Scott Turner is a professor in the Department of Environmental and Forest Biology at State University of New York, Syracuse.
Furry Vengeance was meant to be a fun family movie (again starring Brendan Fraser) with an environmental message as the forest creatures attack an unscrupulous developer.
Echo's turf is blessedly private, hence Petitt could avoid the Forest Service bureaucracy, high-priced environmental impact statements and the lawyers that come with them.
Echo's turf is private, hence Petitt could avoid the U.S. Forest Service bureaucracy, high-priced environmental impact statements and the lawyers that come with them.
The Department of the Interior and the Forest Service received new responsibilities under the environmental legislation sought by President Theodore Roosevelt in the early 20th century.
WSJ: Federal Offenses: Law-Enforcement Teams Grow at U.S. Government Agencies
And forest management projects will still be subject to sound environmental analyses.
The Nigerian Institute for Forest Research, laureate of the 2011 Qaboos Prize for Environmental Preservation, will be awarded the Prize at a ceremony during the Forum on 17 November.
Though you'd never know it from the media, the Defense Department has been a superb environmental steward of the 25 million acres it manages in the U.S. Given its record in preserving and protecting habitat for more than 300 threatened or endangered species, the Pentagon does as good (or better) an environmental job as the Interior Department or the Forest Service.
This is the latest in a number of clashes over land - last month environmental activist Chut Wutty was killed in a threatened forest region.
Exxon and others have also flocked to the oil-rich sands of Northern Alberta, Canada, but digging out the oil across vast swathes of forest comes at relatively high cost and generates concerns about the environmental impact.
According to environmental sources, he handed out 700 title deeds to forest land two weeks before the 1997 election.
All the environmental groups in the state would like to see the northern forest protected.
About the situation of water sources in the city, the actor reminded us that at zona Sul, where most foreign delegations are staying, there are serious environmental issues such as the occupation of hills once covered by native forest and the ejection of sewerage onto the beaches and some waterways.
On the environmental side, it notes that demand for biofuels has accelerated the clearing of primary forest for palm plantations, particularly in southeast Asia.
BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | UN warns on impacts of biofuels
Environmental restoration would begin with reforestation of the almost 90% of Haiti's native forest that has been destroyed.
The principal aim of these policy instruments was to promote development, social empowerment (poverty alleviation) and environmental conservation through participatory or community-based management and exploitation or utilisation of forests and forest resources.
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