sands. Those two raw materials attracted glassmakers to the area in the 18th century; the region has been a centre for the industry ever since. Today Leiria produces 45,000 tons of glassware (worth €175 million), and exports three-quarters of it. The first glass...