Illegal logging is destroying the world's ancient forests and accelerating climate change. On July 23rd the European Commission is expected to vote on proposed legislation to combat illegal logging.Please write to President Barroso today for a yes vote.
The law would make the United States the first country in the world to prohibit the import, sale, or trade in illegally-harvested wood and wood products.
Australia's new "climate friendly" government preaches global forest protection for climate benefits internationally, while continuing to industrially clear its own native primary forests in Tasmania and elsewhere, and this unseemly hypocrisy must end
Forests are amazing storehouses of biological diversity, housing over two-thirds of all known terrestrial species. Yet each year around 13 million hectares of natural forest are lost. That's 25 hectares every minute, the equivalent of 36 football fields.
Without these protections, loggers would be permitted to cut down trees of any species 30" in diameter or larger -- a size that normally takes two centuries or more to grow. In addition, timber companies would be entitled to take 7.5 million board feet of
The World Bank has emerged as one of the key backers behind an explosion of cattle ranching in the Amazon, which new research has identified as the greatest threat to the survival of the rainforest.
Elephants, tigers, orangutans are under threat from illegal land clearing on Indonesia's Sumatra island by one of Asia's biggest pulp and paper companies, Asia Pulp and Paper and its affiliates.
Satellite images in November 2007 showed 20,000 hectares
On 1/14/08,the U.S. Forest Service will be holding a public meeting in Washington,DC,to discuss a new rule that would weaken protections for national forest roadless areas in the State of Idaho.These pristine forests,which harbor some of the largest and
...we note the making of another rainforest martyr -- this time in Malaysia's rainforests -- as missing Penan indigenous leader Kelesau Naan, headman of the Penan settlement of Long Kerong in the Upper Baram region of Sarawak, was found dead.
Currently,less than 8% of the Boreal is protected.It is being logged at a rate of 2 acres a minute,24 hours a day,much of it to make things like catalogs,junk mail, magazines,newspapers and toilet paper.The US consumes more than 1/2 of all trees logged in
Satellite tracking of pygmy elephants has found that the endangered animals--unique to Borneo island--are under threat due to logging and commercial plantations encroaching on their habitat, conservationists said Thursday.
A World Wildlife Fund study,
Support for "certified" ancient rainforest logging crumbles further due to string of inappropriate and illegal certifications, most recently in Peru; and as Norway rejects FSC and all primary rainforest logging certification schemes
There is no such thing as certified, sustainable logging of primary forests. Tell Greenpeace to release their suppressed report on industrial certified forestry, and to resign the chair and withdraw from the Forest Stewardship Council
The UN is due to report on proposed carbon-trading schemes that would make it more rewarding for countries to preserve their forests rather than cut them down.
