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Illegal Logging editor's pick popular
http://www.illegal-logging.info/
(6 votes)
a point of information on all aspects of the current international debate around the control of illegal logging and forest crimes
Added: Sep. 09, 2003 | Rate It
Trees Not Gunns editor's pick popular
(2 votes)
a campaign by Rainforest Action Network seeking to permanently protect Tasmania, Australia's ecologically rich old-growth forests from destructive and irresponsible logging by GUNNS Limited, a company which is undermining democracy in Tasmania and engaging in some of the worst logging practices in the world
Added: Mar. 11, 2006 | Rate It
Free Grassy Narrows editor's pick
campaign by Rainforest Action Network to grow support for the First Nation people of Ontario Canada's Grassy Narrows' struggle for self determination and to help stop the logging that they oppose
Added: Sep. 03, 2006 | Rate It
FSC-Watch editor's pick
(2 votes)
an independent observer of the Forest Stewardship Council, aiming to increase the integrity of FSC's forest certification scheme
Added: Dec. 02, 2006 | Rate It
Vested Interests - Industrial Logging and Carbon in Tropical Fprests editor's pick
http://www.globalwitness.org/library/vested-interests-report-warns-dangers-industrial-scale-logging
a report by Global Witness that discusses the carbon sequestration ability of natural rainforests with that of selectively logged forests
Added: Jun. 20, 2009 | Rate It
Africa Timber Ban popular
http://www1.american.edu/projects/mandala/TED/africa.htm
(5 votes)
an examination of dangers posed by uncontrolled depletion of African forests from the American University's Trade and Environment Database
Added: Feb. 19, 2001 | Rate It
Cameroon's Forests popular
http://www.globalforestwatch.org/english/centralafrica/cameroonforests.htm
(3 votes)
Global Forest Watch provides general data and maps
Added: Jan. 13, 2001 | Rate It
Canada's Forests popular
http://www.globalforestwatch.org/english/canada/index.htm
(9 votes)
Global Forest Watch provides general data and maps
Added: Jan. 13, 2001 | Rate It
Direct causes of deforestaton: Logging popular
http://www.wrm.org.uy/deforestation/logging.html
(5 votes)
articles published in the World Rainforest Movement bulletin that highlight logging as a major cause of deforestation
Added: Feb. 24, 2001 | Rate It
Forest Ethics popular
(6 votes)
dedicated to protecting forests by redirecting US markets towards ecologically sound alternatives - particularly active in British Columbia, Canada
Added: Jan. 17, 2001 | Rate It
Broken Ground
http://www.ourforests.org/brokenground/release.html
a report from the Heritage Forests Campaign which shows how the Bush Administration has broken its pledge for interim protection of America's last wild forests (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It
Bulldozing Progress
http://www.acfonline.org.au/uploads/res/res_acf-celcor_full.pdf
(1 vote)
report from the Australian Conservation Foundation and Celcor investigates human rights abuses and corruption in Papua New Guinea's large scale logging industry (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It
Campaign for Old Growth
(1 vote)
a campaign that seeks to end old-growth logging in California
Added: Sep. 09, 2003 | Rate It
Clouds on the Horizon: The Congo Basin's Forests and Climate Change
http://www.rainforestfoundationuk.org/files/Global%20Warming%20Low%20PDF.pdf
a report by the Rainforest Foundation UK about emissions from deforestation in the Congo Basin, and the likely impact of increased logging and land conversion in the future (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It
Discover Tasmania
http://www.discover-tasmania.com/
(3 votes)
graphically illustrating the destruction of old growth and native forests and poisoning of native wildlife in Tasmania Australia
Added: Aug. 23, 2003 | Rate It
Discover Tasmania News
news and information regarding industrial logging of old-growth forests in Tasmania, Australia
Added: Oct. 13, 2005 | Rate It
Don't Buy SFI
http://www.dontbuysfi.com/home/
(2 votes)
campaign to show the "Sustainable Forestry Initiative" is a historic greenwashing effort helping loggers appear “sustainable” when it’s really just the Same-old Forest Industry
Added: Dec. 17, 2003 | Rate It
Failing the Forests: Europe's Illegal Timber Trade
http://assets.panda.org/downloads/failingforests.pdf
a WWF report about illegal timber sales in Europe; includes research on the scale of the illegal timber market, origins of illegal timber and policy options for stopping it (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It
Forest House
http://archive.greenpeace.org/foresthouse/
Greenpeace asks the question, how much ancient forest do you have in your home?
Added: Sep. 23, 2004 | Rate It
Friends of Forests and Free Speech
(1 vote)
information on one of the biggest lawsuits ever in Australia by a company against citizens, groups and representatives who care about our environmental heritage
Added: Mar. 15, 2005 | Rate It
Global Forest Resources Assessment 2005
http://www.fao.org/forestry/fra/fra2005/en/0/
(4 votes)
report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations which evaluates current status of and recent trends in global forest extent, condition, use and value
Added: Nov. 17, 2005 | Rate It
Global Timber
http://www.globaltimber.org.uk/
(1 vote)
information and statistics on the international trade in timber products, with an emphasis upon Asia and Africa
Added: Jul. 20, 2005 | Rate It
Greenpeace Canada
http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/
(1 vote)
uses nonviolent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems, including protecting biodiversity in all its forms
Added: Feb. 08, 2001 | Rate It
Greenpeace Canada: Turning Up the Heat
http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/campaigns/boreal/recent-developments/turninguptheheat/
presents a report concerning the risks of sudden increases in carbon emissions associated with logging in Canada's Boreal forests
Added: Apr. 17, 2008 | Rate It
Greenpeace UK: Forests
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/forests
Greenpeace UK's forest campaign site, featuring investigations, exposes and actions undertaken to highlight the UK's role in illegal logging and ancient forest destruction
Added: Aug. 04, 2003 | Rate It
