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12/19/98--Companies Discover it Pays to be Green

12/16/98--Biopiracy is Flourishing Thanks to Many Pharmaceutical Companies

12/16/98--Pharmaceutical Companies Increasingly Commit Biopiracy by Stealing Indigenous Asian Wisdom and Resources

12/5/98--Time Magazine Honors Five Environmentalists

12/5/98--Deforestation Hurts Forces Migratory Birds into Poor Habitat

12/1/98--Foreign Policy In Focus: Global Environment Facility

12/1/98--Land Use and Climate Shifts

12/1/98--World Rainforest Movement December Bulletin

12/1/98--Ban on Solid Wood Packing Material to Prevent Asian Beetle Infestation

11/21/98--Tiny Molds May Save Vanishing Rainforest

11/19/98--No Hiding Places for Those who Destroy Forests

11/16/98--North America Forests Provide New Clue to World's Carbon Cycle

11/16/98--Champion International Corporation Opens Land to Third Party Reviews

11/11/98--Forest Plans Cause Sinking Feeling

11/10/98--Climate Threatens Third of Forests

11/7/98--World Forests Vulnerable to Global Warming

11/7/98--European Forest Industry Plans Forest Certification

11/6/98--Global Warming Means Food, Water Scarcity

11/3/98--World Bank Eyes Rainforest Investment

11/1/98--Latin American Forests the Time is Ripe for Change

10/30/98--Report States Effort to Save Rainforests Doomed

10/30/98--Forests Cannot Absorb more CO2 Emissions

10/21/98--Your Mortal Enemy: Under Capitalism, Democracy is Now for Sale to the Highest Bidder

10/19/98--SAANICH Statement of Principles on Forests and Communities

10/16/98--North America Soaking up Carbon from Atmosphere

10/16/98--New York Mill Produces First Green Certified Paper

10/16/98--Rainforests Might Help Slow Global Warming

10/13/98--Global Environmental Facility Poised to Fund Conservation Projects

10/9/98--Third of World's Natural Resources Consumed Since 1970

10/8/98--UK's Largest Timber Trader to Demand FSC Label

10/8/98--Finland Sets Own Forest Certification System

9/2/98--One-Tenth of World's Trees Face Extinction

10/1/98--Are Tree Monocultures a Solution to Global Warming?

9/2/98--Oppose Request to Expand International Monetary Fund Quota Increase

9/1/98--World Rainforest Movement Bulletin #15: Mangroves Menaced by Oil companies in Bangladesh

8/30/98--Fewer Than 100 Trees Left of Some Species

8/24/98--Forest Destruction Meeting Opens in Geneva

8/21/98--United Nations Forum on Forests to Meet at Geneva

8/21/98--Environmental Crisis Looms by 2000

8/20/98--WWF Puts the Spotlight on Good Wood in the United States

8/20/98--Rain Forests for Profit, Businesses Sell Nuts, Tourism and Carbon Storage

8/19/98--Rise in Fires Began 10,000 Years Ago

8/19/98--Humans Have Destroyed 30% of Natural World

8/17/98--Hornbills Seen as Rain Forests Savior

8/13/98--The International Campaign against Biodevastation/ Genetic Engineering

8/10/98--World Rainforest Movement Bulletin #13--Anti-Plantation Campaign

8/6/98--False Claims of Certified Tropical Timber in Germany

8/5/98--FSC Certifies 10 Million Hectares of World's Forest, So What?

8/1/98--World Rainforest Movement Bulletin #14: Central African Conference on Forests, Tree Plantations Promoted in Andes

7/31/98--Forest Certification Struggles, only 3% of World's Forests Certified

7/12/98--Drug Taken from Rainforest Used to Treat Aids-Related Diarrhea

7/4/98--Fragmentation of Tropical Forests Can Create "Genetic Bottleneck"

7/1/98--World's Forests Burn

7/1/98--SCA's Forests to Be FSC Certified

7/1/98--Study States Sustainable Logging in Tropics Doesn't Work

6/30/98--Influence of Funders over Direction of FSC Organization

6/29/98--One in Eight of World's Vascular Plant Species Under Extinction Threat

6/25/98--Wildlife Dying Near Parks, No Kill Areas Outside Parks Need Expansion

6/19/98--For Vast Rain Forests, Clock's Ticking

6/18/98--Smoke Signals: Vast Forest Fires Scar the Globe

6/18/98--Researchers Conclude Sustainable Logging a Tropical Oxymoron

6/14/98--Forty Percent of World's Forest Extinct if Global Warming Continues

6/4/98--Chocolate Lovers Could Save the Rain Forests

6/2/98--Economists Point to Biodiversity Values Beyond Price

6/1/98--Wetlands Remove Pathogens from Water

5/29/98--Junk Mail Polluting Our Planet and Invading Our Privacy

5/29/98--World Rainforest Movement Bulletin #12

5/26/98--Oil Seekers Urged to Deal with Natives not Radicals

5/9/98--Big Powers Launch Plan to Save Forests

5/1/98--Report Cites Declining Environment as Major Killer

4/30/98--Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin, Links Rain Forests, Cultures and Kids

4/29/98--Endangered Creatures Can Save us if We Save Them

4/29/98--The World Conservation Union Releases Red List of Threatened Plants

4/24/98--Federal Land Certification Discussion

4/22/98--Conservation Groups Resign from "Timber Certification" Effort in Appalachia

4/21/98--Mass Extinction Underway, Majority of Biologists Say

4/20/98--Plant Survey Reveals Depth of Species Extinction Crisis

4/20/98--World Bank NGO Self-Selection Process

4/18/98--Experts Tie Diseases to Destruction of Environment

4/17/98--Why Plants Bend Towards Blue Light

4/12/98--Global Forest Crisis Accelerating

4/8/98--Report Takes a Stand On Forest Health

4/8/98--One Plant in Eight Worldwide Threatened with Extinction

4/8/98--Extinction Threatens One in Eight Plants Globally

4/8/98--Study Finds Twelve Percent of Plant Species may Disappear

4/8/98--Over One-Tenth of World's Plants Threatened, Researchers Say

4/7/98--One in Eight of the World's Plants Threatened

4/7/98--The Business of Sustainable Forestry

4/6/98--The Last World's Last Ancient Forests Must Be Protected

4/6/98--Forests in the Climate Treaty: Sinking the Solar Transition?

4/6/98--Steps are Taken to Preserve Forests, Study Says

4/5/98--Worldwatch Institute Urges Government to Safeguard Forest Resources

4/5/98--Getting the Price of the Forests Right

4/3/98--Critical Steps for the Future of Global Environmental Facility

4/1/98--World Rainforest Movement Bulletin #11

3/30/98--New Sound of the 90's is Environmentally Friendly Music

3/26/98--Environmental Journalism Can Be Fatal

3/23/98--Sign-on Letter to Stop Implementation of APEC, Trade in Wood Products

3/18/98--Total Area of FSC Certified Forests

3/17/98--FSC Certified Forests

3/9/98--Studies Indicate that As Climates Change, Forests Migrate

3/4/98--World Rainforest Movement Bulletin #9: Underlying Causes of Deforestation and Forest Degradation

3/3/98--Biodiversity Hot Spots Endanger Ecosystems

3/1/98--A Five Hundred Year Six Fold Plan for Sustainable Forestry

3/1/98--WWF Global Annual Forest Report

3/1/98--Industries That Simplify Nature Erode Ecosystems

2/28/98--Capital Flow to Third World Threatens Global Environment

2/27/98--New Moves in Debt-for-Nature Swaps

2/26/98--Paleontologist Jablonski Says Extinction Not Pretty

2/25/98--Insurance Agency Agrees to Green Reforms

2/11/98--CGIAR Urges Halt to Granting Property Rights for Plant Germplasm

2/7/98--U.S. Supports Rhino, Tiger Conservation at Home and Abroad

2/6/98--Tigers Used in Asian Medicine Hastening Tigers Demise

2/2/98--New Rain Forest Blend Coffee Grown under the Rainforest Canopy

1/29/98--World Rainforest Movement Bulletin #8: Brazilian Forestry Policy is not Trustworthy, Malaysian Logging in Africa

1/21/98--Rainforest Action Network Names Executive Director

1/29/98--World Bank Forest Policy Labyrinth

1/28/98--Biodiversity Lab at St. Joseph's University Breeds Poison Dart Frogs

1/22/98--Environmental Group Launches Appeal to Save Tigers

1/22/98--WWF Opens Year of Tiger With New Initiative to Save Tiger

1/13/98--Spare the Tree or You May Spoil More Than the Jungle

1/9/98--Open Letter to World Bank Concerning Forest Issues

1/7/98--World Bank to Let Axe Fall on Rainforests?

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