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The Tongass Needs Conservation, Not Clearcutting ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, Tongass National Forest, conservation, clearcutting, habitat, nature, protection, trees, wildlife )

Cher
- 127 days ago - globalwarming.change.org
The Tongass National Forest is our rainforest in repair. Fields of old-growth tree stumps checker the forest - visible scars of a time when the saws never ceased and Congress used taxpayers dollars to punch roads into the rainforest
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The Tongass Needs Conservation, Not Clearcutting ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, clearcutting, Tongass National Forest, restoration, habitat, nature, protection, conservation )

Cher
- 179 days ago - change.org
The Tongass National Forest is America's rainforest in repair. It is a land of huge bears grown fat on salmon, eagles soaring endless skies, and 500-year-old trees standing silent sentry over a lush, verdant world. But the land is also checkered with
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McMeat Is Destroying Amazon Rainforest
Environment  (tags: Amazon, rainforests, clearcutting, ranchers, cattle, fast food, mcdonald's, burgers, sustainabililty, environment, food, humans, conservation, consumers, climate-change, globalwarming, habitatdestruction, environment, ecosystems )

Tom
- 251 days ago - sustainabilityninja.com
Burger-crazy America imports over 200 million pounds of beef from Central America every year. Grazing land is needed, and the only way for grazing land to appear in a densely forested region is from clear-cutting the rainforest.
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Uganda Says Poverty Destroying Its Forests
Environment  (tags: Uganda, Africa, poverty, deforestation, wood poaching, clearcutting, unsustainable farming, urbanization )

Rooibos
- 951 days ago - planetark.com
While Uganda suffers violent protests over plans to turn a big chunk of its rainforest into sugarcane, Ugandans are destroying eight times as much forest every year due to poverty, a minister said on Wednesday.
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Tropical Forest Felled for Biofuels, Ecologists Say
Environment  (tags: Overconsumption, biofuels, poaching, deforestation, humans refusing to change habits, energy, climate change, resource waste, clearcutting, logging )

Rooibos
- 953 days ago - planetark.com
Tropical rain forest is being cut down and burned to make way for soy and palm plantations destined to provide plant-based diesel for Europe's fuel tanks, environmentalists said on Wednesday.
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