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Forests.org: Deforestation Links (XML/RSS)

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Soy Expansion and its Violent Attack on Local and Indigenous Communities in Paraguay new editor's pick

http://www.ramshorn.ca/PARAGUAY_REPORT.pdf#search=%22ABC%20sustainable%20soy%22

1 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

report details the environmental destruction which results from soy monocultures in Paraguay, as well as human rights abuses against local and indigenous people, and also provides a critique of the Round Table for Sustainable Soy model promoted by WWF (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It

Deforestation in the Amazon 2004 editor's pick popular

http://www.mongabay.com/brazil.html

7 out of 10 stars (11 votes)

concise overview of the extent of Amazonian destruction, its causes and what can be done
Added: Jun. 22, 2004 | Rate It

Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation UK editor's pick

http://www.savetheorangutan.org.uk/

9 out of 10 stars (22 votes)

U.K. branch of the Balikpapan Orangutan Survival Foundation works to protect the orangutan in its natural habitat, and to promote its long-term welfare in Indonesia
Added: Oct. 19, 2006 | Rate It

Human Pressure on the Brazilian Amazon Forests editor's pick

http://www.wri.org/publication/human-pressure-brazilian-amazon-forests

9 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

a report from the World Resources Institute which compiles and analyzes a comprehensive set of geospatial indicators of human activities that lead to forest degradation and conversion
Added: May. 21, 2006 | 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

Landsat NASA Pathfinder Humid Tropical Deforestation Project popular

http://www.geog.umd.edu/tropical/

4 out of 10 stars (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 out of 10 stars (6 votes)

an interactive site from National Geographic which includes photos, causes, and impacts of deforestation and desertification
Added: Oct. 13, 2001 | Rate It

Deforestation Mapping Group

http://www.geog.umd.edu/tropical/africa.html

2 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

focusing on the three regions where most of the tropical deforestation in the world has occurred - the Amazon Basin, Central Africa, and Southeast Asia
Added: Nov. 19, 2004 | Rate It

Generating Carbon Finance by Maintaining Forest Benefits

http://journals.royalsociety.org/content/kq13503333tqvk62/fulltext.pdf

scientific journal article suggesting that trading credits for reducing emissions from deforestation is economically feasible (pdf)
Added: Mar. 03, 2008 | Rate It

Zero Deforestation

http://www.zero-deforestation.org/index-english.php

10 out of 10 stars (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

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