Sentences with phrase «report illegal deforestation»
This grant supports Goldman Prize winner Silas Siakor who is working to protect Liberia's rainforest from logging using innovative smartphone technology that empowers communities to monitor and report illegal deforestation activities.
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Sustainable Development Institute / SDI ($ 49,700): To combat deforestation from palm oil development in Liberia by training forest communities to track and report illegal logging using an innovative smartphone application named TIMBY (This Is My Backyard).
EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE UNTIL 10 SEPTEMBER 2014 AT 20:01 EDT / 11 SEPTEMBER 2014 AT 00:01 GMT Editor's Note: The full report as well as supplementary materials are available at https://www.forest-trends.org/publications/consumer-goods-and-deforestation/ WASHINGTON, DC (11 September 2014)-- A comprehensive new analysis released today says that nearly half (49 %) of all recent tropical deforestation is the result of illegal -LSB-...]
Instead, his article becomes confused and dominated by the issue of illegal deforestation — the subject of the Greenpeace report.
At the end of last month, the Guardian's environment correspondent, David Adam, reported from Brazil on Greenpeace's allegation that illegal deforestation in the Amazon Basin was linked to a number of giant UK food firms.