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Deforestation in the Amazon 2004 editor's pick popular
http://www.mongabay.com/brazil.html
(12 votes)
concise overview of the extent of Amazonian destruction, its causes and what can be done
Added: Jun. 22, 2004 | Rate It
Amazon Cattle Footprint editor's pick
http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/international/press/reports/amazon-cattle-footprint-mato.pdf
a Greenpeace report that discusses the relationship between cattle ranching and deforestation in Brazil (pdf)
Added: Feb. 03, 2009 | Rate It
Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation UK editor's pick
http://www.savetheorangutan.co.uk/splash.html
(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
Environment Outlook in Amazonia editor's pick
http://www.unep.org/pdf/GEOAMAZONIA.pdf
report provides a complete and integrated assessment of the globally significant ecosystem of the Amazon Basin (pdf)
Added: Mar. 09, 2009 | Rate It
Human Pressure on the Brazilian Amazon Forests editor's pick
http://www.wri.org/publication/human-pressure-brazilian-amazon-forests
(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
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
Soy Expansion and its Violent Attack on Local and Indigenous Communities in Paraguay editor's pick
http://www.activistmagazine.com/images/stories/campaigns/GMO/paraguay_sojero_report.pdf
(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
REDD Plus new
http://www.redd-plus.com/drupal/
provides latest REDD news and the opportunity to post alerts concerning REDD programs around the world
Added: May. 16, 2010 | Rate It
Replanting the Rainforests new
http://replantingtherainforests.org/site/
a coalition of environmental groups led by Eco Preservation Society has developed a social media platform to link active reforestation projects with Conservationists, Biologists, Students, Interns, Volunteers, and Eco Travelers with the goal of reversing deforestation
Added: May. 16, 2010 | 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
(7 votes)
an interactive site from National Geographic which includes photos, causes, and impacts of deforestation and desertification
Added: Oct. 13, 2001 | 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/resources/publications/forests-and-biodiversity/2008/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
Deforestation Mapping Group
http://www.geog.umd.edu/tropical/africa.html
(2 votes)
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
Indigenous Lands, Protected Areas, and Slowing Climate Change
the Public Library of Science (PLoS) provides a report that discusses the need to find ways to reduce deforestation that can be agreed upon (pdf)
Added: Mar. 30, 2010 | Rate It
Keeping the Amazon Forests Standing: A Matter of Values
http://assets.panda.org/downloads/wnf_amazonerapport_def.pdf
a report by the WWF that places an economic value on the ecosystem services provided by tropical rainforests (pdf)
Added: Feb. 19, 2009 | Rate It
Terrestrial Carbon Group, The
http://www.terrestrialcarbon.org/
objective is to insure that terrestrial carbon is effectively included in the international response to climate change
Added: Oct. 28, 2008 | Rate It
UFZ Centre for Environmental Research
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
Wake Up Woolworths!
http://www.wakeupwoolworths.com/
Australian campaign to encourage retailer Woolworths to reconsider their choice of pulp and paper sourced from Indonesia
Added: Aug. 16, 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
