LOGGING CRACKDOWN AS PHIL TOLL RISES
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Philippine President Gloria Arroyo has ordered a renewed crackdown on illegal logging, as the toll from a series of flash floods and landslides spawned by a tropical storm left hits almost 500 people dead or missing.
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By HANNAH ZITNER  VANCOUVER (CP) - Three B.C. mayors are demanding the federal government help thousands of homeowners pay for removing mountain pine beetle-infested trees.
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The Philippines began a massive cleanup Friday from a pair of devastating storms that have left hundreds dead and thousands homeless.
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Firefighters, volunteers and aircraft tackle forest blazes that have caused widespread death and destruction.
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The Philippines president suspends  logging, blamed for worsening the impact of deadly storms and landslides.
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A VITAL lifeline is being thrown to woodland creatures in the region threatened with extinction.  Some butterflies and moths are in severe decline, but the Forestry Commission is taking action to improve their plight.
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As thick haze chokes Southeast Asia and drifts across the Pacific, the pulp and paper industry, blamed for failing to prevent the burning of vast swathes of Indonesian forest, says it's doing its best to fight the scourge.
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By Vivian Austin, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Mar. 3--GAUTIER -- Sam Taylor said more than 1,000 dead trees have been removed from residential properties across Gautier, and at least 250 more could be removed by the end of June.
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MANILA, 4 December 2004 - With floods receding, rescuers raced to deliver food to famished survivors in northeastern Philippine villages isolated by back-to-back storms that left more than 650 people dead and almost 400 missing.
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REAL, Philippines  - Relief crews battling walls of mud and lashing rain to reach villages still isolated days after back-to-back storms devastated the northeastern Philippines have found 51 more bodies, taking the death toll to at least 740 people, officials said Tuesday.
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POACHING gangs will be targeted by police and water bailiffs in a new crackdown.  Operation Salmo, launched yesterday, is aimed at protecting Scotland's pounds 75million salmon fishing industry by netting poachers who pocket up to pounds 150 a fish.
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GENERAL PIZARRO, Argentina  - General Pizarro, a  one-telephone town in the northern province of Salta, gained  notoriety last month when environmentalists chained up  bulldozers to protest the sale of a nearby nature reserve.
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At least 12 persons, including a 1-year-old and a 3-year-old boy were killed, and at least 150 others injured as a Manila-bound Philippine National Railways (PNR) train was
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Manila, Dec. 1 (NNN) : More than 300 people are feared dead as a result of flash floods and landslides triggered by a storm in the Philippines, officials say.
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Â· 'PM and family complicit as troops loot forests'Â·  Watchdog says world's donors turn blind eye
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Environmental groups sued the U.S. Forest Service on Tuesday, claiming a six-year-old federal law aimed at preventing wildfires has degenerated into a backdoor effort to eventually increase logging across 340,000 acres of Sierra Nevada national forests.
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The growing toll of death and injury from knife crime in Scotland is targeted in a new clampdown.