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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
No Aluminum Smelters in Cedros, Trinidad Rainforests editor's pick
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
Added: May. 21, 2006 | Rate It
Hydroelectric Dams on the Madeira River new
http://www.foei.org/en/get-involved/take-action/RIO_MADEIRA.pdf
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)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It
Mining in the Philippines: Concerns and Conflicts new
a report by CEESP and the Philippine Indigenous Peoples' Links looking at the massive environmental damage and the serious human rights abuses linked to the mining industry in the Philippines (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It
Causes of Rainforest Destruction, The popular
http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/background/causes.htm
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
Added: Jan. 30, 2001 | Rate It
Ascendent Copper (ACX) - The Curse of Copper
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
Added: May. 21, 2006 | Rate It
Avoided Deforestation Partners.org
works to harness market forces toward halting tropical deforestation through innovative public and private sector partnerships
Added: Feb. 08, 2008 | Rate It
Greenpeace: Amazon Crimes File
http://activism.greenpeace.org/amazon/index.php
pictorial, text and action items regarding "a war in the Amazon jungle" being perpetuated by powerful loggers, farmers and companies
Added: Dec. 17, 2003 | Rate It
Save Lembeh
campaign against plans for a goldmine in the Lembeh-Pulisan-Bangka region of Sulawesi , Indonesia which is threatening an area of rainforest, a lagoon and large numbers of endemic species
Added: Jan. 06, 2007 | Rate It
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