Environmental News from United Kingdom

EarthWire UK provides a daily overview of the environment in the UK as reported in the media. The web site is updated every day by a team of editors that reviews media sources for environmental news stories.

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Sustainable Forest Management

UK to pay developing countries £100m to protect forests
Environment Data Interactive Exchange | 12 Dec 2008
The UK has used the UN climate change conference in Poznan as the backdrop to launch plans to offer financial rewards to developing countries prepared to take action to protect their forests.

Deforestation | Sustainable Forest Management

Companies with poor records on environmental damage try for change
International Herald Tribune | 14 Oct 2008
More companies are trying to demonstrate a good track record on biodiversity management to improve their green credentials by participating in market-style systems.

Biodiversity | Energy Conservation | Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Sustainable Forest Management | Water Pollution

Rich Countries Must Pay for Rainforests - UK Report
Planet Ark | 14 Oct 2008
LONDON - Rich countries should pay tropical nations billions of dollars a year to save their forests, using donor money and global carbon markets to foot the bill, said a UK-commissioned report on Tuesday.

Sustainable Forest Management

Brazil Launches Ambitious Fund for Amazon Forest
Planet Ark | 04 Aug 2008
RIO DE JANEIRO/BRASILIA - Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva launched an international fund on Friday to finance conservation and sustainable development in the Amazon as deforestation rates rise.

Deforestation | Sustainable Forest Management

Direct mail tries to go green. No, really.
International Herald Tribune | 23 Jul 2008
A group of direct-marketing companies, along with a handful of their corporate clients, are banding together to make an inherently unsustainable practice at least a little bit greener.

Recycling | Sustainable Forest Management | Waste Management

China's forestry projects 'should be more sustainable'
SCIDEV.NET | 18 Jul 2008
[BEIJING] Two of China's largest environmental programmes should plan more systemically and enhance collaboration to sustain their success, say scientists.

Environmental Impacts | Hydropower | Sustainable Forest Management

Brazil National Parks Mismanaged and Raided - Govt
Planet Ark | 09 Jul 2008
BRASILIA - Brazil's nature reserves, which harbor much of the world's biodiversity, are grossly mismanaged, underfunded, and often ransacked by intruders, the environment minister said on Tuesday.

Biodiversity | Deforestation | Sustainable Forest Management

Are you being green washed?
Guardian Unlimited | 06 Jul 2008
Travel: Everyone is jumping on the green bandwagon - but can we be sure what they promise is what they deliver? Tom Robbins reports

Green Spaces: June's nominations
The Times | 04 Jul 2008
The Eden Project is truly impressive. Not simply because a desolate part of Cornwall has been given new life, and not because a rainforest, wherever you find it, is the stuff of dreams.

Recycling | Sustainable Forest Management | Waste Management

Africa's Congo Basin forest aided by satellite tree-felling survey - Times Online
The Times | 17 Jun 2008
A project to map every place in the world's second-largest tropical forest where trees have been cut down will see a purpose-built camera sent into space to record every clearing and logger's track in the Congo Basin in Africa to determine how much of the forest is left.

Access to Information | Deforestation | Forests and Woodlands | Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Sustainable Forest Management

Saved: the wildest place on earth
The Times | 17 Jun 2008
Endlessness. It's the most intoxicating thing on earth: a place that goes on for ever. Or seems to. While I was there, I felt as if there were no cities left on earth, hardly any people, that civilisation had never happened.

Sustainable Forest Management

Half of Papua New Guinea's forests gone by 2021: study
Yahoo! News | 02 Jun 2008
Half of Papua New Guinea's forests will be lost or damaged in just over a decade, speeding up local climate change, unless logging is dramatically reduced, a study released Monday found.

Biodiversity | Carbon Storage | Sustainable Forest Management

Tanzania tree strikes right note
BBC | 09 May 2008
The national tree of Tanzania, the "Mpingo", used to make musical instruments, is one of the most valuable trees in the world, but it is under threat from illegal logging.

Deforestation | Sustainable Forest Management

Palm oil wiping out key orangutan habitat: activists
Yahoo! News | 07 May 2008
One of the biggest populations of wild orangutans on Borneo will be extinct in three years without drastic measures to stop the expansion of palm oil plantations, conservationists said Wednesday.

Deforestation | Habitat Loss | Sustainable Forest Management

Burmese farmers face flood threat
BBC | 24 Apr 2008
Burmese farmers struggle to protect their land, amid plans to build a hydroelectric dam across the

Biodiversity | Hydropower | Sustainable Forest Management

Hollywood eagerly embraces environmental cause
Yahoo! News | 22 Apr 2008
In the early 1990s, some 100 environmental activists stormed an Indonesian freighter bringing rain forest wood to the major studios.

Hazardous Waste | Recycling | Sustainable Forest Management | Waste Management

Ireland announces forestry schemes
Environment Data Interactive Exchange | 25 Mar 2008
The Irish government has announced details of a new set of forestry schemes aimed at improving and growing Ireland's woodland areas.

Renewable Energy | Sustainable Forest Management | Climate Change

Brazil goes to war against logging
Nature | 12 Mar 2008
It represents half of the world's rainforest and is home to one-third of Earth's species, yet the Amazon has one of the highest rates of deforestation. Jeff Tollefson looks at efforts to curb the problem.

Biodiversity | Deforestation | Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Sustainable Forest Management | Global Warming

Save the trees
Nature | 05 Mar 2008
Scientists and policy-makers will meet in Bonn this June to discuss one of the most pressing concerns to come out of December's United Nations climate meeting #20; how to manage the world's tropical forests. Jeff Tollefson examines some of the proposals.

South Africa to begin elephant cull
Guardian Unlimited | 26 Feb 2008
Science & environment: Government lifts moratorium on the culling of the native elephant to cope with booming population

Biodiversity | Sustainable Forest Management

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