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The Nature Conservancy announced Thursday that plastics entrepreneur Bob Cervenka and his wife, Debbie, of Phillips have donated $1 million toward the acquisition of a pristine expanse along the Michigan border in Vilas County. The gift, and a previously announced $2.1 donation by the State of Wisconsin, goes a long way toward the purchase of the 971-acre Tenderfoot Forest Reserve.

SMART Papers today announced an expanded lineup of environmentally friendly printing papers including new Forest Stewardship Council certification of one of its 100% post-consumer waste uncoated papers in its Torchglow printing papers line. The company also announced it has added two newly improved 100% PCW papers to its wide-selling Synergy writing, text and cover gradeline.

EU agriculture ministers endorsed plans on Monday to crack down on the lucrative illegal timber trade by making exporters obtain licences to prove their wood does not come from endangered rainforests, officials said.

Wind turbines will join oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas coast under a new plan to build the first U.S. offshore wind energy farm, the state announced on Monday .

A self-described "old-timer," Skip Wissinger has spent 32 years traversing the park's 300 square miles and identifying its natural treasures. But now many of the park's most prized resources -- its American ginseng plants, black bears and unusual butterflies -- are disappearing.

Lemurs, the long-tailed, tree-living creatures that share ancestors with man, are fighting for survival in Madagascar - which, apart from the neighbouring Comoros islands, is their only habitat in the world. Acccording to the World Conservation Union, four species of lemur face imminent extinction, and there may be others we don't yet know about.