COMMUNITIES, LIVELIHOODS & LOST REVENUE

Threatened forests are home to an estimated fifty million indigenous people and play an important cultural and social role in many countries, as well as supporting positive development opportunities such as eco-tourism and non-timber product markets.

Forest also provide for informal economies related to hunting, gathering and fuel wood. Commercial logging, often illegally, competes for access to the resource with those that live in forests, sometimes resulting in localised violence. In the worst cases, commercial logging can result in the destruction of indigenous peoples' rainforest territories, and the denial of their human rights, which is often in contravention of international laws and conventions.

The World Bank states that illegal logging has deprived the governments of some of the poorest countries in the world billions of dollars in lost revenue. It has also promoted corruption, undermined the rule of law and good governance and fuelled devastating armed conflicts in countries in Asia and Africa.

However the picture is not all negative, as there is evidence that some illegal activities, particularly by small scale and artisanal operators, can provide vital livelihoods to poor communities that live in an around forests, particularly if managed in the interests of those groups.

DOCUMENTS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
15/05/2013	Rocky Road: How legal failings and vested interests behind Peru's Purus highway threaten the Amazon and its people Plans to build a 270 km highway through the Peruvian Amazon are mired in legal violations and potential ...	Global Witness
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02/05/2013	Ecosystems in the Greater Mekong: Past trends, current status, possible futures The Greater Mekong subregion in Southeast Asia risks losing more than a third of its remaining forest ...	WWF-Greater Mekong
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07/02/2013	First Class Connections: Log Smuggling, Illegal Logging and Corruption in Mozambique Detailing the findings of EIA undercover investigations in Mozambique, and outlining timber trade data ...	EIA (Environmental Investigation Agency)
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29/11/2012	Appetite for Destruction: China's Trade in Illegal Timber The Environmental Investigation Agency has been conducting field investigations into flows of illicit ...	EIA (Environmental Investigation Agency)
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05/11/2012	The Role and Contribution of Montane Forests and Related Ecosystem Services to the Kenyan Economy The montane forests of Kenya, better known as Kenya’s “Water Towers”, produce direct ...	UNEP / UN-REDD Programme / Kenyan Government / Kenya Forest Service
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01/10/2012	Biofuels in Africa: Impacts on Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity and Human Well-being Biofuel production and use in Africa have been linked to numerous environmental and socio-economic impacts ...	United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) (Alexandros Gasparatos, Lisa Y. Lee, Graham P. von Maltitz, Manu V. Mathai, Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira & Katherine J. Willis)
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23/09/2012	Green Carbon: Black Trade - Illegal Logging, Tax Fraud and Laundering in the World's Tropical Forests This report focuses on illegal logging and its impacts on the lives and livelihoods of often some of ...	UNEP/Interpol
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12/07/2012	Testing the Law: Carbon, Crime and Impunity in Indonesia’s Plantation Sector This report highlights the criminal activities of an oil palm plantation company operating in Kalimantan, ...	EIA (Environmental Investigation Agency) / Telapak
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20/05/2012	Extent and Consequences of Tropical Forest Degradation: Successive Policy Options for Bangladesh This paper is conceived at a time when new paradigms are sought for the development of a framework to ...	Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology (M. G. Kibria, S. A. Rahman, A. Imtiaj and T. Sunderland)
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15/05/2012	"Artisanal Logging" = Industrial Logging in Disguise: Bypassing the Moratorium on the Allocation of New Industrial Logging Concessions in the Democratic Republic of Congo The Congo Basin forest is the world's second largest tropical rainforest after the Amazon. The conservation ...	Greenpeace
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01/05/2012	Forest Peoples: Numbers Across the World Forests cover almost one third of the world’s land area and nearly all are inhabited by indigenous ...	Forest Peoples Programme
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12/12/2011	Characterization of Community Composition and Forest Structure in a Madagascar Lowland Rainforest As one of the world’s most threatened hotspots for terrestrial biodiversity, Madagascar is an island ...	Tropical Conservation Science (Amanda H. Armstrong, Herman H. Shugart, Temilola E. Fatoyinbo)
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09/12/2011	Mountain Forests in a Changing World: Realizing Values, Addressing Challenges This report has been produced in the International Year of Forests to draw attention to the many values ...	FAO
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02/11/2011	Human Development Report 2011 - Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All Development progress in the world’s poorest countries could be halted or even reversed by mid-century ...	UNDP
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19/04/2011	Gold Mining in the Peruvian Amazon: Global Prices, Deforestation, and Mercury Imports Many factors such as poverty, ineffective institutions and environmental regulations may prevent developing ...	PLoS (Jennifer J. Swenson, Catherine E. Carter, Jean-Christophe Domec, Cesar I. Delgado)
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01/03/2011	Dutch Trade and Biodiversity. Biodiversity and Socio-economic Impacts of Dutch Trade in Soya, Palm Oil and Timber This report documents the ecological and socio-economic impacts of the Netherlands in producer countries ...	LEI, Wageningen UR (Kamphuis et al.)
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02/02/2011	State of the World's Forests 2011 This ninth biennial issue of State of the World’s Forests is being launched at the outset of 2011, ...	FAO
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04/05/2010	Illegal Logging In Indonesia: The Environmental, Economic and Social Costs This report claims that illegal logging undermines the strength and sustainability of the forest products’ ...	The BlueGreen Alliance, Natural Resources Defense Council, Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club & United Steelworkers
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01/12/2009	“Wild Money”: The Human Rights Consequences of Illegal Logging and Corruption in Indonesia’s Forestry Sector The authors of this report claim that corruption in Indonesia's lucrative forestry industry costs ...	Human Rights Watch
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28/10/2009	Precious trees pay off – but who pays? This 'poster' documents the results of the political fallout in Madagascar during 2009 in terms ...	Lucienne Wilmé, Derek Schuurman, Porter P. Lowry and Peter H. Raven
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01/06/2009	Slaughtering the Amazon The authors claim that the cattle sector in the Brazilian Amazon is the largest driver of deforestation ...	Greenpeace
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07/05/2009	An Emergency Package for Tropical Forests Through a process of broad consultation, The Princes Rainforests Project has developed a proposal for ...	The Prince's Rainforests Project
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17/03/2009	Chronology of evidence of uncontacted Indians fleeing from Peru to Brazil Report presenting evidence that some of the worlds last uncontacted Indians have been fleeing from Peru ...	Survival International
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10/02/2008	Babong Traditional Council: Statement regarding activities of CAFECO timber corporation Statement by the Babong village council of south-west Cameroon addressed to Mr Ntumbong Linus Tayo, Director ...	Babong Traditional Council
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01/12/2007	So, who owns the forest? Sets out the confusions and conundrums of forest tenure in Liberia today and develops clear recommendations ...	Sustainable Development Institute/FERN
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01/12/2007	Reducing Emissions from Deforestation: Global mechanisms, conservation and livelihoods This briefing considers the implications for biodiversity conservation and local people's livelihoods ...	United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC)
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01/12/2007	Protecting the future: carbon, forests, protected areas and local livelihoods Summary document looking at current proposals on reducing emissions from deforestation in developing ...	United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC)
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06/09/2007	Developing Capacity, Engaging Key Trade and Supporting Community Forest Enterprises: An Approach for Sustainable Forest Management in Africa The document explains the Rainforest Alliances contribution to Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) in ...	Rainforest Alliance
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31/08/2007	Final Report of World Bank Inspection Panel Investigation of Forest Sector Operations in DRC The present Report presents the findings of the Inspection Panel in response to a Request for Inspection ...	World Bank
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09/07/2007	Native Customary Rights (NCR) over land in Sarawak, Malaysia A review of the legal rights held by native communities in Malaysia, with a specific consideration of ...	High Court of Sarawak and Sabah (Baru Bian)
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01/05/2007	Illegal logging and international trade in mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) from the Peruvian Amazon A report by the Peruvian organisation AIDESEP (The National Association of Amazon Indians in Peru) reveals ...	AIDESEP for Rainforest Foundation Norway
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01/04/2007	Forest Governance Learning Group Update April 2007 The latest update report from the Forest Governance Learning Group (FGLG), describing activities over ...	FGLG
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01/03/2007	The Race for Peru's Last Mahogany Trees: Illegal logging and the Alto Purus National Park This investigation found evidence of large-scale illegal logging in remote parts of the Peruvian Amazon ...	Round River Conservation Studies
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24/01/2007	Transitions in Forest Tenure and Governance: Drivers, Projected Patterns and Implications A paper prepared for the Chatham House meeting 'Forest governance and trade: exploring options' ...	Rights and Resources (Andy White)
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01/12/2006	Arborvitae Issue 32: The IUCN/WWF forest conservation newsletter The focus of this issue of arbor vitae is illegal logging and forest governance. It contains informative ...	IUCN and WWF
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07/08/2006	Bulldozing Progress: Human rights abuses and corrpution in Papua New Guinea's large scale logging industry The report shows how the logging industry's influence in PNG extends well beyond forestry. Recommendations ...	Australian Conservation Foundation
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31/07/2006	ITS Global Reports for Rimbunan Hijau Two reports, 'Whatever it takes: Greenpeace's anti-forestry campaign in PNG' and 'Masalai ...	ITS Global
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01/04/2006	Chain Saw Logging and Milling in Ghana: Background study report This report is an analysis based on review of documented records and focus group meetings to reveal the ...	Forestry Research Programme
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01/03/2006	Justice in the Forest: Rural Livelihoods and Forest Law Enforcement This study was born out of a concern that a narrow focus on law enforcement could unintentionally harm ...	CIFOR (Marcus Colchester)
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01/03/2006	China and the Global Market for Forest Products: Transforming Trade to Benefit Forests and Livelihoods The report looks at China's industry and timber trade and what this means for China, countries that ...	Forest Trends
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01/02/2006	Social Issues in Purchasing This guidance note was written for UK government buyers to clarify the ways in which the government believes ...	UK Office of Government Commerce
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09/01/2006	Final Factual Record Tarahumara Submission The report provides considers whether Mexico is failing to effectively enforce its environmental law ...	Commission for Environmental Cooperation of North America
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01/01/2006	Forests, Illegality, and Livelihoods in Cameroon This paper addresses the state of illegal forest activities (IFAs) in Cameroon, with particular attention ...	CIFOR (Paolo Omar Cerutti and Luca Tacconi)
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01/11/2005	The Illegal Logging Crisis in Honduras The result of a year-long undercover investigation by EIA, the report "documents how U.S. imports ...	EIA
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24/10/2005	Partners in Crime: The UK timber trade, Chinese sweatshops and Malaysian robber barons in Papua New Guinea's rainforests Greenpeace's investigation into the UK trade in Chinese hardwood plywood claims criminal origins ...	Greenpeace
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01/03/2005	Forced Labour in the Extraction of Timber in the Peruvian Amazon (El Trabajo Forzoso en la Extracción de la Madera en la Amazonía Peruana) The document (only currently available in Spanish) concerns forced labour in the logging industry in ...	International Labour Organisation (ILO)
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01/12/2004	Take Action To Defend The World’s Forests "Take Action To Defend The World’s Forests" documents the links between worldwide forest ...	Sierra Club
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01/11/2004	Strengthening the Social Component of a Standard for Legality of Wood Origin and Production in Indonesia The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on illegal logging between Indonesia and the UK was signed in 2002. ...	Forest Peoples Programme, for The Nature Conservancy (Marcus Colchester)
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06/10/2004	Draft Report: Stregthening the social component of a definition of legal wood origin and production for Indonesia A report prepared for TNC which aimed to elicit information and draw some conclusions regarding the implications ...	Forest Peoples Programme for The Nature Conservancy
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17/11/2002	Role of the African Timber Trade in the Creation of Conflict and Poverty - A Call for Action This document considers the negative effects of the tropical timber trade in the DRC and Mano River Region ...	Greenpeace (Filip Verbelen)
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01/03/2002	Partners in Crime: Malaysian loggers, timber markets and the politics of self-interest in Papua New Guinea This report profiles the Kiunga-Aiambak Road Project as one example of what is going wrong in Papua New ...	Greenpeace
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01/01/2002	Impacts of illegality and barriers to legality: a diagnostic analysis of illegal logging in Honduras and Nicaragua This paper summarises a diagnostic analysis of the illegal timber trade in Nicaragua and Honduras conducted ...	Richards, M, A Wells, F del Gatto, A Contreras-Hermosilla and D Pommier
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NEWS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
07/05/2013	Nicaragua cloud forest 'under siege' by illegal loggers ...	BBC
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02/05/2013	New forest loss figures highlight need for green growth in the Greater Mekong The Greater Mekong subregion in Southeast Asia risks losing more than a third of its remaining forest ...	WWF
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20/04/2013	Amazon’s Awa tribe faces threat of extinction as illegal logging takes hold Although Brazil’s government has pared down deforestation of its Amazon rain forest land, large ...	Science Recorder
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17/04/2013	Illegal loggers continue to threaten Amazonian tribe Campaigners say the Brazilian government is failing to protect one of the world's most endangered ...	BBC
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02/04/2013	Africa: How to Balance Forests and Food? A few weeks ago the Skoll World Forum hosted an online ...	AlertNet
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28/03/2013	Haiti to plant millions of trees to boost forests and help tackle poverty Government-backed campaign aims to double Caribbean country's forest cover by 2016 ...	The Guardian
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26/03/2013	Northern Region Suffers From Illegal Timber Traders Despite the dry and poor vegetation cover in the Northern parts of Ghana, some illegal timber merchants ...	Spy Ghana
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25/03/2013	Reduce deforestation to check poverty and improve livelihoods Investments have been channeled to forestry projects in developing countries with the aim of stopping ...	Daily Monitor (Uganda)
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25/02/2013	UN-REDD launches guidelines on FPIC The UN-REDD Programme recently launched the UN-REDD Programme Guidelines on Free, Prior and Informed ...	Forest Carbon Asia
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24/02/2013	Tanzania: Let's Think Together Globally, forests are disappearing at an increasing rate. Since 1990 alone, half of the world’s ...	The Citizen
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07/02/2013	Mozambique loses a fortune to illegal timber exports Corruption in world’s fourth poorest country aids illegal logging & timber smuggling to China. London ...	EIA (Environmental Investigation Agency)
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07/02/2013	Report: nearly half the timber from Mozambique to China is illegal Forty-eight percent of the timber making its way from Mozambique's forests to Chinese companies ...	Mongabay.com
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25/01/2013	Illegal loggers in Far East cost Russia $17 mln Illegal logging in Russia’s Far Eastern Khabarovsk Territory has cost the state over 500 million ...	Russia & India Report
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07/01/2013	Liberia: Ellen takes stand to protect forest - after FDA blunders President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has issued Executive Order No. 44, on Protecting Liberian Forests by ...	The Informer, Liberia (featured on allAfrica.com)
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31/12/2012	Kedah MB told to stop deforestation Alor Star - Placards, banners and an angry mob of villagers greeted Kedah Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Azizan ...	New Straits Times, Malaysia
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29/12/2012	Forest Commission pledges fight against illegal logging The Forestry Commission (FC) has pledged its commitment to continue the fight against illegal logging ...	GhanaWeb
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18/12/2012	Bangladesh: Deforestation threatens food security in southeast Cox's Bazar - Activists warn food insecurity in southeastern Bangladesh may worsen over the next ...	IRIN Asia
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17/12/2012	Deforestation wreaks havoc in Guatemala’s Caribbean region Guatemala City - “Many tourists come to this area for bird watching, but the terrible deforestation ...	IPSNews
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26/11/2012	Tanzania: Kazimzumbwi forest conservation needs urgent action The country's natural and cultural heritage has expansive variety of ecosystems containing some ...	Daily News, Tanzania (featured on allAfrica.com)
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20/11/2012	Pakistan has highest deforestation rate: experts Islamabad - The experts have said that investment in restoring or conserving ecological infrastructure ...	The News, Pakistan
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19/11/2012	Two forests near water sources 'under siege' The Kedah government has been urged to explain rampant logging activity at two high-value forests in ...	New Straits Times, Malaysia
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19/11/2012	Deforestation risks turning Somalia to desert Jalelo, Somalia - Hassan Hussein cuts down 40 trees every month to fuel his charcoal business, fully ...	AFP
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18/11/2012	How logs smugglers threaten Tanzania's forests On May 16 this year, Juma Salum Makumbusho from Umwe Kusini village, Rufiji district, Coastal region ...	IPP Media
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16/11/2012	Anyone guarding our forest cover? A seven-month investigation conducted in various parts of the country [Tanzania] has revealed massive ...	IPP Media
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15/11/2012	Uganda loses Shs23b in illegal timber trade Entebbe - A new report on the state of timber in East Africa region shows that Uganda loses Shs23 billion ...	Daily Monitor, Uganda
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14/11/2012	Cambodian villagers fight against powerful timber industry Phnom Penh, Cambodia — Hang Serei Oudom told his 7-month pregnant wife that he was going out to ...	Alaska Dispatch, US
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14/11/2012	Under threat: Deforestation pressure on Congo Basin forests increasing Yaounde - Rainforests in the Congo Basin are being cleared at an alarming rate amid global demand for ...	CIFOR Forests Blog
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13/11/2012	'Timber tax evaders undermine sustainable trade' A new report has warned that if the underpayment of taxes currently estimated at 50% on imported timber ...	New Vision, Uganda
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09/11/2012	The hidden world of illegal logging The demand for timber worldwide is growing substantially. And, as with every commodity that is available ...	Green Ideal, Canada
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05/11/2012	Cost of deforestation in Kenya far exceeds gains from forestry and logging, UN joint study finds A landmark study of Kenya’s high-elevation forests shows that the economic cost of deforestation ...	UN News Centre
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02/11/2012	Union wants timber action The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union says the Federal Government needs to pass its logging ...	ABC News, Australia
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31/10/2012	Illegal loggers in trouble The Forestry Commission has now been given the permission to prosecute perpetrators engage in illegal ...	Daily Guide, Ghana
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26/10/2012	"Wild West" timber trade threatens Congo forests: report Officials in Democratic Republic of Congo are colluding with foreign logging firms to support illegal ...	Reuters
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25/10/2012	Fears 'loopholes' allowing illegal timber dumping The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union says loopholes are allowing importers to continue ...	ABC News, Australia
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23/10/2012	Why illegal logging thrives in Ecija town General Tinio, Nueva Ecija - Efren, a father of four from General Tinio, Nueva Ecija, has been an illegal ...	The Inquirer, Philippines
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22/10/2012	Ecuador says companies join novel Amazon protection fund About a dozen companies are contributing to a novel conservation plan that pays Ecuador to protect part ...	Planet Ark (Reuters)
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17/10/2012	Organised crime, illegal timber and Australia’s role in deforestation Illegal logging is booming, as criminal organisations tighten their grip on this profitable global industry. ...	The Conversation, Australia
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12/10/2012	Forest Guardians DENR has reported that since the start of strict enforcement of the order banning loggers from the vicinity ...	Manila Bulletin, Philippines
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12/10/2012	Open for big businesses – but little people pay the price Last month, the President of Indonesia did the international investment equivalent of, shall we say, ...	EIA (Environmental Investigation Agency) blog
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05/10/2012	Billions of dollars lost each year to illegal logging The joint [UNEP/Interpol] report, called Green ...	Voice of America
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01/10/2012	Uganda: Govt bodies to plant trees to curb deforestation Kampala — About 10,000 tree seedlings are set to be planted in each district of Uganda in an effort ...	allAfrica.com
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25/09/2012	Earth’s most threatened tribe demands help ‘urgently’ amid hunting peril The Awá of Brazil, known as Earth’s most threatened tribe, have written to the country’s ...	Survival International
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24/09/2012	Illegal logging costs the nation in revenue For years now, Tanzania has been named as one of the countries in the world losing millions of revenue ...	allAfrica.com
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14/09/2012	Lessons from the US: stopping illegal logging benefits both sides of politics As the Australia Parliament currently debates legislation to fight illegal logging, it’s worth ...	The Conversation, Australia
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12/09/2012	Imoke seeks multi sectoral partnership to fight illegal logging, natural disasters in C/River Gov. Liyel imoke of Cross River has urged faith-based organisations, local communities, NGOs, civil society ...	Leadership, Nigeria
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12/09/2012	How deforestation could further destabilize Liberia Adjoining Sierra Leone, Guinea and Cote d’Ivoire, the Republic of Liberia flares-out into the mangrove-lined ...	PolicyMic
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11/09/2012	Interpol clamps down on illegal logging The illegal logging industry is worth almost as much as drug production, according to the international ...	BBC News
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11/09/2012	Countdown: Brazil has three months to evict invaders Brazil has just three months to evict illegal loggers from land belonging to Earth’s most threatened ...	Survival International
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04/09/2012	Illegal loggers ‘closing in’ on Earth’s most threatened tribe, investigation shows A recent investigation by Brazil’s Indian affairs department FUNAI has uncovered shocking evidence ...	First Perspective, Canada
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20/08/2012	Insight-DNA tests tell trees from the wood; curb illegal logging * Global illegal timber trade worth up to $30 bln -Interpol * DNA tests reveal species, origin of ...	Reuters
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20/08/2012	‘Illegal logging costs Zim millions of dollars’ Zimbabwe is losing several millions of dollars annually through illegal logging, a senior official with ...	The Standard, Zimbabwe
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10/08/2012	Soldiers seize P1.7-M illegally-cut logs Soldiers belonging to the Alpha Company of the 26th Infantry Battalion along with police personnel in ...	Sun Star Cagayan de Oro, Philippines
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07/08/2012	Deforestation fuels temperature hikes around Mt. Kilimanjaro Moshi, Tanzania - A logging boom has hit Tanzania’s tourist-drawing Kilimanjaro region, reducing ...	Reuters AlertNet
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25/07/2012	Illegal logging the cause of Padang flash floods: mayor Padang Mayor Fauzi Bahar blamed illegal logging for Tuesday's widespread flooding that inundated ...	The Jakarta Globe, Indonesia
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24/07/2012	Habitat of PHL’s biggest croc in critical condition An aerial survey conducted last week by the Anti-Illegal Logging Task Force (AILTF) over the Agusan marshland, ...	Business Mirror, Philippines
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20/07/2012	Residents of Swat, Chitral appeal against logging Peshawar - Residents of Daral and Bahrain valleys in Swat, Chitral and Kalash valleys have launched an ...	Daily Times, Pakistan
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19/07/2012	22 villages in Mt. Province may lose water due to illegal logging Bauko, Mount Province - Residents of this town fear the contamination of the mossy forest at the Palapal ...	Business Mirror, Philippines
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12/07/2012	Unchallenged crimes of ‘rotten apple’ palm oil company London - Systemic law enforcement failings threaten to make a mockery of Indonesia’s pledge to ...	EIA (Environmental Investigation Agency)
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03/07/2012	Alarmed UK MPs urge Brazil to save Earth’s most threatened tribe Dozens of British politicians are calling on Brazil to save Earth’s most threatened tribe by halting ...	Survival International
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23/06/2012	Illegal logging rampant in West Kalimantan Pontianak -Illegal logging is back with a vengeance in West Kalimantan. Up till June, the police have ...	Tempointeractive
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17/06/2012	Deforestation reaches alarming stage in BD The deforestation in Bangladesh has reached an alarming stage as the authorities concerned did not implement ...	Financial Express, Bangladesh
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08/06/2012	Earth’s most threatened tribe demands action as logging season starts Earth’s ‘most threatened tribe’ has made a desperate appeal for the Brazilian government ...	Survival International
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04/06/2012	Maharashtra has lost 400 hectares of forest in 2 years Thane - A staggering 400 hectares of forest have been wiped off the map of Maharashtra in two years (2007-2011), ...	The Times of India
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04/06/2012	Bangladesh forests disappearing at “alarming rate”, says expert Bogor, Indonesia - Scientists are sounding the alarm bells in Bangladesh as forest loss reaches 90 percent, ...	CIFOR Forests Blog
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24/05/2012	Illegal logging in Kalimantan ‘cost state $35b in 2011’ Illegal forest clearing in Kalimantan potentially cost the state Rp 321 trillion ($34.6 billion) in losses ...	The Jakarta Globe, Indonesia
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23/05/2012	Indigenous group paid $0.65/ha for forest worth $5,000/ha in Indonesia A palm oil company has paid indigenous Moi landowners in Indonesian Papua a paltry $0.65 per hectare ...	Mongabay.com
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22/05/2012	Indigenous Awa facing genocide in Amazon A Brazilian official says the national government is trying hard to save the lives and land of the indigenous ...	Press TV, Iran
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18/05/2012	How biomass use fuels rapid deforestation According to Bariki Kaali, who is Energy and Environmental Specialist based in Dar es Salaam, Biomass ...	Daily News, Tanzania
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18/05/2012	Prey Lang forestry activists lobby Washington for help Environmental activists from Prey Lang forest have brought their concerns to Washington seeking international ...	Voice of America
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16/05/2012	East Kalimantan is third largest carbon emitter Balikpapan, East Kalimantanv - The fast rate of deforestation in East Kalimantan over the last few years ...	The Jakarta Globe, Indonesia
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15/05/2012	Africa: Moratorium on industrial logging being bypassed Greenpeace has today urged the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) government to cancel the artisanal ...	allAfrica.com
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09/05/2012	House panel considers Lacey Act changes Washington - Critics took aim Tuesday at an effort by Tennessee lawmakers to change the Lacey Act, a ...	USA Today
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04/05/2012	Amazon road could cut uncontacted tribes’ land in half Peru’s Congress is about to approve a highly controversial road that will slash in half the territory ...	Ekklesia, UK
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01/05/2012	A grim portrait of palm oil emissions Indonesia ranks right behind the United States and China in the lineup of the world’s top 10 greenhouse ...	The New York Times
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29/04/2012	Demo against illegal logging Machang - About 1,500 villagers and members of a non-governmental organisation (NGO) today held a peaceful ...	New Straits Times, Malaysia
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25/04/2012	World's 'most threatened' tribe finds itself in dire straits A new international campaign hopes to save a group of people who have been dubbed "the most threatened ...	MSNBC
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23/04/2012	Forests in crisis as EU lifts sanctions on Myanmar/Burma Luxembourg - European Union foreign ministers in Luxembourg today agreed to suspend sanctions against ...	Environmental News Service
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22/04/2012	'They're killing us': world's most endangered tribe cries for help Logging companies keen to exploit Brazil's rainforest have been accused by human rights organisations ...	The Guardian, UK
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22/04/2012	Deforestation, biodiversity loss top list of major woes Massive deforestation and the need to rehabilitate the country’s degraded forests in the face of ...	Business Mirror, Philippines
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21/04/2012	Mexican Indians free hostages Morelia, Mexico – Fourteen police and two government officials taken prisoner by a group of Indians ...	Latin American Herald Tribune
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20/04/2012	Pulitzer center feature: villagers, communities protest logging in Cambodia “My life is important,” said Yin Chum, an activity leader with the Prey Lang Network in Cambodia. ...	The Guilfordian, Guilford College, North Carolina, US
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16/04/2012	Police hired by loggers in Papua New Guinea lock locals in shipping containers Locals protesting the destruction of their forest in Papua New Guinea for two palm oil plantations say ...	Mongabay.com
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13/04/2012	Log on to end illegal logging Kuala Lumpur - In a bid to reduce illegal logging cases, Transparency International-Malaysia (TI-M) has ...	The Star Online, Malaysia
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13/04/2012	Forest law poses threats Bill poised for approval by lawmakers amid debate. A proposed law to administrate Brazil’s vast ...	LatinAmerican Press
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09/04/2012	Experts warn of massive deforestation in Thailand Environmental activists and forestry experts have called on the Thai government to relocate people living ...	Press TV, Iran
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09/04/2012	The gradual loss of forests Honduras, one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere, loses millions of dollars annually ...	Honduras Weekly
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22/03/2012	Group says illegal logging threatens Brazilian tribe London - Illegal logging in Brazilian Amazonia could result in the destruction of the world’s most-endangered ...	Latin American Herald Tribune
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20/03/2012	Scientists sound alarm on massive oil palm development in Cameroon The following is an open letter written by several world-class scientists on the subject of a proposed ...	National Geographic
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12/03/2012	Tanzania: Serengeti, Natron ecosystems threatened Loliondo — Ecologies of Serengeti and Lake Natron are under threat due to massive deforestation ...	allAfrica.com
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07/03/2012	Gambia: CU introduces new initiative to tackle illegal logging and deforestation The Gambian-based NGO, Concern Universal (CU), is to roll out a new programme, aimed at utilising Gambian ...	allAfrica.com
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06/03/2012	Need to save forests in Kilimanjaro region President Jakaya Kikwete has completed a three-day tour of Kilimanjaro region, and among issues he addressed ...	Daily News, Tanzania
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05/03/2012	Cameroon government cracks down on illegal logging Yaounde, Cameroon – The government of Cameroon has intensified a crackdown on illegal loggers in ...	Reuters AlertNet
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29/02/2012	FAO, partners move to curb deforestation Illegal timber harvest and the increasing rate of charcoal burning are worrying conservationists. Margaret ...	The Observer, Uganda
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28/02/2012	India targets forests for destruction, industrial development In a bid to fast-track industrial projects, India's Prime Minister's Office (PMO) is opening ...	Mongabay.com
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24/02/2012	Cote d'Ivoire: Illicit timber trade exposes the north to drought Abidjan — Environmental groups in Côte d'Ivoire say the illegal logging and sale of ...	allAfrica.com
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22/02/2012	First pictures from sealed-off Bakun dam zone reveal social and environmental disaster Bruno Manser Fund investigation in the Bakun dam’s exclusion zone shows increased poverty due to ...	Bruno Manser Fund, Switzerland
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13/02/2012	Ignoring forests won’t bring Rio+20’s ‘future we want’ In June 2012 around 40,000 participants are expected to attend one of the most important environmental ...	The Conversation, Australia
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09/02/2012	Tropical ecologist: Australia must follow U.S. and EU in banning illegally logged wood Australia should join the widening effort to stamp out illegal logging, according to testimony given ...	Mongabay.com
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08/02/2012	Mashco-Piro tribe appearance: Peru reportedly raids illegal logging site Advocacy group Survival International reports that Peru has raided an illegal logging site in the Manú ...	The Huffington Post
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07/02/2012	Call for tighter laws to halt illegal timber imports Australia must tighten laws to stop illegal timber imports and insist on stricter labelling of timber ...	The Canberra Times, Australia
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06/02/2012	Flannery in-depth on PNG's logging boom Late last week, Radio Australia revealed new figures which showed forest clearance on controversial land ...	ABC Radio Australia
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04/02/2012	Aceh governor goes from hero to zero When the former rebel leader Irwandi Yusuf became governor of Indonesia's Aceh province, he proclaimed ...	The New Zealand Herald
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04/02/2012	How the Iligan disaster happened The massive flooding that hit Iligan City at the height of Tropical Storm “Sendong” was a ...	The Inquirer, Philippines
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04/02/2012	Firm evicts 2 000 Zanu PF invaders Mutare - The government is on Monday expected to make a decision on Chimanimani evictions carried out ...	NewsDay, Zimbabwe
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03/02/2012	Demystifying the illegal economy in Pakistan Pakistan is located on a geographical fault line, and some of the countrys socio-economic ailments have ...	Business Recorder, Pakistan
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01/02/2012	Illegal logging could cost M'sia RM800-900mil yearly Petaling Jaya - Malaysia stands to lose between RM800mil to RM900mil annually if illegal logging is not ...	The Star Online, Malaysia
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01/02/2012	Edo c’ttee on forestry decries illegal logging, bush burning The Executive Chairman of the Edo State Committee on Forestry, Chief Lucky Eriyo, said the State has ...	Leadership, Nigeria
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30/01/2012	Rufus bill seeks life imprisonment vs loggers Cagayan de Oro Rep. Rufus Rodriguez (2nd District) has announced that the Lower House has approved on ...	Mindanao Gold Star Daily, Phillipines
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24/01/2012	Deforestation ruining beauty of historical Kalash Valleys the beauty of Chitral particularly of historical Kalash Valleys, also known for greenery, is at the verge ...	Pakistan Observer
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17/01/2012	Pakistan's forests fall victim to the Taliban The forests of northwestern Pakistan have become the latest victim of the Taliban's increasingly ...	The Guardian, UK
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15/01/2012	Lady Tarzan cuts timber mafia to size Eleven years ago, Muturkham forests, lying southeast of capital Ranchi, used to be the timber mafia’s ...	Hindustan Times, East India
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12/01/2012	Brazil says no evidence loggers burned indigenous girl Brasilia - Authorities say they've found no evidence to substantiate charges that an indigenous ...	The Vancouver Sun, Canada
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08/01/2012	Brazilian loggers 'tied eight-year-old Amazonian tribe girl to a tree and burned her alive' Loggers in Brazil who had illegally entered an Amazon Indian reserve captured an eight-year-old indigenous ...	Daily Mail, UK
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30/12/2011	Ex-MNA seeks end to deforestation Peshawar - A leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and former Member of National Assembly (MNA) on Thursday ...	The News, Pakistan
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17/12/2011	Saving the rest of the rainforests Since the 13th round of climate change talks in Bali in 2007, the issue of reducing greenhouse gas emissions ...	New Straits Times, Malaysia
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14/12/2011	The courage of Cheran: organizing against violence Mistrust in government systems of rule has led the town of Cherán in Mexico to create its own ...	Open Democracy
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12/12/2011	Madagascar tree diversity among the highest worldwide In terms of biodiversity, the hugely imperiled forests of Madagascar may be among the world's richest. ...	Mongabay.com
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09/12/2011	Loss of mountain forests would unleash serious socio-economic effects – UN The loss of mountain forests sparked by increasing temperatures and population growth would have serious ...	UN News Centre
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08/12/2011	Tajikistan: Energy shortage accelerates deforestation “These hills used to be covered with trees in Soviet times,” says Umedjon Baburforov, gesturing ...	Eurasianet.org
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07/12/2011	Deforestation robbing communities of their income Ssese Islands, Uganda - From a distance, Bugala Island in Lake Victoria is a patchwork of green and brown. ...	IPS News
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04/12/2011	Experts: New wave of deforestation threatens Africa’s climate resilience Durban - A new wave of deforestation is sweeping across Africa decimating wildlife and threatening the ...	FAO
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25/11/2011	Fighting illegal logging from the decking Ever wondered where your outdoor furniture came from? Ever pondered on the story behind your lovely new ...	ABC News, Australia
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22/11/2011	Indonesia green prosperity program gets $600 million from State Dept This weekend, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed an agreement with Indonesia's government ...	SustainableBusiness.com
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21/11/2011	Deforestation: Nigeria ranked worst in the world The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) has ranked Nigeria as the worst country in ...	This Day, Nigeria
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18/11/2011	Malagasy conservationists lose bid to stop illegal logging Malagasy’s Supreme Court has dismissed a case filed by a conservation group against the transitional ...	Africa Review
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17/11/2011	Deforestation threatens planet, economies and communities, UN chief warns Deforestation not only threatens the planet’s climate and national economic development, but also ...	UN News Centre
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16/11/2011	Can Indonesia grow its economy and keep its forests? President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s commitment to dedicate the last three years his term to delivering ...	Climate Spectator
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14/11/2011	Gibson Guitar strikes back in feds' logging probe Three years ago, Democrats and Republicans joined to expand the nation's oldest federal wildlife ...	SFGate, San Francisco, US
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14/11/2011	Tanzania timber shortage fuels deforestation Dar es Salaam — Tanzania is suffering from high global prices of forest products because of increased ...	allAfrica.com
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10/11/2011	'Father of Mangroves' fights for Pakistan's forests Karachi — It was a brutal kidnap that turned him into an eco-warrior, and 27 years later Pakistan's ...	AFP
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02/11/2011	Environmental problems putting global progress at risk – UN report Environmental deterioration threatens to reverse recent progress in human development for the world’s ...	UN News Centre
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24/10/2011	Armenia: Where deforestation is a hidden killer Ask locals, and they’ll tell you that a 19th century mountaintop church in the southeastern region ...	Eurasianet.org
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24/10/2011	Worst food additive ever? It's in half of all foods we eat and its production destroys rainforests and enslaves children The production of this ingredient causes jaw-dropping amounts of deforestation (and with it, carbon emissions) ...	AlterNet
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19/10/2011	Gambia: Stop illegal logging We have constantly been harping on the severity of deforestation in the country, and always advocate ...	allAfrica.com
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18/10/2011	Scarce resources, climate biggest threats to world health The Earth's natural resources like food, water and forests are being depleted at an alarming speed, ...	Reuters, featured on Planet Ark
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17/10/2011	Rivers’ death sentence: lumbering, cattle ranching, cash crops Santo Domingo - The situation of its rivers threaten Dominican Republic’s electricity generation, ...	Dominican Today, Dominican Republic
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15/10/2011	Tearing at the soul of a fragile nation From 180 metres up, the jungles of Papua New Guinea's Western Province look like close-packed heads ...	The Age, Australia
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14/10/2011	A green economy: Is it possible? Next year is Rio+20. In 1992, leaders of the world gathered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to agree on a ...	The Jakarta Post
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13/10/2011	As Thailand floods spread, experts blame officials, not rains Bangkok - As some of Thailand’s worst flooding in half a century bears down on Bangkok — ...	The New York Times
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10/10/2011	Tea Party rallies in favor of Gibson Guitar, ignores reasons instrument-maker is under investigation This weekend around 500 people showed up for a rally and concert in Nashville, Tennessee. The rally was ...	Mongabay.com
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09/10/2011	Indonesia's forestry sector failed to pay $18.8 billion for deforestation, alleges anti-corruption group The plantation and forestry sectors in Indonesia failed to pay as much as $18.8 billion (169.8 trillion ...	Mongabay.com
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06/10/2011	Deforestation termed a key reason for flood losses Karachi - Deforestation in Sindh was also a reason for the recent flooding in the province, which destroyed ...	The News, Pakistan
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05/10/2011	Continuing rape of Perak’s forests Some time in 2006, a sharp alarm was sounded over massive illegal logging and clearing activities in ...	The Sun Daily, Malaysia
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29/09/2011	Business owners say Lacey Act can save jobs Gibson Guitar's attacks on the Lacey Act have left many small wood industry businesses wondering ...	Furniture Today, US
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28/09/2011	Investing in forests a win-win for communities, climate - UNEP Conserving key rainforests in Indonesia could generate revenues three times greater than felling them ...	Voxy.co.nz, New Zealand
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28/09/2011	Ecotourism boom can help save endangered forests, UN and partners say The increasing demand for ecotourism can play a vital role in saving endangered forests, a United Nations-backed ...	UN News Centre
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25/09/2011	Lacey Act protects U.S. jobs from illegal logging In late August, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service executed a search warrant on Gibson Guitar, suspecting ...	The Tennessean, US
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20/09/2011	Democratic lawmaker circulates letter to protect Lacey Act Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) began circulating a letter to his colleagues Monday asking them to protect ...	The Hill, Washington DC, US
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20/09/2011	Indigenous peoples suffer abuses in race for natural resources – UN rights expert Extraction of natural resources and other major development projects in or near the territories of indigenous ...	UN News Centre
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19/09/2011	Amazon Indians confirm logging invasion near uncontacted tribes A recent expedition in the Amazon has confirmed that illegal logging in Peru is continuing ‘at ...	Survival International
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19/09/2011	Cameroon: Investment plans endanger forest reserves Cameroon's dream of building, digging and mining its way out of widespread poverty by 2035 has sparked ...	Africa News
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15/09/2011	Belo Monte dam project draws even more concerns Last month's worldwide protests against the Brazilian government's Belo Monte Dam project may ...	The Huffington Post, US
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12/09/2011	A huge oil palm plantation puts African rainforest at risk As global agricultural companies turn to Africa, a U.S. firm is planning a massive oil palm plantation ...	Yale Environment 360
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10/09/2011	Brazilian indigenous leader discusses issues with soy plantations In this video uploaded on September 5 by GreenCollegeOnline Aritana Yawalapiti, Alto Xingu’s indigenous ...	Indian Country Today Media Network
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29/08/2011	42% of Colombian timber illegal, worth $60 million a year Forty-two percent of the wood bought and sold in Colombia comes from illegally felled trees, a trade ...	Colombia Reports
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16/08/2011	Forest fears as Paraguay's Chaco region sees land rush "My car broke down once here, I had to wait three days to be rescued without food or water," ...	BBC News
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15/08/2011	Wood industry in deep trouble Deaths from landslides happen every year at the feet of mountains made bald by illegal loggers. In addition ...	Malaya Business Insight
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15/08/2011	Critical source of Dar`s water supply threatened Livelihoods of millions in Dar es Salaam, Coast and Morogoro regions are threatened by illegal tree felling ...	IPP Media
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14/08/2011	Indonesia’s forests: Paper trail to destruction Indonesia’s vanishing natural forests and wildlife species are testament to deforestation out of ...	The Scavenger
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14/08/2011	Illegal logging: from the rainforest to your dining room Bangkok, Thailand — Is your coffee table stamped “Made in Vietnam”? ...	Global Post, US
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05/08/2011	Value on ecosystem services needed to curb Asian deforestation - IPCC chief Bangkok – Deforestation is still occurring at an alarming rate in Asia Pacific countries despite ...	Reuters AlertNet
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30/07/2011	Aurora gov seeks to purge 'slash and burn' Manila, Philippines – The provincial government of Aurora vowed that it will step up efforts against ...	ABS CBN News
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25/07/2011	Malaysia's Penan fear police crackdown against logging road blockade Long Win, Sarawak, Malaysia - Indigenous Penan communities in the Malaysian part of Borneo are fearing ...	Bruno Manser Fund, Switzerland
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09/07/2011	KFC, Taco Bell, and the destruction of the rain forests YUM! Brands, which operates 38,000 fast food restaurants in 110 countries (including not only KFC but ...	Blast Magazine
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08/07/2011	Mozambique: Head of Zambezia Forestry Services suspended Maputo — Mozambican Agriculture Minister Jose Pacheco has suspended the head of forestry and wild ...	allAfrica.com
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05/07/2011	European consumerism drives illegal logging Demand for cheap furniture in member states is still driving timber exports from at-threat forest nations, ...	Public Service Europe
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30/06/2011	Ghana: The nation has the [third] highest rate of deforestation A study, described by its authors as the most comprehensive analysis of tropical forests, has disclosed ...	allAfrica.com
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28/06/2011	Logging company fined $100 million for illegal logging in Papua New Guinea In a landmark court decision a judge has slapped a logging company with a nearly $100 million (K225.5 ...	Mongabay.com
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27/06/2011	Green tigers: new research shows protecting forests will deliver new economic boom for Southeast Asia A raft of new studies show that protecting Southeast Asia's forests could provide an enormous economic ...	Mongabay.com
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17/06/2011	Pakistan tops Asia in deforestation UN says rate of deforestation in Pakistan has quickened since 2010 floods. ...	Al Jazeera
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17/06/2011	Beef barons exposed by space pics face jail Brazilian beef barons whose illegal clearance of land inhabited by uncontacted Indians in Paraguay was ...	Scoop Independent News, New Zealand
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16/06/2011	N.Korea says rain left casualties, destroyed homes Seoul — Floods triggered by torrential rain that hit North Korea last week washed away homes, roads ...	AFP
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13/06/2011	Vice president highlights link between deforestation, poverty Degradation of the environment, particularly deforestation, has increased poverty in some areas of the ...	The Myanmar Times
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08/06/2011	Illegal timber trade concern of all nations: SBY President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has called on other countries to help preserve Indonesia’s forests ...	The Jakarta Globe
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06/06/2011	Lumberjacks carve a living out of DR Congo rainforests Simon Kesangana used to be an assistant nurse in a hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but ...	BBC News
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04/06/2011	Rape of Kalimantan's forests continues Bentian Besar, East Kalimantan - At a mine-site near Sangatta in East Kalimantan, a titanic crater yawns ...	The Jakarta Globe
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03/06/2011	UN urges leaders to harness extraordinary benefits of forests Potentially irreversible environmental changes threaten the progress that has brought hundreds of millions ...	UN News Centre
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03/06/2011	Imminent disaster to strike Ghana ...	My Joy Online, Ghana
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01/06/2011	Peru to abolish uncontacted tribe's reserve, says group ...	Mongabay.com
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31/05/2011	Congo's poor need incentives to save giant forest Simon Kasagana knows his meager livelihood depends on the forest, but like many others eking out a living ...	Reuters
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20/05/2011	Satellites spot illegal logging of uncontacted tribes’ home Some of the world’s most sophisticated technology is being used to protect indigenous people who’ve ...	Wired
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20/05/2011	Illegal logging in Chiquibul costing Belize at least $15 million Executive Director of Friends for Conservation and Development (FCD), Rafael Manzanero, said Tuesday ...	Amandala Online, Belize
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18/05/2011	Dr Nkowani attributes high levels of deforestation to poverty Government says the high levels of deforestation are a symptom of the economic challenges the Zambians ...	The Post Online, Zambia
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13/05/2011	Fires burn in Sumatra, drive air pollution in Malaysia More than 100 Indonesian firefighters are battling peatland fires set by oil palm plantation developers ...	Mongabay.com
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07/05/2011	Mexican community takes on armed gangs Tension is palpable on the streets of Cheran, a town in the mountains of Michoacan state, western Mexico, ...	Sky News, Australia
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04/05/2011	Malaysia: MYR745m lost to illegal logging, sand mining According to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission's (MACC) annual report 2010, the government ...	CSR Asia
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28/04/2011	RM754 million loss due to sand theft and illegal logging last year Kuala Lumpur - It is estimated that the country lost RM754 million in revenue due to rampant sand theft ...	Bernama, Malaysia
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28/04/2011	Illegal logging, mining ravages Kalimantan, costs Indonesia $36.4b The Ministry of Forestry says illegal logging, land clearance, forest fires and mining has devastated ...	The Jakarta Globe
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27/04/2011	Logging takes the bite out of efforts to squash malaria The Health Ministry has high hopes of eradicating malaria in the country, but says massive deforestation ...	The Jakarta Globe
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27/04/2011	Is Indonesia's program to stop deforestation in meltdown? Back in December, I wrote an article ...	The Investigative Fund
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25/04/2011	Saving the Awá As we walked through the forest, searching for açaí berries, Amiri Awá named the ...	Independent World Report
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19/04/2011	Demand for gold pushing deforestation in Peruvian Amazon Deforestation is on the rise in Peru's Madre de Dios region from illegal, small-scale, and dangerous ...	Mongabay.com
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13/04/2011	'Eco-friendly' biofuels may do more harm than good The drive for ‘eco-friendly’ biofuels has backfired and may be contributing to climate change, ...	The Daily Mail, UK
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11/04/2011	NGO sues to save forest for Paraguay natives Asuncion - An NGO supporting the rights of native Paraguayans said Monday that it filed complaints with ...	AFP
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11/04/2011	$2bn timber revenue up in smoke The country’s timber industry has lost over $2 billion in potential revenue in the last two decades ...	News Day, Zimbabwe
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11/04/2011	Peruvian presidential election may decide Amazon future The enormous segment of Amazonian rainforest that covers over half of the country has always been an ...	The Cutting Edge News
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09/04/2011	Deforestation – always silent yet devastating Amid news about a massive 9.0 Richter scale earthquake and a powerful tsunami that have hit Japan, there ...	The Jakarta Post
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07/04/2011	Dwindling West African rainforest threatens long-term food security In West Africa, the Guinean Rainforest is rapidly disappearing. A new study says increased production ...	VoA News
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05/04/2011	Is Sarawak deforested? Lim Swee Bin caught up with Brimas director Mark Bujang and seized the opportunity to find out the real ...	ALIRAN, Malaysia
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04/04/2011	North, South on high alert: Residents brace for more landslides and storms The National Disaster Warning Centre has warned people in the South to remain on high alert for more ...	Bangkok Post, Thailand
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01/04/2011	Poverty fuels Kalimantan timber smuggling Timber smuggling from Indonesian forests along the Kalimantan-Malaysia border has long become a “pain ...	The Jakarta Post
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29/03/2011	Indians take on Amazon loggers Peruvian Indians have been forced to set up a guard post to protect an uncontacted Indians’ reserve, ...	Survival International
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29/03/2011	Tree cutting puts tourism at risk Senator Marlene Malahoo Forte called for Jamaicans to stop unsustainable forest practices as they are ...	Go Jamaica
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25/03/2011	"Six percent of GDP lost through illegal mining and logging" Koforidua - Mr Mike Hamah, Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has said the country loses six percent ...	GhanaWeb
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18/03/2011	Forests are key for high quality water supply Better forest management needed to maximize water-related benefits from forests By 2025, 1.8 billion ...	FAO Media Centre
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11/03/2011	South Sudan pledges to fight against widespread illegal logging The government of South Sudan said on Friday that it will embark on legal measures in a special exercise ...	Sudan Tribune
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10/03/2011	Fight for the Borneo rainforest: Gordon Brown celebrates the role of journalist Clare Rewcastle I have a declaration of interest to make at the outset. Clare Rewcastle is my sister-in-law. She is also ...	The Independent, UK
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25/02/2011	Indonesian Borneo and Sumatra lose 9% of forest cover in 8 years Kalimantan and Sumatra lost 5.4 million hectares, or 9.2 percent, of their forest cover between 2000/2001 ...	Mongabay.com
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23/02/2011	The battle to save Indonesia's disappearing forests Imagine 400 football fields of trees disappearing during the duration of a soccer match. That was the ...	The Jakarta Globe
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18/02/2011	Bruno Manser Fund to launch campaign against Sarawak timber corruption The Bruno Manser Fund is about to launch an international campaign against the blatant corruption and ...	Bruno Manser Fund, Switzerland
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15/02/2011	Secret life of the Amazon Indians: Incredible images show near-extinct Awá tribe at work and play Heads garlanded in feathers and bands of plumes laced around their triceps, Amazon Indians demonstrate ...	The Daily Mail, UK
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15/02/2011	Peru: appeal for Congress to pass Forestry and Wildlife Law The Peruvian Exporters’ Association (Adex), the National Society of Industries (SIN) and the National ...	IHB Network
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14/02/2011	Why drugs are destroying the little Amazon Traffickers will do anything to get their priceless cargo into the US – including razing pristine ...	The Independent, UK
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07/02/2011	Climate change complicating malaria fight Deforestation and climate change have intensified the threat of malaria, bringing malaria-carrying mosquitoes ...	The Myanmar Times
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02/02/2011	International Year of Forests launched: UN calls on forest sector to take innovative actions New York/Rome - Millions of forest-dependant people play a vital role in managing, conserving, and developing ...	FAO Media Centre
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01/02/2011	Malaysia deforestation: Why is palm oil so controversial? ...	The Telegraph, UK
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31/01/2011	New images of remote Brazil tribe ...	BBC News
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28/01/2011	Greed and demand doom rainforest Indonesia's timber mafia is making a killing, thanks to the lack of regulation and the insatiable ...	Gulf News
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25/01/2011	Human error behind Drugchu mudslide tragedy Dharamshala, India - The rampant exploitation of natural resources increased the risk and impact of last ...	TibetCustom
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24/01/2011	Aquino’s log ban plan flawed, say environmentalists Manila — Last weekend, Presidente Benigno S. Aquino III said he was mulling over an executive order ...	Bulatlat, Philippines
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23/01/2011	Nagaland forests face destruction Meluri - Towards the south-eastern part of Nagaland, a big problem looms. A problem least thought about ...	The Morung Express, Nagaland, India
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21/01/2011	Burmese troops sell illegal timber and bamboo to Bangladesh woodcutters Buthidaung - Burmese soldiers on the border fronteir are illegally selling timber and bamboo from the ...	Narinjara Independent Arakanese News Agency, Burma
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17/01/2011	Madagascar illegal logging continues Since Madagascar's 2009 coup, illegal logging of precious rosewood in the island's protected ...	afrol News
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17/01/2011	Mexico's missing mangroves The scenery is almost postcard perfect: a tiny beach nestled in a cove and surrounded by a lively mangrove ...	Al Jazeera
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16/01/2011	Mayor in Agusan del Sur probed for illegal logging Butuan City, Agusan del Sur, Philippines – A town mayor in Agusan del Sur is being investigated ...	The Inquirer, Phlippines
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15/01/2011	Illegal logging blamed for Northern Negros calamity EB Magalona, Negros Occ. – The local chief executive of EB Magalona town in Negros Occidental has ...	Manila Bulletin, Philippines
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14/01/2011	Aquino mulling total log ban President Benigno S. C. Aquino III is expected to issue an executive order (EO) next week addressing ...	Business World Online, Philippines
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14/01/2011	Deforestation in Peru generates US$ 66 million in loss Every year 150 thousand hectares are deforested in Peru, which is an equivalent to 150 thousand Main ...	Living in Peru
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13/01/2011	Aquino to get tough on illegal loggers after floods, landslides President Benigno Aquino III on Thursday said his government will take “strong actions" against ...	GMANews.TV, Philippines
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13/01/2011	Haiti's cycle of calamity Reporter William Wheeler talks with Haitians and aid workers about the fear of storms and the disastrous ...	National Geographic News Watch
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13/01/2011	Oil palm plantations replace mangrove forests on Sembilan island Langkat, North Sumatra (ANTARA News) - Hundreds of hectares of mangrove forests on Sembilan island in ...	Antara News, Indonesia
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12/01/2011	Imperilled by the timber mafia In Borneo’s majestic rain forest, trees are being felled to meet western demand for wood products. ...	China Dialogue
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08/01/2011	Kerosene price increase hurting poor households Dar es Salaam - The price of kerosene rose by six per cent effective Wednesday this week as the global ...	The Citizen, Tanzania
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05/01/2011	Green Coalition blames Caraga flooding to illegal logging, mining Butuan City - A citizen’s watchgroup Green Coalition on Wednesday blamed the recent flooding and ...	GMANews.TV, Philippines
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01/01/2011	Tropical storms and deforestation may be underlying cause of Haiti’s earthquake Jan. 12 will mark the one-year anniversary of Haiti’s devastating earthquake. The catastrophic ...	Palm Beach Daily News, Florida
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18/12/2010	Illegal logging could bring possible disaster for Bogor Experts are warning of a future disaster in Bogor regency as widespread deforestation in the Mount Pancar ...	The Jakarta Post
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10/12/2010	Brazilian expert sounds warning for uncontacted Indians One of Brazil’s leading experts on isolated Indians has warned that loggers could trigger violent ...	Survival International
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02/12/2010	Hard to beat tech-savvy team, illegal loggers Miri - “Naughty” illegal loggers and their tech-savvy “collaborators” are constantly ...	Free Malaysia Today
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22/10/2010	Worst haze from Indonesia in 4 years hits neighbors hard Illegal forest clearing fires in Indonesia's Sumatra Island are sending haze across the Malacca ...	Reuters, featured on Planet Ark
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12/10/2010	Indonesia probes illegal logging role In Papua floods Indonesian officials and forestry experts are to investigate claims that illegal logging contributed ...	Reuters, featured on Planet Ark
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12/10/2010	Govt blames rain, not deforestation The government denied on Monday that the fatal flood in Wasior, West Papua, was caused by illegal logging, ...	The Jakarta Post
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08/10/2010	Flash flood caused by illegal logging: Kalla Chairman of the Indonesian Red Cross and former Indonesian Vice President, Jusuf Kalla, viewed that the ...	Viva News, Indonesia
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08/10/2010	Extreme weather, illegal logging cause rampant floods in Indonesia Jakarta - Indonesia has been hit by rampant floods in recent days, caused by extreme weather and illegal ...	Xinhua, China
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05/10/2010	A tree falls in Laos Vientiane - With Pakistan suffering from unprecedented deforestation-driven flooding, are once forested, ...	Asia Times
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03/10/2010	$5,000,000,000,000: The cost each year of vanishing rainforest British researchers set out the economic impact of species destruction - and their findings are changing ...	The Independent, UK
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30/09/2010	Logging goes on unabated in Sierra Madre, says tribe chief Lucena City - A tribal leader in Sierra Madre in northern Quezon warned that more disasters were bound ...	Inquirer.net, Philippines
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23/09/2010	Money can grow on trees: Forests are disappearing because they are undervalued From a helicopter, East Kalimantan, a province in the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo, presents ...	The Economist, UK
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22/09/2010	Metro faces new ‘Ondoy’ with continued illegal logging Manila, Philippines - Metro Manila and its surrounding provinces could face another Ondoy-type disaster ...	The Inquirer, Phlippines
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02/09/2010	Pakistan floods and the timber mafia Islamabad, Pakistan - There is a link between deforestation in Pakistan and the massive floods sweeping ...	UPI.com
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31/08/2010	Human failing behind Pakistan floods Islamabad - Global warming might be one explanation for Pakistan’s devastating floods, but scientists ...	Toronto Sun, Canada
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30/08/2010	Selangor loses RM100mil in revenue to mangrove thieves The Selangor Government has lost millions of ringgit in revenue in the last 10 years as a result of licensed ...	The Star Online, Malaysia
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26/08/2010	Fires cost Russia '300 billion dollars' in deforestation Moscow - Wildfires have cost Russia 300 billion dollars in forest loss, environmentalists said on Thursday, ...	AFP
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24/08/2010	Deforestation responsible for ferocity of floods: experts As Pakistan battles one of its worst floods in recent history, experts here say that the widespread destruction ...	Gulf Times, Qatar
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17/08/2010	'Timber mafia' made floods worse When the residents of Mian Gujar village in Peshawar, northwestern Pakistan went to bed on the night ...	Al Jazeera
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13/08/2010	Amazon tribe battles rabid vampire bats At the edge of the Amazon, a remote tribe suffers a plague of rabies spread by desperate vampire bats. ...	TreeHugger
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12/08/2010	China 'ignored' experts' landslide warnings The devastating mud-slide in northwest China that killed more than 1,100 people was not a "natural" ...	Montreal Gazette, Canada
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23/07/2010	Scientists commend Indonesia for conservation measures, but urge immediate action on forests and peatlands Scientists convening at the annual Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) meeting in ...	Mongabay.com
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23/07/2010	Environment degradation portends water crisis The country is on the verge of experiencing a water crisis due to the continued destruction of the environment ...	The Jakarta Post
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21/07/2010	We thrive on money from illegal logging If there’s one country that thrives on revenue received through illegal activities, it would be ...	Solomon Star, Solomon Islands
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22/06/2010	Deforestation threatens south with famine Kinkala, Congo - The trees are falling in Pool, and there are plenty of people to hear the sound. In ...	IPS News
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16/06/2010	Malaria increases 50 percent following deforestation in the Amazon A new study shows that deforestation in the Amazon helps spread disease by creating an optimal environment ...	Mongabay.com
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22/05/2010	Illegal raping of forests in NE India The North-East Himalayan region presents a diverse system of habitats ranging from tropical rain forests ...	News Blaze, India
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20/05/2010	Forestry graft said to cost Indonesia $100b The antigraft commission is investigating rampant corruption by hundreds of forestry and mining companies ...	The Jakarta Globe
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20/05/2010	Lack of competitiveness of legal timber Despite the favourable export figures, the Indonesian Forest Society (IFS) representing forestry companies ...	ITTO Tropical Timber Market Report
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05/05/2010	US alliance targets illegal logging in Indonesia An alliance of US environmental groups and a workers union have called for trade sanctions to be used ...	CarbonPositive
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28/04/2010	Indonesia's forestry industry risks to go bankrupt due to illegal logging Jakarta - Indonesia's forestry industry risks to go bankrupt due to illegal logging which triggers ...	iStockAnalyst
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22/04/2010	Pahang loses RM1 mln to illegal logging ...	Bernama, Malaysia
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18/04/2010	Paper company loses green certification after rainforest destruction in Indonesia The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), a global certifier of sustainably managed forest, has dropped another ...	Mongabay.com
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25/03/2010	Madagascar bans rainforest timber exports following global outcry Under mounting pressure over illegal logging of its national parks, Madagascar's transitional government ...	WildMadagascar.org (on Mongabay.com)
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22/03/2010	Tz timber shortage fuels deforestation Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania - Tanzania is suffering from high global prices of forest products because of ...	East African Business Week
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13/03/2010	Thousands of tons of illegal timber in Madagascar readied for export As the President of France, Nicholas Sarkozy, argues in Paris that more funding is needed to stop deforestation ...	Mongabay.com
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07/03/2010	Survival of Uganda wetlands and forest will sustain or break us A subject close to the heart of this correspondent are all matters surrounding Uganda’s wetlands ...	eTurboNews
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27/02/2010	Rampant logging 'destroying PNG' Environmental vandalism by loggers in Papua New Guinea is destroying the nation and its people while ...	The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
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25/02/2010	Tree clearing suspected in Indonesian landslide Ciwidey, Indonesia - A tea plantation owner may have helped cause a landslide that killed up to 45 people ...	The Washington Post
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02/02/2010	Misused and abused Today is World Wetlands Day but there is little to cheer about as these habitats continue to dwindle. ...	The Star Online, Malaysia
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27/01/2010	Coup leaders sell out Madagascar's forests, people Madagascar is renowned for its biological richness. Located off the eastern coast of southern Africa ...	Mongabay.com
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21/01/2010	Greenwash award exposes Brazilian company Brazilian cattle-ranching company named and shamed for destroying the land of an uncontacted tribe. ...	The Ecologist
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15/01/2010	Kenya water resource faces danger Nairobi - Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai has warned that if Kenyans are not insistent in protecting forests, ...	Capital FM Kenya
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13/01/2010	Opinion: Earthquake exposes Haiti's silent crisis The brutal earthquake that struck Haiti this week has unmasked the silent crisis of desperation and poverty ...	Sphere
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11/01/2010	Sierra Leone: Ban on lucrative logging industry The Sierra Leone forestry guard has warned of impending environmental hazards following the indiscriminate ...	Afrik.com
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02/12/2009	Low Carbon: Brazilian Amazon chief - The people destroying our forest are naive... not us Every four seconds an area of rainforest the size of a football pitch is lost to loggers. This illegal ...	Chester Chronicle, UK
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01/12/2009	Indonesia: Timber corruption's high costs Jakarta - Corruption in Indonesia's lucrative forestry industry costs the government US$2 billion ...	Reuters AlertNet
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30/11/2009	Malaysia: State of Sarawak forests: gov’t agency stands by report Penang, Malaysia - For a long time, activists had believed that rainforests in the vast northwest Borneo ...	IPS News
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27/11/2009	A fair deal for forest people: working to ensure that REDD forests bear fruit for local communities As world leaders meet to thrash out the next incarnation of the Kyoto climate agreement, the world waits ...	Mongabay.com
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25/11/2009	Bicol national park finds guardians among its people Basud, Camarines Norte - Logging, timber-poaching and, just recently, charcoal-making are forbidden activities ...	Business Mirror, Philippines
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23/11/2009	With land evictions, Kenya aims to reduce impacts on important ecosystem The Kenyan government has begun forcibly evicting thousands of people in an attempt to halt environmental ...	The New York Times
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18/11/2009	Double Helix Tracking Technologies uses DNA to track timber, fight illegal logging Think of it as CSI for the timber industry. Singapore-based Double Helix Tracking Technologies (DHTT) ...	Triple Pundit
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16/11/2009	Five central Sulawesi villages inundated after continuous rains Jakarta - Floods from heavy rains since Sunday night until Monday morning (16/11) in Central Sulawesi ...	TempoInteractive
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16/11/2009	Thousands of illegal settlers evicted from Kenyan forest Nairobi - Illegal settlers in one of Kenya’s largest forests were evicted from their land last ...	The National, Abu Dhabi
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09/11/2009	On environmental brink, Haiti scrambles for a lifeline Port-au-Prince, Haiti - A hard rain can be deadly here. A family of four was reported killed late last ...	The New York Times
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06/11/2009	Chainsaw operations employ 86,000 people, study shows Juaso - Eleven years after the ban on illegal chainsaw milling, the practice continues to be a major ...	GhanaWeb
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27/10/2009	Illegal logging continues in Aceh despite moratorium Deforestation in Aceh has continued to worsen despite the signing of a logging moratorium that prohibits ...	The Jakarta Post
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23/10/2009	Uganda to import firewood in 10 years Ugandans are degrading the environment so fast that we could start importing firewood within the next ...	Daily Monitor, Uganda
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18/10/2009	Tribe teams with Google to make stand in Amazon The chief of an endangered Amazon tribe will unveil today the product of an unusual partnership with ...	San Francisco Chronicle
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15/10/2009	Laguna floods seen to last 4 to 5 months Manila, Philippines — It will take four to five months before floodwater could be drained from ...	Inquirer.net, Philippines
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13/10/2009	Senators seek total log ban to prevent floods, landslides Manila, Philippines - Senators are reviving proposals for a total log ban to preserve what is left of ...	Philstar.com, Philippines
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13/10/2009	Rwanda: Destructive rains blamed on Gishwati deforestation Kigali — Metrological experts currently meeting at National University of Rwanda have concluded ...	allAfrica.com
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12/10/2009	Deforestation aids floods and landslides in Nepal The monsoon season has wrecked havoc in Nepal once again. Every year, sadly, it is the same story of ...	UPIAsia.com
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08/10/2009	RI and RP urged to adopt ASEAN haze deal Southeast Asia civil groups, think tanks and scholars have urged Indonesia and the Philippines to ratify ...	The Jakarta Post
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06/10/2009	Malagasy government’s decree for precious wood export will unleash further environmental pillaging Recently Madagascar’s transitional government issued two contradictory decrees: first, the exploitation ...	See below, after main text
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02/10/2009	DENR exec denies Sierra Madre logging Lucena City - A regional official of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) strongly ...	Inquirer.net, Philippines
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25/09/2009	Africa's burning charcoal problem At a road block in western Tanzania, miles from anywhere, a uniformed official raises a flagged barrier. ...	BBC News
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23/09/2009	Madagascar: Political instability speeds destruction of a unique environment Political instability in Madagascar is having a serious effect on the already fragile and highly endangered ...	allAfrica.com
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16/09/2009	Penan's anti-logging blockades torn down The police said they had dismantled blockades constructed in the Borneo jungles by Penan tribespeople ...	Malaysiakini
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15/09/2009	Maathai wants Mau evictions now Nairobi, Kenya - Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai has challenged the government to kick out Mau forest ...	Capital News, Kenya
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10/09/2009	Kenya: Another water tower on the verge of being wiped out as Mau saga rages Nairobi — Even as the country is engrossed with the fate of the Mau water tower, another key forest ...	allAfrica.com
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02/09/2009	Reserve forests turn barren: Timber traders team up with forest officials to plunder Rangamati greens Illegal logging continues unabated in the reserve forests in Rangamati, contributing to deforestation ...	The Daily Star, Bangladesh
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31/08/2009	Disappearing trees fuel food shortage You should have noticed a price surge of milk from sh1,000 to sh2,000 a litre. The supply from the cattle ...	New Vision Online, Uganda
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31/08/2009	Task force set up to check illegal timber felling Sunyani - Mr. William Baah, the Brong-Ahafo Regional Forestry Manager, has said the judiciary had failed ...	Ghana News Agency
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18/08/2009	Forests and businesses: uneasy bedfellows Windhoek - Too few businesses use appropriate industry-led approaches to tackle the threat of wholesale ...	New Era, Namibia
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11/08/2009	'Edo loses N500m to illegal forest operators annualy' Benin - The Chairman of Edo State Monitoring Committee on Forestry, Comrade Lucky Eriyo, has said the ...	Vanguard
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10/08/2009	Indigenous peoples protect the rainforest with hi-tech tools Illegal logging is a threat to the rainforests of Peru. But the indigenous communities are using both ...	Deutsche Welle
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09/08/2009	Malaysian Indigenous Peoples want moratorium on plantations, other extractive projects Today is the World Indigenous Peoples Day declared by the United Nations General Assembly under resolution ...	Indigenous Peoples Organisations, Malaysia
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31/07/2009	Alcoa razes rain forest in court case led by Brazil prosecutors For four decades, Edimar Bentes and his family have survived by farming tiny clearings in the jungle ...	Bloomberg
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28/07/2009	DR Congo needs clear logging policies: Greenpeace Kinshasa - Greenpeace has urged authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo to clarify reforms bringing ...	AFP
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23/07/2009	Somalia's Eco-warrior For two decades Fatima Jibrell has fought Somalia's 'charcoal terrorists', armed gangs ...	Guardian, UK
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19/07/2009	Uganda: massive deforestation fuelling drought, famine in Kibaale Kampala - IT is just 8:00am and the sun is blazing in this remote Mpeefu sub-county, Kibaale district; ...	allAfrica.com
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18/07/2009	Brantas River at risk of drying up as deforestation takes its toll The condition of the Brantas River in East Java is under serious threat of drying up, officials warn, ...	The Jakarta Post
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14/07/2009	Big REDD Right now, theres more money to be made cutting tropical forests down than leaving them standing. Environmental ...	Washington Monthly
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13/07/2009	Loggers arrested after invading uncontacted tribes' land Eighteen illegal loggers have been arrested on land inhabited by uncontacted Indians in Ecuador, according ...	Survival International
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27/06/2009	Tourism deserts Baringo as lakes dry up ...	Daily Nation, Kenya
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25/06/2009	Peru's indigenous people win one round over developers Logging and other activities ruin tribal lands and set off protests that lead to the revocation of laws ...	Los Angeles Times
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25/06/2009	'Nigeria lost 37.5% forest reserve in 15 years' Federal Government said yesterday that more than 37 percent of the country's forest reserves were ...	ThisDay Online, Nigeria
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19/06/2009	Brazil to pay Amazon small farmers to plant trees Brasilia - Brazil will pay small farmers to plant trees in deforested Amazon areas to slow rain forest ...	Reuters
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15/06/2009	Indonesian rainforest burns while government silent in climate talks Jakarta, Indonesia - Greenpeace today slammed Indonesia's President Yudhoyono for his failure to ...	7th Space Interactive
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14/06/2009	Climate pact must halt deforestation and industrial logging of old-growth forests, exclude carbon credits for forest conservation, say activists A global framework on climate change must immediately halt deforestation and industrial logging of the ...	Mongabay.com
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13/06/2009	World Bank revokes loan to Brazilian cattle giant accused of Amazon deforestation The Work Bank's private lending arm has withdrawn a $90 million loan to Brazilian cattle giant Bertin, ...	Mongabay.com
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12/06/2009	Study: deforestation in Amazon not helping anyone According to a new study, researchers say that deforesting large swathes of the Amazon to clear land ...	Red Orbit
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08/06/2009	Forest settlers spark serious concern for regency The success of Merangin regency, Jambi province, in dealing with illegal logging does not seem to have ...	The Jakarta Post
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29/05/2009	Amazon activist to bring climate change warning to Britain An activist from the Yanomami people in the Amazon is to visit the Houses of Parliament to tell MPs that ...	Ekklesia, UK
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29/05/2009	Group says uncontacted Amazon tribes still at risk of extinction One year after Survival International published photographs of uncontacted Indians in a remote area of ...	Latin American Herald Tribune
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25/05/2009	Government loses $18m annually through illegal lumbering An overview of a research presented on Monday in Accra said government lost $18 million annually as result ...	My Joy Online, Ghana
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20/05/2009	Kenya's concerted conservation It is 20 years since a small group of Kenyan conservationists set out to protect the few remaining black ...	Mail & Guardian Online, South Africa
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07/05/2009	Celebrating 10 years of saving the Amazon Rainforest Manaus, Brazil - Ten years ago, we set up an office in Manaus, a city inaccessible except by boat or ...	Greenpeace
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07/05/2009	Prince Charles and Greenpeace address tropical forest emergency It might seem unlikely to have Greenpeace and Prince Charles working towards the same goals, but when ...	Greenpeace
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05/05/2009	Sri Lanka minority 'threatened' The leader of the indigenous community of Sri Lanka, known as Veddahs, has said that his group of people ...	BBC News
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02/05/2009	The guilty secrets of palm oil: Are you unwittingly contributing to the devastation of the rain forests? Does your shopping basket contain KitKat, Hovis, Persil or Flora? If so, you may be contributing to the ...	The Independent, UK
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01/05/2009	Enjoying the benefits of advances in organic farming Four years ago, then West Lampung regent Erwin Nizar asked the Home Ministry to let the regency lead ...	The Jakarta Post
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01/05/2009	An oil shock we cannot ignore There is no shortage of ways to measure the cost of palm oil. First there is the catastrophic impact ...	The Independent, UK
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30/04/2009	Deforestation threaten Sierra Leone The environment in Sierra Leone is seriously threatened by extraction, deforestation and land degradation ...	Awoko, Sierra Leone
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27/04/2009	Contact with Amazon tribes inevitable, says Brazilian protection agency The last isolated indigenous tribes, located deep in the Amazon rainforest, may need to be contacted ...	Guardian, UK
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24/04/2009	Pygmy lives neglected in forests of the troubled Congo The provinces of Northern and Southern Kivu are amongst those most affected by deforestation and soil ...	peopleandplanet.net
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21/04/2009	Sustainable logging to solve deforestation A group of university students traveling through the tropical rainforests of Southeast Sulawesi Province ...	The Jakarta Globe
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20/04/2009	Deforestation on the rise in Sindh Karachi - The forest resources especially that of Sindh are depleting due to the natural, social and ...	The Nation, Pakistan
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13/04/2009	Priests, pastors tapped in fight vs illegal logging in Caraga Butuan City - Catholic priests and pastors from different Christian churches in Caraga region will be ...	MindaNews, Philippines
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13/04/2009	Deforestation is killing Darien The forests are being destroyed, because the inhabitants do not know that by cutting the forest they ...	Panama Star
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03/04/2009	Police hunt illegal teakwood traders Police are searching for suspects in the illegal trade of teakwood taken from forests on Kangean Island, ...	The Jakarta Post
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26/03/2009	Brazilian rancher greeted by illegal advert A Brazilian rancher destroying uncontacted Indians land in Paraguay has today arrived in that country ...	Survival International (UK)
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17/03/2009	New report confirms uncontacted tribe has been fleeing to Brazil A report published today by Survival International confirms that some of the worlds last uncontacted ...	Survival International (UK)
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24/02/2009	Interhill surveyors approach Long Item Penan village alerts international community: We need urgent assistance to protect our last remaining ...	Bruno Manser Fonds (Switzerland)
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16/02/2009	Sagai tribe evicted from forest Phatthalung, Thailand - Around 30 Sagai nomadic people have been expelled from their ancestral forest ...	Bangkok Post (Thailand)
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15/02/2009	Poor Brazilians rejoice as loggers return to pillage the rainforest Brazil - Twelve months ago, troops and police drove illegal loggers out of the Amazon in an effort to ...	Guardian (UK)
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05/02/2009	Sierra Madre stakeholders push for alternative livelihood Philippines - Sierra Madre stakeholders yesterday called on the local and national governments to wean ...	BusinessWorld Online (Philippines)
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04/02/2009	Uncontacted nomads flee loggers bulldozers Brazil - A tribe of 300 Amazon nomads is fleeing from bulldozers as their last forest is rapidly destroyed. ...	Survival International (UK)
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25/12/2008	Amnesty International: Cops Torched Indonesian Village by Helicopter, Killed Kids Riau, Indonesia - Indonesian police said they were detaining scores of peasants Thursday after rights ...	FOXNews (USA)
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09/12/2008	Climate of no-confidence Forests may help in the fight against climate change but will their inhabitants? ...	Nepalnews.com (Nepal)
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08/12/2008	Mongabay grants annual award to Health In Harmony: Linking rural health care to forest conservation proving a success in Borneo Health In Harmony was today awarded mongabay.com's annual "Innovation in Conservation" ...	Mongabay.com (USA)
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20/11/2008	Real risk of genocide for uncontacted tribe A Brazilian government official has warned that the last known survivors of an uncontacted Amazon tribe ...	Survival International (UK)
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19/11/2008	Last uncontacted tribe in Paraguay rapidly losing homeland ...	Mongabay.com
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18/11/2008	Radioman shot dead in front of daughter Cagayan De Oro City, Philippines - They trailed him from home to school. As he got off his motorcycle ...	Inquirer (Philippines)
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13/11/2008	Uncontacted Indians spotted 'fleeing forest destruction' Paraguay - The last uncontacted Indians in South America outside the Amazon basin have been spotted, ...	Survival International (UK)
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12/11/2008	Bruno Manser Fund worried about Malaysian authorities' handling of Penan sexual abuse cases BMF rejects allegations by leading Malaysian officials of being "uncooperative". ...	Bruno Manser Fund (Switzerland)
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11/11/2008	Saving Lives, Saving Forests: How Indonesian Communities Help their Forests and Themselves In West Kalimantan, Indonesia, local communities have managed to integrate high quality, affordable health ...	New America Media (USA)
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20/10/2008	Sat photos show doubling destruction of uncontacted tribes land Satellite photos taken just a few days ago reveal how hundreds of hectares of forest belonging to Paraguay's ...	Survical International (UK)
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10/10/2008	Sat photos reveal uncontacted tribes land being destroyed New satellite photos reveal that the territory of Paraguay's only remaining uncontacted Indians ...	Survival International (UK)
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01/10/2008	Zambia: Coping with less and less water Kaoma - Deforestation has affected the water cycle in one of Zambia's largest charcoal-producing ...	IRIN Africa
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30/09/2008	Bassa Citizens Support Community Rights Law Liberia - Citizens of Grand Bassa County, at a mass meeting on Friday, expressed support for the passage ...	The News Newspaper Online (Liberia)
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23/09/2008	Greenpeace Voices Effects of Logging in PNG A Greenpeace team has been documenting the conditions in three Papua New Guinea (PNG) logging concessions ...	Solomon Times (Solomon Islands)
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11/09/2008	Loggers still advance on Amazon Indians Brasilia, Brazil - Isolated native Indians in the Amazon forest of Brazil and Peru remain threatened ...	Reuters (UK)
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09/09/2008	Sarawak government deposes elected Penan leaders Malaysia - Authorities attempt to engineer the replacement of elected leaders by logging company stakeholders. ...	Bruno Manser Fonds (Switzerland)
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31/08/2008	The readers' editor on... how a tribal people's charity was misrepresented The pictures were stunning: brightly painted warriors aiming bows and arrows up at an aircraft as it ...	The Observer (UK)
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29/08/2008	Hmong National Development Appeals for End to Illegal Logging, Military Attacks in Laos Hmong National Development, Inc. and the Lao and Hmong community in the United States and abroad are ...	PressZoom (Netherlands)
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22/08/2008	The name of the game is (illegal) logging: ENCE cleared dozens of hectares of native bush In Uruguay, the Ministry of Agriculture suspended the proceeding filed by the Spanish company ENCE with ...	UITA, Uruguay
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18/08/2008	An interview with Dr. Andrew Mitchell of the Global Canopy Program: Markets could save rainforests Markets may soon value rainforests as living entities rather than for just the commodities produced when ...	Mongabay.com
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16/08/2008	Priests lead hunger strike in Isabela vs illegal logging Ilagan, Isabela - At least seven Catholic priests in the province on Saturday staged a hunger strike ...	Inquirer.net (Philippines)
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13/08/2008	High mineral prices drive rainforest destruction The surging price of minerals is contributing to degradation and destruction of rainforests worldwide, ...	Mongabay.com
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11/07/2008	Poverty not an excuse to allow timber poaching ' Isabela gov Santiago City, Isabela, Philippines ' Isabela Governor Grace Padaca on Friday warned village chiefs ...	GMA news.tv (Philippines)
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08/07/2008	Uncontacted Indians killed by loggers Uncontacted Indians in Peru are being killed and having their houses burned to the ground by illegal ...	Survival International (UK)
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01/07/2008	Protecting Peru and Brazils Uncontacted Amazon Tribes What is it about the recent photographs of the uncontacted indigenous tribe of the Peruvian-Brazilian ...	Council On Hemispheric Affairs (USA)
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25/06/2008	No more forestry deals until our rights are protected, say Papuans Jakarta, Indonesia - Papuans have demanded a halt to all new forestry and plantations deals until the ...	EIA (UK)
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25/06/2008	Logging and over-fishing threatening West Africa Illegal fishing and logging of timber in West Africa is devastating local economies and depriving people ...	European Parliament (Belgium)
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17/06/2008	Malaysian Indigenous People Face Arrest at Logging Blockade Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia - A month-long blockade of logging roads by indigenous people in the state of ...	Environment News Service (USA)
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13/06/2008	Peru: Uncontacted tribes not Peruvian and not fleeing illegal logging After the Brazilian government released pictures it had taken near the Peru-Brazil border of an indigenous ...	Living in Peru (Peru)
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06/06/2008	Legal timber trade thrives in community-run forest ...	Jakarta Post (Indonesia)
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06/06/2008	Uncontacted tribe pictures provoke public outrage Photographs published last week of an uncontacted tribe in Brazil near the Peruvian border have provoked ...	Survival International (UK)
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04/06/2008	South American Indians demand respect for uncontacted tribes An indigenous federation that defends uncontacted tribes across South America has demanded that Perus ...	Survival International (UK)
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30/05/2008	Photos prove existence of 'uncontacted' Amazon tribe The pictures show tribesmen, painted red head to toe, aiming longbows at the aircraft circling above. ...	CTV (Canada)
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24/05/2008	Illegal logging trade forces jungle brothel in Indonesia The illegal logging destroying Indonesias tropical forests is fuelling another illicit trade: the trafficking ...	The National (United Arab Emirates)
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05/05/2008	Spearing, Beheadings Reported in Ecuador National Park Ecuador - An illegal logger has been speared to death by Amazon natives in Ecuador's Yasun National ...	National Geographic (USA)
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22/04/2008	Peru fails to investigate murder of Amazon environmental leader Peruvian authorities failed to respond to requests for protection from Julio Garcia Agapito, the environmental ...	Mongabay.com (USA)
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19/04/2008	Para is the poster state for Amazon destruction Brazil - Para is the poster state for Amazon destruction, injustice and violence. The last decade has ...	Brazzil.com (USA)
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18/04/2008	Indigenous peoples in Brazil Harassed, Threatened ...	HNN Huntingtonnews.net (USA)
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09/04/2008	Hundreds of villagers take part in huge mapping operation to save DRC rainforests (Press Release) One of the biggest community-based rainforest mapping projects in Africa will begin today ...	Rainforest Foundation (UK)
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22/03/2008	Brazil's logging crackdown hits working poor Tailandia, Brazil - The Brazilian government has launched an aggressive crackdown on logging in the Amazon, ...	Houston Chronicle (United States)
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19/03/2008	Veracel: FSCs Death Certificate (WRM Press Release) Uruguay - Yesterday we were notified by the FSC certifying body SGS (Socit Gnrale ...	World Rainforest Movement (Uruguay)
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17/03/2008	Murder on the Resource Frontier More blood has been spilled in the Amazon, this time in the Madre de Dios region of Peru, where a tenuous ...	New York Times (USA)
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07/03/2008	Police repress peasant women to protect Swedish-Finnish company Stora Ensos illegal plantations (World Rainforest Movement Press Release) Brazil - The Swedish-Finnish company, Stora Enso has purchased ...	World Rainforest Movement (Uruguay)
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22/02/2008	Cameroonian villagers held following official protest at timber exploitation Cameroon - The small village of Babong around the Ejagham Forest Reserve in the Eyumojock Subdivision, ...	Babong Traditional Council (Cameroon)
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21/02/2008	Brazil to continue Amazon lumber audit despite violence Rio de Janiero, Brazil - A government crackdown on illegal Amazon logging will proceed with beefed up ...	International Herald Tribune (France)
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20/02/2008	Brazil mob attacks anti-logging agents in Amazon region Rio de Janiero, Brazil - A mob of 2,000 people burned tires, blocked roads and attacked federal agents ...	International Herald Tribune (France)
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08/02/2008	Ghanas forests under threat ' whats the way out? Ghanas forests have been vanishing at alarming rates. But it appears Ghanas major stakeholders, particularly ...	My Joy Online (Ghana)
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05/02/2008	Help save Sierra Madre, tribe leader urges media Lucena City, Philippines - Using a borrowed mobile phone, a tribal leader in Sierra Madre in northern ...	Inquirer.net (Philippines)
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03/02/2008	Flaws in the Forestry Bill Thailand - At least two provisions in the approved law are seen to deprive many communities of the right ...	Bangkok Post (Thailand)
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30/01/2008	Interactive forest mapping launched for communities in Cameroon Yaounde, Cameroon - The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), the British High Commission Yaounde and ...	FCO/Helveta (UK)
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15/01/2008	S.Leone Bans Timber Sales After Chinese Wreak Havoc Sierra Leone's government has banned the exportation of timber after "indiscriminate destruction" ...	Planet Ark (Australia)
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14/01/2008	W.Bank to Increase Involvement With DRC Forestry Washington, USA - The World Bank said on Thursday it would increase its involvement in the Democratic ...	Planet Ark (Australia)
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07/01/2008	Illegal logging and road building threatens tigers and tribes of the Heart of Sumatra Indonesia - Field investigations in central Sumatra have found that the home of two tribes of indigenous ...	WWF International (Switzerland)
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02/01/2008	Penan chief found dead, foul play suspected Penan villagers of Long Kerong in Sarawak will file a police report at the Miri police station tomorrow ...	Malaysiakini (Malaysia)
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18/12/2007	Penan leader Kelesau reported missing (Bruno Manser Fonds Press Release) Malaysia - Penan of Borneo lodge police report after one of their ...	Bruno Manser Fonds (Switzerland)
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17/12/2007	Illegal Logging in Primorsky province could not be stopped without emergency measures Russia - Deputies of the regional Legislative Assembly suggest introducing special regime in seven districts, ...	WWF (Russia)
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15/12/2007	Tribes fight loggers to save Malaysian rainforests, but some natives welcome timber money Borneo Rainforest, Malaysia - Like a slithering red snake, the dirt road cuts through the jungles shrouding ...	The Associated Press
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04/12/2007	Deforestation rate in Pakistan highest in world Islamabad - Deforestation rate in Pakistan, estimated at 0.2 per cent to 0.5 per cent annually, is the ...	Pakissan.com
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28/11/2007	Logging damage revealed by secret filming Secret filming by villagers has revealed the damage being caused to the Indonesian rainforests by uncontrolled ...	Telegraph (UK)
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19/11/2007	Now see this Indonesia - An unlikely band of DIY environmentalists. A new EIA project in Papua is using film-making ...	Economist (UK)
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18/11/2007	Helveta mapping technology profiled in detail by BBC Radio The use of Helveta's CI Earth interactive cartography application to produce online maps for sharing ...	Helveta Ltd
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12/11/2007	BBC taken to task over Penan documentary Kuching - The BBC came under fire from Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) Youth for airing a documentary ...	New Straits Times (Malaysia)
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08/11/2007	Sarawak police arrest native chief Malaysia - Iban community leader in custody over oil palm plantation dispute. ...	Bruno Manser Fonds (Switzerland)
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07/11/2007	Info campaign launched vs illegal logging, selling of lands in Lake Sebu Koronadal City, The Philippines - A nine-member team of the Multi-Sectoral Task Force on Environment ...	Philippine Information Agency (Philippines)
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31/10/2007	One killed as BDR opens fire on illegal loggers Bangladesh - An illegal logger was shot to death and 20 others, including BDR soldiers, were wounded ...	The Daily Star (Bangladesh)
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31/10/2007	Village reverses impact of prolonged illegal logging Lam Dong, Vietnam The luxuriant greens of the pines and replenished forests have replaced the barrenness ...	Viet Nam News (Vietnam)
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11/10/2007	Congo pygmies go high-tech to protect forest home Dakar, Senegal - When Congo Republic's northern pygmies go out into the forest these days, some ...	Reuters South Africa (South Africa)
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09/10/2007	Activists support legislation to ban illegally logged timber A group of environmental activists visited Vancouver recently to make the case that local residents have ...	The Columbian (USA)
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02/10/2007	Saving lives and forests in Honduras If Congress does not place demands on the logging industry in Honduras, we could see more murders there ...	El Diario (USA)
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01/10/2007	Indigenous leaders hope to raise awareness about illegal logging An international group of environmental and human rights activists will be in San Francisco today to ...	CBS 5 (USA)
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30/09/2007	Certifiers issue ultimatum to Malaysian logging giant: forest certification will be revoked unless Samling resolves conflict with Penan Important campaign success for blockading Penan communities. The Malaysian Timber Certification Council ...	Bruno Manser Fonds (Switzerland)
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29/09/2007	Faces of Forest Loss: Prize-Winning Activists Tour U.S., Link Illegal Logging and Global Warming Rainforest defenders from Indonesia, Peru and Papua New Guinea kick off a tour of the U.S. Monday in ...	YubaNet (USA)
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22/09/2007	Community logging may address deforestation Indonesia is the third biggest contributor to global warming after the United States and China, adding ...	The Jakarta Post (Indonesia)
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21/09/2007	More evidence of uncontacted tribes fleeing Further evidence of uncontacted tribes fleeing from Peru to Brazil because of illegal logging has been ...	Survival International
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21/09/2007	Brazil rejects reports of Amazon logging in camps Brasilia, Brazil - Brazil's government rejected accusations on Tuesday that its settlement of poor ...	Reuters (UK)
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31/08/2007	Order to arrest activists Miri, Malaysia - Anti-logging protesters in the interior of northern Sarawak face arrests if they refuse ...	The Star (Malaysia)
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20/08/2007	Journalist's house set on fire again following threat over reports on illegal logging Cambodia - A reporter's house was set on fire for a second time by unknown persons on 17 August ...	IFEX (Canada)
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15/08/2007	Arson attack follows anonymous threat against Cambodian journalist The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the Cambodian government to launch an independent investigation ...	CPJ Press Freedom Online (USA)
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02/08/2007	Rural activists at risk Paraguay - The politically powerful and traffickers may be behind a series of murders and disappearances ...	Latin America Press (Peru)
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02/08/2007	Children paying big price for Solomon's logging industry Solomon Islands - Malaysian loggers are plundering the Solomon Islands for their timber and, as Michael ...	Taranaki Daily News (New Zealand)
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25/07/2007	Ecuador: Indigenous peoples close to extinction because of illegal logging On 27 April 2007, following a visit to the Amazon region, the President of the Republic, Mr. Rafael Correa ...	World Rainforest Movement (Uruguay)
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17/07/2007	Village Chiefs protest at Rain Forest World Festival Sarawak, Malaysia Nine village chiefs from one of the last nomadic tribes in Malaysia showed up at the ...	Earthtimes.org (USA)
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06/07/2007	Europe-Indonesia expedition comes across illegal loggers Jambi, Indonesia - An expedition team of the media and some NGOs under coordination of the Jambi FLEGT ...	Antara (Indonesia)
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05/07/2007	Penan sue Samling and Sarawak State Government to save their rainforest from loggers The Penan community of Long Lamai on the upper reaches of the Baram River in the Malaysian state of Sarawak ...	Bruno Manser Fonds (Switzerland)
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03/07/2007	The Great 'Illegal' Logging Swindle The campaign by environmentalist non-government organizations (ENGOs) against 'illegal' forestry ...	Commonwealth Forestry Association Newsletter
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28/06/2007	Environmentalists' 'high-risk' work Mexico - Campesinos face threats and violence for defending their land from illegal logging. ...	Latin America Press (Peru)
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23/06/2007	India: DFO fears threat of ecological imbalance Karimnagar, India - Neem trees (Azadirachta indica), the "Grama Vaidyudu' (village doctor) ...	Siasat Daily (India)
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18/06/2007	Brazil Indians hope to use Google Earth to combat illegal logging Sao Paulo, Brazil - A Brazilian Indian tribe is linking up with Google Earth to try to capture vivid ...	San Jose Mercury News (USA)
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14/06/2007	Help In Poverty Eradication, Developed Countries Told Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Developed nations and critics of illegal logging should help developing nations ...	Bernama (Malaysia)
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09/06/2007	Forest communities recruited to prevent illegal logging Indonesia - The school of forestry at the Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB) and conservation group ...	The Jakarta Post (Indonesia)
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06/06/2007	Zimbabwe forests under threat Israel Thebe points in despair to dozens of fresh stumps that have appeared overnight in the heart of ...	Terra Daily
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05/06/2007	Illegal loggers threaten our survival, say Peru's Indians The Hague, Netherlands Alberto Pizango Chota saw loggers come to his Indian village in the northern ...	San Diego Union Tribune (USA)
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05/06/2007	Illegal loggers threaten our survival, say Peru's Indians The Hague, Netherlands - Alberto Pizango Chota saw loggers come to his Indian village in the northern ...	The Star (Malaysia)
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30/05/2007	Peru's mahogany exports threaten survival of indigenous tribes and violate international law A new report documents widespread illegal and unsustainable logging of mahogany in Peru. The Peruvian ...	AIDESEP (National Association of Amazon Indians, Peru) and Rainforest Foundation Norway
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30/05/2007	Uncontacted peoples in jeopardy Government hands over logging concession in Amazon isolated indigenous peoples' lands. ...	Latin America Press (Peru)
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30/05/2007	Barama forced to pull out of Akawini - villagers demand compensation, or will take legal action Guyana - Barama Company Limited yesterday announced that it would begin to demobilise its equipment and ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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24/05/2007	Amerindian groups call on Barama to cease Akawini logging Guyana - The Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) and the Guyanese Organisation of Indigenous Peoples ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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24/05/2007	Name the 'traitors', Jabu told A Sarawak land rights lawyer has asked Deputy Chief Minister Alfred Jabu to name the traitors whom he ...	Malaysiakini (Malaysia)
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22/05/2007	Act against illegal logging The deaths of nine activists; a parish priest who requires military protection from loggers; the environmental ...	El Diario/La Prensa (USA)
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20/05/2007	Women take on mafia Shimla, India - It may not be exactly another chipko movement, but members of the Mahila Mandal, Chohatgarh ...	Times of India (India)
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10/05/2007	Peru: Report highlights logging threat to uncontacted tribes A recent investigation has found evidence of large-scale illegal logging in remote parts of the Peruvian ...	Survial International (France)
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05/05/2007	Tribal leader pleads for his rainforest Illegal logging was the greatest threat to the forest on which the Higaonon tribal people in the Philippines ...	The Canberra Times (Australia)
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03/05/2007	Credit Suisse asked to pay back profits of Samling listing Malaysian Samling group accused of illegal logging in Guyana. ...	Bruno Manser Fonds (Switzerland)
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18/04/2007	Still courting controversy Malaysia - What lies ahead for the Sarawak timber industry and the Penans, the group of people that logging ...	Malaysia Star (Malaysia)
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30/03/2007	Brazil rainforest internet plan A move to provide free internet access to native Indian tribes to help protect the Amazon rainforest ...	BBC (UK)
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24/03/2007	Book Launch: 'Illegal Logging: Law enforcement, livelihoods and the timber trade' A new Earthscan forestry title on illegal logging has been released. ...	Earthscan Forestry Library (UK)
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15/03/2007	Penan re-erect road block against Samling corporation Malaysia - Controversial Samling Group enjoys support from international banks. ...	Bruno Manser Fonds (Switzerland)
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21/02/2007	KIO Seeking Timber Export Rights from China The Kachin Independence Organization, Burma's northern-based ethnic ceasefire group, is seeking ...	The Irrawaddy News Magazine (Thailand)
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15/02/2007	Swiss bank involved in Malaysian logging giant's stock exchange listing (Bruno Manser Fonds Press Release) Malaysian Samling group responsible for destroying large areas of ...	Bruno Manser Fonds (Switzerland)
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12/02/2007	Malaysian police clear Penan blockade for "certified" logging Malaysia - Last primary rainforests of Sarawak under immediate danger of destruction. ...	Bruno Manser Fonds (Switzerland)
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30/01/2007	Indonesia: Export prices edge up amid storms and police control The storms and flooding that plagued Malaysia in late December also swept across neighbouring Indonesia. ...	IHB (Germany)
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23/01/2007	Signs of growing justice in forest business No matter where you go in rural Indonesia, you will come across people who have fallen foul of the country's ...	Jakarta Post (Indonesia)
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22/01/2007	Two forest activists murdered in Honduras: International coalition of environmental groups demand full investigation and overhaul of national forest policy (EIA and Global Witness Press Release) Eleven environmental groups, with millions of members worldwide, ...	EIA/Global Witness
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22/01/2007	Forest Stewardship Council suspends Samling certification (Press Release) The Malaysian Samling Group's most important certificate for forest management has ...	Bruno Manser Fonds (Switzerland)
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21/01/2007	EU delegation in Malaysia's Borneo to check on legality of timber exports Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - An EU trade delegation was set to wrap up a visit to Malaysia's portion ...	International Herald Tribune (France)
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21/01/2007	Indonesia, Malaysia floods drive timber prices Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Massive flooding in Malaysia and Indonesia, the world's top two exporters ...	Antara (Indonesia)
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19/01/2007	Timber prices shoot up Petaling Jaya, Malaysia - Prices of South-East Asian timber products have risen sharply across the board ...	Malaysia Star (Malaysia)
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16/01/2007	EU delegation to visit Penan blockade area without meeting the Penan An official EU delegation enquiring about the legality and sustainability of timber production in Malaysia ...	Bruno Manser Fonds (Switzerland)
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15/01/2007	EU delegation visits blockade sites in Baram Malaysia will host an EU delegation in Sarawak in late January to showcase its sustainable logging system ...	ITTO Tropical Timber Market Report (Japan)
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12/01/2007	Military to deal with landowners' problem Fiji - The military has assured a landowning unit in Tailevu that they would address their grievances ...	Fiji Times (Fiji)
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06/01/2007	Predators turn protectors of Lauachhara forest Bangladesh - Even a couple of years ago most men of Dolubari Muslimpara, a village adjacent to Lauachhara ...	The Daily Star (Bangladesh)
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04/01/2007	Illegal loggers to face justice Fiji Hardwood Corporation Limited is currently processing papers to bring to justice those that had been ...	Fiji Times (Fiji)
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03/01/2007	Exploited forest dwellers now legal India - Daya Rakha, 36, was born in the jungles of the Gir wildlife sanctuary in western India and knows ...	IOL (South Africa)
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31/12/2006	Shady loggers blamed for derailed EU workshop: British High Commission Malaysia Reports Rimbunan Hijau, a Malaysian owned logging company operating in Papua New Guinea has been implicated in ...	British High Commission Malaysia Quarterly Report (Malaysia)
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18/12/2006	The hidden cost of your hardwood floor The demand for Chinese goods is driving destructive logging around the globe. ...	Chicago Tribune (USA)
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17/12/2006	Forest law is a triumph for tribals: Brinda Karat India - The passing of the Forest Rights Act conferring rights of occupation of forest land to tribals ...	NDTV.com (India)
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14/12/2006	Mozambique: taking ownership or just changing owners? 'Cahora Bassa is ours' are the first words Mozambique's president, Armando Guebuza, said ...	AllAfrica.com
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12/12/2006	EU Delegation To Visit Penan Blockade Sites In Ulu Baram Kuching, Malaysia - Malaysia will fly in a European Union (EU) delegation to visit logging sites in Sarawak ...	Bernama (Malaysia)
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07/12/2006	Brazil police arrest forced labor suspects Brazil - Police raided a poor settlement in central Brazil on Thursday and arrested landowners suspected ...	Reuters (UK)
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07/12/2006	Top court upholds aboriginal logging rights on Crown land Canada - Native people have the right to log Crown lands for personal use, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday ...	CBC (Canada)
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21/11/2006	Life drains away from towns built on destruction of the Amazon rainforest The clampdown on illegal loggers in Brazil has brought a dramatic decline for local residents. ...	Guardian (UK)
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23/10/2006	World Bank advises better forest governance Washngton D.C., USA - Preserving the world's rapidly shrinking tropical forests and improving the ...	World Bank (USA)
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16/10/2006	Illegal logging on the rise in Peru Peru - Increasingly, much harvested wood is illegally logged, said representatives of the Peruvian government ...	Indian Country Today (USA)
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12/10/2006	Landowners livid over exclusion at seminar Papua New Guinea - Timber concession landowners yesterday decried their exclusion from a regional seminar ...	PNG Post-Courier (Australia)
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11/10/2006	How People suffer when journalists get it wrong A comment on the quality of recent NGO reporting on Laos Village Forestry. By Scott Poynton on behalf ...	Tropical Forest Trust (Switzerland)
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08/10/2006	How you can save the rainforest UK - Former Labour minister Frank Field explains his new scheme to let ordinary members of the public ...	Times Online (UK)
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05/10/2006	Response to WRM Allegations that Communities in Savannakhet, Laos are involved in Illegal Logging (FSC Press Release) A recent WRM article by Chris Lang alleged that a community forestry project in Laos, ...	FSC (Germany)
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02/10/2006	Rainforest Alliance/SmartWood Response to WRM Allegations that Communities in Savannakhet, Laos are involved in Illegal Logging ...	Rainforest Alliance (USA)
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30/09/2006	A dire threat to rainforests Kapuas Hulu, Indonesia - Deep in the pristine rainforests of Borneo are places that have never heard ...	Newsday (USA)
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16/09/2006	Illegal logging costing nations billions - World Bank Singapore - Illegal logging is threatening the livelihoods of millions of the world's poor, robbing ...	Reuters (UK)
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07/09/2006	When You Have Been Bitten by a Snake... "Liberia does not have a long tradition of respect for human rights and civil society" is the ...	Huffington Post (USA)
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02/09/2006	Illegal logging rampant in central Vietnam forests Vietnam - Forestry authorities in Vietnam's central Quang Nam province said Wednesday they had discovered ...	Thanh Nien Daily (Vietnam)
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31/08/2006	Ghana: new system to check chain operations introduced Ghana - To curtail the rampant stealing of teak in the country's forest reserves, the Plantation ...	AllAfrica.com
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26/08/2006	Analysis: Cateel bridge collapse proof of illegal logging Davao City, Philippines - The recent bridge collapse that killed seven and left five others wounded aboard ...	Philippine Information Agency (Philippines)
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10/08/2006	The great British forest slander Papua New Guinea's leading Green group, Celcor, this week launched an extraordinary attack on the ...	The National (Papua New Guinea)
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09/08/2006	PNG denies forestry abuses claims (Radio Transcript) Autralian Broadcasting Corporation's Steve Marshall explores the recent criticism ...	ABC Online (Australia)
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08/08/2006	PNG denies forestry report claims (Radio Transcipt) ABC follows the PNG government's reactions to the release of a new report claiming ...	ABC Online (Australia)
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07/08/2006	The logging of human rights in PNG (ACF Press Release) Multinational logging companies operating in Papua New Guinea are involved in widespread ...	Australian Conservation Foundation (Australia)
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05/08/2006	Peace deal, tsunami boost illegal logging Lam Kabeue, Indonesia - The rebels of Aceh are trading their guns for chainsaws and cashing in on a logging ...	London Free Press (Canada)
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27/07/2006	Paraguay: Indians denounce illegal logging Paraguay - A group of Ayoreo Indians has angrily condemned the landowners who are logging their territory ...	Survival International
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26/07/2006	Environmental Challenges - Saving forests: Illegal felling logged from air This is the second installment of the third part of The Yomiuri Shimbun's "Environmental Challenges" ...	The Daily Yomiuri (Japan)
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19/07/2006	Cameroon: Logging Company Compensates Villagers 5 Years After Cameroon - In its thrust to eliminate illegal logging, World Wide Fund for Nature, WWF, alongside other ...	AllAfrica.com
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19/07/2006	Loggers, carvers threaten pristine coastal woodland Kenya - Pristine forest threatened by illegal logging. ...	Standard (Kenya)
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17/07/2006	Kenya: Loggers, Carvers Threaten Pristine Coastal Woodland Kenya - Beautiful birds singing in giant trees and butterflies fluttering their wings reduced our anxiety ...	AllAfrica.com
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01/07/2006	World Bank to improve Cambodian forest plan The World Bank has vowed to improve its much-criticized forestry program in Cambodia, after an internal ...	ABC Asia Pacific (Australia)
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30/06/2006	Forest official slain by illegal logger Toluca, Mexico - A forest-protection official was shot and killed Thursday while he and his colleagues ...	The Houston Chronicle (USA)
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29/06/2006	'Untouched' tribes under threat from loggers Peru - They are the people who turned their back on the industrialised world, having decided long ago ...	New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)
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29/06/2006	What's wrong in Papua Indonesia - "Millions of hectares of unique rainforest have disappeared from legal and illegal logging ...	The Age (Australia)
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24/06/2006	The rape of PNG forests Sexual coercion, corruption and assault are the coin of PNG's illegal logging industry, writes Greg ...	The Australian (Australia)
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19/06/2006	Logging harms humans: Experts The illegal logging that continues unchecked across Indonesia has had a worse impact on human lives than ...	Jakarta Post (Indonesia)
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14/06/2006	Forest industry provides jobs Papua New Guinea - In recent years, PNG Government ministers, public servants and members of the private ...	The National (Papua New Guinea)
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14/06/2006	`Strengthening Voices for Better Voices`: WCU launches new project in Ghana The World Conservation Union has officially launched an on-going, four year project designed to complement ...	Accra Daily Mail (Ghana)
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12/06/2006	Army men vow to protect Agta folk from loggers Lucena City, The Philippines - The Southern Luzon Command (Solcom) has vowed to protect the Agta tribe ...	Philippine Daily Enquirer
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08/06/2006	Out of the woods Australia - Choosing different species can reduce the sale of illegally harvested timber. ...	Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
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06/06/2006	US Government sued for allowing imports of Peruvian Mahogany New York - Doubly illegal, mahogany from the Peruvian Amazon is being imported into the United States ...	Environment News Service (USA)
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06/06/2006	Federal border agencies allowing illegal mahogany imports, say native Peruvians and US conservation group (Press Release) USA - Indigenous groups and NRDC sue to stop contraband shipments; three U.S agencies ...	Natural Resources Defence Council (USA)
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28/05/2006	Thai PM blames illegal logging for flood deaths The Thai Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra (pictured right), yesterday blamed illegal logging for worsening ...	The Independent (UK)
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24/05/2006	Volunteers help protect rainforests BEIJING, China -- Chinese Greenpeace volunteers were back home in Beijing yesterday, after two months ...	China Daily
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21/05/2006	Papuans Idle After Buzz Of Prosperity Falls Silent Indonesia Crackdown Ends Timber Harvest ...	Washington Post (USA)
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10/05/2006	Responsible soy sourcing: A taste of complexity With an area as large as France deforested from the Brazilian Amazon over the last thirty years, the ...	Ethical Corporation Magazine (UK)
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05/05/2006	Dying tribe takes on timber giants over lost habitat 'Your suppliers are killing us,' Asian forest dwellers tell a British lumber group. ...	The Times (UK)
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04/05/2006	International coalition launches unprecedented effort to strengthen local rights to own and use forests and fight rural poverty Group sees historic opportunity to boost incomes among 1.6 billion forest-dependent poor, prevent illegal ...	Rights and Resources Initiative (USA)
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03/05/2006	Global coalition forms to boost incomes, rights of forest-dwelling communities Conservationists on Thursday launched a global coalition aimed at halving the number of forest-dwelling ...	Associated Press Worldstream
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29/04/2006	Forests in Southeast Asia Fall to Prosperity's Axe Borneo - For as long as anyone can remember, Anyie Apoui and his people have lived among the majestic ...	The New York Times (USA)
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27/04/2006	Healing plants found in threatened Borneo forest - WWF GENEVA - Plants thought to help treat or cure cancer, AIDS and malaria have been found in the rainforests ...	Planet Ark (UK)
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26/04/2006	Anne of Green Able Anne Kajir combats the greed of Papua New Guinea's timber barons. ...	Daily Grist (USA)
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11/04/2006	Cameroon "should involve locals" to control logging Governments in Central Africa, trying to protect large tracts of their valuable rainforests, are starting ...	afrol news (Norway)
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11/04/2006	Biodiversity: Logging on ...	EUPolitix.com (Belgium)
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30/03/2006	Ethnic groups key to conservation HA NOI — Work on protecting and developing the nation's forests must be tied to programmes ...	Viet Nam News (Vietnam)
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17/03/2006	Better business, brighter future: Developing community forestry in Peru Experiences in community timber certification of the indigenous Shipibo-Konibo people living along the ...	WWF
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14/03/2006	Department of Homeland Security Allowing Illegal Mahogany Imports, Say Native Peruvians and U.S. Conservation Group WASHINGTON, USA – The Department of Homeland Security and two other U.S. agencies are illegally ...	NRDC Press Release
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07/03/2006	Capitalism and the Philippine Mudslides On Friday 2-17-06 the Capitalist System claimed a thousand lives in the Philippine village of Guinsaugon. ...	PoliticalAffairs.net (USA)
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06/03/2006	Amazon to be logged sustainably says Brazil Last week Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced a plan to allow sustainable logging ...	Mongabay.com (USA)
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28/02/2006	Greenpeace helps tribes of the Paradise Forests to protect their land from loggers In the remote forests of Papau New Guinea, illegal and destructive logging continues to threaten both ...	Greenpeace
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21/02/2006	IFC Adopts New Environmental and Social Standards Washington D.C., USA - The Board of Directors of the International Finance Corporation adopted today ...	IFC (USA)
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19/02/2006	Illegal logging may have sparked slide, Costello says Illegal logging could be behind the Philippines landslide in which an estimated 1400 people have died, ...	Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
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18/02/2006	Heavy rains, illegal logging blamed for landslides WEATHER was the easy target for blame in Friday's devastating landslide in the eastern Philippines, ...	Philippine Daily Enquirer
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13/02/2006	One year after nun's murder, Amazon communities are still under threat Activists and locals call for the Brazilian Government to honour its commitments to forest and community ...	Greenpeace
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11/02/2006	Illegal logging threatens Batutegi hydropower plant Indonesia - Illegal logging and land clearance around Bukit Barisan Selatan and Way Kambas national parks ...	The Jakarta Post (Indonesia)
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13/01/2006	RI, M`sia Agree to Fight Illegal Logging Jakarta, Indonesia - Indonesia and Malaysia have agreed to combat illegal logging and step up efforts ...	ANTARA News (Indonesia)
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10/01/2006	NAFTA panel finds Mexico slow to respond to illicit logging on Indian lands Mexico City - Rogue loggers are taking advantage of slow-reacting authorities, mountainous terrain and ...	Associated Press (USA)
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05/01/2006	Regent Denies Illegal Logging Caused Killer Landslide The head of Central Java's Banjarnegara regency has rejected claims by environmentalists that illegal ...	Laksamana (Indonesia)
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03/12/2005	RP's infamous forest record teaches world a lesson Environmental conservation advocate Greenpeace said yesterday that the Philippines' experience on ...	Tempo (The Philippines)
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07/11/2005	Illegal logging crackdown adds to problems of border dwellers Kapuas Hulu, West Kalimantan, Indonesia - The Minister of Forestry's visit planned for mid-October ...	The Jakarta Post (Indonesia)
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01/11/2005	Malawi is burning, and deforestation erodes economy Malosa, Malawi - Lovely and lissome, the masuku tree rises maybe 35 feet at maturity, its wood the hue ...	The New York Times
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17/10/2005	Villagers: Native land encroached Malaysia - Seven Iban villagers from Kampung Bait Illi in Pantu near Sri Aman have lodged a police report ...	New Straits Times (Malaysia)
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17/09/2005	Execs warn of new Quezon disaster LAGUNA, Philippines —Incessant torrential rains in the past few days and the unabated logging, much ...	Philippine Daily Enquirer
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07/09/2005	Education brings light to Orang Rimba Bukit nang dekot jelon menuju podo sungoi toruyoh elah ditobong urang dusun (Villagers are starting to ...	The Jakarta Post (Indonesia)
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06/09/2005	Loggers in world heritage park find beautiful life in tourism Illegal loggers in villages adjacent to Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park, a UNESCO-recognized world ...	Thanh Nien Daily (Vietnam)
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04/08/2005	Donggala residents face food shortages after flood Donggala, Indonesia - Over 90,000 residents in three districts in Donggala regency, Central Sulawesi ...	The Jakarta Post (Indonesia)
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08/07/2005	Floods linked to deforestation: WWF appeals to stop deforestation and increase in forest cover Lahore - Pakistan, alarmed by damages caused by the recent floods in the country, has appealed to the ...	WWF Pakistan
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04/07/2005	Loggers cut Madagascan rainforest with impunity ANKALONTANY, Madagascar - When loggers came to hack up centuries-old ebony trees from their sacred forest, ...	Reuters (UK)
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15/06/2005	Timber, Taylor, Soldier, Spy: How Liberia's uncontrolled resource exploitation, Charles Taylor's manipulation and the re-recruitment of excombatants are threatening regional peace Global Witness Press Release: Recommendations to the UN Security Council, the UN Mission in Liberia, ...	ReliefNet
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02/06/2005	Anti-illegal logging task force head shot in Butuan BUTUAN CITY, The Philippines — The chief operations officer of Task Force Kalikasan, a people's ...	Philippine Star
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19/05/2005	Perak to protect tualang trees due to role in honey production IPOH, Malaysia: The Mentri Besar of Perak has confirmed the report in The Star that the felling of four ...	The Star (Malaysia)
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09/05/2005	Crackdown on Bosnian timber gangs In the remote mountains and forests of Bosnia, the illegal traders are busy at work. Stripping down the ...	BBC (UK)
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30/04/2005	Kibaki's Crackdown Order On Illegal Logging Kenya - President Kibaki has ordered a crackdown on illegal felling of trees. ...	AllAfrica.com
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15/04/2005	Illegal logging cost US$3b Illegal logging is now costing Indonesia more than US$3 billion (HK$23.4 billion) annually, according ...	The Standard (Hong Kong)
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15/04/2005	Govt tries to crackdown on illegal logging (Radio Interview) The illegal logging trade in Indonesia is estimated to be costing the Government about ...	The World Today (Australia)
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14/04/2005	Top US furniture makers warned: Illegal mahogany from Peru threatens native people, Amazon forest Washington, USA - On the eve of the world's largest furniture show, in High Point, North Carolina, ...	Natural Resources Defense Council (USA)
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12/03/2005	Villagers vow to wash hands of illegal logging in ceremony Phrae, Thailand - About 1,000 residents of 15 villages here have vowed to wash their hands of illegal ...	Bangkok Post (Thailand)
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14/02/2005	Brazil Police Seek Nun's Murder Suspects Belem, Brazil - Police searched Sunday for four people suspected in the slaying of a 74-year-old American ...	The Guardian (UK)
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13/02/2005	American nun shot dead in Brazil Belem, Brazil - A 74-year-old American nun was shot to death early on Saturday in Brazil's Amazon ...	CNN (USA)
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10/01/2005	Tigers Bite Back, Killing 18 Riau Villagers Sumatran tigers, on the brink of extinction due to poaching and rampant illegal logging, killed 18 people ...	Laksamana.net (Indonesia)
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01/01/2005	Afghanistans drug-friendly environment Afghanistans President Hamid Karzai has stepped up international fundraising efforts in recent weeks, ...	Project Syndicate
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20/12/2004	Tribe prefers farm tools over relief goods Philippines - Mayor Hernando Avellanada of General Nakar town said 40 percent of his constituents relied ...	Philippine Daily Enquirer
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18/12/2004	Urgent Need for President Bush to Close the U.S. Border to Illegal Wood In the aftermath of the landslides and flash floods that recently left over a thousand Filipinos dead ...	YubaNet.com (USA)
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08/12/2004	REPORT: Global Forest Destruction and Human Rights Abuses Linked To Unsustainable Consumption WASHINGTON, DC - USA - Today, the Sierra Club released a new report that documents the links between ...	Sierra Club (USA)
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03/12/2004	Another 'ningas cogon' campaign? The Philippines - President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has ordered the implementation of tough measures ...	ABS-CBN (The Philippines)
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02/12/2004	Decades of illegal logging blamed Decades of illegal logging have made flashfloods and landslides deadlier, which officials and environmentalists ...	Philstar.com (The Philippines)
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02/12/2004	Logging blamed in deaths CEBU CITY, Philippines - As the death toll mounted Wednesday from the flooding and landslides that devastated ...	International Herald Tribune
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01/12/2004	Whose head will roll over floods? With more than 300 people dead and hundreds more missing in flashfloods and landslides in Quezon, Nueva ...	Philstar.com (The Philippines)
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23/11/2004	Solomon Islands urged to act against illegal logging The government in the Solomon Islands is being urged to act against illegal logging. ...	Radio Australia
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22/11/2004	Groups nix govt move to reinvigorate mining, logging CANTILLAN, Surigao del Sur, Philippines - Surigao del Sur Bishop Nerio Odchimar, DD, of the Diocese of ...	ABS-CBN News (The Philippines)
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12/11/2004	India bugs trees in high-tech crackdown on illegal logging The state of Kerala is resorting to drastic measures to defend its dwindling forests of rare sandalwood ...	The Independent (UK)
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10/11/2004	Major Win for the Amazon and Local Communities; Over Two Million Hectares of Rainforest to be Preserved Greenpeace today enthusiastically welcomed the signing of two official decrees by Brazilian President, ...	Common Dreams (USA)
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02/11/2004	Repeat of Ormoc tragedy looms over Cateel: Malanyaon DAVAO Oriental 1st district Rep. Corazon Malanyaon expressed fear of an impending tragedy in her hometown ...	Sun Star (The Philippines)
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25/10/2004	Regent acts to protect forests Indonesia - Among the many corrupt and conservation-ignorant local leaders, there is one who not only ...	The Jakarta Post (Indonesia)
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21/08/2004	Lampang police chief told to pull up socks Thailand - Lampang police chief told to speed up his investigation into the murder of a conservationist ...	The Nation
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19/08/2004	Thai activists demand protection after murder of conservationist Thai activists demanded increased government protection Thursday after a forest conservationist became ...	Terra Daily
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14/11/2003	Govt. criticized for trying to absolve forest violators As many as 27 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in North Sumatra criticized the government for stating ...	The Jakarta Post
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09/11/2003	Flood victims want justice, death for illegal loggers Relatives of more than 100 people killed in the recent devastating flood in North Sumatra demanded the ...	The Jakarta Post
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06/11/2003	Indonesia Says Resort Flash Flood 'Natures Wrath' ...	Planet Ark
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05/11/2003	Indonesian Loggers Called Terrorists Indonesia's environment minister on Wednesday likened illegal loggers to "terrorists" ...	Yahoo News
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22/04/2003	Greenpeace claims illegal and destructive logging practices 'the norm' in Cameroon Recent investigations in Cameroon reveal illegal logging has damaged a significant area of tropical rainforest, ...	Greenpeace.org
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12/03/2003	'Loggers versus "invisible" tribes: secret war in Amazon? A National Geographic story on illegal logging in south-eastern Peru. ...	NationalGeographic.com
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17/09/2002	Pakistan: Focus on deforestation Halima Bibi, 60, walks for kilometres through northern Pakistan's Himalayan foothills each day, ...	IRIN Asia
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