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

protest against plans on the Island of Trinidad that calls for the forced industrialization of South Western Trinidad with two aluminum smelters, one from Alcoa, which would destroy many acres of rainforest and displace local peoples

information from the Rainforest Information Centre covering logging, agriculture, cash crops, cattle ranching, fuelwood, large dams, mining,colonisation and tourism; as well as more subtle causes such as overconsumption, exploitation, the debt burden and overpopulation

works to harness market forces toward halting tropical deforestation through innovative public and private sector partnerships

a report from the CAO that concludes that the organization lending money to finance palm oil plantation development in Indonesia has not abided by its own rules

Friends of the Earth Canada presents a video about attempts by Ascendant Copper to build a strip mine in the cloud forests of Ecuador against the wishes of the inhabitants

a report by Reporters Without Borders that documents the threats to and attacks against reporters who try to write about environmental issues in places where habitat destruction and other environmental degradation are occurring (pdf)

pictorial, text and action items regarding "a war in the Amazon jungle" being perpetuated by powerful loggers, farmers and companies

a report by Friends of the Earth International about the social and environmental threats posed by planned hydro-damns on the Madeira River -- the Amazon's largest tributary -- in Brazil (pdf)

campaign against plans for a goldmine in the Lembeh-Pulisan-Bangka region of Sulawesi, Indonesia that is threatening an area of rainforest, a lagoon and large numbers of endemic species

a campaign against coal mining that would interfere with the Tadoba Forest and Tiger Reserve, India

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) describes the increased use of REDD (reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation) procedures to preserve forests in Amazonia (pdf)