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·2/7/2009 - Australia: A Tasmanian tragedy? : How the forestry industry has torn an island apart, Mongabay
·25/5/2009 - Conservation of Mexico's ungulate species explored, Mongabay
·8/5/2009 - Australia: Climate Change - Further Threat to Aboriginals, Inter Press Service
·27/4/2009 - Study: SE Asia will be hit hard by climate change, Associated Press
·23/4/2009 - Tree "found" in Ethiopia raises hopes for species, Reuters
·20/4/2009 - Cameron throws weight behind "bio-banking" scheme, Business Green
·1/4/2009 - Energy urgency pits tree-huggers against smokestack pluggers, CNews
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·Amphibians on the IUCN Red List
·Agrofuels in Africa: The impacts on land, food and forests
·Southern African Water Crisis (SAWAC)
·Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins - Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn (ASB)
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- 1. Cameroon: Legal forest biodiversity destruction Rank: 71%
- wrmcast.gif (3121 bytes) Cameroon: Legal forest biodiversity destruction Industrial logging is one of the main direct causes of forest biodiversity loss. Many organizations and governments have focused on illegal logging and less so on destructive legal logging (see WRM Bulletin Nº 98). In this respect, a recent report ("Legal Forest Destruction. The Wide Gap Between Legality and Sustainability") provides a broader perspective by looking at the Dutch timber trade, its focus on legality and the...
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- 2. Rainforests.net - Rainforests Biodiversity Scale Of Destruction... Rank: 71%
- EcoProducts Links Easy Print EcoProducts EcoPortal EcoThings To Do EcoHistory EcoCards EcoJobs EcoDonate EcoPetition EcoCounters Time Weather Area/Zip Maps Reference Dictionary Rainforest Acres Cut This Year Species Extinctions This Year RAINFORESTS BIODIVERSITY SCALE OF DESTRUCTION The Number One Issue Facing Humanity by Mark R. Elsis At Our Current Rate Of Mass Species Extinctions Due To Rainforests Destruction Omega Point For Homo Sapiens Will Occur Between 2012 - 2016 This we know: The earth...
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- 3. Rainforests.net: Rainforests Biodiversity Scale Of Destruction... Rank: 71%
- News In The News Earths.net Direct Actions Trailers EcoProducts Links Easy Print EcoProducts EcoPortal EcoThings To Do EcoHistory EcoCards EcoJobs EcoDonate EcoPetition EcoCounters Time Weather Area/Zip Maps Reference Dictionary RAINFORESTS BIODIVERSITY SCALE OF DESTRUCTION The Number One Issue Facing Humanity by Mark Elsis and the staff of LOVEARTH®.net At Our Current Rate Of Mass Species Extinctions Due To Rainforests Destruction Omega Point For Homo Sapiens Will Occur Between 2012 -...
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- 4. Argentina: The systematic destruction of forest biodiversity Rank: 70%
- Argentina: The systematic destruction of forest biodiversity With an area of 2,791,810 square kilometres, Argentina is the second largest country in South America. Due to its extension in latitude --from 22 to 56 º SL-- its territory encompasses a variety of climates, landscapes, flora and fauna. Argentina is included in the group of the 25 most biodiverse countries in the world in terms of sheer numbers of species present. The several types of native forests to be found in that country are...
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- 5. Indonesia: Oil palm plantations at the heart of biodiversity... Rank: 70%
- Indonesia: Oil palm plantations at the heart of biodiversity destruction Indonesia has 10% of the worlds remaining tropical forests which are home to over 20,000 plant species --accounting for 10% of the planets total--, 12% of the world's mammal species and 17% of bird species, many of which are unique. The magnitude of this lush biodiversity can be pictured by the data that 25 acres of Borneo's rainforest were found to contain 700 tree species, equal to the total number of species for the...
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- 6. WRM Bulletin Nº 56 / March 2002 Rank: 70%
- and mining ASIA Laos: IUCN's controversial role in the Nam Theun 2 dam Malaysia: Penang's mangroves and biodiversity conservation Thailand: Displaced peoples wrongly blamed for forest destruction Indonesia: Oil palm plantations at the heart of biodiversity destruction CENTRAL AMERICA Costa Rica: The people say Yes to Life, No to Mining SOUTH AMERICA Brazil: Local peoples defend biodiversity in Espirito Santo Chile: Forests burnt to substitute them by monoculture tree plantations Ecuador:...
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- 7. MALAYSIA: Logging chief reason for destruction of biodiversity Rank: 70%
- biodiversity KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. - Habitat destruction from heavy logging near protected areas is the top reason for loss of biodiversity and species extinction, Department of Wildlife and National Parks protected area division director Dr Ebil Yusof said today. Presenting a paper titled "Overview: Issues, Threats and Challenges To Protected Areas Management" at a workshop, he said lowland dipterocarp forests (below 100m) were under extreme pressure. Forest conversion threatened up to 81 per cent...
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