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Oldgrowth for Export new editor's pick

http://www.wilderness.org.au/files/old-growth-for-export-report.pdf

a report by the Tasmanian Wilderness Society documenting the logging and woodchipping of Tasmania, Australia's old growth forests (pdf)
Added: May. 11, 2009 | Rate It

State of the World's Forests 2009 new editor's pick

http://www.fao.org/docrep/011/i0350e/i0350e00.htm

a report from the UN Food and Agricultural Organization that examines the impacts that external factors such as demographic, economic, institutional and technological changes may have on forests at subregional, regional and global levels
Added: May. 11, 2009 | Rate It

Tropical Conservation Science new editor's pick

http://tropicalconservationscience.org/

publishes scientific papers with the results of research relating to conservation of tropical forests and other tropical ecosystems
Added: May. 11, 2009 | Rate It

Climate Change: Financing Global Forests editor's pick

http://www.occ.gov.uk/activities/eliasch/Full_report_eliasch_review(1).pdf

a report prepared by Johan Eliasch for the Prime Minister (UK) that provides a comprehensive analysis of international financing to reduce forest loss and its associated impacts on climate change (pdf)
Added: Nov. 15, 2008 | Rate It

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

Malaysian palm oil: Green gold or green wash? editor's pick

http://www.foei.org/en/publications/pdfs/malaysian-palm-oil-report

a Friends of the Earth investigation into the sustainability claims of Malaysia's palm oil lobby, with a special focus on state of Sarawak (pdf)
Added: Oct. 23, 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

World Rainforest Bulletin editor's pick

http://www.wrm.org.uy/bulletin/134/viewpoint.html

September, 2008 issues focusing on the dangers of monoculture tree plantations
Added: Oct. 28, 2008 | Rate It

BRS (Bureau of Rural Sciences) Shop new

http://www.affashop.gov.au/product.asp?prodid=14243

source of information about Australia’s forest industries; contains up-to-date facts and figures about forests and their management and shows the size, location, contribution to the economy and export markets of Australia’s forest industries
Added: May. 11, 2009 | 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

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 and the Myth of the Marginal Lands

http://www.gaiafoundation.org/documents/Agrofuels&MarginalMyth.pdf

a report by several organizations who point out that growing agrofuels on so-called "marginal lands" may not be what's best for the people associated with such lands (pdf)
Added: Oct. 23, 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

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

Banks, Pulp and People

http://www.pulpmillwatch.org/media/pdf/BPP_A_FIN_2.pdf

a report by Urgewald that describes the social and environmental impacts of the pulp industry and how it is financed and managed (pdf)
Added: Aug. 06, 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

Conning the Congo

http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/international/press/reports/conning-the-congo.pdf

a report by Greenpeace that exposes the tax-evasion of export-driven resource extraction in the DRC and the neighboring Republic of the Congo (pdf)
Added: Aug. 04, 2008 | Rate It

Conservation and Use of Wildlife-Based Resources: The Bushmeat Crisis

http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/publications/pdf_files/media/cbd-ts-33-en.pdf

a report by the Convention on Biological Diversity Technical Series Report No. 33 that addresses the hunting of tropical forest "bushmeat" -- wildlife for food -- in Africa (pdf)
Added: Sep. 22, 2008 | Rate It

Cutting Corners

http://www.fern.org/media/documents/document_4312_4313.pdf

this report by Forests and the European Resource Network (FERN) assesses the effectiveness of country plans for reducing deforestation and how these plans meet the needs of indigenous peoples (pdf)
Added: Dec. 19, 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
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