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Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins - Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn (ASB) editor's pick popular
(4 votes)
working across the world’s tropical forest margins to raise the productivity and income of poor rural households without increasing deforestation or undermining essential environmental services
Added: Aug. 05, 2004 | Rate It
coolforests.org editor's pick
(1 vote)
dedicated to highlighting the importance of preserving Australia's old forests in the fight against global warming
Added: Sep. 16, 2007 | Rate It
Little REDD Book, The editor's pick
http://www.globalcanopy.org/main.php?m=5&sm=24&ssm=65&sssm=147
a guide by the Forest Canopy Programme to aid understanding of the UN mechanism for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) and halting deforestation in developing countries
Added: Dec. 19, 2008 | Rate It
Moving Ahead with REDD editor's pick
http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/publications/pdf_files/Books/BAngelsen0801.pdf
online book exploring issues associated with the complex process of implementing Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) (pdf)
Added: Dec. 19, 2008 | Rate It
REDD-Monitor editor's pick
provides analysis, opinions, news and views about Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) whereby carbon markets promote forest protection
Added: Oct. 28, 2008 | Rate It
Rettet den Regenwald (Rainforest Rescue) new
http://www.regenwald.org/international/englisch/news.php?id=1226
news from a German non-profit that organizes protest actions against rainforest destruction by loggers, companies such as oil or mining companies and development projects
Added: May. 01, 2009 | Rate It
Seeing REDD in the Amazon:A Win for People, Trees and Climate new
http://www.iied.org/pubs/pdfs/17052IIED.pdf
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) describes the increased use of REDD (reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation) procedures to preserve forests in Amazonia (pdf)
Added: May. 11, 2009 | Rate It
UFZ Centre for Environmental Research new
http://www.mata-atlantica.ufz.de/biocapsp.html
a project called the Biodiversity conservation in fragmented landscapes at the Atlantic Plateau of São Paulo intends to analyze which factors determine, in fragmented landscapes, the diversity patterns and the distribution of bird, mammal and amphibian species
Added: May. 11, 2009 | Rate It
Central African Regional Program for the Environment popular
(4 votes)
addresses the issues of deforestation and biodiversity loss in the Congo Basin forest zone
Added: Jan. 31, 2001 | Rate It
Landsat NASA Pathfinder Humid Tropical Deforestation Project popular
http://www.geog.umd.edu/tropical/
(6 votes)
maps global deforestation in the humid tropics, focusing on the Amazon Basin, Central Africa, and
Southeast Asia
Added: Feb. 04, 2001 | Rate It
National Geographic: Eye in the Sky - Deforestation and Desertification popular
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/eye/deforestation/deforestation.html
(6 votes)
an interactive site from National Geographic which includes photos, causes, and impacts of deforestation and desertification
Added: Oct. 13, 2001 | Rate It
New Forests Project popular
http://www.newforestsproject.org/nfp/en/index.html
(3 votes)
effort to initiate reforestation and reduce deforestation in "developing countries" by providing training and materials necessary to begin successful reforestation projects
Added: Feb. 01, 2001 | Rate It
Tropical Forest Conservation and Development: A Bibliography popular
http://forestry.lib.umn.edu/bib/trps.phtml
(4 votes)
a searchable subject index of tropical forest resources, deforestation, conservation, indigenous peoples, management, policy and other tropical forest related topics
Added: Jan. 26, 2001 | Rate It
Underlying causes of deforestation popular
http://www.wrm.org.uy/deforestation/indirect.html
(4 votes)
analysis and articles published in the World Rainforest Movement bulletin; including unsustainable agriculture, land tenure policies, consumption and the role of the military
Added: Feb. 24, 2001 | Rate It
Armenia Tree Project
conducts vitally important environmental projects in Armenia's impoverished and deforested zones
Added: Feb. 19, 2009 | Rate It
Carving up the Congo Report
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/forests/africa/congo-report
(1 vote)
Greenpeace exposes that logging in the Congo rainforest is out of control, falls short of calling for an end to industrial logging in Congo's ancient primary rainforest (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It
Climate and Deforestation
http://www.foei.org/en/publications/pdfs/redd-myths
a critical review, by Friends of the Earth, of proposed mechanisms for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) in developing countries (pdf)
Added: Dec. 14, 2008 | Rate It
Cutting Corners
http://www.fern.org/media/documents/document_4312_4313.pdf
this report by Forests and the European Resource Network (FERN) assesses the effectiveness of country plans for reducing deforestation and how these plans meet the needs of indigenous peoples (pdf)
Added: Dec. 19, 2008 | Rate It
Easter Island
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuIxDMj3DNA
music video recounts the history of the Polynesian tribes who settled this remote island about one thousand years ago and the destruction they inflicted on themselves through abuse of their environment
Added: Feb. 20, 2008 | Rate It
Ecoforestry Institute Society
(1 vote)
dedicated to promoting ecologically, socially and economically responsible forest use that maintains and restores the complexity and diversity of our forests
Added: Jan. 28, 2005 | Rate It
Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics
(2 votes)
provides news and information on forest management, issues affecting the Forest Service, and a point of dialogue for environmentally responsible forestry
Added: Apr. 14, 2005 | Rate It
Global Forest Resources Assessment 2005
http://www.fao.org/forestry/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
Illegal Wood for the European Market
http://assets.panda.org/downloads/illegal_wood_for_the_european_market_july_2008.pdf
a WWF report that estimates the magnitude of timber from illegal sources which reach the European market (pdf)
Added: Oct. 28, 2008 | Rate It
The Demon in Democracy - Zeitgeist in the Forest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24XnEswKnBQ
a short documentary on a water crisis in the Yarra Ranges, Australia
Added: Apr. 07, 2008 | Rate It
Zero Deforestation
http://en.zero-deforestation.org/index.php
(1 vote)
the Shiwiar Indians from Ecuador Amazonian territories call for restitution and preservation for their ancestral heritage, and for zero deforestation
Added: Nov. 24, 2007 | Rate It
