Indonesia’s president has tasked the military with combating illegal forest activities, raising concerns about human rights violations and evictions of Indigenous and local communities.The regulation risks criminalizing Indigenous communities while favoring large-scale corporations that exploit forests.Activists warn of systemic corruption allowing corporations to evade penalties while smaller actors face harsher consequences.The militarized approach marks a
Navigation for News Categories NZ continued to be attractive to international investors through 2024, after a “bumpy and grumpy” ride in 2023. File photo. Photo: 123rf All signs point to a bumper year for merger and acquisition activity, with technology, forestry and agriculture, energy, healthcare, and financial services leading the way, according to a report
Researchers from Guangdong Academy of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University and their colleagues have assembled chromosome-scale genomes for two critically endangered pangolin species: the Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla) and the Malayan pangolin (Manis javanica). The distribution area and sampling sites of the Chinese and Malayan pangolins. Image credit: Lan et al., doi: 10.1093/gigascience/giaf003. The pangolin is
Backhoe loader buying tips How to choose the best backhoe loader for your job site needs By Kaitlyn Till February 10, 2025 JCB’s 3CX backhoe loader. JCB 1. Configure your backhoe for your tasks and terrain When selecting a new asset, weighing the needs of today along with future needs can be tricky to balance.
Cat’s new forestry excavator is designed to adapt to tough terrain The FM528 General Forestry and Log Loader is ready to take on land clearing, fire clean-up, chipping, grinder loading, mulching, and processing By Heavy Equipment Guide Staff February 07, 2025 Caterpillar Inc. has released the Cat FM528 General Forestry and Log Loader (GF/LL), a
The deadly, wind-fueled Palisades and Eaton fires, which broke out 3½ weeks ago in Southern California, were declared fully contained Friday by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.The expansive Palisades Fire erupted the morning of Jan. 7 in Pacific Palisades, a neighborhood east of Malibu, as a brush fire and was quickly exploded
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A bill in the Arkansas Legislature that would allow the sale of unpasteurized, raw milk has been approved by a House committee. With the approval from the Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development Committee, House Bill 1048 now advances to the the state’s full House of Representatives for consideration. State Sen. Alan Clark, R-Lonsdale, and state
Swedish startup Adsorbi has secured €1mn to ramp up production of a cellulose-based material that sucks up pollutants from the air. Metsä Spring, the venture arm of the Finnish forestry giant, led the funding round alongside Chalmers Ventures and Jovitech Invest. “We are planning to launch the pilot plant in June and we will be
In May 2024, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed into law Bill No. 14.876, which removes silviculture from the list of potentially polluting activities, exempting it from the environmental license requirement that applies to most agricultural activities in Brazil (1) and amending the National Environmental Policy (Law No…