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Balancing Logging and River Health in the Pacific Northwest

Posted by Amy Kober of American Rivers in Water Currents on October 24, 2012
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  I spent this past weekend on Oregon’s North Umpqua River. One of the most beautiful rivers in the state, it is world-renowned for its steelhead fishing and is designated as a federal Wild and Scenic River. At a dinner hosted by The North Umpqua Foundation, I got to spend a little time with Frank…

Jaguars Battling in the Darkness: Sense of place in the Peruvian Amazon…

Posted by Steve Boyes of National Geographic Expeditions in Explorers Journal on January 31, 2012
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Titanic struggle between two jaguar in the wilderness of the Peruvian Amazon... This is wilderness with teeth, claws, and tusks. A place that can humble any person in a matter of moments. The earth needs places like this where we are not in control and live everyday with respect for the wild.
Jaguars fighting in Peruvian Amazon... Make believe that you are sitting in the pitch darkness of the amazon jungle at night listening to the night sounds when this happens...(Alan Lee)

Like the other remaining wilderness areas around the world, the vast Peruvian Amazon has become ring-fenced by land conversion for pastures, rampant logging, commercial forestry, mining, dams, agricultural development, and other drivers of global trade and development. This vast wilderness that seemed impossible to destroy or harm is under threat and in decline… Listen here…

Contest in the Congo: Central Africa’s Shot at Sustainable Development

Posted by Wildlife Conservation Society on November 30, 2011
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As some 30 million votes are counted in the wake of elections this month in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), another contest is shaping up in the Congo between those who would build systems of fair governance and those who would ransack Central Africa for its natural resources.

LOGGERS AND NATIVES FACE OFF IN THE BORDERLANDS

Posted by Scott Wallace on September 12, 2011
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Lumberjack invasion spurs cross-border contact between native villages In a sign of growing indigenous activism and impatience with ineffectual bureaucrats, communities in Peru and Brazil have joined forces in recent days to patrol a volatile border region rife with illegal loggers and heavily armed gangs of drug-runners. Earlier this month, a joint patrol of Ashéninka…

Dark Edge of the Frontier

Posted by Scott Wallace on August 25, 2011
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Natives face retaliation when they stand up to those who loot the forest While on assignment for National Geographic in Peru this summer, I had the privilege of visiting the Ashéninka indigenous community of Saweto, at the headwaters of the Alto Tamaya River near the border of Brazil. It can take up to eight grueling…

One-Time Illegal Logger Fights to Save the Forests of Borneo

Posted by Benjamin Shaw of National Geographic Weekend on July 15, 2011
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Yayasan Palung: Saving the people to save the forest from Robert Little on Vimeo.

Pak Bastarian was once an illegal logger, cutting trees in the forests of West Kalimantan, Borneo. Today he is a conservationist, leading his village of former headhunters in the fight to prevent oil palm plantations from clearing forest in his village.

A Death Foretold

Posted by Scott Wallace on June 8, 2011
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In Brazil’s violent backwoods, environmental destruction and murder go hand in hand.

Fisticuffs Erupts in Peru Over Uncontacted Tribes

Posted by Scott Wallace on June 6, 2011
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Officials deny plans to open rain forest reserves, promise new protections