Forest News 2009

• Pakistan: Sindh to declare entire mangrove forests as Protected Area
• Lebanon, a project to restore the bombed forests
• The forest, the President and the paper mills
• Fires in Amazon challenge emission reduction
• New timber law banning illegal timber in Europe
• The planet's deep breaths: two studies
• APP plans of clearing one million ha of Indonesian rainforests
• Nepal announces temporary logging ban
• Illegal logging in Cambodia
• Papua New Guinea: Indigenous peoples lose their rights to investors
• Indonesia should keep 72m ha forests ‘untouched’
• Amazon: malaria jumps when the forests are cut
• Palm oil killing people
• A new study of woody biomass energy
• United Nations sets up an IPCC for biodiversity
• Aliens like biodiesel: a risk assessment to prevent introduction of pest plant species in Mediterranean
• Mumbulla logging is stopped again
• The truth about Canada's record on Indigenous rights
• Penan violently attacked as communities set up road blockade to protect their rainforests
• Angola plans to exploit more its forests
• The forests of New England are disappearing too quickly, experts say
• Human rights activist murdered in the Democratic Republic of Congo
• Scientists identify new gecko species in West African rain forests
• Paper tigers and the Australian mill
• European Union and Cameroon sign partnership agreement
• Forest study raises concerns on American forests
• Gorky Park: Men in black storms on Kharkiv tree defenders
• Patagonia: rally against ENI's damm
• IFC finances 250,000 hectares plantations in Indonesia
• Argentina: Misiones, a plantations nightmare
• Amazon defenders win bid to stall huge dam project
• Cochabamba: with the Mother Earth to fight climate change
• Georgia: the energy bill and the forests
• Indonesia announces plan to protect forests, peatlands
• Turning the Page on rainforest destruction
• Guatemala forests, whitout law
• Historic pact protects Canadian boreal forests!
• Chinese dams are completed, Mekong River dries up
• European Union and Republic of Congo sign partnership agreement
• Myanmar lost 14 per cent of its forests in 35 years
• Clear-cut in Oregon state-owned forests
• India: Lafarge must stop the mine in the forest
• New advertising campaign launched by Pigna Paper: "Buy Pigna paper and help us to destroy the ancient forests" But it was a hoax.
• Worldwatch: Flushing Forests
• Forest crimes in Indonesia: APP again!
• Activists lock themselves in Cargill headquarters as new report alleges illegal deforestation
• Deforestation threatens Koalas habitat
• Argenina: Threats Against Eco-Activists
• Burning the Russian forests
• Mapping boreal forest biomass
• Indios and activists march against Amazon mega-dam
• No REDD! No REDD Plus!
• Peru: indigenous peoples protect ancestral lands
• Sister Amazon
• Borneo: natives win 12-year oil palm battle
• Indonesian paper giant APRIL's certification status suspended
• Arrested after climbing a tree, to save the forests
• A network to protect peat forests
• Study Warns of Dangers to World's Mangrove Forests
• Congo: no conference for Pygmies
• A forest Yeti?
• Penan on the barricades to protect Heart of Borneo
• Giant dam to devastate 200,000 tribal people in Ethiopia
• EU Ecolabel allows forest destruction
• A study: 41% of the Peruvian Amazon to the oil and gas industries
• Shell apologises. Did they?
• Madagascar bans timber exports
• New species of giant monitor lizard discovered in the Philippines
• Nigeria: NNPC Pipelines pollute groundwater in Abesan Community
• bears war
• Cameroon: poachers kill two rangers and 15 elephants
• Your Story or Your Life
• Hacker attacks on Salvaleforeste.it
• Nestle cancel its palm oil contract with Sinar Mas
• FAO: deforested 13 million hectares each year
• Indigenous peoples denounce lack of trasparency in climate negotiations
• Wildfires ravage forests in central Vietnam
• Indonesian forests killer buys Canadian pulp mill?
• India, forests under siege
• Nestlé needs to give rainforests a break
• REDD: stinky offsets in Australia
• Bangladesh: forest fire spreads in Modhupur forest
• Humans driving extinction faster than species can evolve
• Don't buy it!
• Biomass: clear scraping in Canada
• Food, forests or fuel? The debate in Ghana
• Nigerian farmers versus Shell Trial
• New study: why plants produce different sized seeds
• EU: sustainable biomass?
• Cargill leaves a palm oil mess in Papua New Guinea
• Venezuelan Indians killed
• Those magic mushrooms from the boreal forests
• Dammed Patagonia
• Global warming may kill giant redwood forests
• Illegal logging plundering Honduras
• Indonesia May Open More Forests to Palm Oil
• Andaman tribe’s extermination complete as last member dies
• Peru surrenders to oil palm
• Uganda: protected forest in oil palm plantations.
• Indonesian Military Behind Illegal Logging
• Stop Chevron in the Amazon
• Scientists call for action: Protect Sweden’s Old-Growth Forests
• Police killers of Papuan independence leader given special commendations
• European Commission: are palm oil plantation forests?
• Ecological paper is possible: an NGOs vision
• Dirty timber trade
• Anti-mining activist killed in El Salvador
• Indonesian NGOs reject questionable forest certification
• Illegal Logging responsible for loss of 10 million hectares in Indonesia
• Siberian dark shadows
• Mozambique: Pine and eucalyptus companies are advancing on peasant land in the north of the country
• Oppland forests in Norway
• Peru: a report generate new anger
• APP: thirty years of forests crimes
• Solomon Islands: illegal logging got away
• Journalist who criticized illegal logging activities in Philippine is missing
• Preserving the world's tropical forests - a price on carbon
• Peru: Amazon auction
• NordicForests.org – new website on High Conservation Value Forests under threat in Fennoscandia
• The splitted forest of Bialowieza
• Malaysia: flooded forests of Sarawak
• Chinese plantations in Laos
• Illegal logging in Cameroon
• Nigeria: leave the oil inthe ground!