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Myanmar: UK suspends funding for timber industry reform project because of the Rakhine crisis

Britain has cited the crisis over Rakhine State for a decision to suspend funding for Myanmar’s effort to join a European Union initiative aimed at combatting illegal logging and promoting effective forest governance.

Myanmar has been preparing to sign the EU’s Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade – Voluntary Partnership Agreement since early 2015.

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* RELATED: Murky timber deal raises doubts over Myanmar’s commitment to forestry reform - ht.ly/EXSv30metXC
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... The process though is now in limbo because of the Rakhine crisis.

Source: frontiermyanmar.net/en/uk-suspends-funding-for-timber-industry-project

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2 hours ago  ·  

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Start-up takes on second-largest energy company to save German forest

On an unusually warm October night in western Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia state, people are talking around campfires as the stars come out. A stage is being dismantled, where musicians had performed for a demonstration of a reported 50,000 people earlier during the day. These holdouts are staying for the night, sleeping in tents and hammocks strung between the trees of the 12,000-year-old Hambach Forest.

Nearby, Tagebau Hambach, one of the world’s deepest open mines, looms in the dark, with machines tirelessly biting into its terraces to extract lignite from the earth.

While just 100-or-so hectares, the swathe of forest has become a symbolic battleground ...

Source: news.globallandscapesforum.org/30342/start-up-takes-on-second-largest-energy-company-to-save-germ...

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In a Colombian sanctuary, once-trafficked birds fly again

Colombia is home to the most important aviary in South America, a sanctuary containing almost 2,000 birds.

The privately run National Aviary of Colombia serves as a refuge in which birds representing 165 different species have a second chance at life after escaping the hands of illegal wildlife traffickers.

So far in 2018, Colombian authorities have rescued nearly 4,000 birds — victims of a trafficking industry that has become the third-largest illicit economy in the country.

Source: news.mongabay.com/2018/10/in-a-colombian-sanctuary-once-trafficked-birds-fly-again/

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1 day ago  ·  

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