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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: nickcarraway
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posted on
03/01/2018 3:30:12 PM PST
by
TomGuy
To: nickcarraway
One of the trees has already said. “I am leaving.”
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posted on
03/01/2018 3:42:58 PM PST
by
pas
To: nickcarraway
I feel sorry for the trees...
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posted on
03/01/2018 3:45:30 PM PST
by
rrrod
(just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
To: Impala64ssa
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posted on
03/01/2018 4:02:39 PM PST
by
RedMonqey
("You don't tug on Superman's cape...You don't spit into the wind...")
To: nickcarraway
I now pronounce you tree and moron...will the children be wooden? 😀
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posted on
03/01/2018 4:13:30 PM PST
by
ConservaTeen
(Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The religion of Pedophilia...)
To: ConservaTeen
The children will have a traditional Jewish upbringing.
To: nickcarraway
Trees are evil!
To: nickcarraway; ConservaTeen
Autocorrect ruined my joke. It was supposed to be:
The children will have a traditional Yewish upbringing.
To: nickcarraway
Why go to bed with that sap tonight?
To: Buckeye McFrog
Because that sap is really sweet
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posted on
03/02/2018 8:56:36 AM PST
by
bert
(K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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