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12/26/97-- | Annual Amazon Forest Loss Three Times What Previously Thought |
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12/26/97-- | Decision to Clearcut Vermont, USA Forest Ruled Illegal |
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12/23/97-- |  Indigenous
Protestors Shot in Sarawak, Malaysia |
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12/17/97-- | 1997: The Year the World Caught Fire |
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12/17/97-- | Bad Amazon News: Deforestation Up 21% in Rondonia & Fires Intensify |
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12/15/97-- | Cambodia Could Lose Forests to Illegal Loggers |
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12/13/97-- | Eco-Disaster as Malaysia's Rimbunan Hijau Moves Into Russian Taiga |
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12/9/97-- | Fears of a Fiery Amazon Nightmare |
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12/9/97-- | Australian Bush Fires an Ecological Disaster |
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12/7/97-- | Indonesia: Business as Usual as Doubtful Forestry Practices Continue |
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12/2/97-- | More Logging in Guyana |
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12/2/97-- | The
Australian Daintree: Death
by 1000 Cuts |
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11/30/97-- | Potential Darien Gap Road Threatens "Motherload of Biodiversity" |
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11/29/97-- | Brazil Legalizes Indigenous Land Titles |
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11/29/97-- | Splintering American Forests |
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11/29/97-- | Venezuelan
Amazon Indigenous
Peoples Appeal for Support |
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11/28/97-- | Forest Council Takes Action on Gabon's Forests |
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11/28/97-- | Heat from Indonesia Fires to Be Felt at Climate Meeting |
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11/28/97-- | More Fires by Farmers Raise Threat to Amazon |
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11/18/97-- | Papua New Guinea Government Responds to Logging Industry Exaggerations |
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11/15/97-- | Help
Protect Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula |
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11/15/97-- | Indonesia's Peat Smoulders Underground |
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11/15/97-- | Suriname Rainforest Update |
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11/13/97-- | Intolerable:
Old Growth Toilet
Paper |
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11/12/97-- | Malaysian Jungle Story: Dam and Road Projects Threaten Rainforests |
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11/12/97-- | Brazil Establishes World's Largest Rainforest Reserve |
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11/8/97-- | Malaysia Orders Hush on Haze |
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11/8/97-- | Papua New Guinea--Landmark Judgment Against Logging, Cut and Run Operations Continue |
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11/2/97-- | Brazil Considers Logging National Forests |
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10/29/97-- | Indonesia: Mega-Rice Project and "Free Logging" in Central Kalimantan |
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10/28/97-- | Amazon Rain Forest May Face Greatest Threat Ever |
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10/27/97-- | The Fight to Save Guyana's Forests |
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10/26/97-- | Forest Shrinking at Alarming Rate, Fires Problem |
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10/22/97-- | Cambodia Hires U.S. Firm to Stem Illegal Logging |
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10/22/97-- | Loggers Zero in on Guyana's Rain Forests |
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10/18/97-- | Brazilian Amazon: A Rain Forest Imperiled |
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10/17/97-- | Indonesian Burning Intensifies |
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10/13/97-- | Gabon Update: FSC Withdraws Certification of Large African Old-Growth |
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10/13/97-- | Planetary Disaster: Indonesian Fires Illustrate Costs of Forest Ecosystem Collapse |
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10/10/97-- | The
Merits of Certified Forestry: Good Intentions Betray Gabon,
African Rainforest |
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10/3/97-- | Indonesian Forest Crisis Over Old-Growth |
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9/97-- | No News Service: In Papua New Guinea working to Conserve Forests! |
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9/1/97-- | Amazonian Indigenous People Speak Out on Development Issues |
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8/27/97-- | Hell on Earth: The Rainforests of Indonesian Borneo Are Burning |
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8/26/97-- | Maisin, Papua New Guinea Landowners Just Say 'No' to Loggers |
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8/24/97-- | Stop United States' National Forest Decline |
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8/22/97-- | Vanuatu, South Pacific, Ban on Export of Logs Overturned Questionably |
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8/18/97-- | Papua New Guinea Forest Industry Grievances |
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8/17/97-- | Brazil Auctions Off Jungle |
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8/2/97-- | Urgent Action Needed to Save Congo's Ecosystem |
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7/27/97-- | Brazil's Timber Harvest in Public Forests Privatized |
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7/23/97-- | Chipping Away at America's Southern Forests |
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7/22/97-- | Progress in Keeping Tarkine, Australia Wild at Heart |
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7/15/97-- | Papua New Guinea NGOs Picket Demanding Inquiry into Timber Industry |
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7/13/97-- | Asian Loggers Target the World's Remaining Rainforests |
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7/12/97-- | Ecuador
Forest Communities Shut
Down Mitsubishi Mine |
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7/9/97-- | Papua New Guinea NGOs Call for Another Commission of Inquiry into Logging |
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7/8/97-- | Rain Forest Fringes May Harbor the Engine of Evolution |
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7/1/97-- | New Book on Tropical Forest Remnants |
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7/1/97-- | Malaysian Government Responds to Widespread Accusations of Timber Company Misconduct |
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6/26/97-- | World Bank & WWF Announce New Efforts to Conserve Earth's Forests |
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6/24/97-- | Papua New Guinea Forest Resources--A local NGO Perspective |
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6/24/97-- | Mahogany Coveted in Amazonian Indigenous Areas, Little CITES Protection |
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6/20/97-- | New Report Indicates 12% for Protected Areas Not Enough |
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6/17/97-- | Chile's Native Forests Increasingly Threatened |
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6/12/97-- | Papua New Guinea Environment Groups Call for Inquiry into Logging |
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6/9/97-- | Papua New Guinea: 5 New Timber Areas Put to Tender, 6 Others in Pipeline |
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6/6/97-- | North American Forests in Peril |
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5/2/97-- | The Nature of the Human Threat to Papua New Guinea's Biodiversity |
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5/2/97-- | Loggers Use Loophole to Decimate Cambodia's Disappearing Forest |
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4/25/97-- | Papua New Guinea Forest Update: Sandline and the Rainforests, and much more |
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4/25/97-- | Thailand's Forests Vanish at Alarming Rate |
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4/23/97-- | World Bank to Overhaul Amazon Project |
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4/20/97-- | Protestors Block Brazil Road Project |
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4/18/97-- | Papua New Guinea Risks Losing Virgin Forests |
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4/15/97-- | Temagami,
Canada Wilderness
Threatened by Logging and Mining |
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4/12/97-- | African Rainforest Logging Damage Permanent |
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4/11/97-- | Guyana: Legality of Huge New "Exploratory" Timber Lease Questioned |
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4/10/97-- | Great Apes Face Growing Threat of Extinction |
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4/7/97-- | Papua New Guinea National Forest Plan Draws Poor Reviews |
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4/5/97-- | Malaysian
Penan Struggle Continues
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4/5/97-- | Clinton Plan to Cut Logging Roads Finds Trouble |
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3/29/97-- | "Teak is Torture" & Burma's Reign of Terror |
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3/24/97-- | 'Alarm Bell' for Central African Forests |
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3/22/97-- | Chilean Beech Forest Harvest Plan Overruled |
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3/18/97-- | Brazilian
Plan to Reduce Raposa
Serra do Sol Indigenous Area Sets Sinister Precedent |
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3/15/97-- | Papua New Guinea Timber Companies Say They Need More Give-Aways |
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3/15/97-- | Papua New Guinea Landowners Allege Improper Forest Procedures |
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3/12/97-- | African Baka People Crowded Out by Newcomers, Loggers |
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3/10/97-- | Asian Logging Companies Move Into Heart of Amazon Rainforest |
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3/4/97-- | Only 20% of World's Virgin Forests Remain |
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3/3/97-- | Time Running Out for World's Forests |
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2/25/97-- | Malaysian
Loggers in the Amazon |
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2/22/97-- | Ecologists Trying to Restore Brazil's Dwindled Atlantic Forests |
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2/21/97-- | Papua New Guinea: Seven Major Forestry Projects Ruled "Unviable" |
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2/20/97-- | U.S. Taxpayers Lose Money on Logging in National Forests |
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2/20/97-- | Debating the Future of Central Africa's Rainforest |
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2/18/97-- | Nature's Services Worth Trillions |
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2/15/97-- | Environmental NGOs Announce Opposition to Forestry Treaty |
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2/14/97-- |  Asian
Timber Firms Threaten
the Amazon |
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2/13/97-- | Last Scandinavian "Wild Woods" Cut for Newspapers |
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2/12/97-- | Papua New Guinea Landowners Angry Over Forestry Board Composition |
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2/8/97-- | Kalimantan, Indonesia: Old Ways Die with the Falling Forest |
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2/5/97-- | Sepik, Papua New Guinea Timber Developer Not Legitimate |
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2/2/97-- | Heavy Logging Continues at Laotian Dam Site |
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2/2/97-- | Rewrite of U.S. Forest Laws Rouses Environmentalists |
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1/31/97-- | Chilean Timber Firms Eyeing Argentina |
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1/29/97-- | Indigenous Peoples and Maroons in Suriname Meet to Condemn Logging & Mining |
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1/25/97-- | Military and Thai Governmental Involvement in Cambodian Logging |
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1/20/97-- | Indonesia: Development, Degraded Rainforests & Decreasing Global Biological Diversity |
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1/19/97-- | January, 1997, Papua New Guinea Forest Update |
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1/18/97-- | Lost Forests Leave West Africa Dry |
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1/17/97-- | New Oil, Gas Leases Compete with Alaskan Wildlife |
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1/14/97-- | Shell
Oil to Drill on
Uncontacted Indian Land in Peru |
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1/14/97-- | U.S. & Bolivia Move to Protect Mahogany |
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1/10/97-- | U.S. Government Urges Protection for Amazon Mahogany |
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1/9/97-- | Papua New Guinea Loggers on Notice: Shape Up or Ship Out |
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1/8/97-- | Boycott
Daishowa to Support
Canadian Lubicon |
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1/5/97-- | Asian Timber Firms Set Sights on the Amazon |
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1/2/97-- | Sepik, Papua New Guinea, Land Give Away: Possible Logging Misconduct |
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1/1/97-- | 16 Hotspots for Boreal Forest Conservation |
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