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Women Are Marrying Trees to Help Save Them
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| Alexandra Deabler
Posted on 03/01/2018 1:24:23 PM PST by nickcarraway
A group of female activists in Oaxaca, Mexico, held a mass marriage ceremony where they each wed their own splintery groom to draw attention to illegal logging – a serious and devastating problem in the country.
Around a third of Mexico’s land is covered by forest. Oaxaca is one of five states hit hardest by deforestation, mostly caused by criminal groups, Metro reports.
The women are trying to take a stand against the practice and are hoping the mass marriage will get people more involved with saving the woodlands.|
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TOPICS: Local News; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: enviromentalists; trees; women
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To: Impala64ssa
Do YEW take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife....That's hilarious, now you can LEAVE
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posted on
03/01/2018 1:37:16 PM PST
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1Old Pro
To: BookmanTheJanitor
“This story is sappy.”
Best comment ever.
To: nickcarraway
Think I’ll marry the plane I fly - but since I fly so many of the company planes would I then be a .....????
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posted on
03/01/2018 1:40:35 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
To: SkyDancer
No shaming. You know what they say, open cabin, open marriage.
To: 1Old Pro
That's hilarious, now you can LEAVE
But, I was hoping to establish ROOTS here. Oh, well time to BRANCH out.
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posted on
03/01/2018 1:45:54 PM PST
by
Impala64ssa
(Islamophobic? NO! IslamABHORic)
To: nickcarraway
Here's some music for the thread...
"Cindy Cindy"
"I wish I was an apple
hanging from the tree
and ever time my sweetheart passed
she'd take a bite of me."
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posted on
03/01/2018 1:51:17 PM PST
by
Songcraft
("Pray without ceasing." 1 Thessalonians 5:17)
To: Michael.SF.
To: Impala64ssa
To: Trump.Deplorable
Trees have perpetual wood...
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posted on
03/01/2018 1:56:26 PM PST
by
bigbob
(Trust Trump. Trust Sessions. The Great Awakening is at hand...MAGA!)
To: nickcarraway
All kinds of jokes are hidden in the headline.
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posted on
03/01/2018 1:57:49 PM PST
by
lurk
To: nickcarraway
Are they limited to trees with nuts?
To: nickcarraway
I guess this practice will have very little effect on criminal gangs.
Like Gun Control will not affect criminals.
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posted on
03/01/2018 2:33:38 PM PST
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: nickcarraway
I guess these ladies are looking for serious wood.
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posted on
03/01/2018 2:41:20 PM PST
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other opleoour lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
03/01/2018 2:41:23 PM PST
by
GOYAKLA
(" Winning not Whining"!)
To: nickcarraway
Whole new meaning to “morning wood”
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posted on
03/01/2018 2:41:29 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Trump.Deplorable
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posted on
03/01/2018 2:42:35 PM PST
by
Osage Orange
(Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
To: 1Old Pro
Naw...it’s now you can leaf
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posted on
03/01/2018 2:44:06 PM PST
by
Osage Orange
(Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
To: nickcarraway
Marriage is everything but the real thing to the loonies.
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posted on
03/01/2018 2:58:36 PM PST
by
Trillian
To: Trillian
How long before they hear the pitter patter of little saplings?
To: nickcarraway
It depends on how long it takes the trees to get fumigated first ;)
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posted on
03/01/2018 3:09:41 PM PST
by
Trillian
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