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12/29/98-- Papua New Guinea Loggers 'Laughing All the Way to the Bank"
12/25/98-- Call for More Forest Reserves in the Brazilian Amazon
12/22/98-- Rainforest Fails to Absorb Excess Carbon During El Nino
12/22/98-- Call for Papua New Guinea to Give Logging Christmas Gift to Nation's Children
12/22/98-- Suit Demands Ban on Logging in U.S. National Forests
12/19/98-- Haiti Becomes a Caribbean Desert
12/19/98-- Russian Paper Producer to Phase Out Ancient Forest Use
12/15/98-- Papua New Guinea Log Tax Rate Cut Called Excessive
12/11/98-- Land Use and Climate Shifts
12/11/98-- Despite Booming Cambodian Logging, Tax Collection Down
12/8/98-- Cambodia Torches Log Trucks
12/8/98-- Major Corporations to Phase Out Ancient Forest Use
12/4/98-- Ontario, Canada's Boreal Forests-Fading Fast
11/30/98-- Brazil's Rainforest Plan Under Fire
11/24/98-- Canada Politicians, Loggers Lash Out at Greenpeace
11/24/98-- Indonesian Forest Crisis Hits Orangutans
11/22/98-- Asian Crisis Brings Turmoil to Gabon's Timber Industry
11/21/98-- Deforestation Worsened Impact of Hurricane Mitch
11/12/98-- Dire Amazon Rainforest Predictions
11/7/98-- World Forests Vulnerable to Global Warming
11/7/98-- Solomon Islands to End Unsustainable Forest Harvests
10/30/98-- Report States Effort to Save Rainforests Doomed
10/28/98-- Ecuadorian Indians Take Stand Against Oil
10/22/98-- Russia's Burning Forest an Ecological Disaster
10/20/98-- Stop Buying Ancient Forest Destruction
10/20/98-- European Projects Hurt Forests, Indigenous Peoples
10/18/98-- Chilean Beech Forest Harvest on Hold
10/12/98-- Sustaining Papua New Guinea's Natural Heritage--National Forest Plan Critique
10/12/98-- Home Depot Target of Forest Protests
10/10/98-- China Logging Ban to Cause Shortage by 2000
10/9/98-- Third of World's Natural Resources Consumed Since 1970
10/9/98-- Many Timber Firms Facing Closure in Indonesia
10/5/98-- Asian Crisis Slows South Pacific Logging
9/17/98-- Greenpeace Papua New Guinea Forest Update
9/6/98-- Development Threatens Venezuela Rainforest
9/5/98-- China Lumberjacks to Become Tree-Planters
9/2/98-- One-Tenth of World's Trees Face Extinction
8/23/98-- Scientists Call on Canadian Government to Protect Endangered Rainforest
8/23/98-- Papua New Guinea Biodiversity Revealed
8/21/98-- Environmental Crisis Looms by 2000
8/18/98-- Asian Crisis "Welcomed" by Penan in Malaysia
8/18/98-- China Moves to Curb Deforestation
8/10/98-- World Rainforest Movement's Anti-Plantation Campaign
7/19/98-- World's Forests Burn
7/19/98-- Brazilian Environmental Plan Labeled "Insufficient"
7/4/98-- Fragmentation of Tropical Forests Can Create "Genetic Bottleneck"
7/1/98-- Papua New Guinean Low Prices Force Logging Firm to Ship Out
7/1/98-- Study States Sustainable Logging in Tropics Doesn't Work
6/25/98-- Indonesian Reforestation Fund Confiscated
6/23/98-- Taking the Axe to Alberta, Canada's Forests
6/19/98-- For Vast Rain Forests, Clock's Ticking
6/18/98-- Tenth of Suriname to be Off-Limits to Loggers
6/18/98-- Smoke Signals: Vast Forest Fires Scar the Globe
6/18/98-- Papua New Guinea: Small and Medium Scaled Logging Backed
6/14/98-- El Salvador on Brink of Environmental Disaster
6/11/98-- Canadian Logger to Stop Clearcutting in Temperate Rainforest
6/9/98-- Mexican Fire Catastrophe
6/4/98-- Papua New Guinea: Export Duty Tax on Logs May Be Cut
6/4/98-- Help Save Venezuelan Imataca Reserve
5/31/98-- World Rainforest Movement Bulletin #12
5/14/98-- U.S. Forest Service Shifts from Loggers to Bikers
5/9/98-- Big Powers Launch Plan to Save Forests
5/9/98-- Scientists Want American Logging Restriction
5/9/98-- Ancient Redwoods, Endangered Species Under Attack
5/3/98-- Skeptics Wary of Amazon Protected Area Initiative
5/3/98-- Suriname Maroons Say No to Multinational Logging
4/30/98-- Brazil Announces Amazon Protection Plan
4/26/98-- Illegal Logging Discovered in Guyana
4/25/98-- Costa Rica to Save Forest with Carbon Credits
4/22/98-- Philippines--Row Rages Over Lifting of Timber Export Ban
4/22/98-- Solomon Islands to Nationalise Malaysian-Dominated Logging Industry
4/20/98-- Plant Survey Reveals Depth of Species Extinction Crisis
4/15/98-- Logging Increase in Guyana
4/12/98-- Global Forest Crisis Accelerating
4/12/98-- Mitsubishi Pulp Mill in Canada Gets Taxpayer Bailout
4/11/98-- Rains Quench Amazon Fires
4/7/98-- Indonesia Blames Timber Firms for Most Fires
4/5/98-- Getting the Price of the Forests Right
4/3/98-- Conservation and Deforestation in Costa Rican Parks
3/26/98-- Major Fire Tragedy in Roraima, Brazil
3/26/98-- Papua New Guinea: Second Go for Cheating Logger
3/25/98-- Fires Again Ravage Indonesia's Forests
3/22/98-- Brazil Seeks to Limit Settler Damage to Rainforest
3/22/98-- China Timber Imports Seen Rising
3/19/98-- American Legislature Approves Debt Relief for Tropical Forest Conservation
3/18/98-- Logging in Papua New Guinea: The axe falls
3/16/98-- Amazon Fire Risk Rises Due to Logging, Farmers
3/15/98-- Papua New Guinea Forest Authority Leaning Towards Lower Log Tax Amidst Bribery Allegations
3/15/98-- Papua New Guinea Timber Industry Faces Closure
3/15/98-- American Habitats on the Edge
3/14/98-- Brazilian Government Plan Aimed at Halting Amazon Devastation
3/10/98-- Indians at Risk as Fires Rage in Brazil
3/10/98-- Farmers Invade Famed Brazilian National Park
2/28/98-- Cambodian and Vietnamese Forces Behind Cambodian Timber Liquidation
2/27/98-- New Moves in Debt-for-Nature Swaps
2/23/98-- Deforestation Rampant in Amazon as Industrial Logging Takes Off
2/21/98-- Bush Fires Spread on Indonesian Part of Borneo
2/20/98-- Papua New Guinea Timber Industry Demise?, Loggers Hit Hard by Asian Crisis
2/17/98-- Brazil Introduces New Environmental Legislation
2/5/98-- Brazil Allows Sustainable Logging by Indigenous
2/5/98-- Taxpayer Dollars Underwrite Deforestation in Africa
1/31/98-- VICTORY: Brazil Suspends New Industrial Logging in the Amazonas State
1/26/98-- Amazon Destruction Intensifies
1/22/98-- Brazil Quiet as Evidence of Amazon's Demise Mounts
1/22/98-- Help Protect the Last Old-Growth Forests on Sakhalin Island
1/13/98-- Spare the Tree or You May Spoil More Than the Jungle
1/10/98-- Forest Fragmentation May Worsen Global Warming
1/5/98-- Nicaragua's Tropical Rainforest in Peril
1/3/98-- America Deals with Facing Nature's Limits
1/2/98-- Illegal Logging Rampant Along Thai Border

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