
Throwaway Culture Throws Away Natural Resources
By Kesaia Tabunakawai
A growing mountain of rubbish in the South Pacific paradise of Fiji is just
one symptom of an unbalanced world trading system in which the cost
of sophisticated manufactured goods is paid through environmental
destruction.
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Trees of Knowledge
By Sally Zalewski
In a remote corner of northern Tunisia, a National Park has been created
in part of a remarkable forest that is more reminiscent of Europe than of
North Africa. The challenge now is to persuade local residents that the
forest is an environmental resource as well as a commercial one.
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Rough And Ready Rules of Nature
By Steven Krolak
The Siskiyou Mountains on the California-Oregon border, with one of the
most diverse temperate forests in North America, are uniquely rich in
species. But this precious region is threatened by logging and a
125-year-old law allowing mining at bargain-basement prices.
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Diplomacy in The Forest
By Dorothy Zimmerman
A dramatic initiative by three South American countries is set to turn the
conservation of a threatened tropical forest into a model of
environmental cooperation that knows no frontiers.
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