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Indigenous Rights Are Key to Rio+20’s Vision of Sustainability

Fiona Watson | Posted 21.08.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: South America, Tribes, Rio+20 Earth Summit, Rio+20, Forest, Amazon Rainforest, Awa, Survival, Indigenous People, UK Politics News
Fiona Watson

If we cannot ensure the survival of the Amazon's last nomads who probably more than any people, define what it is to live sustainably, and who ask for nothing other than respect for their land and way of life, what will that say about the path humanity is heading down?

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Reflecting On Nature: Mirrored Art Installed In Scottish Forest

Posted 17.07.2012 | Home
Read More: Arts, Scotland, Concept Art, Art Installation, Rob Mulholland, Forest, David Marshall Lodge Visitors Centre, Home News

Vestige by Rob Mulholland Glasgow-born conceptual artist Rob Mulholland has installed a new artwork in a Scottish forest that you could easily ...

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PHOTOS: Bear Tumbles Out Of Tree After Being Hit By Tranquiliser

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 27.04.2012 | UK
Read More: UK News, Wandering Bear, Animalols, Forest, Animalol, Bear, Woods, University of Colorado, Hibernation, Cute Animals, Bear Falls From Tree, Bears, News, Colorado, UK News

A black bear which wandered onto a university campus in the US state of Colorado was filmed falling from a tree after being tranquillised for the safe...

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Lansley Pledges To Stub Out Cigarette Packet Branding

PA | Posted 13.04.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Cigarette Packets, British American Tobacco, UK News, Smoking, Forest, Andrew Lansley, Branding, Philip Morris International, Andrew Lansley Smoking, Ash, UK Politics News

The government will pave the way for cigarette packets to be stripped of all branding, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has said. The coalition's pu...

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Body Found In Rural Reservoir Being Treated As Suspicious

PA | Posted 28.11.2011 | UK
Read More: Body in Reservoir, UK News, UK Crime, Forest, Police, UK Police, Stirling, Carron Valley, Scotland, News, UK News

The death of a man whose body was found near a reservoir is being treated as suspicious, police have said. The discovery was made on Sunday in the ...

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Smoking Ban in Cars: How Dare the BMA Dictate How We Live Our Lives?

Simon Clark | Posted 17.01.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Third Hand Smoke, Smoking, Forest, UK Politics, Health, Smoking in Cars, Second Hand Smoke, British Medical Association, Smoking Ban, UK Politics News
Simon Clark

International studies show that, in the overall scheme of things, smoking is a very minor distraction compared to fellow passengers, unruly children, changing a CD or retuning the radio. Perhaps we should ban them too, just in case.

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World Goes Into 'Ecological Debt'

PA | Posted 26.11.2011 | UK
Read More: Carbon Dioxide, Global Footprint, Ecological Debt, Natural Resources, Global Footprint Network, Supplies, Forest, Campaigners, Fish, UK News

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- The world has gone into "ecological debt", having used up more resources and produced more waste this year than the planet can co...

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Edinburgh's Fight For The Forest

Ruth Dawkins | Posted 21.10.2011 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Forest, Edinburgh, Activism, Forest Fringe, Arts, Edinburgh Festival, Campaign, Edinburgh Fringe, Culture, Forest Cafe, UK Entertainment News
Ruth Dawkins

Unless you've been wrapped up in your own wee world, (which is entirely possible for the numerous journalists, performers and visitors who are in Edinburgh during the Fringe), you've probably heard the news about the Forest Café.

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Indigenous Peoples Pushed to Margins

Davinder Kumar | Posted 08.10.2011 | UK
Read More: Philippines, Excluded, Poverty, Human Rights, Forest, Mining, Climate Change, Marginalised, World, Mining Coroprations, Un, Indigenous People, UK News
Davinder Kumar

As the UN observes the International Day of the World's Indigenous People at its headquarters in New York today, a reclusive community of indigenous people in Philippines prepares for another restless night of fear and uncertainty.

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