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Eating up the Amazon editor's pick

http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/MultimediaFiles/Live/FullReport/7555.pdf

8 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

Greenpeace report exposes McDonald's complicity in Amazon rainforest destruction through their use of illegally produced soya produced on deforested lands to raise their meat (pdf)
Added: Apr. 08, 2006 | Rate It

Ghosts on our Own Land 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

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

Last Stand of the Orangutan, The 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 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

Soy Expansion and its Violent Attack on Local and Indigenous Communities in Paraguay 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

A Place Out of Time popular

http://www.mongabay.com/

9 out of 10 stars (32 votes)

the wonders of tropical rainforests and the perils they face - information on tropical rainforests, biodiversity, and environmental destruction
Added: Jul. 23, 2001 | Rate It

Forest Stock Photography popular updated

http://www.stockpix.com/stock/environmentalissues/forest/

5 out of 10 stars (8 votes)

pictures of the beauty and destruction of temperate and tropical rainforests
Added: Jan. 13, 2001 | 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

Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) Threatens Bukit Tigapuluh Landscape

http://assets.panda.org/downloads/btp_investigation_jan_2008.pdf

a report from WWF calling for a halt to illegal logging that is taking place, in clear violation of Indonesian law, in Sumatran forests known for its rich biodiversity (pdf)
Added: Feb. 08, 2008 | Rate It

Bulldozing Progress

http://www.acfonline.org.au/uploads/res/res_acf-celcor_full.pdf

8 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

report from the Australian Conservation Foundation and Celcor investigates human rights abuses and corruption in Papua New Guinea's large scale logging industry (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | 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

Distribution and Variety of Equatorial Rain Forest, The

http://www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/rainfo.html

6 out of 10 stars (3 votes)

an in depth examination of ecological patterns in rainforests from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Added: Mar. 17, 2001 | Rate It

Environmental Research Web

http://environmentalresearchweb.org/cws/home

a portal for environmental news, research and commentary
Added: Apr. 08, 2008 | Rate It

Failing the Forests: Europe's Illegal Timber Trade

http://assets.panda.org/downloads/failingforests.pdf

a WWF report about illegal timber sales in Europe; includes research on the scale of the illegal timber market, origins of illegal timber and policy options for stopping it (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It

FAO State of the World's Forests, 2003

http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/005/Y7581E/Y7581E00.HTM

bi-annual report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations that reports on the status of forests, recent major policy and institutional developments and key issues concerning the forest sector
Added: Mar. 12, 2003 | Rate It

Films4Conservation

http://www.films4.org/

10 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

online resource for environmental campaigns videos, divided into specialist areas including forests, oceans, apes, tigers and elephants
Added: Nov. 12, 2006 | Rate It

Forest Governance in the Democratic Republic of Congo

http://www.fern.org/media/documents/document_3663_3664.pdf

a report that seeks to provide the basis for implementation of Voluntary Partnership Agreements that are meant to control illegal logging and contribute to sustainable forest management (pdf)
Added: Feb. 18, 2008 | 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

Greenpeace International News

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news

primary news and press release page for this leading environmental campaign organization
Added: Apr. 10, 2006 | Rate It

Hydroelectric Dams on the Madeira River

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

Impact of a Drier Early–Mid-Holocene Climate upon Amazonian Forests

http://journals.royalsociety.org/content/h8ux8t2x337127h1/fulltext.pdf

report describes the effects of a drier climate 8000 to 4000 years ago on Amazonian forests and the fires that occur there (pdf)
Added: Mar. 03, 2008 | Rate It

Indigenous People's Issues Today

http://indigenousissuestoday.blogspot.com/

highlighting contemporary indigenous peoples' issues from around the world including cultures and religions, intellectual property rights, archaeology, art, health, resources, rights, and much more
Added: Feb. 05, 2008 | Rate It

Jungle Photos

http://www.junglephotos.com/

9 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

hundreds of images of animals, plants, scenery and people from the Amazon rainforest in tropical South America; all photos have explanations
Added: Jan. 05, 2005 | Rate It

Pacific Island Mangroves in a Changing Climate and Rising Seas

http://www.unep.org/PDF/mangrove-report.pdf

1 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

report from UNEP that examines major challenges in the Pacific Islands region in adjusting, with limited resources, to the responses of coastal ecosystems to climate-change-induced rise of sea levels (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It
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