Sentence examples for logging projects from inspiring English sources

The S.F.I. label, founded in 1994, certifies that logging projects in North America are environmentally sustainable.

Last summer's forest fires, for example, became an excuse to try to suspend environmental reviews of logging projects.

But Mr. Bush's proposals threaten to do just that, suspending or narrowing important statutes that require environmental review of logging projects and provide for citizen appeals.

Critics like Kieran Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity, an advocacy group in Tucson, say attention to commercial byproducts might easily evolve into logging projects whose outlines would diverge from forest management.

At least 109 people were killed in Honduras between 2010 and 2015 for opposing infrastructure and logging projects, making it the most dangerous country in the world for environmental defenders, according to the NGO Global Witness.

In less controversial ventures, Peace Boat's cruises in the Pacific have cast spotlights on the impact of mining and logging projects by Japanese companies and of past open-air nuclear tests by France.

A PROPOSAL to establish a forestry and logging project on Mount Nimham in Putnam County has brought a small but determined wave of opposition from local people.

Rebecca Moore, a member of the Google Earth team, used the software to galvanise her neighbourhood in the Santa Cruz mountains in opposition to a nearby logging project.

In Borneo, environmentalists are currently denouncing a dubious proposal to convert 1.8m hectares of forest into palm plantation as a logging project in disguise.As that example suggests, illegal logging can also be difficult to define.

Findings show that the decision-making process for determining whether or not to implement the logging project was flawed.

In the 1990s, the US-based Trillium Corporation sought to implement a large-scale logging project in Tierra del Fuego, Chile, but was rebuffed by environmentalists who embraced ecotourism as the preferred development option.