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12/30/99--Europe Storms Disaster for 1999 Timber Markets -- UN

12/28/99--Russian Forest Update # 44-45

11/24/99--Ikea, Greenpeace Agree on Forests

12/23/99--IKEA to Phase-Out Use of Timber from Ancient Forests

12/21/99--Scotland: Partnership to Protect Ancient Caledonian Pine Forest

12/20/99--Enlargement of Polish National Park Threatened

12/20/99--Macedonia Creates National Park on Mt. Sara

12/10/99--EU Failing to "Green" Regional Aid Programmes, WWF Says

12/9/99--UK: Wild Species Flourish in Buckingham Palace Gardens

12/9/99--WWF Attempts to Revive European Bison in Russia

12/1/99--UK: Forest Stewardship Council Certifies Welsh Woodlands

11/30/99--England Announces Plan to Protect Environment Near Roads

11/29/99--British Forestry Commission Wins Green Approval for its Timber

11/19/99--Europe Plans to Protect its Northern Forests

11/18/99--European Union Supports Sustainable Forestry

11/16/99--Scotland Creates 16 New Woodlands

11/15/99--U.K. Citizens Want More Woodlands, Poll Says

11/12/99--The Iberian Lynx, Europe's Big Cat, Faces Extinction

11/11/99--Spain: WWF Warns Iberian Lynx Close to Extinction

11/9/99--Forest Certification Scheme Grows in Europe

11/8/99--Publishing Magnate Plans Largest British Forest

11/5/99--European Body Sets New Forest Certification Scheme

11/5/99--Loss of Biodiversity Will Devastate Grasslands

11/1/99--Howls Erupt Over Return of Wolves to France

10/25/99--Forest Stewardship Council to Commend Tough UK Scheme

10/15/99--Russian Forest Update #42-43

10/11/99--Acid Emissions Harm European Forests

10/11/99--EU Fails to Agree On Common WTO Strategy

10/11/99--EU Does Not Reach Understanding for WTO Meeting

10/8/99--Health of Europe's Forests Deteriorating, Report Says

10/8/99--Europe's Forests Under Attack by Natural Causes and Human Activities

10/7/99--Health of Europe's Forests Deteriorating

10/7/99--Sustainable Forestry Key to New EU

10/7/99--Seattle Host Org. for WTO Releases Calendar of Events

10/4/99--UK Park Status for New Forest Challenged

10/3/99--British Seed Bank Is 'Botanical Seatbelt'

9/30/99--Trust Makes Appeal for Britain’s Ancient Woods

9/28/99--The Woodland Trust Attempts to Save UK’s Ancient Forests

9/24/99--Polish Efforts to Expand National Park Needs Your Assistance

9/19/99--Welfare of British Red Squirrels Will Come Before Grey Cousins

9/16/99--Paper Industry Slams EU Ecolabel Rules

9/13/99--European Forest Certification Extends Branches

9/12/99--Plundering Russia's Timber

9/7/99--UK Under International Pressure to Protect Wildlife

8/25/99--European Paper Recycling Inches Upwards

8/25/99--Swedish Editors Push for FSC Certified Paper

8/24/99--UK Trails Many Countries in Wildlife Protection

8/24/99--UK Woodlands Receive Government Grants

8/9/99--Foreign Species Appearing in Mediterranean Sea

8/6/99--Russian Army, Environmentalists Agree on Conservation

8/5/99--Russian Forest Fires Raging Out of Control

8/1/99--Russian Forest Update #41

7/27/99--Russia's Lovely but Troubled Lake Baikal

7/20/99--Russia Aflame

7/16/99--Finnish Forestry Slams EU'S Russian Timber Plan

7/14/99--WWF Unveils First FSC Certified House in Europe

7/12/99--Protests Make EU Postpone Road Project in African Rainforests

7/8/99--EU Threatens to Withold Funding Over Environmental Compliance

7/7/99--Russia Swept by Forest Fires, 290 Fire Epicenters Spotted

7/7/99--Russia Lacks Funds to Contain Rampant Forest Fires

7/2/99--European Forestry Industry Creates Certification Scheme

6/7/99--British Woodland Assurance Scheme Launched

6/2/99--UK Promotes Sustainable Land Remediation

6/1/99--Romania's Wild Carpathian Mountains Protected

6/1/99--Russian Forest Update #40

5/28/99--Romania Gets World Bank Grant for Environment

5/18/99--Nature Lovers Fret over Russian Rare Animals Trade

5/16/99--Unholy Alliance Under Fire in Finland

5/14/99--Action Alert: Rainforest Destruction With European Taxpayers' Money

5/14/99--Action Alert: European Union Aid to Fund Rainforest-Killing Roads

5/8/99--Illegal Logging Damages Caucasus Mountain Forests in Georgia

5/1/99--Forest Fires Burn in Russia's Far East

5/1/99--Russian Forest Update #38-39

4/23/99--Ecological Forum Ends in Russian Far East

4/7/99--Russian Old-Growth Logging Moratorium Extended

3/24/99--Howling for Wolf Rights in Norway

3/8/99--Denmark Plans Offshore Windmill Projects by 2001

3/5/99--Finnish Forestry Welcomes Grant Program

3/5/99--EU Countries Blamed for Habitats Scandal

2/23/99--WWF Launches New Campaign for Europe's Large Carnivores

2/16/99--Poland Must Up Environmental Spending

2/11/99--Conservation versus Tradition in Ireland's Battle of the Bogs

2/4/99--Dioxins the View from Europe

2/2/99--British Study Says Modern Farming is Destroying Biodiversity

2/2/99--Urgent Action Needed in Russian Far East

2/1/99--Dutch Farmers Change the Landscape for Wildlife's Sake

1/27/99--Swedish Company, SCA, Releases New Figures

1/26/99--Spanish Mine Will Reopen after Toxic Spill

1/18/99--Russian Crisis has Helped the Environment

1/14/98--Green Groups Press Government to End Destruction of Lebanon's Forests

12/27/98--Help for UK's Threatened Habitats

12/19/98--Russian Paper Producer to Phase Out Ancient Forest Use

12/17/98--Spanish declare the Sierra Nevada a national park

12/2/98--Altai, Golden Mountains in Russia Included in World Heritage List

11/30/98--Catastrophe after Forest Fires in the Far East

10/30/98--Japan Experts Estimate Bushfire Damage in Russia Far East

10/27/98--Far East Regions Choked by Forest Fires

10/22/98--Russia's Burning Forest an Ecological Disaster

10/21/98--Ireland's Environmentally Destructive Forestry

10/21/98--Help Support Siberian National Park

10/20/98--European Projects Hurt Forests, Indigenous Peoples

10/18/98--Long-Burning Fires in Far East Put out by Sleet

10/5/98--Pollution Taking Toll on Europe's Forests

9/18/98--400,000 Hectares of Taiga on Fire in Far East

9/15/98--Oil Development in Proposed Khanty Biosphere Reserve

9/10/98--Alien Species Push Native Animals Near Extinction

8/7/98--Help Protect the Polana Biosphere Reserve in Slovakia from Logging

7/29/98--Greece in the Grip of Worst Forest Fires in Southern Greece

7/29/98--World Wildlife Fund Urges Greek Government to Put Our Forest Fires

7/16/98--Biodiversity Hotspot List and Recommendations for Far East

7/15/98--Proposals to Reforest Ireland with Native Species

7/15/98--Logging and Land Restitution Threaten Romania's Forests

7/10/98--Italy Declares Emergency in Fire Hit Areas

7/6/98--Cyprus Forest Fires Re-ignites But is in Check

6/27/98--UK Paper Recycling Schemes in Crisis

6/25/98--European Commitment to Biodiversity Challenged

6/24/98--Forest Fires Cover 19,000 Hectares in the Far East

6/16/98--Jordan's Nature Reserve Finds Room for All

6/12/98--Greenpeace Protests at German Clariant's Shareholder Meeting

6/12/98--A Curator of The Russian Amazon

6/11/98--Fires Torch Russian Tiger Reserves

6/8/98--Help Save Kudryashevskii Bor from Development

5/31/98--Croatian Wildlife Haven Struggles after War

5/26/98--WWF Ranks 15 European Countries Forests Quality, Management, and Policy

5/20/98--Dutch Set Aside too Little Land for Wild Birds

5/9/98--Environmentalists Protests Pulp Freighter in Germany

5/1/98--1998 European Forest Scorecards

4/30/98--Spain Sees Presumed Crime behind Toxic Spill

4/29/98--Mission to Save Rare Island Cabbage from Rhododendron Threat in England

4/29/98--Spain Ecological Disaster Expected to Worsen

4/26/98--Spain Averts Toxic Spill at Donana National Park

4/25/98--Toxic Waste Threatens Europe's Largest Nature Reserve

4/15/98--Record Heat Causes Forest Fires in Georgia, Armenia

4/5/98--Greenpeace Protests in Belgian Against Canada Tree Felling

4/2/98--Market Rejection of Canadian Rainforest Destruction Increases

4/1/98--The Vanishing Old Growth Forests of Norway

4/1/98--Southern Siberia Hotspot in the Taiga

3/30/98--Injunction Thwarts Rainforest Protesters

3/28/98--Greenpeace Forest Actions End in Glasgow, Continue in Frankfurt

3/26/98--Activists Block Off-Loading of Rainforest Wood

3/26/98--Free Market Reform Sets the Wolves Loose

3/2/98--United Kingdom Linked to Rainforest Destruction

3/2/98--The Danish Revolution 1500-1800

3/1/98--Save a Piece of Slovakian Forest for $30

2/22/98--MoDo Logging Stopped in Estonian Nature Reserve

2/17/98--Ecojuris Institute Wins Forest Protection Case

2/12/98--Update on Efforts to Stop Harvesting of Svartedalen

2/5/98--Greenpeace Old Growth Logging Confrontation in Sweden Escalates

2/4/98--The European Commission Urges European Unions to "Green" Their Policies

2/4/98--Greenpeace Activists in Swedish Forest Surrounded by Police

2/3/98--Police against Greenpeace Activists in Swedish Forest

1/28/98--Update on Sakhalin Forests Alert

1/28/98--Chinese Raiders Target Russian Far East's Ginseng

1/26/98--Plans To Destroy London's Largest Wildlife Site May Be Illegal

1/22/98--Help Protect the Last Old-Growth Forests on Sakhalin Island

1/19/98--European Renewable Energy Forum Held in Spanish Islands

1/14/98--Greenpeace Stops Logging of Swedish Ancient Forest

12/27/97--Loggers Force Bears to Take Lunch in Town

12/19/97--Hope for New Wilderness Designations in Southern Siberia

12/17/97--Last Forests of the Sikhote-Alin are Up for Sale

12/14/97--Poland to Ban Wolf Hunting for Three Years

12/13/97-- Eco-Disaster as Malaysia's Rimbunan Hijau Moves Into Russian Taiga

11/28/97-- Deep in Siberia's Forest, Finding clues to the Missing Sink

11/21/97--German Forests Victims of Pollution

11/17/97--Paper Alliance between Finland and Indonesia

11/17/97--Alert on the Paper Alliance of UPM-Kymmene of Finland

11/14/97--Locals Doubt World Bank Plans to Help Russian Forests

11/12/97--Bulgaria to Return Forests to Pre-Communist Owners

11/7/97--Valuable Forests at Risk from Government Inaction

10/29/97--Survey of Biodiversity: Bikin River, Russia Watershed

10/16/97--Action Needed to Protest German Industry Destroying Forests

9/16/97--Old-Growth Forests to be logged on State Land in Sweden

9/16/97--Action Alert: Old Growth Logging in Sweden Continues

9/3/97--Greenpeace Thanks Cypriot Justice for Dropping Charges

8/5/97--Bulgaria to Restore Forest to its Former Owners

8/2/97-- Environmentalists Fight Russian Old Growth Logging

7/31/97--Forest Robbery in Russia Due to Advanced Technology

7/31/97--Bloody Massacre at Russian Environmentalists Camp

7/29/97--Russian Eperts scramble in Yeltsin's Karelia woods

7/15/97--Good News from Karelian Greenbelt in Russia

7/11/97--Russian Forest Update

7/1/97--World's Deepest Lake Protected in Russia

7/7/97--Greenpeace Protects Old Growth Forest in Russia and Canada

7/6/97--Summit of the Eight: Issues Facing the Russian Environmental Movement

6/24/97--Greenpeace Russia Considers Law on Protection of Lake Baikal

6/23/97--Russia says treaty needed to protect forests

6/20/97--Greenpeace Rejects Swedish Forest Certification Standard

6/17/97--Logging in proposed Kalevala National Park in Russia

6/14/97--Russia: Census of the Amur Tiger

6/14/97--Numbers, Distribution and Habitat Status of The Amur Tiger in Russia

6/13/97--Sign-on Letter to Help Stop Sweden From Buying Old Growth Kalevala Wood

6/13/97--Rusland Beech Will Not Be Cut Down

6/9/97--Urgent: Fax-Campaign For Kalevala Starts Now!

5/9/97--Group Files Forest Protection Case At Russian Supreme Court

4/24/97--Chukchee, Russian reindeer herders threatened by loss of reindeer

4/22/97--Poland to Increase Forest Area

4/17/97--Urgent Appeal to Spread Word That Norske Skog Broke Environmental Promise

3/20/97--Resort Plan Threatens One of Europe's Rarest Plants

3/20/97--Write Opic Today and Help Save Siberian Wildlands!

3/12/97--Urgent Request for Norske Skog to Change Their Old-Growth Policies

3/6/97--New Russian Federal Forest Code Weakens Forest Protection

3/1/97--New Forest Code Preserves Federal Ownership

3/1/97--Scandinavian Countries Forest Debate Focuses on Old-Growth Forests

2/28/97--Peace Forest Proposed for Har Homa

2/19/97--Romanian Forest Deal Postponed

2/13/97--Last Scandinavian "Wild Woods" Cut for Newspapers

2/10/97--Concerns Over Adoption of New Russian Forest Code

2/4/97--U.S.-Russian NGO Letter to Vice-President Gore

1/31/97--European Parliament's Forestry Resolution is Flawed

1/29/97--Need for Sustainable Solution to Njakafjäll in Sweden

1/20/97--Direct Action to Block Norwegian Logging

1/16/97--Loss of Russian Reindeer Herds Threaten Indigenous Communities

1/15/97--Swedish Old Growth Forests to Crates

12/13/96--Freezing Austrian Activists Risk Lives Over Dam

12/1/96--Moratorium Declared in Karelian Old Growth in Finland

12/1/96--New Siberian Tiger Count Gives Hope

12/1/96--WWF in Latvia: Europe's Greatest Natural Assets

11/22/96--Irish Timber Industry to Adopt Certification

11/22/96--Bears and Wolves Return to Europe

11/22/96--OPIC Sued for Failure to Disclose Russian Environmental Information

11/21/96--Norwegian Rainforest Threatened by Logging

11/19/96--Estonian Forest Policy

11/17/96--New Environment-Friendly Method To Whiten Wood Pulp Discovered in Israel

11/13/96--Public Support Needed for Danube Wetlands Lawsuit

11/1/96--The Future Use of Karelia's Forests--A Russian NGO Vision

10/27/96--Austrians Cheer New Danube National Park

10/23/96--Finnish Company Joins Bid to Save Russian Forest

10/22/96--Important Step in Protection of Old Growth Forests in Russia Karelia

10/19/96--No to Timber Propaganda in European Schools

10/3/96--Belarus Scientists to Test Forest Nuclear Cleanup Plan

8/28/96--Russia: Toxic Discharge at the Baikal Pulp & Paper Mill Protested

8/20/96--Logging Blocked in Russian Old Growth Forest Protest

7/31/96--Seed Laws Threaten Europe's Biodiversity

7/24/96--Report on Halla Resources, Pursuing Logging in Samarga River Watershed in Russia

7/11/96--Court Rules Birds Before Development in Britain

6/11/96--Europe Encouraged to Back Timber with Environmental Label

6/1/96--South Wales' Ecology in Danger--Reclaim the Valleys

5/23/96--Finnish Clearcutting Indigenous Lands

5/19/96--Indigenous People Protest in Russia

5/19/96--Notes on Overflight of Southern Khabarovsk Krai, Russia

5/19/96--Russia: Field Notes from Overflight of Sukpai, Smarga and Khor Watersheds

5/6/96--U.S.-U.S.S.R. Environmental Agreements List

5/6/96--Cypriot Minister Sacrifices Protected Area for Own Hotel

5/1/96--Old Growth Forests Logged in Sweden

4/18/96--Norwegian Forest Protection Plan Due

4/15/96--Swiss Publishers Demand Clearcut Free Paper

4/9/96--Field Trip to the Russian Samarga River Watershed

4/1/96--Mining Threatens 10 Millions Acres of Wild Kamchatka in Russia

3/27/96--Polish Ecofund Triples Income

3/26/96--The Gassinsky Model Forest Project in Russia

3/26/96--The Russian Murma River Project

3/26/96--Territory of Traditional Russian Natural Resource Use--Organizing & Managing

3/25/96--Finnish Forestry Executive: "Green" Forestry Key to Profit

3/22/96--Russia: The Deeper Into the Forest...

3/22/96--Ornithology in the Russian Bikin Watershed

3/2/96--Wolves Regain Claw-Hold in French Alps

3/1/96--Endangered Eurasian Lynx Population

2/22/96--Logging in the Czech Republic Changing in Market Economy

2/15/96--Scheme Launched to Restore Bears, Wolves in Europe

2/15/96--Scheme to Bring Back Europes Bears, Wolves, and Lynxes

2/14/96--Romanian Cave Home to Unique Dark World

2/7/96--Preservation of Russian Cultural Traditions

2/7/96--Current Russian Issues in the Bikin River Watershed

2/7/96--Russian Deforestation

2/4/96--Siberian Tiger/Forests Report

2/2/96--Tropical Rainforest Countries Alerted to UK Wildlife Destruction

1/30/96--Logging in Siberia Sets Off a Battle in the U.S.

1/24/96--Eastern Europe Forest Report

1/1/96--Making Eco-Friendly Houses in the Netherlands

12/95--Russia's First World Heritage Site

12/95--Austrian Action Against Russian Clearcuts

12/95--Russia's First UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site

12/95--A Huge Step Forward for Forest Protection in Russia

12/95--Letter to Al Gore from Bikin Forest Peoples in Russia

11/95--Finland Logging Companies Alledged to Be Operating Outside of Law

10/95--Norwegian Temperate Coastal Rainforests Rapidly Disappearing

10/95--Terrorist Attack Against Environmentalists in Greece

10/95--European Forest Conservation

10/95--Russian Green Border Belt Still Under Pressure

9/95--Siberia: The Tortured Land

9/95--City of Vienna Follows Greenpeace Guidelines in Forestry

8/95--Blockade Against Russian Clearcut Timber

7/95--Logging Moratorium Win in Poland's Bialowieza Forest

6/95--Wood Fibre Consumption in Great Britain Could be Cut by Half

6/95--Foreign Investments And Russian Oil And Gas Industry

6/95--NE Sakhalin Shelf/Oil Exploration's Impacts

6/95--"Stumpy" Bears Witness to Finnish Old-Growth Forest Clearcutting

6/95--Tourism Threatens Endangered Mediterranean Sea Turtles

6/95--Central/Eastern Europe Pursues Action on Biodiversity Treaty

5/95--Experts Discuss Rescue Plan for Siberian Crane

4/95--Support Creation of the Katun National Park in Russia

4/95--Polish Forest, Largest in Europe, Still Threatened

4/95--Environmentalists Expose Canadian Logging To Europeans

3/95--Tumen Wetlands Threatened by Sino-Russian Agreement

3/95--Kamchatka, Russian Far East, Gold Mining

2/95--Russian Forestry Plan, Double Harvest In 10 Years

2/95--World Bank Loan To Estonian Forestry

2/95--Poland: Europe's Last Native Lowland Forest Threatened

2/95--Greenpeace Demands No Wood From Finnish Old-Growth

2/95--Finnish Old Growth Battle/Forests Of Kuusamo

11/94--Greenpeace Inquiry into Finnish Forests

11/94--Finland: Forest Protect Program

11/94--Dutch Target Tropical Timber Consumption

11/94--GLOBE Calls for Sustainable Use of Siberian Forest

11/94--Russian Amur Region: Extensive Backgrounder

10/94--Siberia: Forcing Change in Russian Forestry Practices

10/94--Russian Far East's Forest Under Threat Again

10/94--Report on the Pechoro-Ilych Reserve in Russia

10/94--Poland/Last European Temperate Old Growth

8/94--Saving Siberia's Unique Lake Baikal Region

8/94--East Asian Companies Logging Siberia

7/94--Russian Amur Tiger Program

7/94--Finland: NGO's Criticise Forestry Environment Programme

6/94--Save Slovak Forests

6/94--Russian Lumber Deal

5/94--Russian Traditional Land Use, Bikin River Valley

5/94--Russia Clearcut Logging Protest

5/94--Greenpeace Vessel Starts World Forest Tour In Russia

5/94--Greenpeace Ship to Investigate Hyundai's Logging

5/94--Greenpeace Raises Its Flag in the Russian Far East

5/94--Barbaric Forestry in Russia Far East

3/94--Finland Needs Sustainable Forestry

1/94--Help the Norwegian Old-Growth Forest

1/94--France: Debt-For-Nature Destruction Outrage in Cameroon

11/93--France: Paris Library Destroys Rainforests

9/93--Fasting to Save Valley of the Aspe, Southern France

4/93--Brown Bear Threatened in Spain

3/93--Protest Against New Swedish Forestry Law Proposal!

3/93--Austrian Rainforest Movement Update

3/93--Austria Drops Timber Labelling

2/93--Norway: Defeat Poor Forestry Plans

2/93--'Green' Timber Firms in Illegal Mahogany Trade

12/92--Belgium & European Community Rainforest Policy

12/92--Austrian Rainforest Policy - A Short Update

12/92--Last 350 Siberian Tigers Threatened by Hyundai

9/92--Forest Policy, Not Chainsaw Charter

9/92--Austrian Global 2000's Rainforest Campaign

5/92--Protesters Close British Tropical Timber Yard

2/92--Austrian Timber Tax Blow Out

12/91--Tropical Timber Action Day in Germany

11/91--German Children Block Unloading of Logs

11/91--Britain: Tropical Hardwood Chainstore Massacre

9/91--Dutch Moves to Control the Tropical Timber Trade

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