Upcoming Events

Dublin | Environment

no events match your query!

New Events

Dublin

no events posted in last week

Blog Feeds

Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

Public Inquiry >>

Human Rights in Ireland
Promoting Human Rights in Ireland

Human Rights in Ireland >>

Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Is Facebook Really Committed to Free Speech? Fri Jan 10, 2025 18:25 | Rebekah Barnett
Depending on which echo chamber you get your news from, this week Mark Zuckerberg took steps to either save democracy or to end it. But how far is he really going in his new commitment to free speech, asks Rebekah Barnett.
The post Is Facebook Really Committed to Free Speech? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Reform Candidate ?Sacked? by Housing Association for Reposting ?Racist? Daily Telegraph Cartoon Fri Jan 10, 2025 15:10 | Will Jones
A housing officer was sacked for being a Reform UK candidate and reposting a Daily Telegraph cartoon after being told Reform?s policies on immigration and Net Zero were "in direct conflict" with his employer's "values".
The post Reform Candidate “Sacked” by Housing Association for Reposting “Racist” Daily Telegraph Cartoon appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Trudeau?s Prorogation of Parliament is a Mistake He Must Be Allowed to Make Fri Jan 10, 2025 13:18 | Dr James Allan
Justin Trudeau wants to prorogue Parliament to buy time before the election. Voters will punish him for it, says Prof James Allan, but it's a mistake he must be allowed to make without activist judges getting in the way.
The post Trudeau’s Prorogation of Parliament is a Mistake He Must Be Allowed to Make appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Significance of Jordan Peterson Fri Jan 10, 2025 11:00 | James Alexander
Jordan Peterson should make his mind up about Christianity, critics say. Prof James Alexander disagrees: he's a profound Jungian explorer who wants to help a secularised world see why Christianity still matters.
The post The Significance of Jordan Peterson appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Massive Recovery in Antarctica Sea Ice Unreported by Net Zero-Obsessed Mainstream Media Fri Jan 10, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
There's been a massive recovery in Antarctica sea ice this year. But you won't hear about it in our Net Zero-obsessed mainstream media, says Chris Morrison.
The post Massive Recovery in Antarctica Sea Ice Unreported by Net Zero-Obsessed Mainstream Media appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

Lockdown Skeptics >>

Voltaire Network
Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?114-115 Fri Jan 10, 2025 14:04 | en

offsite link End of Russian gas transit via Ukraine to the EU Fri Jan 10, 2025 13:45 | en

offsite link After Iraq, Libya, Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, the Pentagon attacks Yemen, by Thier... Tue Jan 07, 2025 06:58 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?113 Fri Dec 20, 2024 10:42 | en

offsite link Pentagon could create a second Kurdish state Fri Dec 20, 2024 10:31 | en

Voltaire Network >>

The Global Forest and Climate Change

category dublin | environment | press release author Wednesday October 08, 2008 01:17author by ForestFriends - Forest Friends Ireland Report this post to the editors

The Global Forest and Climate Change October Festival- Oct.9-Oct.20

Forest Friends Ireland/Ghana – The Global Forest and Climate Change October Festival- Oct.9-Oct.20

A Forest Friends Intercultural festival in a s sociation with Dublin City Council.

Full details of the entire programme can be found on our website www.forestfriends.ie

The festival will be launched by environmentalist and TV presenter Duncan Stewart.

PRESS LAUNCH – ENFO ST. ANDREW ST. THURSDAY 9TH. OCT. 2.00

FORMAL LAUNCH, SUNDAY 12TH. OCT. NATIONAL BOTANIC GARDENS GLASNEVIN DUBLIN 2.30.

The Global Forest and Climate Change Project developed out of Forest Friends visit to Ghana in January 2008.

While the objective of the visit was to help set up the Ghana Branch, it became clear that the little remaining tropical rainforest was being felled at an alarming rate.

At regular intervals along the main road from Accra to Kumasi, Ashanti, tropical rainforest timber as well as bush meat was widely and illegally on sale. In Kumasi itself, the capital city of Ashanti, the unrelenting transport of giant logs to a local processing plant, in huge trucks was an everyday sight.

This plundering of the rainforest which goes under the heading of 'sustainable forest management' is a misnomer and must be stopped. Much as we would have liked, we could not have mounted a protest outside the sawmill and processing plant of 'Logs and Lumber Limited' in Kumasi or at the entrance to the Bobiri forest, because of the likely consequences for some of our members living locally.

However, we decided to draw attention to this tragedy by holding a conference in Ireland and inviting our Ghana colleagues over to discuss ways of building capacity as a means of halting the destruction. This is how the Global Forest and Clilmate Change Project began.

© 2001-2025 Independent Media Centre Ireland. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by Independent Media Centre Ireland. Disclaimer | Privacy