Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | yesterday
ROME -- The "Year of the Gorilla" began Monday - a U.N. effort to raise money for primates threatened with extinction from disease, hunting and deforestation.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
A Brazilian official says deforestation of the Amazon rain forest increased by nearly 4 percent in the year up to July, the first increase in four years' time. Brazilian Environment Minister Carlos Minc said a total of 4,620 square miles of the valuable rain forest was destroyed in the year leading up to July, marking a nearly 4 percent increase from the previous year's deforestation figures, the BBC...
Physorg (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
Brazil's Amazon jungles, known as the lungs of the world, lost almost 12,000 square kilometres (4,800 sq. miles) in just 12 months, a rise of almost 4.0 percent, new figures showed Friday.
Times of India (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
At a time when allocation of Agarzari and Lohara coal blocks is threatening large-scale deforestation and disruption of wildlife in district, the union ministry of coal has sprang a shock.
Cambridge Forecast Group Blog (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
Earthscan to publish Eliasch Review on climate change and deforestation on behalf of Tahira Thapar tahira.thapar@earthscan.co.uk Forest Policy Info Wed 11/26/08 Dear All, Earthscan is pleased to announce publication of the UK Goverment’s Eliasch Review on international deforestation and climate change. Climate Change: Financing Global Forests. It can be [...]
Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
Carbon credit politics and misplaced technical concerns are impeding efforts to encourage sustainable land use practices in tropical regions -- such as better forest management and growing more trees on farms -- that could curtail up to 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions while also boosting incomes of the rural poor, according to a new analysis by the Nairobi-based World Agroforestry Center....
Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
Carbon credit politics and misplaced technical concerns are impeding efforts to encourage sustainable land use practices in tropical regions -- such as better forest management and growing more trees on farms -- that could curtail up to 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions while also boosting incomes of the rural poor, according to a new analysis.
Cape Times (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
An Indonesian city battling the effects of deforestation has come up with a novel way of tackling the problem. Would-be families must plant a tree.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
A single entity focused on controlling the use of carbon credit trading to stop deforestation could be in the near future, as rainforest nations plan to lobby the United Nations at a conference next month in Poland."A new body should be built to coordinate initiatives (on cutting emissions from deforestation) that are going around now," Federica Bietta, Deputy Director of New York-based Coalition for...
Nasa (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
The most conspicuous difference between the images is the widespread forest clearing—visible as rectangles of gray-beige—that had occurred by 2006.
Kitty Mowmow's Animal Expo (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
If watching this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD6UpPQkNBU) doesn’t convince you of the REAL (not made up by animal-rights-psychos, I swear) need to protect orangutans and thousands of other endangered species from the destruction of deforestation and the palm oil industry, then …you should really keep researching it. All I’m asking you to do is think about the [...]
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
The global charity Floresta, that works to end poverty by halting deforestation, has named Burundi the nation most impacted by environmental degradation as judged by its dwindling forests, severely poor soil, fuel consumption from firewood and people living on less than $1 per day.
On Line Opinion - Latest Articles (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Apart from being an inefficient and polluting food source, livestock is the largest driver of deforestation and biodiversity loss.
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
Amazon deforestation photo: Daniele Gidiski In a speech in Jakarta, Indonesia on Monday, Prince Charles called rainforests the “world’s greatest public utility” and said that in order to preserve what rainforest remains and prevent further destruction, wealthy nations should pay an annual “utility bill” to account for all the ecosystem services which rainforests provide. The idea of finally acknowledging...
Leftnews.org (Free subscription) | 11/02/2008
“There’s species extinction, there’s deforestation, desertification, there are a water crisis and the attempt of capital to privatize water, there are umpteen numbers of problems. We have to fight on all these fronts. These are material questions, material in terms of environmental materialism but also in terms of social, historical materialism, and actually [...]
