Sentences with phrase «forest protection legislation»
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Wangari Maathai podcast Listen to a February 9, 2009 interview with Wangari Maathi, prior to a briefing before Congress to include strong tropical forest protection measures in U.S. climate change legislation.
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They have been able to secure the protection of over 65 million acres of Endangered Forests by working with legislations and companies.
The proposed legislation would underwrite extensive infrastructure projects, grant legal title for illegally deforested Amazon land, and scale back environmental protections for forest reserves on private land.
Cameroon's minister of forestry and wildlife, Philip Ngole Ngwese, recently announced that the government has suspended 27 logging licenses from timber companies that have continuously violated forest - protection legislation.