Colin Dacre — August 24, 2015 Today the Globe and Mail pegged the Forest Products Industry as one of the promising sectors in the country for young Canadians looking for a prosperous career.
By FARAI MUTSAKA 25-08-2015 - HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A lion charged and killed a safari guide who was leading a group of tourists in the same national park in Zimbabwe that was the home of Cecil the lion who was controversially killed by an American bow hunter in July.
By Laura Zuckerman - Aug 17, 2015 SALMON, Idaho - The U.S. Army began deploying 200 soldiers on Monday to reinforce civilian firefighters stretched thin by scores of large wildfires roaring across several Western states, marking the first such mobilization of active-duty military personnel in nine years.
Posted by Robert Westover, Office of Communication, U.S. Forest Service, on October 6, 2014 - It takes a certain type of person to fight wildfires. It’s not what they look like. Or sound like. It’s not their heritage or their culture. It’s their heart.
Posted on August 6, 2015 by Bill Gabbert Tuesday night, August 4, a helicopter with a water bucket crashed into a lake while helping to suppress a fire in Montana.
05-08-2015 - Increasingly, the areas of the world with high biodiversity value overlap with areas of interest to the private sector for resource extraction (e.g. mining, oil and gas, logging), power generation (e.g. hydro, windpower, solar), and other development projects.
Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP 05-08-2015 - Sportsmen stalked: Theo Bronkhorst -- one of the two Zimbabweans who allegedly were paid $50,000 to help Walter Palmer hunt and kill Cecil the lion -- was in court today on poaching charges.
05-08-2015. - Flames fueled: The Rocky Fire -- the largest of the nearly two dozen fires torching California -- destroyed 24 homes and 26 outbuildings as it continued to burn yesterday for a sixth day.
Aug. 4, 2015 – PITTSBURGH - An American doctor accused of killing a lion in an illegal hunt in Zimbabwe said Tuesday that he had complied with all rules and regulations, filled out all the necessary paperwork and obtained the correct permits.
Many of you will have heard of the incident of the killing of Cecil the lion near Hwange National Pk in Zimbabwe recently. We are happy to share with you a blog post on the IIED website, written by Rosie Cooney, Chair of the Sustainable Use and Livelihood Specialist Group of IUCN (SULi) with input from a number of experts within SULi.
by Sander Van de Moortel · August 4, 2015 Experts in DPR Korea intend to restore the quality of forest lands, alleviate wide-spread food insecurity and reduce the frequency of natural disasters in the country through an ambitious programme of agroforestry—the use of trees on farms and in the landscape.
Jul 31, 2015 - African and Eurasian golden jackals are genetically distinct lineages, according to a research team led by Dr Klaus-Peter Koepfli from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and Dr Robert Wayne of the University of California, Los Angeles.
August 2, 2015 - By Eliott C. McLaughlin and Michael Martinez, Thousands of California acres are ablaze as firefighters battle at least 21 wildfires throughout the state, but while many of those fires are small or mostly contained, the wind and heat that are spreading the Rocky Fire in Northern California -- and the area's steep terrain -- are causing the most concern.
By JEFF CHIU and HAVEN DALEY Aug. 1, 2015 - LOWER LAKE, Calif. (AP) — Blazes raging in forests and woodlands across California have taken the life of a firefighter and forced hundreds of people to flee their homes as an army of firefighters continue to battle them from the air and the ground.
HARARE | By MacDonald Dzirutwe 31-07-2015 - The American dentist who killed Cecil the lion was a "foreign poacher" who paid for an illegal hunt and he should be extradited to Zimbabwe to face justice, environment minister Oppah Muchinguri said on Friday.