Word: timbers
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...they see it, for good reason. The village has been through this ordeal before--twice. In 1993 the Mexican spotted owl, which nests in the Lincoln forest, was declared threatened--a ruling that, combined with a slumping timber market, "killed the logging industry," according to Wood. And in 1999 an environmental group, the Center for Biological Diversity, began petitioning on behalf of the checkerspot, pointing out that it was at risk from development, off-road vehicles and livestock-grazing--or as Nicole Rosmarino, wildlife-program director of WildEarth Guardians, which joined the cause in 2007, puts it, "smelly cows, noisy...
...Rwanda succeed? It's certainly a risky plan. Armed interventions in Congo have a history not only of failure but also of sullying those who perpetrate them. In 1998 the war sucked at least six neighboring African countries into what quickly became a smash and grab for Congo's timber and minerals. The U.N. has also had to deal with a series of scandals concerning sex abuse and gun running by its soldiers. The Rwandan mission may be aimed at bringing peace. But they are not coming in peace, and in Congo that has always led to more...
...preserve rain forests is to inject value into their maintenance [Dec. 15]. But paying for avoided deforestation will only work if the financial incentive outweighs the alternatives. Paying for avoided deforestation can best be achieved by rewarding sustainable forestry. This adds further economic incentive (the price of the timber) to the pot and ensures the preservation of the resource, providing jobs and income. A global price of carbon internalized into the cost of goods and services will further discriminate in favor of sustainably grown wood. John White, CHIEF EXECUTIVE, TIMBER TRADE FEDERATION, LONDON
...days of loss and uncertainty, there is particular comfort in the once-a-year hymns, the green-bean recipe you don't really like but would still miss at Thanksgiving, the recurring commitments that remind us what's certain, what's fleeting. Timber and stone, flesh and blood may change--a grandfather dies, a house burns down--but the traditions survive; they are made of love and longing for what we value, and so we hold them close and take them wherever we go. They are wonderfully portable, as anyone who has ever improvised a Thanksgiving in someone else...
...Kyoto Protocol only recognizes industrial projects - such as a rich country paying to improve energy efficiency at a power plant - or programs to actively reforest land already cleared. It doesn't recognize avoided deforestation - also known by the acronym REDD, for Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation. With timber and biofuel plantations so valuable, that means "rain forests are worth more dead than alive," says Andrew Mitchell, director of the Global Canopy Programme, an alliance of forestry institutions. But a handful of pilot projects, like the one in Noel Kempff and others in nations such as Belize, Indonesia and Madagascar...