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Oldgrowth for Export new 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 new 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

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

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

Biofuel by Decree editor's pick

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

10 out of 10 stars (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/sowb/

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

Climate Change: Financing Global Forests editor's pick

http://www.occ.gov.uk/activities/eliasch/Full_report_eliasch_review(1).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

Ghosts on our Own Land 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

Malaysian palm oil: Green gold or green wash? editor's pick

http://www.foei.org/en/publications/pdfs/malaysian-palm-oil-report

a Friends of the Earth investigation into the sustainability claims of Malaysia's palm oil lobby, with a special focus on state of Sarawak (pdf)
Added: Oct. 23, 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

South-East Asia's Peat Fires and Global Warming 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

BRS (Bureau of Rural Sciences) Shop new

http://www.affashop.gov.au/product.asp?prodid=14243

source of information about Australia’s forest industries; contains up-to-date facts and figures about forests and their management and shows the size, location, contribution to the economy and export markets of Australia’s forest industries
Added: May. 11, 2009 | Rate It

PLoS One - Accelerating the Publication of Peer-Reviewed Science new

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0004570

an international, peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication, PLoS ONE welcomes reports on primary research from any scientific discipline; searchable by keyword
Added: May. 11, 2009 | Rate It

A Global Overview of Forest Conservation popular updated

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

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

Agrofuels and the Myth of the Marginal Lands

http://www.gaiafoundation.org/documents/Agrofuels&MarginalMyth.pdf

a report by several organizations who point out that growing agrofuels on so-called "marginal lands" may not be what's best for the people associated with such lands (pdf)
Added: Oct. 23, 2008 | 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

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
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