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News Sep 14, 2015 - LAKEPORT, Calif. | By Curtis Skinner A Northern California wildfire ranked as the most destructive to hit the drought-stricken U.S. West this year has claimed one life and burned at least 400 homes to the ground, fire officials reported on Monday, saying they expected the property toll to climb.
News 9 September 2015 - The Forests and Water five year action plan has been launched in Durban during the third day of the 14th World Forestry Congress.
News 10-09-2015 - We “youth” are tired of being called the future.
News 06-09-2015 - Durban welcomed delegates arriving this weekend for the XIV World Forestry Congress with a number of pre-Congress events heralding a busy week ahead.
News 28 August 2018 - An interesting and useful compilation published by the FAO for the upcoming World Forestry Congress.
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.
News 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.
News 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.
14-08-2015 - CCTV footage shows how two "sophisticated" thieves freed more than 40 wild boar from a farm in Bridgend county.
News 9 August 2015 - The Ecological Society of America held jubilee congress (100 years old) from 10 to 14 August this year.
News 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.
News 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.
News 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.
News 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.
News Tuesday, August 4, 2015 There are 22 active fires across California, with over 10,000 firefighters battling them.
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.
