> Suriname’s Saamaka Maroons still grow #rice from seeds an ancestor escaping from a #plantation carried in her hair. Now a gene bank seeks to widen use of the rare species to help fight the #ClimateCrisis
Koala habitat - between logging sites and highways
"Motorists have struck and killed two koalas on a busy freeway, weeks after authorities rejected calls for a small colony living in a nearby plantation to be ferried to safety."
"When timber workers began felling trees at the site in December, animal advocates had warned the four marsupials living there faced a “death sentence”. Because the plantation was surrounded by bare paddocks, they predicted the koalas would be struck by a truck or car while fleeing to the closest forest which lies on the other side of the road....Dead koalas were found within 500 metres of the plantation."
Dying and dead wildlife on a remote Australian timber plantation. Eagles were soaring.
"Disturbing video shot ...at a remote Australian timber plantation has sparked an investigation. Footage and images to Yahoo News Australia showing dead and dying wildlife strewn across a track in a recently logged Tasmanian forest."
The Clarence Valley council considered a report lobbying for an end to native forestry logging.
"The report called for the council to write to the NSW government demanding the urgent development of a transition plan that would see native timber harvesting in state-owned forests move towards a sustainable plantation-based industry."
"The logs are getting smaller and smaller, the number of logs coming out of state forests is less and less every year and biodiversity is just going out the window."
"The debate comes as Victoria and Western Australia are set to ban logging in native forests in 2024."
"The motion was defeated as councillors spoke of their support for the timber industry"
18 Oct 1573: d. Sir Thomas Smith #otd whose private #plantation in East #Ulster had only begun just over a year earlier (eebo). He was killed during a Scottish raid on the Ards peninsula
"What is required [for state formation] is wealth in the form of an appropriable, measurable, dominant grain crop and a population growing it that can be easily administered and mobilized. Areas of great but diverse abundance such as wetlands, which offer dozens of subsistence options to a mobile population, because of their very illegibility and fugitive diversity, are not zones of successful state making. The logic of assessable and accessible crops and people applies as well to smaller-scale efforts at control and legibility one finds in the Spanish redduciones in the New World, many missionary settlements, and that paragon of legibility, the monocrop plantation with the workforce in the barracks."