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12/29/99-- World Rainforest Movement Bulletin, #29  (more: archive | internet)

12/26/99-- Bolivian Pipeline is Destroying Tropical Forests  (more: archive | internet)

12/26/99-- & VICTORY: Papua New Guinea to Impose Moratorium on New Logging and Review Old  (more: archive | internet)

12/23/99-- British Green Group to Monitor Cambodian Forests  (more: archive | internet)

12/23/99-- U.S. National Forests Threatened by Logging and Recreation  (more: archive | internet)

12/21/99-- Deforestation, Climate Change & Poverty Aggravate Latin America Floods  (more: archive | internet)

12/20/99-- Enlargement of Polish National Park Threatened  (more: archive | internet)

12/18/99-- Cutbacks in Amazonian Protection Put Off  (more: archive | internet)

12/17/99-- VICTORY: Massive Temperate Rainforest Logging Project in Chile Called Off  (more: archive | internet)

12/16/99-- Borneo Rain Forest on Verge of Total Destruction (more: archive | internet)

12/16/99-- VICTORY: New Zealand's New Government Stops Rainforest Logging (more: archive | internet)

12/11/99-- Illegal Amazonian Timber Trade Exposed (more: archive | internet)

12/6/99-- Brazil Forestry Code Vote Pending  (more: archive | internet)

12/6/99-- U.S. to Protect Forests in Trade Talks  (more: archive | internet)

12/5/99-- "Paper Parks" Illustrate Magnitude of Threat to World's Forests  (more: archive | internet)

12/4/99-- Website to Comment on U.S. Roadless Protection Proposal  (more: archive | internet)

12/1/99-- Loggers' Suit Alleges Ecological 'Religion'  (more: archive | internet)

11/30/99-- WTO Controversy Over Forest Tariffs, and Other Environmental and Social Concerns  (more: archive | internet)

11/29/99-- Indonesia: Irian Jaya (West Papua) Faces Green Pressures  (more: archive | internet)

11/27/99-- Papua New Guinea: Land Racket Exposed  (more: archive | internet)

11/26/99-- Papua New Guinea Rainforest Tribe Takes Timber Developers to Court  (more: archive | internet)

11/23/99-- Help Save Nigeria's Cross River Mangrove and Rainforest  (more: archive | internet)

11/22/99-- While Queensland, Australia Government Dithers, Land Clearing Soars  (more: archive | internet)

11/21/99-- Colombian Indians Seize Oil Wells on Their Ancestral Homelands  (more: archive | internet)

11/21/99-- Mexican Biosphere Reserve Threatened by Saltworks  (more: archive | internet)

11/16/99-- Papua New Guinea Eco-Timber Hits Australian Market  (more: archive | internet)

11/16/99-- Chilean Forestry Project Symbol of Concerns Over WTO  (more: archive | internet)

11/14/99-- Papua New Guinea: World Bank Forest Project Back on Track  (more: archive | internet)

11/14/99-- Strengthen Intent of U.S. Roadless Initiative  (more: archive | internet)

11/12/99-- Plundering Indonesia's Forests  (more: internet)

11/12/99-- Oil Companies Pull Out of African Oil Project  (more: internet)

11/11/99-- Expanding the Market for Environmentally Preferable Paper  (more: archive | internet)

11/11/99-- FrankenTrees: The Dangers of Genetically Modified Trees  (more: archive | internet)

11/8/99-- HomeBase Phases Out Old-Growth--Momentum Builds Against Old-Growth Logging  (more: archive | internet)

11/8/99-- Australian Land Clearance Free for All a "National Disgrace"  (more: archive | internet)

11/6/99-- Unlawful Logging Threatens Indonesia's Largest Protected Forest  (more: archive | internet)

11/5/99-- VICTORY!  Wickes Lumber Cuts Out Old Growth Products  (more: archive | internet)

11/3/99-- Mahogany Needs Protection  (more: archive | internet)

11/2/99-- Eco-Worries Undercut Tropical Timber Market (more: archive | internet)

11/1/99-- USA Offers Brazil Debt Pardon for Environmental Investment in Amazon  (more: >archive | internet)

10/31/99-- Law of the Jungle  (more: >archive | internet)

10/30/99-- Cambodia Cracks Down on Illegal Loggers  (more: internet)

10/25/99-- Loggers Find Canada Rain Forest Flush With Foes (more: archive | internet)

10/23/99-- U.S. Spotted Owl Controversy Didn't Cause Massive Job Losses  (more: archive | internet)

10/23/99-- Planting Trees May Not Help Stop Global Warming  (more: archive | internet)

10/22/99-- U.S. Roadless Protection Announcement a "Charade"  (more: archive | internet)

10/19/99-- Exploitation Turning Vast Areas of Africa into a Virtual Wasteland (more: archive | internet)

10/17/99-- WTO Threatens Forests, Environment and Democracy (more: archive | internet)

10/17/99-- Extinction Continues Long After Deforestation  (more: archive | internet)

10/15/99-- Participate in Process to Protect U.S. Roadless Areas  (more: archive | internet)

10/13/99-- Clinton Announces Forest Protections  (more: archive | internet)

10/13/99-- Clinton Moves to Protect 40 Million Acres of Forest  (more: archive | internet)

10/13/99-- Some Movement Towards Eco-Friendly Forestry in Brazil (more: >archive | internet)

10/11/99-- Illegal Logging Kills Philippine Forests  (more: archive | internet)

10/10/99-- Chilean Court OKs Boise Cascade Plant  (more: archive | internet)

10/10/99-- Buying Destruction: A Report for Corporate Consumers of Forest Products  (more: archive | internet)

10/8/99-- Clinton Readies Significant Forest Protection Initiative (more: archive | internet)

10/7/99-- Health of Europe's Forests Deteriorating  (more: archive | internet)

10/5/99-- Judge Shuts Down Some Timber Sales in American Forests (more: archive | internet)

10/3/99-- Bolivian Timber Company Sells Lands to Park  (more: archive | internet)

9/30/99-- Pristine Amazon Jungle Threatened by Big Oil Firm  (more: archive | internet)

9/30/99-- Canadian Women Blockade Temperate Rainforest Logging Road (more: archive | internet)

9/26/99-- Time is Running out for the Environment, UN Says (more: archive | internet)

9/26/99-- Plant Losses Threaten World's Food Supplies  (more: archive | internet)

9/25/99-- Home Depot Victory to Ignite an Industry Chain Reaction  (more: archive | internet)

9/24/99-- Polish Efforts to Expand National Park Needs Your Assistance (more: archive | internet)

9/23/99-- Brazil Atlantic Forest Tops Global Ecology Concerns (more: >archive)

9/22/99-- The Ongoing Threat to the World's Forests (more: archive)

9/22/99-- American Forests Fragmented (more: archive)

9/16/99-- Charges that World Trade Organization Threatens Forests (more: archive)

9/16/99-- U.S. Senate Nixes Timber Sale Subsidy Cuts (more: archive)

9/15/99-- Climate Change: Indifferent to a Planet in Pain

9/13/99-- Chilean Logging Interests Steal Indigenous Birthright (more: archive)

9/12/99-- Plundering Russia's Timber (more: archive)

9/12/99-- Action Needed to Protect Nicaragua's Imperiled Forests (more: archive)

9/9/99-- South America Ablaze (more: archive)

9/7/99-- Fires Claim 4.4 Million Acres in US (more: archive)

9/6/99-- Violence in Sarawak, Malaysia Oil Palm Projects on Indigenous Lands (more: archive)

9/6/99-- Help Keep the Bulldozers out of Ecuadorian Amazon Biological Station (more: archive)

9/6/99-- Environmentalists Slam Brazil Over Fires (more: >archive)

9/4/99-- Cash-Starved Sri Lanka to Cut Teak Trees in National Parks (more: archive)
9/2/99-- Fires Rage in Brazil (more: >archive)
8/31/99-- Ecuador Rainforest Pays the Price of Texaco Oil Production (more)
8/29/99-- Papua New Guinea Timber Industry Unleashes Flood of Misinformation (more)
8/28/99-- Illegal Logging Rips Up Tanzanian Forests (more)
8/26/99-- More on Stunning Home Depot Success Story (more)
8/26/99-- VICTORY:  Home Depot Commits to Phasing Out Old Growth Wood (more)
8/26/99-- Rampant Illegal Logging in Indonesia's National Parks Confirmed (more)
8/25/99-- U.S. Congress Urged to Buy National Park "Inholdings" (more)
8/24/99-- Rainforest Permanently Damaged by Logging (more)
8/22/99-- World Governments Slammed Over Logging (more)
8/19/99-- Return of Timber Wars to USA (more)
8/19/99-- Illegal Amazon Logging Targeted (>more)
8/17/99-- Airport Expansion in Hawaii Threatens Native Forest (more)
8/16/99-- Nomadic Rain-Forest Dwellers in Malaysia Fear Extinction (more)
8/16/99-- Papua New Guinea: Weeds Threaten the Mighty Sepik River (more)
8/14/99-- Land Use Changes Cause Significant Carbon Loss (more)
8/13/99-- Papua New Guinea Tax Hikes: Too Harsh on Logging Industry? (more)
8/11/99-- Papua New Guinea Log Export Tax Relief Discontinued (more)
8/9/99-- Canadian Great Bear Wilderness Threatened (more)
8/9/99-- Haze Again Blankets Southeast Asia (more)
8/7/99-- Africa Takes Tentative Steps Toward Protecting Rainforests (more)
8/7/99-- Judge Says U.S. Failed to Honor Logging Deal (more)
8/6/99-- Botanists Warn of Mass Extinctions (more)
8/1/99-- Bolivian Rainforests Allocated Without Indigenous Consent (more)
7/30/99-- Africa: Rumbles in the Jungle (more)
7/30/99-- Americans Say Protect Their Roadless Areas (more)
7/28/99-- Major Australian Press Coverage of Papua New Guinea Logging (more)
7/28/99-- Solomon Islands Potential World Heritage Area for Clear Felling (more)
7/26/99-- Virtual Blockade of Canadian Timber Company Begins (more)
7/26/99-- Continued Illegal Logging in Indonesian Parks (more)
7/23/99-- As Brazil Goes, So Goes the World (>more)
7/22/99-- Tree Free Paper Guide (more)
7/21/99-- Stop Funding for African Pipeline (more)
7/18/99-- Cameroon Ban on Endangered Hardwoods, But with a Loophole (more)
7/17/99-- Lonely Battle for the Rainforests of Assam, India  (more)
7/8/99-- Alien Species: A Slow Motion Explosion (more)
7/4/99-- Global Forest Trade Battle Looming with WTO (more)
7/4/99-- Canadian Senators Urge Action to Protect Boreal Forest (more)
6/27/99-- Colombian Environmental Protections and Indigenous Rights Under Siege (more)
6/26/99-- Outrage Growing over Chilean Forest Mega-Project (more)
6/26/99-- The Worldwatch Report: Amazon Hatchet Job (>more)
6/24/99-- Fear of Indonesian Fires Rekindled (more)
6/23/99-- Allegations of Major Illegal Logging in Indonesian National Park (more)
6/21/99-- Weyerhaeuser Acquires Canadian Timber Company, Clayoquot & Elsewhere at Risk (more)
6/19/99-- VICTORY: Clayoquot Sound, Canada Truce (more)
6/18/99-- Papua New Guinea: Potential for Wrong Log Declarations--Need Independent Monitoring (more)
6/18/99-- Tropical Timbers Not Doing Well in World Markets (more)
6/16/99-- FOREST CONSERVATION PORTAL-- Announcing Forest & Biodiversity Conservation Search Engine
6/16/99-- Japan's Traditional Wooden Homes Trashing the World's Forests (more)
6/2/99-- Canada's Lack of an Endangered Species Law (more)
5/31/99-- Greenpeace Launches Global Campaign to Save Amazon (>more)
5/30/99-- Honey Hunters of Kenya Land Case Ends Up in Court (more)
5/27/99-- Gabon, Africa: Pristine Rainforest Threatened by French Company (more)
5/23/99-- Logs May Be Seized in Papua New Guinea--Worth K3m (more)
5/16/99-- Brazil's Ancient Savannahs Finally Succumb (>more)
5/16/99-- Chilean Tribal Leader Arrested Over Report (more)
5/14/99-- World Bank Funded Forestry Project in Papua New Guinea in Danger (more)
5/12/99-- Papua New Guinea Timber Deals a Concern (more)
5/12/99-- Huge Papua New Guinea "Fast-Track" Logging Project Hits Hurdle (more)
5/11/99-- Western Australia Forest Agreement (more)
5/8/99-- Illegal Logging Damages Caucasus Mountain Forests in Georgia (more)
5/3/99-- Papua New Guinea: First Court Victory and Compensation Against Illegal Logging (more)
4/28/99-- New Plan to Save World's Forests (more)
4/24/99-- Mexican Group Cites Logging Threat to Butterflies (more)
4/23/99-- Solomon Islands: Logging and Palm Oil Plantation Found Not Economic (more)
4/23/99-- Papua New Guinea Government Urged to Axe Forest Plan, Impose Moratorium (more)
4/18/99-- Ecuador Protects Two National Parks (more)
4/18/99-- Areas in Tongass National Forest in Alaska, U.S.A. Put Off Limits (more)
4/18/99-- Call from Papua New Guinea Foresters for a Forestry Review (more)
4/17/99-- Studies Document Ease Of Ecosystem Disruption (more)
4/13/99-- U.S. Congress Embraces Land Conservation (more)
4/11/99-- China Says It Will Not Depend on Increased Timber Imports (more)
4/9/99-- Papua New Guinea Log Monitoring Flip-Flops (more)
4/8/99-- Amazon Rain Forest Fading Faster Than Thought (>more)
4/8/99-- Papua New Guinea Logging Criticized (more)
4/8/99-- Brazil Relaxes Amazon Deforestation Ban (>more)
3/99-- On Sabbatical for 4 weeks
3/6/99-- World Forest Cover in Retreat (more)
3/6/99-- Save the Ancient Temperate Rainforests of Chile (more)
2/19/99-- Scope of China's Logging Ban Expanded (more)
2/15/99-- Papua New Guinea: Control of Log Export at Risk (more)
2/12/99-- Brazil Suspends Issuing of Amazon Clearing Permits (>more)
2/11/99-- Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon Jumps in 1998 (>more)
2/10/99-- U.S. Forest Service Slammed (more)
2/10/99-- HIV-1 Source Found to be Chimpanzees in Logging-Threatened Rainforests (more)
2/10/99-- Papua New Guinea Biodiversity Research Institute Established (more)
2/8/99-- Papua New Guinea: Call for Ban on New Export Log Projects (more)
2/5/99-- New Study Casts Doubt on Some Forest Conservation Methods (more)
2/4/99-- Saanich Statement of Principles on Forests and Communities (more)
2/4/99-- British Columbia, Canada's Raw Log Exports Up (more)
2/1/99-- Indonesia to Sell and Give Away Forests Soon (more)
1/29/99-- World's Largest Timber Mill for Chile (more)
1/28/99-- Papua New Guinea Log Exports on Road to Recovery (more)
1/28/99-- Increase in African Poaching Linked to Logging (more)
1/28/99-- Cambodia Cancels Log Deals, Hopes for More Aid (more)
1/25/99-- Study Shows U.S. Ecosystem Damage (more)
1/23/99-- Appeal to Stop Unsustainable Woodchipping in Western Australia (more)
1/23/99-- Papua New Guinea: Assurances that Forest Projects 'Will Follow Procedures" (more)
1/22/99-- Accusations PNG Forests Minister on Wrong Track (more)
1/8/99-- Papua New Guinea Government Accused of Rushing Projects (more)
1/7/99-- Cameroon Determined to Ban Log Exports in 1999 (more)
1/2/99-- Help Home Depot Live Up to Its Advertising (more)
1/2/99-- Brazil Slashes Amazon Protection Money (>more)

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