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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

Last Stand of the Orangutan, The new editor's pick

http://www.unep.org/grasp/docs/2007Jan-LastStand-of-Orangutan-report.pdf

10 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

a UNEP report which details the state of emergency in Indonesia's National Parks including illegal logging, fire and oil palm (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

Biofuelwatch editor's pick

http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/

7 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

campaigns for regulation to ensure that only sustainably-sourced biofuels can be sold in the European Union, provides information about the link between biofuels and deforestation and other threats to biodiversity and food supplies.
Added: Jun. 24, 2006 | Rate It

Oilwatch editor's pick

http://www.oilwatch.org/

a resistance network that opposes the activities of oil companies in tropical countries, with members in over 50 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America
Added: Oct. 19, 2006 | Rate It

Palm Oil Action editor's pick

http://www.palmoilaction.org.au/

concerned with oil palm plantation development and deforestation in Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea
Added: Sep. 24, 2007 | Rate It

Real Cost of Agrofuels: Food, Forest and the Climate, The new

http://www.globalforestcoalition.org/img/userpics/File/publications/Therealcostofagrofuels.pdf

report concludes current and future agrofuel technologies are a key direct and indirect cause of global deforestation, and thus contribute to climate change as well as to loss of livelihoods (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It

Agrofuels in Africa: The impacts on land, food and forests

http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/docs/ABN_Agro.pdf

8 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

a report published by the African Biodiversity Network about the impacts on biofuel production and plans in Africa, with case studies from Benin, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia; looking at deforestation, other ecosystem destruction, land rights and food sovereignty
Added: Jul. 05, 2007 | Rate It

Assesment of CO2 emissions from drained peatlands in South-east Asia

http://www.wetlands.org/publication.aspx?id=51a80e5f-4479-4200-9be0-66f1aa9f9ca9

calculates CO2 emissions from peat oxidation and peat fires in South East Asia and investigates the causes, likely future trends and option for mitigation strategies; by Delft Hydraulics in cooperation with Wetlands International and Alterra
Added: Jan. 04, 2007 | Rate It

Biofuels threaten to accelerate global warming

http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/docs/biofuels-accelerate-climate-change.pdf

report by Biofuelwatch about the climate impacts of large-scale biofuel production
Added: Jun. 22, 2007 | 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

Komunitas Konservasi Indonesia - WARSI

http://www.warsi.or.id

5 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

a network that supports habitat and resources management for the Orang Rimba (Kubu) in Indonesia, whose habitat have been reduced for conversion of forest for oil palm plantations and transmigration
Added: Jun. 16, 2003 | Rate It

Palm oil - rainforest in your shopping

http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/biodiversity/case_studies/palm_oil/index.html?web_palmoil_org_uk

Friends of the Earth details how demand for palm oil, a vegetable oil present in many of the goods we buy, is contributing to the destruction of the Indonesia's rainforests
Added: Jun. 21, 2004 | Rate It

Plantations Campaign

http://www.wrm.org.uy/plantations/carbon.html

1 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

an index of articles from the World Rainforest Movement regarding problems caused by depending upon plantations for carbon sinks as a solution to climate change
Added: Jul. 03, 2001 | Rate It

Promised Land

http://www.sawitwatch.or.id/images/Publikasi/Land%20Acquisition%20(English).pdf

a report regarding palm oil and land acquisition in Indonesia, examining the implications for local communities and indigenous peoples (pdf)
Added: Feb. 22, 2007 | Rate It

Seedlings: Agrofuels Special Issue

http://www.grain.org/seedling/?type=68

special report by GRAIN about the impacts of agrofuels from large-scale monocultures, with detailed articles looking at impacts on climate, ecosystems, food production and communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America
Added: Jul. 05, 2007 | Rate It

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