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12/31/00- PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Foreign Firms Lose Forestry Board Rep - Now Maintain Moratorium  (more: archive | internet)

12/30/00- Frankentrees: Genetically Modified Trees Pose Concern  (more: archive | internet)

12/28/00- Good News, Bad News in World Forestry Report  (more: archive | internet)

12/25/00- Cyber Jukebox Benefit for the Rainforests  (more: archive | internet)

12/23/00- Boise Cascade Mounts Attack on Academic Freedom  (more: archive | internet)

12/20/00- UN to Report Deforestation Rate Slowing Slightly, But Remains High  (more: archive | internet)

12/19/00- Boreal Forests Face Burning Threat from Global Warming  (more: archive | internet)

12/16/00- Central Africa Unites to Protect Congo Basin  (more: archive | internet)

12/10/00- Eco-Timber Brings Hope to Solomon Islands; Over-Harvesting Continues  (more: archive | internet)

12/06/00- Certification of Tough Ecological Standards Pays, Concept at Risk  (more: archive | internet)

12/05/00- Logging Suspended in America's Sierra Nevada Mountains  (more: archive | internet)

11/29/00- Boise Cascade's Flawed Business Practices  (more: archive | internet)

11/29/00- World Rainforest Movement Bulletin #40  (more: archive | internet)

11/26/00- Papua New Guinea NGOs Call for Forest Industry Reform  (more: archive | internet)

11/24/00- Australia's Rampant & Shameful Bush Clearance  (more: archive | internet)

11/18/00- Papua New Guinea Loggers Cost the Country - Time to Shut Them Down  (more: archive | internet)

11/17/00- Amazon's Existence Threatened by Massive Road & Waterway Building  (more: archive | internet)

11/13/00- American Roadless Protection Plan Announced  (more: archive | internet)

11/09/00- Kyoto Protocol Could Accelerate Forest Destruction  (more: archive | internet)

11/09/00- Forest Plantations May Speed up Global Warming  (more: archive | internet)

11/07/00- Demand Wilderness Protection for Alaska's Chugach  (more: archive | internet)

11/04/00- Thieves Plunder 'Protected' Forests in Russia  (more: archive | internet)

11/03/00- Chile Faces Rainforest Dilemma as Deforestation Set to Double  (more: archive | internet)

11/01/00- Staples Destroys Forests Through Old-Growth Paper Sales  (more: archive | internet)

10/31/00- Ancient Old-Growth Forests Make the Best Carbon Sinks  (more: archive | internet)

10/29/00- Boise Cascade the "Dinosaur" of the Timber Industry  (more: archive | internet)

10/29/00- VICTORY: Oil Exploration Ends in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve  (more: archive | internet)

10/27/00- Gore Says He'll Support Preservation of Old-Growth Forests  (more: archive | internet)

10/26/00- Prisoner of Conscience in the Canadian War of the Woods  (more: archive | internet)

10/24/00- Finishing Off Finland's Old Growth  (more: archive | internet)

10/24/00- Call for Indonesian Logging Ban and Moratorium  (more: archive | internet)

10/19/00-- Forget About Building the Road to Nowhere  (more: archive | internet)

10/18/00-- Fire is Good for Many Forests in the Long Term  (more: archive | internet)

10/14/00-- Amazon Timber Stewards Busted for Bribes  (more: archive | internet)

10/13/00-- Oil Companies Want Arctic Wildlife Refuge  (more: archive | internet)

10/8/00-- Australia Promotes Native Old-Growth Woodchipping as Renewable Energy  (more: archive | internet)

10/6/00-- Planned Huge Clearcuts of Ancient Boreal Forests in Canada  (more: archive | internet)

10/5/00-- Malaysian Timber Firms Seek Certification to Boost Rainforest Sales  (more: archive | internet)

10/4/00-- Mahogany Tree's Survival in Doubt Due to U.S. Demand  (more: archive | internet)

9/30/00-- Protect World's Largest Mangrove Forest in Bangladesh  (more: archive | internet)

9/30/00-- Mass Extinction Intensifies as Rates of Species Loss Grow Worldwide  (more: archive | internet)

9/25/00-- Massive Mekong Floods Blamed on Deforestation  (more: archive | internet)

9/23/00-- Ancient Old-Growth Forests Best Carbon Sinks  (more: archive | internet)

9/23/00-- Logging May Help Spread Disease  (more: archive | internet)

9/17/00-- Humans Stress Ecosystems to the Limit  (more: archive | internet)

9/17/00-- Forests, Consumption and Trade  (more: archive | internet)

9/13/00-- West African Monkey is Extinct, Portend of More to Come  (more: archive | internet)

9/10/00-- Notorious Malaysian Loggers Interested in Forest Certification  (more: archive | internet)

9/10/00-- Protest Conviction of Mexican Environmental Activists & Unchallenged, Illegal Logging  (more: archive | internet)

9/8/00-- Forest Concessions on Trial in Guatemala  (more: archive | internet)

9/2/00-- Keep the Current Forest Revenue System in Place  (more: archive | internet)

9/2/00-- Little Connection Between Wildfires and Declines in Logging  (more: archive | internet)

9/1/00-- Defying Nature's End: A Blueprint for Saving the Planet  (more: archive | internet)

8/31/00-- Fires in Western U.S. Prompt Calls for More Logging  (more: archive | internet)

8/30/00-- World Bank Report Finds Its Policies Harm Forests, Reforms Pledged  (more: archive | internet)

8/27/00-- Carter Calls for Arctic Refuge Protection  (more: archive | internet)

8/25/00-- Fibre-Optic Cable May Be Funded Through Papua New Guinea Timber Sales  (more: archive | internet)

8/24/00-- VICTORY!  84 Lumber Latest to Commit to Endangered Forest Protection  (more: archive | internet)

8/20/00-- Chile Forest Project Tests Free Trade  (more: archive | internet)

8/18/00-- Logging Industry Threatens To Destroy Rich African Forests  (more: archive | internet)

8/13/00-- Gabon: Pact Is Reached to Save a Rich Tropical Forest  (more: archive | internet)

8/12/00-- Greenpeace Supports Call for Donor Backing of Logging Moratorium in Papua New Guinea  (more: archive | internet)

8/11/00-- VICTORY!  UK Government Cuts Purchase of Illegal Timber  (more: archive | internet)

8/9/00-- UN Reports Rate of Tropical Deforestation Slowing, But Not by Much  (more: archive | internet)

8/9/00-- Flourishing Forests Need Fires  (more: archive | internet)

8/8/00-- Lowe's to Quit Selling Products from Endangered Forests  (more: archive | internet)

8/8/00-- VICTORY!  Lowe's Announces Initiative to Help Protect World's Forests  (more: archive | internet)

8/7/00-- End Out of Control Australian Land Clearing!  (more: archive | internet)

8/5/00-- Philippine Island Earns Rare Logging Reprieve  (more: archive | internet)

8/4/00-- Papua New Guinea Landowners Say Keep Moratorium on New Logging  (more: archive | internet)

8/4/00-- U.S. Proposes to Use Forests to Fight Global Warming  (more: archive | internet)

8/1/00-- Indonesia Fails to Halt Illegal Logging  (more: archive | internet)

7/30/00-- China's Demand for Timber Fuels Clear-cutting in Siberia  (more: archive | internet)

7/29/00-- World Faced with Growing Forest Fire Threats  (more: archive | internet)

7/29/00-- Greenpeace Activists Arrested Protesting Criminal Amazon Timber Trade  (more: archive | internet)

7/26/00-- Renewed Drive to Fight Illegal Logging Continues  (more: archive | internet)

7/25/00-- Russia's Forests in Disarray  (more: archive | internet)

7/25/00-- Update on Brazil Forest Code  (more: archive | internet)

7/24/00-- Following the Trail of Illegal Rainforest Wood  (more: archive | internet)

7/20/00-- G8 Appeal: It's Time to Save the Forests  (more: archive | internet)

7/19/00-- Stopping Destruction of Indonesia's Forests Requires New Policies  (more: archive | internet)

7/14/00-- Greenpeace Ends Successful Timber Protest in Portugal  (more: archive | internet)

7/13/00-- Ban on U.S. Forest Roads Draws Record Public Outcry  (more: archive | internet)

7/12/00-- Papua New Guinea Eco-Forestry NGO's Welcome Reform in the Forestry Industry  (more: archive | internet)

7/11/00-- Spotted Owl Declines at Four Times Expected Rate in U.S.  (more: archive | internet)

7/10/00-- Showdown Near on U.S. Roadless Plan   (more: archive | internet)

7/8/00-- ExxonMobil Threatens Pristine Amazon Valley  (more: archive | internet)

7/8/00-- Peru Seeks To Stem Amazon Logging  (more: archive | internet)

7/6/00-- Illegal Logging Biz Grows in Russia  (more: archive | internet)

7/5/00-- Drilling in America's Wildest Refuge  (more: archive | internet)

7/5/00-- Activists Board Russian Freighter Containing Illegal Timber  (more: archive | internet)

7/2/00-- Major Logging Tax Racket Deprives Papua New Guinea of Revenue  (more: archive | internet)

7/1/00-- A Fifth of Russian Logging Illegal  (more: archive | internet)

7/1/00-- False Forests: Plantations Replacing Native Forests  (more: archive | internet)

6/29/00-- Redwoods: Protection of 'Hole in Headwaters' Urged  (more: archive | internet)

6/27/00-- Forests and Soils Mitigating Climate Change  (more: archive | internet)

6/23/00-- FUNDING APPEAL: Forests.org, Inc. Receives Non-Profit Status

6/22/00-- Amazon Being Logged for Plywood, Protests Mount  (more: archive | internet)

6/21/00-- Cameroon's Forests are Mismanaged  (more: archive | internet)

6/19/00-- Finnish Old-Growth Forest Logging Moratorium in Danger  (more: archive | internet)

6/19/00-- Mexico's Lacandon Forest on Brink of Extinction  (more: archive | internet)

6/18/00-- Canadian Couple Champions Great Bear Rainforest  (more: archive | internet)

6/18/00-- Papua New Guinea Forest Industry Losing Vitality  (more: archive | internet)

6/14/00-- Timber Certification Plan Aims to Protect World's Forests  (more: archive | internet)

6/13/00-- Increasing Transnational Investment Devastating Tropical Forests  (more: archive | internet)

6/13/00-- Finland has Fewer Old-Growth Forests than Believed  (more: archive | internet)

6/12/00-- VICTORY: Cambodia to Prosecute Malaysian Logging Firm  (more: archive | internet)

6/6/00-- Logging Threatens Gabon's Fragile Forest Cover (more: archive | internet)

6/5/00-- Climate Proposals Provide Incentives to Cut Down Old Growth Forests  (more: archive | internet)

5/31/00-- World's Fragmented Forests Losing Ground  (more: archive | internet)

5/30/00-- Rainforest Destruction Report Covered Up  (more: archive | internet)

5/28/00-- Cambodia to Ban Logging in Cardamom Mountains  (more: archive | internet)

5/26/00-- More on Papua New Guinea Victory: Cabinet Nod for Timber Recommendations  (more: archive | internet)

5/24/00-- VICTORY: Papua New Guinea Cabinet Orders Overhaul of Logging Industry  (more: archive | internet)

5/23/00-- Mexico's Forests at a Watershed  (more: archive | internet)

5/22/00-- Commercial logging Causes, Not Prevents, Catastrophic Fires  (more: archive | internet)

5/18/00-- VICTORY: Historic Victory for Brazilian Amazon  (more: archive | internet)

5/17/00-- Stop Ranchers from Destroying more of the Amazon  (more: archive | internet)

5/17/00-- Brazil President Vows to Fight Reduction of Amazon Reserve Area  (more: archive | internet)

5/17/00-- New Zealand Cuts Logging Contracts  (more: archive | internet)

5/15/00-- New Plan to Protect Amazon Rainforest  (more: archive | internet)

5/13/00-- Draft Law Could Reduce Brazil Amazon Reserve Area  (more: archive | internet)

5/11/00-- Amongst Criticism, Clinton Announces Road Ban  (more: archive | internet)

5/9/00-- A 'Critical Time' for Primates  (more: archive | internet)

5/6/00-- VICTORY: Canadian Old-Growth Forest Becomes Reserve  (more: archive | internet)

5/4/00-- Protect Snow Leopard Habitat in Siberia  (more: archive | internet)

5/4/00-- Critical Climate and Forest Decisions May Allow Continued Pollution  (more: archive | internet)

5/3/00-- Palm Plantations Threaten Ecuadorian Choco Forest  (more: archive | internet)

4/29/00-- Papua New Guinea Logging Moratorium Gains Support, But Faltering  (more: archive | internet)

4/29/00-- World Rainforest Movement, # 33  (more: archive | internet)

4/29/00-- U.S. Park Service to Curtail Snowmobile Use  (more: archive | internet)

4/25/00-- Australian Park Enlargement Triggers Anger, Dismay  (more: archive | internet)

4/23/00-- Battle Over Forest Certification Standards  (more: archive | internet)

4/21/00-- 84 Lumber Bucks Old Growth Free Trend  (more: archive | internet)

4/21/00-- Big Trees Lost First in Shrinking Rainforests  (more: archive | internet)

4/21/00-- Day of Action Against Boise Cascade  (more: archive | internet)

4/20/00-- A Global Warming Affirmation  (more: archive | internet)

4/17/00-- Report Issues Environmental Warning  (more: archive | internet)

4/12/00-- Amazonian Deforestation Continues--is Certified Logging the Answer?  (more: archive | internet)

4/7/00-- National Monument for Giant Sequoias Recommended  (more: archive | internet)

4/2/00-- Environmentalists Welcome Brazilian Amazon Reserve Package  (more: archive | internet)

4/2/00-- Papua New Guinea: Moratorium on Forest Licenses "A Sigh of Relief"  (more: archive | internet)

3/31/00-- VICTORY: Top U.S. Homebuilders Vow to End Endangered Wood Use  (more: archive | internet)

3/28/00-- Malaysian Firms Eye Peru's Amazon Jungle  (more: archive | internet)

3/25/00-- Malaysian Loggers Extend Unscrupulous Logging to Liberia, Africa  (more: archive | internet)

3/23/00-- Papua New Guinea: Potentially Deadly Cyanide Spill, Cleanup Underway  (more: archive | internet)

3/22/00-- Report States World Bank Can Use Leverage to Slow Forest Destruction  (more: archive | internet)

3/20/00-- New Brazil Highways Expected to Destroy Forest  (more: archive | internet)

3/18/00-- U.S. Found to Have More Species Than Previously Thought   (more: archive | internet)

3/15/00-- Malaysian Government Pressures Cambodia to Reduce Timber Royalty Rate  (more: archive | internet)

3/15/00-- Silence Descends on Africa's Forests  (more: archive | internet)

3/15/00-- PNG-EU sign K22.5 million Forest Pact to Support Eco-Forestry  (more: archive | internet)

3/12/00-- Gas Price Increases Lead to Calls to Open Up American Wilderness  (more: archive | internet)

3/10/00-- Earth Needs 10 Million Years to Recover from Extinction  (more: archive | internet)

3/7/00-- Indonesia Fires Rage Out of Control  (more: archive | internet)

3/6/00-- Participate in Home Builders Day of Action  (more: archive | internet)

3/5/00-- Global Initiative Reveals Vanishing Forests  (more: archive | internet)

3/3/00-- New Climate Change Internet Search Tool  -- Climate Ark at http://www.Climate-Ark.org/

3/3/00-- Mexico Scraps Salt Works Near Whale Sanctuary  (more: archive | internet)

3/2/00-- Stop Petroleum Activities in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve  (more: archive | internet)

3/1/00-- Wood Wars: Corruption Threatens Welfare of Siberia  (more: archive | internet)

2/24/00-- Conserving Forests Versus Conserving Species  (more: archive | internet)

2/23/00-- Australia's Massive Tree Felling  (more: archive | internet)

2/21/00-- Amid Logging, Hope in African Rainforest  (more: archive | internet)

2/16/00-- Papua New Guinea Timber Industry: 'Freeze on new logging must go'  (more: archive | internet)

2/16/00-- Clinton Eyes Sequoia Protection  (more: archive | internet)

2/11/00-- Papua New Guinea Logging Moratorium Threatened with "Exemptions"   (more: archive | internet)

2/9/00-- Human Population Threatens World's Biological Diversity  (more: archive | internet)

2/8/00-- Isolated Amazon Tribes Threatened By Logging  (more: archive | internet)

2/4/00-- VICTORY!  Clinton Plans to Double US Funding for Rainforest Protection  (more: archive | internet)

2/4/00-- Logging Jeopardizes Indonesian Aid  (more: archive | internet)

2/4/00-- United Nations Seeks Solutions to Global Forest Crisis  (more: archive | internet)

2/2/00-- VICTORY!  Menards Plans to Stop Selling Endangered Old Growth Wood Products  (more: archive | internet)

1/30/00-- India: Eroding the Gains from Forest Protection  (more: archive | internet)

1/30/00-- Americans Overwhelmingly Support Clinton's Forest Protection Proposal  (more: archive | internet)

1/29/00-- World Rainforest Movement Bulletin #30  (more: archive | internet)

1/28/00-- World Bank Admits to Failure of Forest Policy  (more: archive | internet)

1/27/00-- North Carolina, USA: Logging, Chip Mills Increase, Threaten Hardwoods  (more: archive | internet)

1/25/00-- Indonesia's Forests Are Vanishing Far Faster Than Thought  (more: archive | internet)

1/24/00-- U.S. Environmentalists Swing Axe at Canadian Forest Industry  (more: archive | internet)

1/21/00-- Natural Habitat Fragmentation and "Rewilding" America  (more: archive | internet)

1/18/00-- PNG Government Calls a Halt to New Logging Concessions  (more: archive | internet)

1/18/00-- Relentless Forest Activists Dog Home-Builder Convention  (more: archive | internet)

1/17/00-- Major New Home Builders Campaign Unveiled  (more: archive | internet)

1/15/00-- Protect Denali Wilderness from Snowmobiles  (more: archive | internet)

1/13/00-- Reigniting the Rainforest  (more: archive | internet)

1/13/00-- Illegal Logging Cuts A Swath Across Tanzania  (more: archive | internet)

1/11/00-- U.S. Judge Upholds Moratorium on Road Building  (more: archive | internet)

1/11/00-- Cambodia: Stop Logging Now or No Forests Will Be Left  (more: archive | internet)

1/9/00-- Indonesia Warned Over Forest Crisis  (more: archive | internet)

1/9/00-- Illegal Loggers of the World, the U.S. is Out to Get You  (more: archive | internet)

1/5/00-- Occidental Set to Drill on U-wa Land in Colombia  (more: archive | internet)

1/4/00-- Ecuador's Unprotected Protected Areas  (more: archive | internet)

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