Nashtala, who is entitled to guard the forest and believes the forest has vibrant spirits and is the lifeline of the village, conflicts with her aunt over rights to cut trees for war supplies. While Nashtala turns her concerns to protecting the forest from the foreign enemies, Cinda develops a physical relationship with Solomon and gets pregnant. The musical, directed by Paul Garrington and written by Ariel Dorfmann, immediately caught the audience's attention with impressive stage sets,...

The pine industry has made a vast contribution to the forestry industry. And within this industry is one particular industry that is making its presence felt in the country. The project in its initial phase was basically being set up to address the land degradation experienced in the talasiga dry grass land of the western division which were susceptible to wildfires and erosion as a result of land clearing and grazing by early settlers during the colonial days. The project in its initial...

Indigenous communities from Yasuni National Park, home to some of the most biodiverse rainforest on the planet, have sent a message to the world pleading to save the park from devastation by the oil industry. They are suing Chevron for an environmental remediation provisionally priced at $6 billion in a landmark class-action lawsuit expected to conclude next year. Deforestation causes between 20 percent and 25 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions -- more than US automobile use. Texaco...

The state's largest fire in the Inyo National Forest was 15 percent contained Sunday after cooler temperatures and lighter winds allowed firefighters to make their first real progress, officials said. The 34,000-acre blaze, sparked by lightning last Friday, had destroyed at least one home and several other structures, forced 200 residents of Independence to temporarily leave their homes and closed for a time as much as 115 miles of Highway 395, which shuttles travelers to recreation areas...

forest service has sent its second contingent of specialty firefighters to Quebec, where conditions around Val dor and Roberval were so dry by mid-June that a single lightning storm sparked more than 100 new fires. These fires clear out ground litter and promote grass growth, while thickening the lower bark of the surviving trees and building their fire resistance. Now add nine million hectares of dead and dying beetle-killed forest, and a forecast for 2007 to continue the trend to hotter,...