Skip to Content

NEW EARTH RISING 2008: Please Support Ecological Internet in Our Fight to Defend the Earth

Ecological Internet's $70,000 Mid-Year Fund-Raiser. This is no time to let up on EI's successful biocentric information campaigns, knowledge tools & commentary for climate, rainforest and environmental sustainability action.

  2%      $1,430 raised from 12 donors.    $68,570 or 98% to go.    First $15,000 in gifts doubled, matched 100%!  Please Donate Now!
Ecological Internet (EI) provides for free the most successful Internet based environment portals and international Earth advocacy network ever, regularly achieving environmental conservation victories around the world. Your tax-deductible donation to EI will support one of the leanest most effective environmental advocacy efforts in existence.   Thank you, Dr. Glen Barry, President, Ecological Internet  | Dismiss This Message
Home > Information > Publications > Reports and Papers

Forests.org: Reports and Papers Links (XML/RSS)

Links

> >|

Biofuel by Decree new editor's pick

http://www.terraper.org/file_upload/BiofuelbyDecree.pdf

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

Ghosts on our Own Land new editor's pick

http://www.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

South-East Asia's Peat Fires and Global Warming new editor's pick

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

Tropical Deforestation and Climate Change editor's pick popular updated

http://www.edf.org/documents/4930_TropicalDeforestation_and_ClimateChange.pdf

8 out of 10 stars (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

WWF's Living Planet Report 2006 editor's pick popular updated

http://www.panda.org/news_facts/publications/living_planet_report/lp_2006/index.cfm

5 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

WWF's periodic update on the state of the world's ecosystems - as measured by the Living Planet Index and the concept of the Ecological Footprint
Added: Jul. 15, 2002 | 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

Report: This Land is Your Land editor's pick

http://www.americanlands.org/issues.php?subsubNo=1089232410&article=1091537629

4 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

the American Lands Alliance documents the Bush Administration's assault on America's forest legacy
Added: Sep. 05, 2004 | Rate It

The State of the Nation's Ecosystems editor's pick

http://www.heinzctr.org/ecosystems/report.html

the Heinze Center measures the lands, waters, and living resources of the United States
Added: Oct. 15, 2002 | Rate It

World Intact Forest Landscapes editor's pick

http://www.intactforests.org/

5 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

Greenpeace map assessing remaining blocks of intact forest landscapes larger than 500 sq. km not fragmented by infrastructure, such as roads, settlements, waterways, pipelines and power lines
Added: Apr. 10, 2006 | Rate It

Bulldozing Progress new

http://www.acfonline.org.au/uploads/res/res_acf-celcor_full.pdf

8 out of 10 stars (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 new

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

Carving up the Congo Report new

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/forests/africa/congo-report

4 out of 10 stars (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

Failing the Forests: Europe's Illegal Timber Trade new

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

Greenpeace Canada: Turning Up the Heat new

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

Mining in the Philippines: Concerns and Conflicts new

http://www.iucn.org/themes/ceesp/Wkg_grp/Seaprise/Mining%20in%20the%20Philippines%20-%20Concerns%20and%20Conflicts.pdf

a report by CEESP and the Philippine Indigenous Peoples' Links looking at the massive environmental damage and the serious human rights abuses linked to the mining industry in the Philippines (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It

Where the Trees are a Desert new

http://www.tni.org/reports/ctw/trees.pdf

joint report by Corporate Watch and FASE, Brazil, about the disastrous impacts of tree monocultures planted in Brazil under 'sustainable forestry' schemes, accompanied by the use of carbon credits (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It

A Place Out of Time popular

http://www.mongabay.com/

9 out of 10 stars (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

6 out of 10 stars (4 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

6 out of 10 stars (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

A Global Overview of Forest Conservation

http://www.unep-wcmc.org/forest/data/cdrom2/

5 out of 10 stars (2 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

America's Endangered National Forests Report

http://www.forestadvocate.org/endangered/

a report from the National Forest Protection Alliance which examines some of the America's most endangered national forests and the market pressures to log these wild places
Added: Oct. 13, 2005 | 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

9 out of 10 stars (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

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

Deforestation, Forest Degradation, Biodiversity Loss and CO2 Emissionsin Riau, Sumatra, Indonesia

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Environment/documents/2008/02/26/riaureport.pdf

report documents deforestation and degradation of natural forests in a section of Sumatra, Indonesia, and its impacts upon carbon release and climate change (pdf)
Added: Mar. 03, 2008 | Rate It
> >|

Links: Home | Search | New & Cool | Add