Thomas Linzey: Tree Rights
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Should ecosystems have legal rights of their own, just like humans?  Thomas Linzey thinks so.
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NYERI (Kenya) - Crying with delight, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai planted a tree to celebrate winning the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday and vowed to use her award money to strengthen her campaign to save Africa&#39;s forests.
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Faced with the growing tide of imported Christmas trees, Mexico has set a goal of growing its own. It's not so much a nationalistic stance as a tacit acknowledgment that the Christmas tree, once alien to Mexican tradition, is here to stay.
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To prosecutors, Robert "Roy" van de Hoek is a vandal with pruning shears. To supporters of native California shrubs and trees, he's a martyr.
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"You can't cut back a genuine palm"  " It's outlived two world wars and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Now Vienna's imperial "Sisi Palm" - " a tree named for the late Empress Elisabeth - " faces the ax. via The Toronto Star
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By Mike Keller, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 14--The Coast's embattled urban trees are about to receive two types of help on Friday.
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Amsterdam's city council gave the owner of the chestnut tree that comforted Anne Frank while she was in hiding a license to cut it down.
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By Eileen O. Daday Daily Herald Correspondent  Richard Lee Buck ~ 1929-2006  Richard Lee Buck felt so strongly about conservation and land preservation that he raised his family in a nature preserve.
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The federal government and a nonprofit group are buying the land from local farmers to ensure its biodiversity is preserved. BY LISA J. ADAMS /Associated Press.
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By NOAKI SCHWARTZ  JOSHUA TREE, Calif. - From their trailer in the middle of the desert, Larry and Donna Charpied two-finger typed the first lawsuit they filed to stop Los Angeles County from putting one of the nation's biggest dumps on the edge of Joshua Tree National Park. And won.
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By The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Feb. 2--When it comes to saving many significant tracts of open space in the state -- land that should remain in its natural state to protect Connecticut's quality of life -- it's now or never.
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By COX, Sandra  A Tasmanian tourist operator wants to build a tree-top walkway in a rimu forest near the shores of Lake Brunner.
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By Lynn Bonner, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jun. 13--A Senate committee agreed Tuesday that billboard owners should be allowed to cut more trees around their highway signs despite objections from two state agencies and environmental groups.
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VILLAGERS campaigning to save the trees in thei
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Dutch officials and conservationists reach a deal to save the tree that brought comfort to Anne Frank.
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By TACON, Terry  GROWING native trees for timber and environmental values will be the topic of a seminar to be held at the Mangorei Hall on March 16.
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By Mike Keller, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun. 5--There's something alluring about the supertrees soon to find their way to the Coast's urban forest.