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South-East Asia's Peat Fires and Global Warming editor's pick popular
http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/peatfiresbackground.pdf
Biofuelwatch presents a fully referenced background piece regarding the seriousness of the destruction of Indonesia's peat forests for the global climate (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It
The State of the Nation's Ecosystems editor's pick popular
http://www.heinzcenter.org/ecosystems/index.shtml
a report from the Heinz Center on the condition of US lands, waters, and living resources
Added: Oct. 15, 2002 | Rate It
Tropical Deforestation and Climate Change editor's pick popular
http://www.edf.org/documents/4930_TropicalDeforestation_and_ClimateChange.pdf
(1 vote)
provides scientific perspectives on tropical deforestation and climate change, and a discussion of compensation payments made via the carbon market to reduce deforestation rates, by the Amazon Institute for Environmental Research, together with Environmental Defense
Added: Jun. 24, 2006 | Rate It
Biofuel by Decree editor's pick
http://www.terraper.org/file_upload/BiofuelbyDecree.pdf
(1 vote)
report details how the Burmese military’s nation-wide campaign to plant eight million acres of the Jatropha tree for biodiesel production is resulting in human rights abuses including forced labor, land confiscation, loss of income and food insecurity (pdf)
Added: May. 01, 2008 | Rate It
BirdLife International - State of the World's Birds editor's pick
http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/sowb
(2 votes)
annual report on birds from this global partnership of conservation organizations that strives to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity
Added: Oct. 23, 2008 | Rate It
Carbon Trade Watch editor's pick
http://www.carbontradewatch.org/downloads/publications/REDD_key_players.pdf
a paper that provides an overview of some of the organizations which are responsible for organizing, managing and profiting from REDD+ (pdf)
Added: Dec. 02, 2011 | Rate It
Climate Change: Financing Global Forests editor's pick
http://www.ourfutureplanet.org/newsletters/resources/Executive_summary_eliasch_review.pdf
a report prepared by Johan Eliasch for the Prime Minister (UK) that provides a comprehensive analysis of international financing to reduce forest loss and its associated impacts on climate change (pdf)
Added: Nov. 15, 2008 | Rate It
Climate Geo-engineering with 'carbon negative' bioenergy - climate saviour or climate endgame? editor's pick
http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/docs/cnbe/cnbe.html
a critical analysis of proposals to use biochar (agrichar) and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage proposals to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and mitigating climate change that depend upon forests (pdf)
Added: Nov. 26, 2008 | Rate It
Don't Log the Forests for the Fuel editor's pick
http://pressroomda.greenmediatoolshed.org/sites/default/files/Forest4Fuel08.pdf
examines the potential environmental
and economic impacts of the cellulosic
ethanol industry in the Southern United States (pdf)
Added: Oct. 28, 2008 | Rate It
Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) editor's pick
http://www.eia-international.org/campaigns/forests/
works to protect the world’s forests by combining undercover investigations with hard hitting reports and briefings, exposing criminal syndicates and unsustainable markets behind rampant illegal logging, and lobbying governments in timber producing and consuming countries to act
Added: Jul. 20, 2006 | Rate It
FAO State of the World's Forests: 2007 editor's pick
http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/a0773e/a0773e00.htm
outlines the current situation and developments in the world's forests and examines selected issues (pdf)
Added: Mar. 17, 2008 | Rate It
Ghosts on our Own Land editor's pick
http://archive.forestpeoples.org/documents/prv_sector/oil_palm/ghosts_on_our_own_land_txt_06_eng.pdf
report by Forest Peoples Programme and Sawit Watch about the social and environmental impacts of oil palm plantation expansion in Indonesia (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 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
Oldgrowth for Export editor's pick
http://www.wilderness.org.au/files/old-growth-for-export-report.pdf
a report by the Tasmanian Wilderness Society documenting the logging and woodchipping
of Tasmania, Australia's old growth forests (pdf)
Added: May. 11, 2009 | Rate It
State of the World's Forests 2009 editor's pick
http://www.fao.org/docrep/011/i0350e/i0350e00.htm
a report from the UN Food and Agricultural Organization that examines the impacts that external factors such as demographic, economic, institutional and technological
changes may have on forests at subregional, regional and global levels
Added: May. 11, 2009 | Rate It
A Global Overview of Forest Conservation popular
http://www.unep-wcmc.org/forest/data/cdrom2/
(3 votes)
a statistical analysis of forest conservation trends in various regions published in 1997, including GIS files on forest and protected areas
Added: Jun. 01, 2004 | Rate It
A Place Out of Time popular
(32 votes)
the wonders of tropical rainforests and the perils they face - information on tropical rainforests, biodiversity, and environmental destruction
Added: Jul. 23, 2001 | Rate It
Endangered Ecosystems of the United States popular
http://biology.usgs.gov/pubs/ecosys.htm
(5 votes)
report provides estimates of declines of natural ecosystems in the US and provides a rationale for ecosystem-level conservation
Added: Feb. 04, 2001 | Rate It
Global Environment Outlook - 2000 popular
http://www.grida.no/geo2000/ov-e/index.htm
(3 votes)
UNEP reviews the state of the world's environment, including information on each continent's forests, their status, and the threats they face
Added: Mar. 27, 2001 | Rate It
An Analysis of PNG's Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity with a Focus on Forest
http://forests.org/pdf/png/png_cbd_report.pdf
(2 votes)
a report by Forests.org that highlights the failure of the Papua new Guinea government and World Bank to develop a biodiversity conservation strategy, and the continued failed efforts to reform industrial log exports (pdf)
Added: Jun. 02, 2002 | Rate It
Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) Threatens Bukit Tigapuluh Landscape
http://assets.panda.org/downloads/btp_investigation_jan_2008.pdf
a report from WWF calling for a halt to illegal logging that is taking place, in clear violation of Indonesian law, in Sumatran forests known for its rich biodiversity (pdf)
Added: Feb. 08, 2008 | Rate It
Banks, Pulp and People
http://www.pulpmillwatch.org/media/pdf/BPP_A_FIN_2.pdf
a report by Urgewald that describes the social and environmental impacts of the pulp industry and how it is financed and managed (pdf)
Added: Aug. 06, 2008 | Rate It
Bitter Fruit of Oil Palm, The
http://www.wrm.org.uy/plantations/material/oilpalm.html
introduction to the social and environmental impacts of oil palm plantations from the World Rainforest Movement
Added: Jun. 22, 2004 | 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
Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation of Climate Change, Privatisation and Power
http://www.dhf.uu.se/pdffiler/DD2006_48_carbon_trading/carbon_trading_web.pdf
a critical analysis of carbon trading and carbon-offsets, in particular of those based on tree monocultures, published by the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It
