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Yosemite National Park Used to Be 30 Percent Bigger
Since the early 1900s, one-third of Yosemite National Park has disappeared.
'War of the Woods’ Over a Massive Canadian Rainforest Ends With a Peace Agreement
In the 1990s, only five per cent of the Great Bear Rainforest was protected from logging. Now, after a boycott campaign, it's 85 per cent.
There's a Fight Brewing Over a Really Important Forest in Canada
A longstanding dispute over the largest undisturbed boreal forest on earth began to heat up this week when 13 American environmental groups wrote the governments of Ontario and Quebec urging them to support new conservation efforts.
Suicides and 'Shorter, Bleaker' Lives Plague Indigenous Groups Around the World
The Guaraní-Kaiowa indigenous people of southern Brazil report a suicide rate 34 times higher than the national average.
It Could Take Centuries to Repair a Ruined Fish Habitat on the BC Coast
A British Columbia judge has found three companies, including one run by two Haida leaders, guilty of 20 counts of destroying land and key fish habitats through logging activities carried out in 2010.
Loggers Are Wiping Out Panda Bear Habitats in China
A loophole in Chinese law allows natural forests to be converted to plantations — a practice that is threatening the iconic animal's habitat in Sichuan province.
How Native Brazilians Are Using Spy Tech to Stop Illegal Logging in the Amazon
We camped with the Ka'apor for a few days to get to know what it's like to live in a scenario of violence, threats, and death.
Blood Timber: International Logging Firms Worked With Brutal CAR Militias, Says Report
Global Witness claims logging firms paid millions of dollars to militia who carried out mass killing, rape, and kidnap as the Central African Republic spiraled into bloody civil war.
The Female Activist Of The Tembe Tribe (Excerpt from 'Fighting The Amazon's Illegal Loggers’)
VICE News speaks to Puyr Tembe, a campaigner for indigenous tribes, who takes part in patrols against illegal loggers that threaten her family's land.
Deforestation Could Be Worse for Carbon Emissions Than We've Calculated
When forests are selectively logged, the dead trees left behind don't just stop producing oxygen; they emit carbon.
Australia Is Cracking Down on Assholes Who Hurt Quokkas, the Cutest Animals in the World
People who harm the adorable but endangered marsupial could now face fines of $300,000.
Over One Hundred Environmentalists Around the World Were Murdered in 2014, According to a New Report
For the fifth consecutive year, more environmentalists were killed in Honduras per capita than anywhere else in the world.