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Greenpeace: Amazon Crimes File
http://activism.greenpeace.org/amazon/index.php
(2 votes)
pictorial, text and action items regarding "a war in the Amazon jungle" being perpetuated by powerful loggers, farmers and companies
Added: Dec. 17, 2003 | Rate It
Healthy Forests Initiative
http://www.fs.fed.us/projects/hfi/
(3 votes)
the Bush administration's misguided program to reduce the fire danger and return our forests and rangelands to a healthier state, mostly through increased logging
Added: Feb. 01, 2004 | Rate It
InsideWood
http://insidewood.lib.ncsu.edu/search.0;jsessionid=2554918688c000d4bcf0007c096f
global searchable image/character database for wood anatomists, conservationists and educators
Added: Jul. 25, 2005 | Rate It
Logging Operations in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea
http://www.wrm.org.uy/countries/PapuaNG/logging.html
(2 votes)
an environmental and social impact assessment of logging carried out by Rimbunan Hijau of Malaysia on the West coast of the island of Manus, by the World Rainforest Movement
Added: Feb. 24, 2001 | Rate It
Madagascar's Logging Crisis: Separating Myth from Fact
http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/news/chiefeditor/2010/05/madagascar-logging-crisis.html
from NATGEO News Watch, an blog entry about the resurgence of illegal logging in Madagascar
Added: Jun. 04, 2010 | Rate It
National Forest Protection Alliance
http://www.forestadvocate.org/
(1 vote)
dedicated to ending commercial logging on US National Forests and all federal public lands
Added: Feb. 05, 2001 | Rate It
National Geographic News - Asian Illegal Logging Exposed
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080320-logging-video-ap.html
in a video that provides footage that supposedly shows illegal logging in Laos that helps feed Vietnam's booming furniture trade to the U.S., Europe, and elsewhere
Added: Apr. 07, 2008 | Rate It
Overview Of Asian Companies, In Particular Malaysian Companies, An
http://archive.greenpeace.org/comms/97/forest/asian_companies_contents.html
extensive report commissioned by Greenpeace that reviews the increased role of Malaysian companies in tropical logging
Added: Jan. 31, 2001 | Rate It
Pandering to the Loggers - Why WWF's Global Forest and Trade Network Isn't Working
http://www.globalwitness.org/Panderingtotheloggers
from Global Witness, access to a report that discusses the problems with the Global Forest and Trade Network (GFTN)that allows loggers to avoid the desired practices
Added: Sep. 19, 2011 | Rate It
Partners in mahogany crime: Amazon at the mercy of 'gentlemen's agreements'
http://archive.greenpeace.org/forests/forests_new/html/content/reports/Mahoganyweb.pdf
(3 votes)
Greenpeace report reveals that the mahogany trade is driving the destruction of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest and is run by a corrupt industry that is undermining traditional cultures (pdf)
Added: Nov. 04, 2001 | Rate It
PEFCwatch
(1 vote)
aims to inform consumers of wood products of the lack of ecological and social credibility of the Pan-European Forest Certification from the perspective of Finnish environmental organizations
Added: Apr. 12, 2001 | Rate It
Real Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement Annotated Map, The
http://www.dominionpaper.ca/files/dominion-img/CBFA-map-ANNOTATED.jpg
a map with notes that describe the areas within the Canadian Boreal caribou range that are subject to logging
Added: Apr. 08, 2011 | Rate It
Receiving Stolen Goods
http://www.eia-international.org/files/news406-1.pdf
(1 vote)
a report from the Environmental Investigation Agency that highlights why the UK must legislate against trade in illegal timber (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It
Rimbunan Hijau Watch
http://www.rimbunan.forests.org.au/
(5 votes)
seeks to tell the truth about Malaysian logging company Rimbunan Hijau and to give people access to coverage of the logging industry in Papua New Guinea
Added: Dec. 11, 2003 | Rate It
Save The Goat River!
(1 vote)
Canadian campaign to stop logging that threatens one of the last undeveloped watersheds in the headwaters of BC's mighty Fraser River, causing concern for salmon, mountain caribou, grizzly bear and other wildlife
Added: Dec. 20, 2001 | Rate It
Say No to Bad Wood
http://www.saynotobadwood.org/
provides an opportunity to write a letter to the Australian government in which you demand they stick to their election promise on illegal timber imports
Added: Nov. 13, 2009 | Rate It
Stop Urban Sprawl
http://forestaction.wikidot.com/
provides news and alerts from the Vancouver Island Community's Forest Action Network
Added: Jan. 27, 2009 | Rate It
Strenthening Forest Law Enforcement and Governance
report on the World Bank's approach to combatting forest crimes (pdf)
Added: Oct. 19, 2006 | Rate It
Survey of Illegal Forest Felling Activities in Russia
http://www.forest.ru/eng/publications/illegal/
(5 votes)
the Russian NGO forest club summerizes data on illegal forest felling operations in violation of forestry legislation, and the forms and methods of illegal cutting
Added: Feb. 24, 2001 | Rate It
Sustainable Forest Degeneration in Bialowieza Forest
http://www.franknature.nl/reports/SFD_bialowieza.pdf
report describing the forest management plan implemented in the Polish section of the Bialowieza Forest -- Europe's last large wilderness -- which has resulted in a reduction of ecological diversity (pdf)
Added: Feb. 27, 2008 | Rate It
Sustained Yield
http://www.pacificfringe.net/sustainedyield/
(2 votes)
a critical look at the idea of "Sustained Yield" which is the focus of professional forestry, with a special focus on liquidation/conversion projects in British Columbia, Canada
Added: Feb. 08, 2001 | Rate It
Through the Trees: The Truth Behind Logging in Canada
http://utcare.sa.utoronto.ca/resources/PAPER_Greenpeace_BorealReport.pdf
(3 votes)
damning report regarding the rate of destruction of Canadian boreal forests, the largest wilderness forest left in North America (pdf)
Added: Oct. 21, 2003 | Rate It
Tropical Forest Foundation
http://www.tropicalforestfoundation.org/
(2 votes)
promotes sustainable tropical forest management by gathering and disseminating information about its benefits and by demonstrating and teaching proper management practices
Added: Dec. 02, 2001 | Rate It
USDA Forest Service
(1 vote)
the US government's federal agency charged with management of the nation's national forests
Added: Feb. 05, 2001 | Rate It
Why FSC
supports the Forest Stewardship Council as the "only certification system to offer genuine certainty about responsible forest management"
Added: Apr. 16, 2007 | Rate It
