Illegal logging is on the increase in the Terai, the lowland areas of Nepal. Photo: Librex via flickr.

A quickie on a seriously shocking situation: As Mongabay and BBC News report, Nepal has announced a two month temporary ban on all logging in the country. This comes as forestry officials learned that in the past few months alone more than 250,000 acres of forest have been cleared. That’s more than was cleared between… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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