Sentences with phrase «former logger»
One of Li's success stories is Xu Fu, a 42 - year - old former logger.
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Economic growth was driven by the arrival and expansion of high - tech firms, like Sony and Hewlett - Packard, and federal programs that retrained former loggers and mill workers for diverse new employment opportunities, including in the high - tech manufacturing sector.
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At the big cat park alone, planners hope to turn 30,000 former forest workers — loggers, hunters, and even poachers — into park rangers and conservation workers.
In the Huangnihe conservation district, a patchwork of old growth forest and reforested former logging areas adjacent to Jilin's two main tiger habitat reserves, Huangnihe forest reserve director Li Cheng is working with scientists and conservation groups to find alternative jobs for locals, for example by training loggers and poachers as organic honey farmers.
As a former commercial logger, he knows it would have taken him about two hours to fell it with the chainsaw.