2011 2010 2009 Older News

The latest:

• People's oower blocks dam construction in Northeast India
• Friends of the Earth call for the Scottish government to give biomass plan the axe
• For the Maya, the world isn't ending – the environment is
• Canada's northern forests are shrinking
• Impact of land use activity in the Amazon Basin
• Cutting down forests for biomass fuel
• Levi Strauss & Co. Adds Voice to Major Companies Excluding Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) Over Ties to Rainforest Destruction
• New WWF Guide for "Green" paper purchasing
• Amazon: protestors paralyze Belo Monte dam construction works
• Native Peoples Under Siege Around the Globe
• Indonesia's tigers closer to extinction
• Burmese monkey: assumed extinct, caught on film
• Papua New Guinea: world's smallest frog discovered
• Tanzania: saving the forests by cutting them down?
• Small town rises up against deforestation in Pakistan
• Chemotherapy tree facing extinction
• Loggers invade tribal home of Amazon Indian child ‘burned alive
• Africa's rainforests more resilient to climate change
• Ecuador appeals aourt In Ecuador upholds verdict gainst Chevron
• Acid rain poses a previously unrecognized threat to Great Lakes sugar maples
• Khimki Forest Activists Sergey Udaltsov and Yaroslav Nikitenko in Jail
• It was the International Year of the Forests...
• Bloody Christmas Eve in Bali
• New analysis supports claim that paper giant cleared part of its tiger sanctuary in Indonesia
• Christmas reindeer mystery as world’s largest herd plummets
• Palm oil: ‘mass-killing’ in Lampung
• Amazon: Apocalypse delayed (for now)
• Vattenfall: African timber to save the climate in Germany?
• Asia Pulp & Paper pulping its onwn Tiger Sanctuary
• U.N. opens door to REDD market mechanism
• Durban, the failed summit
• Brazil: New forest code threatening the Amazons
• Norway invests on forest protection and on deforestation at the same time
• The hit list of the Brazilian Indios
• Illegal Indonesian beaten by legal deforestation
• Five wild cat species documented in Sumatran forest imperiled by logging
• Climate and forests: a call from the Amazon
• Tribal peoples: We are already experiencing global climate change
• Durban: action now could double forests saved
• Indonesia: new report questions legitimacy of Asia Pulp & Paper's greenwashing
• Forest Code in: Amazon rainforest at risk
• Brazil: killing of a Guarani leader
• Palm oil and human rights violations
• Rainforests: Greenpeace under pressure in Indonesia
• Indigenous peoples, the most important barrier to deforestation
• Romania takes steps to protect 250,000 ha of virgin forests
• Dutch Advertising Authority: APP adverts are misleading
• Bad fragments
• The boom of the global pellets trade is unstoppable
• Deforestation is a bad game
• Serial murdering of Peruvian shamans
• Conflicts and logging in Congo’s rainforests: Greenpeace exposes Danzer's involvement in human rights abuses
• The last march of trees
• Indian tribe secures unprecedented rights to tiger reserve
• Forests can improve food security in poor nations
• Massive land grab threatening Papua New Guinea rainforest and indigenous peoples
• Javan Rhinos Now Extinct in Vietnam
• Seven dead after Indonesian troops storm Papuan independence rally
• Bolivia's jaguars set a record
• Giving deforestation the boot at Italian shoe fair
• Malaysia: Penan block logging road in Baram, Sarawak
• Green tigers: protecting forests will deliver new economic boom for Southeast Asia
• UK Greenpeace director refused entry to Indonesia following smear campaign
• Judge signs off on forest protections
• The dirty business of the Vietnamese Army
• Climate change caused by deforestation triggers species migration
• Europe: drop in paper recycling rate
• Barbie has broken up with Asia Pulp and Paper.
• Brazilian Indian killed and abandoned by ‘ranchers’ gunmen’
• Forest communities celebrate at plantation law court victory
• Belgium advertising watchdog bans 'sustainable palm oil' advert as misleading
• Amazon mega-dam suspended over fears for fishing
• Bolivia suspends road project after indigenous protest
• Tribute to Wangari Maathai
• Certifications, human rights and bad jokes
• Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity
• The scientists to FAO: tree plantations are not forests
• Romania to cut road through precious Carpathian forests
• Forest trees temember their roots
• Rising biomass demand could drive land grabs
• Saving the wrong rhino in Indonesia? 
• Veracel destroys rainforests and arable land in favour of cheap paper
• Congo Republic wants $2.6 billion to 'reforest' with plantations
• Mexico: in the forests, popular revolt against the mafia
• EU gets tough on dirty biofuel, pledges more action
• Conservationists oppose snow leopard hunt for 'science'
• Link found between increased crops and deforestation in Amazon, but Issue Not So Cut and Dry
• China to increase forest area by 40 mln hectares. It's a good news?
• Election cycle linked to deforestation rate in Indonesia
• Colombia: popular revolt against gold mining
• Cambodia: Avatar detained for disrupting social order
• Grizzled giant squirrel sighted in Hosur, Krishnagiri forests
• Sumatra: an ecological Armageddon
• The tiger and the toilet roll
• Ecuador’s plan to save the Yasuní In jeopardy
• Russian forests burn for second successive year
• Gibson's discordant note
• Amazon deforestation expands into previously intact areas
• McKinsey way to save the climate: subsidize deforestation in Congo, Guyana and Indonesia
• Indonesia: paper giant fuels tenure conflict in Pulau Padang
• Fiji eyes investment from Malaysian palm oil industry
• Land deals in Africa: What is in the contracts?
• Penan hunter-gatherers to be dumped in vast oil palm plantation
• Fuji Xerox cuts ties with Indonesian logging company
• Illegal logging activities blamed for flood in Indonesia
• 2000 foreigners doing slave work in Czech state forests
• Advertising green deforestation
• Indonesia: how the illegal loggers prevailed over the police
• Endangered Sumatran tiger dies in trap on APP concession in Indonesia
• Australian bill to require mandatory labeling of palm oil
• Bolivia: Indigenous peoples demonstrate against road through the rainforest
• Villagers vow to protect their forests
• Indigenous Peoples’ organisation demands immediate moratorium on REDD+ in Central Kalimantan
• Harvey Norman: Australia is cannibalizing its own forests
• Brazilian Indios receive death threats
• Fire breaks out in Jerusalem's forests
• The Root of the problem: what is driving tropical deforestation today?
• Greenpeace: Lego shows leadership in tackling deforestation
• Asia Pulp & Paper intimidates local communities
• Wildlife surviving conflict in Afghanistan
• Jatropha: an Italian company and the forest of Dakatcha
• One in 10 species could face extinction: a new reseach finds
• Peace near for Tasmanian forests?
• WWF: 1000 new species found in New Guinea
• Italian police break up bear-meat banquet laid on by Berlusconi allies
• Cambodian prime minister cancels titanium mine project citing impact on biodiversity and local people
• Serengeti road scrapped over wildlife concerns
• Greenhouse gases from forest soils
• Detailed maps of forest canopy height in the US
• Chile: discussed dams approved in Patagonia
• Borneo: just one day to break the moratorium in Kalimentan
• Mega-dam in Peruvian Amazon cancelled
• Mangroves qmong the most carbon-rich forests in the Tropics
• EU-Liberia Sign VPA
• REDD: climate, forests and corruption
• Want water? save forests
• Rwanda admits force used in anti-thatch campaign
• Why More Species Live in Amazon Rainforests: Evolution of Treefrogs Sheds Light on the Mystery
• Nobel laureates: 'we are transgressing planetary boundaries that have kept civilization safe for the past 10,000 years'
• Santander Bank reports suspension of funding for controversial Brazilian dam
• Barbie into deforestation scandal. Ken: it's over!
• Yanomami Indians seize plane in health protest
• Huge fire in Arizona
• Palm oil: IOI Group: undermining indigenous rights
• Ministers meet in Brazzaville
• Violence in Congo forest and the sustainable forest management
• Assassinations of environmentalists in Brazil's Amazon,while deforestation rises
• Paper Giant APP loses further customers in Europe
• Amazon beefsteack
• Portugal: responsible forest management certification systems at stake
• First rainforests arose when plants solved plumbing problem
• China importing more and more timber
• Billion dollars fines in the Amazon
• Demand for gold pushing deforestation in Peruvian Amazon
• Laos forests to Vietnamese coompanies
• Mickey Mouse against the Disney Comapny, to save rainforests
• Guatemala sign the Convention on Wetlands
• Papua New Guinea suspends controversial grants of community forest lands to foreign corporations
• Chatham House released its last report on iIllegal logging.
• Indonesia: APRIL clear-cutting key tiger habitat
• Indonesia: camera captures tiger cubs in forest under imminent threat of clearing
• New report shines light on who’s selling Australia’s native forests
• Disney doesn't help rainforests
• Mexican environmental activist shot dead
• Jumma villages burned to ashes
• Russia: peaceful activists trying to protect forests beaten up by thugs and police forces
• Governments, business must unite in joint action to stop forest loss
• South Africa, forestry industry wants more land
• Earth Day: European environmentalists support Italian environmental group targeted by paper industry
• Anti-dumping n EU imports of okoumé plywood from China
• Violent protests delay destructive Amazon dams
• Ash and Elm Join the Swedish Red List
• The Body Shop drops Colombian palm oil supplier for alleged land grabbing
• Amazon Basin: IIRSA opens the way for rainforest invasion
• Opposition to the privatisation of Irish forests
• Cambodians prevented from protesting destruction of their forest
• Papua New Guinea: 5 millions ha of forests to transantional companies
• KFC to stop using palm oil
• European environmentalists reject proposed weak Ecolabel standard
• Congo confirms Virunga park oil ban, thwarts Soco
• Cambodia approves rubber plantation... in national park
• Deforestation is beautiful
• Russian boreal forests undergoing vegetation change
• Congo legalizes 15 logging concessions, and moratorium will be lifted
• New road project to run through Laos' last tiger habitat
• Indonesia: Greenpeace reveals the maps of the moratorium
• World Bank’s forest climate fund slammed for sidelining indigenous peoples’ rights and failing to protect forests
• Agro-fuel debate takes root in Central America
• Ghana : timber exports improved
• Tasmania: forests deal divides green groups
• Corruption and abuse in Sarawak, a report on Malaysian timber tycoons
• Indonesia: how serious is the moratorium on deforestation?
• Russia to cut timber duty on timber
• Philippine president bans logging after deadly floods
• Climate change will modify tropical forests
• Asian Pulp & Paper drafts in Cohn & Wolfe to fight accusations of deforestation
• Alaska: when the logger is an indigenously-owned corporation
• Legal war on Belo Monte dam
• European sanctions on Ivory Coast
• Wikileaks exposes illegal logging in Peru
• GE Trees: ArborGen goes down
• Controversial logging in Sweden
• Forest fires burning In Alaska
• What's in your paper?
• African apes threatened by rising temperatures
• Philippines: mining, deforestation and carbon credits
• Sarawak government mocks its indigenous people
• David Cameron admits forest sell-off plan was a disaster
• Trial of Indian leader’s assassins resumes
• Italy environmentalists convicted for disclosing dirty business
• Amazon: new species found every 3 days
• Assault on the forests of New Guinea
• Climate fears after Amazon rainforest droughts
• PAK 2000: wrapping cheat and deforestation
• Colombia, the dark side of oil palm plantations
• Germany: expanding natural forests
• Zanzibar in danger of losing unique forests
• Building a "Reforestation Economy" in the Mata Atlântica
• Illegal logging rampant in Vietnam
• WWF launches database of eco-rated paper products
• Asian Pulp & Paper awarded Golden Chainsaw
• Google tool to help watch over world's forests
• Georgia closing cellulosic ethanol plant
• New deforestation monitoring system for the Amazon
• Indonesian Ministry of Forestry Exempts 44 Companies from Moratorium
• 95% of Liberia's forest elephants killed by poachers
• Don't sell our forests: celebrities for the forests
• Monitoring deforestation in Southern Pará
• Save the mangroves in Pakistan
• Amazon biodiversity older than believed
• Metso establishes new facilities in Araucaria, Brazil
• Privatising English forests could cost millions in lost tax revenues
• Chaco expedition and the risk for uncontacted natives
• Indonesia: Carrefour drops APP products
• Shell in the Niger Delta: oil and stolen rights
• Saving crticial wilderness areas in Rwanda's forests
• SFI is mere industry-sponsored greenwashing, says ForestEthics
• India: villagers in Kalyan protest against dam project
• New forest law faces resistance from indigenous communities
• International Year of Forests, 2011
• Award Honors Rights Defenders in 'War Against the Poor'
• More pressure on African rainforests
• Amazon Indios condemn destructive Madeira river
• Ecologic Christmas without tree...
• China: open dors to deforestation
• Ecologic Christmas trees?
• Frozen forest provides climate change clues
• Eureka! SunPine produces diesel by chopping trees
• Rampant deforestation in Belize
• Once-Untouched Haven for Tigers, Orangutans, Elephants Being Systematically Targeted by APP
• Sarawak government announces destruction of one million hectares of tropical forests
• Cancún : justice not done at climate talks
• Cancun: the mystery of the REDD agreement
• APP and APRIL burning the agrement on forests and climate in Indonesia
• Cancun, summit at risk
• WikiLeaks reveals corruption in the climate change treaty
• Cancún, FAO and the Myth of selective logging and carbon sequestration
• Logging loophole at Cancun climate talks
• Bitter oil of America
• Extensive deforestation in Rondônia
• Macedonia plants seven million trees to revive its forests
• Green leafs
• Central African Republic ratified ILO Convention 169
• Towards Cancún: protecting the forests to reduce CO2 emissions?
• Indonesia's billion-dollar forest deal in danger
• Bulgarian eco-activists march to save mountain Forests
• Paper tigers, paper award
• Scientists blast greenwashing by front groups
• Canada Endorses the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• Africa is world’s second fastest loser of forests
• Italy to use deforestation to stop prostitution
• An Autumn Effect
• Australia increased chip export
• Metso supplies technology to APRIL, threatening Indonesian rainforests
• Passionists support their man in Peru
• Asia Pulp & Paper's Hidden Emissions
• Selling Illegal Timber Policy
• More palm oil platations in Nigeria
• Log-jammed river disaster unfolding in Sarawak, Malaysia
• Woodchips, pulp and monocultures
• Pennsylvania Governor Bans Fracking in State Forests
• Biodiversity Pact to fight biopiracy
• Brazil hoping to save forests with safe sex
• PNG awarded dubious Golden Chainsaw
• World Bank warning:biofuels cause land grab
• Shocking video of Papuan torture
• Rubber plantations and land and grabbing
• Chile: Mapuche fight to protect their ancestral forests
• Tasmania: historic deal on forests
• Nagoya gathering debates how to stop biodiversity loss
• Brazilian Amazon forest to the logging companies
• The Amazon mafias
• Nepal's forests 'being stripped by Indian timber demand'
• APP - Sinar Mas eating an other Canadian paper mill
• European Union and Cameroon sign an agreement against illegal timber exports
• Forest biodiversity at risk
• Scientists find 200 new species in Papua New Guinea
• Congo: further funding for the Grand Inga
• Deforestation in Indonesia: Sinar Mas pays ITS Global to greenwash its dirty laundry
• Stuttgart, the war on the trees
• Nigeria: Agip causes oil spill at the Abacheke community
• Native Forest Logging: Major Australian Company Drops the Practice
• RSPO censures Sinar Mas: linked to deforestation
• Authorities in eastern Madagascar arrested a foreign journalist investigating illegal rosewood trafficking
• Now it's Cargill's time
• General Mills Moves Away from Rainforest Destruction
• Indonesia: Burger King cancelled its contracts with Sinar Mas
• Save the Serengeti National Park
• International Day Against Tree Monocultures
• Penan tribe block logging roads in protest
• Deforestation: Metso supplied Ningbo APP
• Indonesia: Giant eucalyptus plantation company destroys Benzoin forest gardens
• Brazilian Indians held prisoner by gunmen
• Stagnant Amazon
• Scottish forests for sale
• Tasmanian native forest logging: major Australian company drops the practice
• 40 European NGOs: don't buy paper from APP
• Misleading claims of growth in India's forests
• The smallest frog
• Yasuní and the New Economics of Climate Change
• Jurassic Park East Africa
• World Bank palm oil strategy is reckless, say NGOs
• Indonesia: teenager killed by a tiger just 1.8 km off APP pulpwood supplier
• Norwegian government declares Malaysian timber giant an unethical company
• DRC: Disappearance of human rights defender Sylvestre Bwira Kyahi
• Biofuels for Europe driving land grabbing in Africa
• Environmentalists win the battle in Khimki forest
• Asia Pulp & Paper: certificate greenwashing
• India: forest tribe beat mine jant
• Russia: the Battle for Khimki Forest
• Loris big eyes
• Tropical forests: most of the species may extinct by 2100
• Eighty scientist wrote to the Congress: careful with easy biomass accounting
• Europe cannot lose its last primeval temperate forest.
• Colombian indigenous leader shot dead
• Downstream Community Members to Hold Healing Walk Through Tar Sands Region
• Hundreds of acres of forest burned Golan Heights
• Scientists hunt for 'lost frogs' around the globe
• Indonesia law enforcement inadequate on illegal logging: probe
• Putin's forest code and Russian forest fires
• Arbitrary arrest and judicial harassment against Yevgenia Chirikova
• As high as the forest
• Who wants bioengineered trees?
• Spain: a mine in Galicia's native forests
• Tasmania: chainsaws in the Weld Valley
• Moratorium to prevent Amazon destruction for soya extended
• New Zealand: Forest & Bird reveals Government mining plans
• Russia, violence in the forest
• World forest cover shrinking: report
• EU and Brazil conning the Mozambican forests
• Malaysia: deforestation and sexual abuse against Penan communities
• Mangrove forests endangered
• Activists in action in Indonesian rainforests
• WWF measures environmental footprint of global paper industry
• Paraguay: spotted the last uncontacted tribe
• 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
• HSBC pulls investment from Sinar Mas
• 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!
• The NGOs role on initial supplier CSR: the APP case
• 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
• Marc Ona Essangui wins Goldman Environmental Price
• 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!
• Certification in the Great Bear Rainforest
• Illegal rosewood travelling on French ships
• Congo Basin Sub-Regional Standard consultation launched
• Africa: climate gambling?
• Paid for increasing deforestation?
• Dominican Republic: The people say “no” to the cement
• Vietname exports deforestation to neighboring countries
• Eni´s controversial investment in tar sands and palm oil in the congo basin
• FSC certified timber for 2014 Winter Olympics
• Save the Earth with plantations
• Palm oil kills Orangutans
• Palm oil: Colombian troubles for The Body Shop
• Weird crater creatures: new species in New Guinea
• UK: 'Sustainable' palm oil campaign banned by Advertising Standards Authority
• Greater Mekong a biological treasure trove: more than 1000 new species discovered in a decade
• French economic group Bolloré attempts intimidates journalists
• Bye bye forests: Indonesia to double oil palm plantations
• Slaughtering the Amazon

2011 2010 2009 Older News