UPDATE: India's Dongria Kondh Tribal Way of Life Threatened by British/International Vedanta Mining – Let’s Build on Initial SuccessVedanta Resources, a British/international mining company, is set to destroy the forests, wildlife and way of life of the Dongria Kondh people. The Dongria Kondh have been struggling with all their might to protect their mountain but are being overpowered by the financial and political might of this multi-billion dollar company. They have been protesting locally for years, and have appealed for international support for their campaign to keep their sacred Niyamgiri Mountain ecologically and culturally intact.Campaign News Updates:· India: Green Activists Gain Ground with Successive Victories [search]· India blocks Vedanta mine on Dongria-Kondh tribe's sacred hill [search]· India rejects Vedanta mining plan on green worries [search]· Vedanta ‘in total contempt of the law’ says Indian government [search]· Vedanta's Indian mining project under threat [search]· Vedanta in talks to buy into Cairn Energy in India [search]Protect Moscow’s Khimki Forest from Rampant CorruptionMoscow’s Khimki Forest is 2,600 acres of public conservation land that is an urban refuge for people and wildlife, particularly important now during Russia's record heatwave. Despite laws that prohibit road building and logging, Khimki forest is being bulldozed and cleared. Environmentalists working to protect this forest are defending the trees with their bodies while they and journalists are being attacked by thugs and arrested by police. Allegedly protesters - or more likely provocateurs - have responded by vandalizing regional administrative buildings. Moscow and Russia in general are undergoing severe drought, climate change and wildfires precisely because too many natural terrestrial ecosystems have been lost or diminished. Urban forests must be protected and restored ecologically.Campaign News Updates:· Russia halts forest highway construction as opposition grows [search]· Cost of drought [search]· Russia: Heat probably killed thousands in Moscow: scientist [search]· Russian Wildfires Threaten With Radioactive Smoke [search]· Is climate change burning Russia? [search]· Russia: Smoke-shrouded Moscow gets welcome break from smog [search]· Frozen jet stream links Pakistan floods, Russian fires [search]· Russia's peatland fires seen burning for months [search]· Russia: Moscow wildfires fanned by Soviet legacy of neglect [search]· Russian forest fires to exacerbate global warming - ecologists [search]Protest Madagascar's Breaking of Moratorium on Illegal Rosewood Log Exports from Protected RainforestsDespite a recent two year moratorium on further illegal logging and export of precious timber from the protected areas of Madagascar, the government recently approved shipment of nearly $16 million worth of timber stolen from the country's rainforest parks. Post-coup illegal log and wildlife trade continue to threaten Madagacar's biodiversity rich rainforest remnants, ecological sustainability and future potential for national advancement. Let Madagascar's transitional government, shipping industry, and French government know they will be held responsible for these ecological crimes.Campaign News Updates:· Madagascar: Worrying Lapse in Forest Management [search]· Children starve in parched southern Madagascar [search]Obama’s Crude Awakening: Offshore Oil Drilling Is Ecologically Devastating and Must EndU.S. oil addiction is killing American and global ecology. An international wake-up call must be delivered to both the administration and Congress, to focus more effort upon reducing the demand for oil. The risks and costs of offshore oil exploration far outweigh their benefits, and the U.S. would be better off focusing upon promoting alternative energy sources. Will virtually every remaining intact ecosystem be razed to access every last bit of oil before we transition to lower energy use, a low carbon economy and renewable energy? Campaign News Updates:· Barack Obama orders six-month freeze on offshore drilling and expansion [search]· Obama to keep drilling moratorium for 6 months: aide [search]· Obama: More Gulf drilling only if assurances [search]· Environmentalists want fed control of oil cleanup [search]Brazil's Proposed Belo Monte Dam Damns Amazonian Rainforests and PeoplesThe wild and free Xingu River is critical to maintaining intact the Amazon, its peoples, Brazil's national advancement, and the Earth we share. The Brazilian government continues with plans to build the massive Belo Monte Dam on the Xingu River in the Amazon rainforest, despite intense and growing domestic and international opposition. The 11.2 billion dollar dam will devastate an extensive area of the Amazon rainforest and threaten the survival of tens of thousands of indigenous and traditional peoples who depend on the Xingu River for their livelihoods. It is estimated 500 square kilometers of intact Amazon rainforest land would be flooded by the dam. Campaign News Updates:· Environmental Impact Studies on Dams Count for Little in Amazon [search]· Brazilian Indians take hostages at Amazon dam site [search]· 'Avatar' Director: 'A Complete Reboot of How We See Things' [search]· Energy in Brazil: Power and the Xingu [search]· Awarding of Brazilian dam contract prompts warning of bloodshed [search]· Brazil awards dam tender despite environmental protests [search]· Brazil opens controversial Amazon dam auction [search]· Judge again halts Belo Monte dam auction in Brazil [search]· Sigourney Weaver takes fighting spirit from Avatar to Amazon [search]· Amazon environmentalists win bid to stall dam project [search]Resistance Growing to Ecologically Devastating Chinese Mining Invasion of Madang, Papua New GuineaChinese government owned China Metallurgical Construction (MCC) corporation's efforts to establish the massively destructive Ramu Nickel mine in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea – the largest investment in metal exploration and mining by the Chinese outside of China – is in serious jeopardy. Local landowners are successfully initiating court cases and protests to demand mine tailings not be dumped into the sea – poisoning fish stocks and causing extreme ecological destruction – or the mine be stopped. The entire project has been mismanaged, marked by shoddy construction; and disregard for local rights, life, and marine and rainforest ecology. Chinese mining investment in Madang against local wishes can only be described as an invasion of sovereign peoples, and will be resisted at all costs.Let Rainforest Action Network Know Global Ecological Sustainability Depends Upon Ending Old Forest LoggingRainforest Action Network is a key supporter of failed Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) efforts to “sustainably” log tens of millions of hectares of primary and old-growth forests for lawn furniture, toilet paper and other throw-away consumer items. As RAN celebrates its 25th anniversary, let them know old forests will never be fully protected as long as they and others unquestioningly support “certified” yet ecologically unsustainable first-time industrial primary rainforest logging. Demand RAN vigorously defend their support for first-time primary forest logging over an area two times as large as Texas, or resign from FSC immediately. Encourage RAN to spend the next 25 years working to protect and expand old forests to maintain a habitable Earth.Campaign News Updates:· The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement Reconsidered [search]· Forests could flip from sink to source of CO2: study [search]PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Logging Violence and Corruption Flare in Sogeram/Ramu, Madang’s Mighty RainforestsLocal landowner initiated court case has shut down logging for two months in the Ramu. The PNG Forest Authority's review of the granting of the right to log to notorious Rimbunan Hijau of Malaysia in Ramu River valley expected soon. Industry and corrupt government officials pulling out all stops to re-grant permit to this violent and corrupt criminal-enterprise, and to allow Malaysian logger into the partially logged Sogeram as they wait. Massive cash payments and brutal violence – to intimidate communities resisting logging – is rife. Yet local protest to logging continues to intensify in Madang, as do calls to end all industrial primary rainforest logging in PNG.Campaign News Updates:· PNG landowners to battle logging giant [search]Protest French Company Shipping Madagascar’s Illegally Logged Rosewood Timbers to ChinaDelmas shipping, a subsidiary of French shipping giant CMA-CGM, is planning to ship hundreds of containers of illegally logged ancient rainforest logs from Madagascar to China anytime soon. Post-coup illegal log and wildlife trade continue to threaten Madagacar's biodiversity rich rainforest remnants, ecological sustainability and future potential for national advancement.More Old Forests, Less Industrial Agriculture, Key to Climate, Food and WaterSecuring world food security while maintaining operable global old forests, climate, water, ocean and terrestrial ecosystems – and human rights, justice and equity – is the biggest challenge facing humanity. Water and food are the next bubbles to burst -- expect severe shortages of both in the 2010s. It is long past time to get back to the land through protecting and restoring old forests and organic permaculture farming. Our survival depends upon being with land, collecting water, letting forests age and growing food.Campaign News Updates:· REDD may yet survive Copenhagen failures [search]· Forest plan gets the ax at UN climate talks [search]· Redd letter day [search]· Criminal gangs plunder Madagascar forests [search]· Palm Oil-Powered Plant Supply Heat To German Homes [search]· Land-based offsets stay central to US climate bill [search]· Report highlights deforestation [search]PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Grand Chief "Carbon Cowboy" Off Soon in New Private Jet to Sell Landowners' Rainforest CarbonSir Michael Somare -- Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) Prime Minister -- jets soon to Copenhagen pledging to protect the country’s rainforests in exchange for REDD carbon money. Yet back home he has left a long list of shameful and corrupt rainforest/climate policies. As Copenhagen and REDD talks start, Somare pals Rimbunan Hijau of Malaysia continue logging in Ramu, Madang, despite a court order demanding they stop. Corruption, human rights abuses, and ecological devastation have no place in REDD or Papua New Guinea.Campaign News Updates:· Rush for REDD could undermine local forest rights [search]· New analysis: Disagreement over what constitutes a forest is Achilles' heel of REDD plan [search]· Forest carbon scheme hopes for green light in Copenhagen [search]· Doubt cast over REDD implementation [search]· EU grapples with deforestation ahead of Copenhagen [search]· Paying to save trees: Last gasp for the forest [search]· Australian firm linked to PNG's $100m carbon trading scandal [search]· I am a top foreigner in Papua New Guinea, says carbon kingpin [search]· Australia, Indonesia push rainforest carbon offsets [search]· World Bank to buy carbon credit from Congo project [search]No to Copenhagen 'Carbon Logging': GOOD REDD Fully Protects and Restores Old Forests as a Global Climatic ImperativeCopenhagen climate talks must not provide 'Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation' (REDD) carbon market funds for old, natural forest logging, or for conversion of natural or semi-natural forests and other ecosystems to plantations. Ending deforestation and degradation of old and relatively ecologically intact primary and old growth forest ecosystems, and the ecological restoration of late-successional old growth forests, are keystone responses to maintaining global climate, biodiversity, water and ecosystems.Madagascar's Protected Rainforest Hardwoods Continue to be Selectively LoggedPost-coup illegal log and wildlife trade continues to threaten Madagacar's biodiversity rich rainforest remnants, ecological sustainability and future potential for national advancement. This great nation's precious hardwoods deserve CITES protections, to ensure selective logging of any sort in its primary old forests ends.Copenhagen (and You) Must Cut Carbon Emissions by at Least 10% During 2010Urge all Earth's citizens and tribes to pursue a 10:10 pledge, protect and restore all old forests, and pursue other ambitious, short-term actions -- both personally and at Copenhagen -- as a start to avert abrupt climate change and global ecological collapse. Stewardship Revolution starts here as global ecological sustainability depends upon dramatically reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the short term.Campaign News Updates:· United Kingdom: Edinburgh becomes 100th 10:10 council [search]· United Kingdom: Climate change ministry signs up to campaign [search]· Forest protection hinges on 10-word phrase [search]· Lovebox and Bestival music festivals take 10:10 carbon pledge [search]· Go to Copenhagen with Gandhi's teachings in mind, says Dr Pachauri [search]· 10:10 can make a real impact [search]· How some individuals and organisations are reducing their carbon emissions for 10:10 [search]· Retail giants take 10:10 vow [search]Copenhagen (and You) Must Cut Carbon Emissions by at Least 10% During 2010Urge all Earth's citizens and tribes to pursue a 10:10 pledge, protect and restore all old forests, and pursue other ambitious, short-term actions -- both personally and at Copenhagen -- as a start to avert abrupt climate change and global ecological collapse. Stewardship Revolution starts here as global ecological sustainability depends upon dramatically reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the short term.Questioning World Bank Palm Oil Funding and Forest Carbon Finance in IndonesiaOmbudsman report on 20 years of corrupt IFC, World Bank Group lending to the Indonesian oil palm industry casts doubt on Bank's fitness to manage international forest carbon funds that may emerge at Copenhagen climate talks. It is time for the World Bank to end finance of oil palm, sustainable forest management, paper pulp and other industrial rainforest developments known to be the root causes of deforestation, degradation and climate change. The Bank must permanently end financial support for these industrial developments impacting primary rainforests, or it is the wrong entity to administer forest carbon monies. Campaign News Updates:· World Bank proposes engagement approach in Palm Oil [search]· Rainforest treaty 'fatally flawed' [search]· Bolivia: Forests as carbon offsets fail to impress in first big trial [search]· Guyana is a model of forest protection that could solve the climate crisis [search]Join Borneo's Penan Indigenous Peoples in Standing up to Malaysian Rainforest DestructionMalaysia is the world's leading rainforest destroying nation. Please insist Malaysian authorities respect native customary land rights and boundaries of Penan's last remaining ancestral rainforest reserves; halt rainforest destruction in Sarawak for oil palm, pulp plantations and hydro-electric dams; and ensure rainforest destruction and abuse of indigenous rights by Malaysian companies end globally.Campaign News Updates:· Malaysia: Borneo mega-dams proposal raises fears for tribes, wildlife [search]· Win Some, Lose Some for Beleaguered Penan Tribe [search]· Malaysia: Set up forest reserves for Penans, Government urged [search]· Malaysian human rights commission rejects probe into death of anti-logging tribesman [search]Liberia's Plans to Resume Industrial Primary Rainforest Logging Already Plagued by Corruption as Samling Poised to PounceThe fact notorious illegal loggers Samling of Malaysia; who have devastated rainforests globally including those of the Penan, are secretly in contention for Liberian logging contracts illustrates, despite decades of failed reform efforts locally and internationally, that the global industrial tropical timber logging industry remains irredeemably corrupt. There is no evidence first time industrial logging of primary forests is ever ecologically sustainable or reduces poverty. Please call upon Liberian President to pursue development based upon standing rainforests, and reject entirely the resumption of industrial logging.Campaign News Updates:· Getting rich in Malaysia cronyism capital mean Dayak lose home [search]Tell Greenpeace: Toilet Paper Consumption from Canada's Ancient Boreal Forests Must EndGreenpeace Canada claims victory while falsely stating clearfelling old forests for paper products is "sustainable" when FSC certified. These photogenic poseurs fail to grasp the ecological necessity of ending consumption of all products made from old forest destruction, and generally reducing consumption of all paper products. Nothing to change as old boreal forests and toxic plantation monocrops will continue to be clearcut to wipe bottoms, albeit falsely certified by various greenwashers including Greenpeace as "well-managed".Madang, Papua New Guinea's Mighty Ramu River Rainforests, Carbon and Peoples Threatened by Timber Mafia & Government CorruptionLet the Papua New Guinea (PNG) government know it must follow its people's wishes and end industrial rainforest destruction once and for all. Support local landowners in Madang Province and nationwide working bravely to end primary forest logging and pursue REDD carbon monies and other means to benefit from standing rainforests. The government cannot corruptly pursue both continued industrial logging and oil palm, and still expect to receive carbon market REDD payments for intact rainforest protection.Hillary's Choice: Urge Secretary of State Clinton to Reject Deadly Tar Sands Oil Pipelines Alberta Canada's tar sands development is the most ecologically destructive project in the world; destroying vast water rich natural boreal ecosystems, perpetuating global addiction to fossil fuels, and ensuring abrupt climate change. Tar sands and their pipelines must be stopped using all means necessary. Please start by protesting for disapproval of massive pipelines which will facilitate continued fossil fuel dependency.Campaign News Updates:· Canada: Environmentalists to target RBS over investments [search]· Canada: Fix oilsands impacts, not just image [search]· Canada: British firms face onslaught from tar sands campaigners [search]· Canada looks to China to exploit oil sands rejected by US [search]· Canada: Tar sands snubbed by 'green' retailers [search]· Boycott of oil sands fuel called 'greenwashing' [search]· Canada should consider slowing oil sands boom: official [search]· Canada's tar sands are the future of oil production: Total [search]· Canada: Report slams low-carbon tar sand "myth" [search]· Canada's tar sands may to be just too dirty [search]Swiss Francs Threaten Indonesian RainforestsMajor Swiss banks Credit Suisse and UBS are to further fund Golden Agri-Resources (GAR), the world's largest listed palm oil company, which currently produces 10 percent of Indonesia's palm oil. A further 1.3 million hectares of land are to be developed for palm oil plantations with Swiss finance on the island of Indonesia Kalimantan (Borneo) and in Papua on the Western half of the island of New Guinea. Tell Papua New Guinea and British Royalty: Climate Solutions Have No Place for Continued Industrial Primary Forest DestructionKnighting of illegal logger and carbon market corruption plague Papua New Guinea's (PNG) attempts to receive carbon money for protecting rainforests. Let Prime Minister Somare, and England's Queen and Prince of Wales, know PNG climate and biodiversity protection under UN REDD carbon markets requires an immediate end to industrial primary rainforest destruction by logging and oil palm. And certainly no royal knighthood for criminal loggers.Madagascar: Daewoo's Rainforest Land Grab in Nature's ParadiseThe island of Madagascar is a veritable Noah's Ark of biodiversity, and this natural wealth is the country's primary treasure and opportunity for future ecologically sustainable development. Despite a recent revolution over the matter, the Korean company Daewoo Logistics continues to pursue plans to lease half the agricultural land in Madagascar for 99 years, industrially producing maize and palm oil on 1.3 million hectares that are now biodiversity rich rainforests and gardens. There already exists a severe food crisis nationally and local peoples, who are soon to be dispossessed from their land, are protesting, causing a major government crisis. Tell Daewoo the people of Madagascar have spoken -- and to shove off and leave Madagascar's rainforests, peoples and land alone.Campaign News Updates:· Global protocol could limit Sub-Saharan land grab [search]Violence Flares as Peru's Government Fires Upon Indigenous Peoples Protecting Their Rainforest HomesSupport tens of thousands of indigenous people bravely protesting Peru government's give-away of their rainforest homes to oil, mining and logging industry without their approval; insist peaceful protests are not met with further violence by President Alan Garcia's government, and that the focus for Amazonian development be upon benefiting from standing trees and intact rainforest ecosystems.Campaign News Updates:· Peru: The Tangled Paths of New Forest Law [search]· Petroleum Sullies the Amazon [search]· A fight for the Amazon that should inspire the world [search]· Amazon deforestation: short-lived boost, big damage [search]· Amazon deforestation leads to development 'boom-and-bust' [search]· Peru suspends decree that fueled Amazon violence: lawmaker [search]· Peruvian indigenous leader seeks asylum [search]· Peru army imposes Amazon curfews [search]· At least 31 killed in Peru Amazon clashes [search]· Rainforest Resources Conflict in Northern Peru Turns Bloody [search]NO BIOMASS/NO BURNING CAMPAIGN: Uproar as Massachusetts Poised to Destroy Forests for "Renewable" ElectricityBurning forests to produce electricity threatens to destroy and further diminish many of America and the world's forests. Protection and regeneration of forests, soils, freshwater, climate and biodiversity are urgent global imperatives, and creating massive new demands for any natural plant material is misguided and will further degrade ecosystems. Achieving global ecological sustainability requires that renewable energy be defined as "no biomass/no burning".Campaign News Updates:· Fight Gears Up on Biomass [search]· Energy, climate woes won't be solved by cutting, burning trees [search]· Maine: Emission study undercuts biomass benefits [search]· Massachusetts: Bay State rethinking wood power [search]· Vermont: National Life moves to reduce carbon footprint: [search]· United Kingdom: Fresh doubts raised over £300m biomass plan for waterfront [search]· Biomass power isn't just a Western Mass. issue [search]· Trees: Out of the Forest and Into the Oven [search]· Massachusetts pushes waste-based biofuels, holds off on corn, algae, and switchgrass [search]· Massachusetts: As state eyes wood fuel, some activists see red [search]Malaysian Govt. Denies Well Documented Oil Palm Development Plans in Brazilian AmazonIn a startling yet welcome announcement, Malaysian government's land agency now denies plans to produce oil palm in the Amazon. While the prospect of a Malaysian government agency funding Amazonian oil palm has been dealt a serious setback, it is likely this project will re-emerge. Let's get formal commitment from the Malaysian government that this project is canceled, and to stop all Malaysian government and private industry funding of oil palm expansion overseas. Maybe, just maybe, we are winning this one!Campaign News Updates:· Palm Oil Could Scuttle Forest Carbon Plan: Experts [search]· Sainsbury's purchase of fish fingers isn't enough to sustain certified palm oil [search]· United Kingdom: Government 'greatly concerned' by palm oil production [search]· European biofuels firms scramble for 'idle' lands in poor countries [search]· Palm oil buyers face green scorecard: WWF [search]· Floods in Brazil point to climate change: Lula [search]Forest and Crop Biomass Can Never Ecologically Sustainably Power Industrial SocietyNo Biomass/No Burning! Truly renewable energy must be defined as including no energy production or climate mitigation claims from food based agrofuels, live plants and ecosystems, or burning/pyrolysis of biomass of any type.Campaign News Updates:· Vilsack calls for renewed emphasis on forests [search]· Wood Is New Coal as Polluters Use Carbon-Eating Trees [search]· Bill omits forest waste for cellulosic ethanol [search]· Waste to biofuel plant gets go ahead in Canada [search]· In Search of the Perfect Biofuel -- and Financing to Bring It to Market [search]· Obama adviser unsure of car plan's ethanol impact [search]· Biofuels Battle: House, Senate Bills Push Back Against New Ethanol Rules [search]· ADM sees U.S. ethanol blend rising by 2010 [search]· Ethanol Ruling a Test for Obama Administration [search]· Global warming policies make it harder on soybean farmers [search]Biofuel from Corn Ethanol Is Not Renewable, Does Not Address Climate ChangeLet California Air Resources Board know all industrially produced biofuel crops from live biomass, edible or not, still require land, soil, water, fertilizer and other finite inputs. It is clear that industrial biofuels are not "renewable energy" given that these inputs are all in limited supply, and indirect land uses lead to destruction of soil and forest carbon sinks elsewhere.Campaign News Updates:· Little impact if U.S. ethanol tax breaks end: Study [search]· EPA sets 2011 renewable fuel standard at 7.95 percent [search]· EPA decision on ethanol blend put off until Sept. [search]· Is Ethanol from Corn Bad for the Climate? [search]· EPA biofuels guidelines could spur production of ethanol from corn [search]· Ethanol emits same emissions as petrol: study [search]· Panel gives mixed review to U.S. biofuel rules [search]· EPA extends comment period on biofuel standard [search]· Climate changing for ethanol industry? [search]· Ethanol Makers Vow To Keep Fighting California Carbon Rules [search]Join Bushfires and Scientists in Condemning Australian Climate Change PolicyAustralia must stop being a climate change laggard. Given severe drought and massive wildfires, the Rudd Government's target to reduce carbon emissions by 5% by 2020 is dangerously insufficient.Campaign News Updates:· Al Gore Warns Australia to Expect More Severe Bushfire [search]· Australia Faces Further Carbon-Scheme Delay [search]· EU urges Australia to make deeper carbon cuts [search]· Drought worsening across NSW: data [search]· Land clearances turned up the heat on Australian climate [search]· Australia Tables Carbon Law, Needs Non-Labor Senators' Support [search]· Australia delays emissions trading in face of recession [search]· Australia delays carbon trading scheme by a year [search]· Australia delays carbon trade, may toughen target [search]· Australia delays emissions scheme [search]Tell Leading Climate Scientists, Industrialists and Negotiators to Stop Promoting Industrial Scale BiocharPlease protest proposals for large scale use of charcoal in soils for climate change mitigation, and against their inclusion into carbon markets. Biochar, along with agrofuels, will result in devastating expansion of industrial agriculture which threatens people, climate and ecosystems.Campaign News Updates:· Scientists see biochar as promising fuel source [search]· Maldives to pilot biochar technology [search]· Best practice for biochar [search]· Burn, bury and bargain with it: biochar ticks the green boxes [search]· The guilty secrets of palm oil: Are you unwittingly contributing to the devastation of the rain forests? [search]· Scientists weigh geoengineering in global warming battle [search]· The emissions reductions gospel is failing – we need something more [search]· Will Biochar Save The Polar Bears? [search]· Obama aide in geo-engineering row [search]· Energy-efficient projects generate jobs: Pachauri [search]Call on U.S. Government to Halt Ecologically Misguided Support for Large Scale Biofuel Fuel from food and already overstressed terrestrial ecosystems is immoral and unsustainable. The Obama administration must start by rejecting the proposal to increase the corn ethanol fuel blend limit from 10-15%.Campaign News Updates:· New rules on corn ethanol may hurt environment [search]· One quarter of US grain crops fed to cars - not people, new figures show [search]· California toughens up biofuel standards [search]· US Biofuels Policies Flawed [search]· EPA: More engine tests needed on ethanol blends [search]· GAO report poses tough questions for ethanol [search]· More Corn For Biofuels Would Hurt Water [search]· Renewable energy needs land, lots of land [search]· Iowa: President makes no mention of ethanol [search]· California seeks ethanol support for fuel standard [search]Coal Kills -- Time for People Power to Protect the ClimateThe use of coal must end if we are to maintain an operable atmosphere, human civilization and all the Earth's complex lifeCampaign News Updates:· US scientists demand government ban on mountaintop mining [search]· Fear of violence grows in mountaintop mining fight [search]· EPA holds up coal-mining permits as firms fume [search]· DOE chief announces billions for clean coal [search]· U.S. coal power plants scuttled, Sierra Club cheers [search]· 'Safe' climate means 'no to coal' [search]· United Kingdom: 'Clean' coal plants get go-ahead [search]· EPA objects to 3 more surface coal mining permits [search]· Dirty past, hazy future [search]· What to do about Coal? [search]Urge President Obama to Say No to Canada's Filthy Tar SandsThe Canadian government wants special treatment for the world's dirtiest oil. President Obama must stand strong on clean energy and sufficient climate policies.Support Finnish NGOs in Their Fight for Lapland's Ancient ForestsProtest Finnish timber giant Stora Enso and the government profiting from destroying Finland's last ancient forests. Let them know Finland and the World's old-growth must be protected and restored to sustain the Earth's biosphere and ecosystem processes including climate, water and biodiversity.Stop Rogue German Ship from Fertilizing Southern Ocean in Dangerous Geo-Engineering ExperimentMany seek to "geo-engineer" a global solution to climate change; that is, modify the Earth's biosphere at a planetary scale. Is humanity so resistant to change that we will seek to construct a "Frankensphere", with dramatic unknown consequences, rather than reducing emissions, consumption and population?Campaign News Updates:· Only Mother Nature knows how to fertilize the ocean [search]· Climate 'fix' could poison sea life [search]· Ocean fertilization may backfire [search]· Adding iron to sea boosts deadly neurotoxin: study [search]· Ocean geoengineering scheme no easy fix for global warming [search]· Planning for plan B [search]· Why Superfreakonomics' authors are wrong on geo-engineering [search]· Geoengineering schemes under scrutiny [search]· Scientists Wonder Whether Painting the World's Roofs White May Be One Way to Slow Global Warming [search]· Indian scientists learn from failed attempt to fertilise ocean [search]Bolivia’s Amazon Riches to Be Plundered for OilPresident Morales must be encouraged to live up to his grand rhetoric, and end his government's hurried measures to decimate massive indigenous rainforest protected areas and their biodiversity and climate values, in a manner eerily reminiscent of the capitalistic system against which he ralliesCampaign News Updates:· Bolivia Amazon oil drilling plan opposed by tribes [search]Climate Talks Falter as Italy and Poland Play Politics with Global Climate's FutureTheir unwillingness at climate talks to bear the costs of reducing carbon, and ending their addiction to coal, will destroy the atmosphere, biosphere and all our futuresCampaign News Updates:· EU parliament asked to reject climate package [search]· EU leaders claim historic agreement on cutting pollution [search]· Climate change: EU leaders reach compromise deal on emissions [search]· Europe clinches deal to battle climate change [search]· EU eyes climate fund to win east Europe backing [search]· Industry set to win EU climate concessions [search]· World hoping for EU global warming deal [search]· EU gets closer to landmark climate deal [search]· EU lead on climate change under threat [search]· EU struggles for deal on climate, economy boost [search]Stop Bush's Midnight Raid Upon Oregon's Wild Forests and RiversLike his Presidency, it is time for President Bush's looting, plundering, and pillaging of America’s natural beauty, ecological treasures and vital ecosystems to endCampaign News Updates:· Oregon: U.S. Interior Dept throws out Bush logging plan [search]· Oregon: U.S. Scraps Bush Logging Plan [search]· Interior Department Shifts Course On Spotted Owl [search]· Bush last-minute rules cement environmental legacy [search]· President for 60 more days, George Bush tearing apart protection for America's wilderness [search]Join Local Peoples in Resisting Paraguay's Devastation by Genetically Modified Soya Monocultures Deforestation, eviction, drought and murder are too high of price to pay for toxic soybeans -- and Paraguay's new government knows better and must stop the destructionCampaign News Updates:· Argentine herbicide lawsuit alarms soy farmers [search]· Argentina: Scientists Reveal Effects of Glyphosate [search]· Argentina: Countryside No Longer Synonymous with Healthy Living [search]· Q&A: Paraguayan Indigenous Minister Calls for Patience [search]· Paraguay: Rural Associations Protest Land Occupations [search]Tell World Leaders Urgent Climate Change Action Cannot Wait for a Return to Economic GrowthClimate change and the bad economy are both symptoms of the same growth-based "ecological bubble". Tell governments to urgently address climate change despite the economic downturn, as both Wall Street and Main Street must realize that without ecosystems there can be no economyCampaign News Updates:· Charities claim action on climate change will ease financial crisis [search]· Financial crisis cash stuns scientist [search]· UN climate chief warns of 'next economic crisis' [search]· UN: financial crisis a burden on climate change [search]· European Parliament delays climate vote as rows rumble on [search]· Credit Crisis Not Threatening UN Climate Talks - Envoy [search]· Crunch predictors proffer radical cures [search]· United Kingdom: Charles warns of 'climate crunch' [search]· Risks of global warming greater than financial crisis: Stern [search]· There's no bailout for the next crisis [search]Tell World Leaders Urgent Climate Change Action Cannot Wait for a Return to Economic GrowthClimate change and the bad economy are both symptoms of the same growth-based "ecological bubble". Tell governments to urgently address climate change despite the economic downturn, as both Wall Street and Main Street must realize that without ecosystems there can be no economyCampaign News Updates:· Climate Change Puts Mekong Region's New Species at Risk [search]As Rainforest Action Network Prepares to "Revel", What Has Become of Their Old Growth Forest Campaign?There is no chance of achieving global ancient forest protection, climate stabilization and ecological sustainability until RAN and other ancient forest logging apologists follow Friends of the Earth in withdrawing from the Forest Stewardship Council and uniting to work to end ancient forest loggingFinal Push Needed to Stop Australia's Ancient Forest Pulp MillGunns of Australia's controversial plans to build a huge pulp mill to make disposable consumer items largely from clearfelling ancients forests is close to failing, let us together make a final decisive push to warn off potential investors and environmental approvals and achieve its permanent withdrawalCampaign News Updates:· Australia braces for severe bushfire season [search]· Australia: Tas pulp mill's approval draws ire from forest, green lobbies [search]· Australia: Forest industry demands pulp mill approval [search]· Australia: Mill focus back on money Garrett tipped to approve permits [search]· Australia: Garrett expected to approve Gunns pulp mill [search]· Australia: Unions seek Govt help for Gunns [search]· Australia: Charges laid over Tas forest violence [search]· Australia: Forest protesters report attacks to police [search]· Australia: Tas Premier calls for calm amid forest protests [search]· Australia: Drying, dying, Murray loses wetlands [search]Fund Ecuador to Keep Oil Underground and Rainforests Standing for Our Shared ClimateIt is time for the international community led by Europe to step up and finance large-scale Amazon rainforest preservation to protect the Earth's atmosphere, biodiversity, and life-giving ecosystems; while helping meet needs for national advancementCampaign News Updates:· Ecuador's 'Amazon bonds': How to raise $3.6bn for doing nothing [search]· Ecuador inks deal to protect oil field in national park [search]· Ecuador to push Amazon oil proposal with "dignity" [search]· Ecuador: the Amazon’s dirty war [search]· Ecuador: Researchers hail innovative plan to save rainforest, reduce greenhouse gas emissions [search]· Ecuador wants funds to stop rainforest oil output [search]· Ecuador Seeks $3 Billion for Amazonian Park Carbon Bonds Sale [search]· Ecuador wants billions to not drill in biosphere reserve [search]· In Ecuador, an unusual carbon-credit plan to leave oil untapped [search]· Pay-to-protect plan for Ecuadorian rainforest on the brink [search]Biofuels to Turn Kenya's Rich Tana Delta Wetlands into Ecological WastelandLet the Kenyan government know destroying ecosystems for toxic sugar monocultures is unethical, and ask them to please follow their own environmental laws, and permanently cancel the projectCampaign News Updates:· Destruction of Kenya forest is national emergency [search]· Kenya: Hue And Cry Over Tana Sugar Project [search]· Kenya looks to geothermal power to fuel development [search]· Kenyan courts consider terminating biofuel plans [search]Dear Al Gore, We Need the Full Truth Regarding Actions Sufficient to Avert Catastrophic Climate ChangeEncourage Mr. Gore to tell the full truth regarding the magnitude of actions required for climate change solutions, including advocating for an end to coal and ancient forest logging, and personal sacrifice including reduced consumptionCampaign News Updates:· Al Gore 'profiting' from climate change agenda [search]· Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth sequel stresses spiritual argument on climate [search]· Gore urges US to try for 100% renewable energy within a decade [search]· Gore: Make All US Electricity From Renewable Sources [search]· Gore's Bold Plan to Save the Planet [search]· Al Gore: Energy Crisis Can Be Fixed [search]Brazil's Xingu River Dam to Damn Amazonian Rainforests and PeoplesThe wild and free Xingu River is critical to maintaining intact the Amazon, its peoples and the Earth we shareUnilever Threatens Côte d'Ivoire's Primary Rainforests, Showing Promises of "Sustainable" Palm Oil MeaninglessLeading global consumer products company poised to destroy Ivory Coast's rainforests as both investor and customer, pushing three primates to extinction, just after its future commitment to rainforest protection and certified oil palm in 2015 was much heralded by someCampaign News Updates:· Ivory Coast: Communities Determined to Preserve Tanoé Swamps Forest [search]· Activists in Ivory Coast stop palm oil project [search]· The slippery business of palm oil [search]· Unilever comes out against worldwide rush to biofuels [search]· Unilever shifts Ivory Coast interest from palm oil to soap [search]Agrofuels on Stolen Lands Continue to Threaten Colombian Rainforests and CommunitiesIt is gravely unethical and ecologically devastating to expand production of biofuels by allowing land to be stolen from local Afro-Colombian communities; and at the expense of Colombia's ancient primary rainforests, food security, water resources and regional climateCampaign News Updates:· Colombia: Afro-Colombians fight biodiesel producers [search]· Colombia: Oil Palms, Right Abuses Hand in Hand in Northwest [search]· Politics aside, Latin America biofuels loom large [search]· Destroying Native Ecosystems For Biofuel Crops Worsens Global Warming [search]· Biofuels bonanza facing 'crash' [search]· The western appetite for biofuels is causing starvation in the poor world [search]· Australia: Palm oil furore could stymie green fuel plan [search]· Jane Goodall Says Biofuel Crops Hurt Rain Forests [search]· Biofuel Could Eat Brazil's Savannas & Deforest the Amazon [search]· As We Stand on the Brink of Catastrophe, Bio-Fuels are no Magic Bullet [search]Protest Australia's Continued Ancient Forest Logging in the Face of Abrupt Climate ChangeAustralia's new "climate friendly" government preaches global forest protection for climate benefits internationally, while continuing to industrially clear its own native primary forests in Tasmania and elsewhere, and this unseemly hypocrisy must endGlobal Ecological Emergency: Brazil Must Succeed in Keeping Soybeans Out of AmazonOnly soy products that do not directly or indirectly destroy ancient rainforests, or intensify climate change and other problems inherent with large-scale industrial monocultures, will be tolerated in international marketsCampaign News Updates:· Chinese agribusiness company in DR Congo to offer thousands of jobs for locals [search]· EU Biofuel Panic Threatens Planet - Brazil Envoy [search]· Brazil mulls sugar cane limit to protect wetland [search]· Brazil fund plan to protect Amazon [search]· Brazil launches ambitious fund for Amazon forest [search]· Brazil Throws Weight Behind Amazon Soy Ban [search]· Brazil's Petrobras to start biofuel sales in Japan: report [search]· Brazil: Our diet of destruction [search]· Brazil To Defend Biofuels At UN Summit In Rome [search]· Brazil: Agribusiness Undermines Environmental Leadership Role [search]Just Say No to Oil Shale, Leave the Carbon in the GroundOil shale production in Western U.S. with Department of Energy subsidies will prolong dependence upon filthy fossil fuels while destroying the climate, water and landCampaign News Updates:· Groups add climate change to oil shale concerns [search]· Companies Believe In Oil Shale's Future [search]· Carbon dioxide shale solution sought [search]· Bush-era oil shale development leases blocked [search]· Obama Administration Restarts Oil Shale Leasing in Colorado, Utah [search]· U.S. Interior scraps Bush research oil shale leases [search]· Salazar: oil shale development on the table [search]· Larger oil-shale leases offered [search]· Oil shale debate rages. How realistic is it? [search]· Colorado GOP lawmakers to sponsor oil shale bills [search]Papua New Guinea's Woodlark Island Rainforests to Be Cleared for Oil Palm AgrofuelsThe PNG government continues to approve rainforest destruction and diminishment even as they vocally seek to be paid with carbon market funds for their "protection"Campaign News Updates:· Malaysia Concerned About Negative Campaigns On Palm Oil Industry [search]· EU rethink over 'damaging biofuels' warning [search]· Papua New Guinea: Vitro Plant pulls out of Woodlark [search]· Papua New Guinea: Woodlark Island to be free of oil palms [search]· EU Rethinks Biofuels Targets As Criticism Mounts [search]· PNG government urged to prevent rainforest clearing on Woodlark Island [search]· PNG’s Somare petitioned by activists [search]· Should cars eat our food? [search]· Papua New Guinea - 'eco hero' to 'eco zero' [search]· Using Climate Change to Justify Bad Policies [search]Mayor Bloomberg: We Love New York, But Hate Your Government's Rainforest Destruction!New York City is one of the biggest consumers of ancient rainforest timbers; and their use of tropical hardwoods must end to protect global climate, ecosystems and biodiversityCampaign News Updates:· New York mayor supports carbon emissions tax, reduces hardwood use [search]· World's forests in dire need of protection [search]· New Jersey: Ocean City may scrap rainforest wood boardwalk deal [search]· Pressures build on Amazon jungle [search]Protest Failed World Bank Congo Rainforest Policy and Proposed Ill-Conceived Forest Carbon PaymentsGiven revelations of misconduct in Democratic Republic of Congo's rainforests by the World Bank, their desire to administer global carbon payments for rainforest protection as a means to address climate change is suspectCampaign News Updates:· All About: Forests and carbon trading [search]· Climate Change Seen Hurting Poor Regions [search]· Developing nations have emissions role -Indonesia [search]· Scheme to stop deforestation will pay for carbon not emitted [search]· New World Bank facility would help against forest degrading [search]· Guyana: Offer of entire forest in climate fight stands -Jagdeo tells Commonwealth meet [search]Another Sell-Out of British Columbia's Ancient Temperate Rainforests PossibleRare mountain caribou threatened by further closed door, secret forest negotiations; survival depends habitat protection across their full range including ending logging of their ancient temperate rainforest habitatCampaign News Updates:· Tract of B.C. forest set to be saved for caribou [search]· Canada: Protecting species diversity [search]Climate Protection Payments Must Avoid Deforestation of Ancient Rainforests AND Their Industrial DiminishmentSelective logging diminishes primary and old-growth forests' carbon stores, ecosystems, and biodiversity; and has no place in proposed carbon market payments for rainforest and climate protectionCampaign News Updates:· Biofuels bottom of the heap in impact study [search]· Pay-to-protect forest plan gets cautious welcome [search]· Old growth forest must no longer be ignored in carbon balances [search]· Ghana climate talks advance on saving forests [search]· Developing countries and human rights group set to clash at UN climate change meeting [search]· Brazil: Amazon Fund seen as 'paradigm shift' for forest [search]· Greenpeace calls for deforestation fund [search]· Carbon credits could help save Amazon, blunt warming: study [search]· New money is last hope in battle to save rainforests [search]· World Bank fund to pay for protecting forests [search]Jet-Setting Leonardo DiCaprio the Convenient EnvironmentalistGrowth in aviation threatens the Planet, celebrities flying in private jets are no friend to the environment, and shared climate sacrifice means the super-rich must swear off jet-setting waysCampaign News Updates:· Hollywood spotlights environment, challenges remain [search]· Green idealists most likely to take long-haul flights, says study [search]· Hollywood A-listers forced to mothball their personal jets [search]· United Kingdom: Heathrow third runway: Thousands join protest [search]· Enviro-Celebs Big Fuel Fiends [search]· United Kingdom: Sting - Styler Defends Huge Carbon Footprint [search]· United Kingdom: Activists fight Heathrow expansion [search]· United Kingdom: A revolution in the skies... a disaster for the planet [search]· United Kingdom: Heathrow Protesters Scale British Parliament Roof [search]· United Kingdom: Objectors unite on Heathrow plan [search]Please Tell the EU: Don't Sacrifice Birds and Ecosystems for Biofuel ExpansionThere are limits to agricultural intensification that if surpassed threaten European wildlife and terrestrial ecosystem sustainabilityCampaign News Updates:· EU faces court challenge over biofuels reports [search]· Is Biofuel Policy Harming European Biodiversity? [search]· Wildlife set-aside payments may return [search]· United Kingdom: Farm wildlife cash 'could return' [search]· EU ends biofuel battle, nears green energy deal [search]· EU near green energy deal despite biofuel deadlock [search]· Ireland: 20 times more land needed for bio-energy crops [search]· Push for Biofuels Losing Energy [search]· EU committee votes to cut biofuels target [search]· Europe to reaffirm biofuels targets [search]FSC and Big Green "Certified" Ancient Forest Logging Tragedy WorsensSupport for "certified" ancient rainforest logging crumbles further due to string of inappropriate and illegal certifications, most recently in Peru; and as Norway rejects FSC and all primary rainforest logging certification schemesProtect Uganda's Mabira Rainforest Preserve from Sugar Production for BiofuelLet the Ugandan government know rainforests and their ecological services including water, climate and biodiversity are more important than sugar which can be grown elsewhereCampaign News Updates:· Uganda: NGOs Judging Oil Palm on Hearsay, Says U.N [search]· Uganda likely to lose all forest cover in 50 yrs [search]· Uganda: Bidco Denies Taking Forest Land [search]· Uganda: Museveni Blasts Environmentalists [search]· Uganda: Path to progress; why cutting down Mabira is not an option [search]· Uganda: Museveni rejects move to hive off Mt Elgon forest [search]· Uganda NFA Says Won't Allocate Mabira Forest For Sugar Cane [search]· Uganda: NFA officials warn govt on Mabira forest [search]· Uganda: Mabira Forest Still Safe, Says Forests Boss [search]· Uganda: Govt is Back At Its Cat And Rat Game [search]Greenpeace, Come Clean and Stop Supporting Ancient Rainforest LoggingThere is no such thing as certified, sustainable logging of primary forests. Tell Greenpeace to release their suppressed report on industrial certified forestry, and to resign the chair and withdraw from the Forest Stewardship CouncilCampaign News Updates:· Reactions to Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement [search]· Untouched forests store 3 times more carbon- study [search]New Strengthened Post-Kyoto Agreement Must Be Fast Tracked NowGiven the science and evident abrupt climate changes, Kyoto successor agreement must be negotiated now that emphasizes mandatory emissions reductions for all major industrial economiesCampaign News Updates:· UN Bali Meeting Should Map Out New Climate Treaty [search]· Global climate initiative hinges on China, U.S. [search]· Can climate change get worse? It has [search]Myth of "Certified, Sustainable Ancient Forest Logging" Threatens the World's Rainforests and ClimateTell the World Bank, WWF and Greenpeace to stop aiding and abetting failed "sustainable" and "certified" forest management for the Congo Basin and elsewhere, and instead commit to End Ancient Rainforest LoggingCampaign News Updates:· DR Congo needs clear logging policies: Greenpeace [search]· Congo set to halt most logging [search]Stop Malaysian Samling Group - Global Leaders in Rainforest DestructionDestroyer of ancient rainforests and indigenous livelihoods from Malaysia to Guyana now a publicly listed company that along with its financiers is facing renewed international protestIndonesia's Biofuel Expansion on Rainforest Peatlands to Accelerate Climate ChangeLet the President know the world expects Indonesia to keep the Environment Minister's promise to tackle the root causes of rainforest fires and peatland drainageCampaign News Updates:· Indonesian palm oil giant broke commitments: Greenpeace [search]· Indonesia: Palm estate is forest, says ministry [search]· Indonesia: For peat's sake, stop [search]· Orangutans struggle to survive as palm oil booms [search]· Indonesia says 60 per cent cut in carbon emissions possible [search]· Indonesia: New Rules Allow Use of Peatland For Plantations [search]· Indonesia: Govt to allow peatland plantations [search]· Greenpeace says blocks palm oil ships in Indonesia [search]· Indonesia: Biofuel boom endangers orangutan habitat [search]· Oil palm plantations are no substitute for tropical rainforests [search]End Clearcut Logging of Ancient Old-Growth Forest Wilderness in Northern FinlandLet the Finnish government know that the age of ancient forest logging is over; that these forests are needed for climate buffering, biodiversity protection, forest restoration seed stock and are vital to achieving global ecological sustainabilityBrazil Approves Deforestation of Important Amazon ReserveThe strength and permanence of protected status for ancient rainforests under Brazilian law is at stakeEurope Must End Their "Deforestation Biofuel" Energy PolicyIndustrial biofuels threaten Rainforests and European land sustainabilityCampaign News Updates:· Biofuels from deforested land to fail EU standards [search]· Legal action targets EU biofuel policy [search]· EU drafts warn of biofuels' link to hunger [search]· EU plans to limit biofuel impact on forests [search]· Adonis hints UK is wavering on biofuel targets [search]· EU in crop biofuel goal rethink [search]· EU Lawmakers Propose Lowered Biofuels Target [search]· EU Backs Away From Agrofuels [search]· EU panel votes to lower controversial biofuel goal [search]· EU alert on biofuel targets [search]U.S. Supreme Court Must Rule for Carbon RegulationWith a decade to avert global warming catastrophe, let the U.S. Supreme Court know carbon dioxide is clearly by both science and law a pollutant, causing climate change mayhem, and as such must be regulated - even if it means, given lack of political leadership, "legislating from the bench"Campaign News Updates:· Obama to regulate 'pollutant' CO2 [search]· EPA expected to act on carbon dioxide regulation: report [search]· EPA Won't Act on Emissions This Year [search]· Despite court ruling, EPA won't move on greenhouse gases [search]Continue to Oppose Oil Production in Ecuador's Yasuni and Other National ParksAll of Ecuador's protected areas including all of Yasua must be strictly protected from oil and loggingCampaign News Updates:· Ecuador: Yasuni and the New Economics of Climate Change [search]· Ecuador Signs Deal Not to Drill in Amazon Nature Reserve [search]· Ecuador, for pay, will not drill in Amazon reserve [search]· Crunch Time for Ecuador's Biological Treasure Trove [search]· Ecuador: Environmental Inspection in Yasuni Park [search]· Ecuador ForMin, criticized for Amazon project, quits [search]· Ecuador: Pay us oil money, or the rainforest gets it [search]· Ecuador wants 'carbon bonds' to save forest [search]· Trees or oil [search]· Ecuador Says Could Help Settle Chevron Suit [search]Severe Australian Drought Caused by Climate Change, Leave Your Coal in the Ground!Dramatic efforts required with coal and forests to ensure Australia's well-being and planetary survivalBush Climate Plea: Confront "An Inconvenient Truth", Lead on Global WarmingPresident Bush has shown throughout his Presidency little inclination to address looming climate change, yet the science is clear, and the Earth cannot wait for new U.S. leadershipSupport Petition to Save Malaysia's Belum-Temengor RainforestsProposed National Park "Richest of the Rich" in Terms of Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Threatened by LoggingCampaign News Updates:· Malaysia's catfish sport-fishing plan makes waves [search]Chinese Olympic Committee Must Independently Prove Olympic Torch Not Burning World's RainforestsBeijing Olympics 2008: Destroying Papua's Ancient Rainforests to Raise the Olympic TorchCampaign News Updates:· Tough Times For US Ethanol To Force Shake-Out [search]Protest World Bank Renewable Energy and Fossil Fuel FundingCall upon Bank board to prevent climate mayhem by halting subsidies for deadly fossil fuel projects while greatly increasing renewable energy and efficiency fundingCampaign News Updates:· World Bank to bolster sustainable energy role [search]· World Bank increases fossil-fuel funding despite pledge [search]· World Bank plans clean technology fund for poor [search]Massive Gas Pipeline to Pierce the AmazonProject will devastate South America's rainforests, water and climateCampaign News Updates:· Brazil, Venezuela Pledge Deeper Energy Integration [search]World Bank Must Not Fund Rainforest Destruction in the CongoIndustrial logging of ancient primary forests is ecologically and socially indefensibleCampaign News Updates:· African forests gobble up more CO2: study [search]· Congo rainforest given hope as deals cancelled [search]· DR Congo cancels timber contracts [search]· Greenpeace calls for urgent action to enforce decisions and protect Congo's remaining forests [search]· Congo logging review could lead to more forest destruction, warns Greenpeace [search]· DR Congo to cancel two-thirds of logging contracts [search]
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