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Forests
Forest
diversity, deforestation, illegal timber
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see also haze, wildlife
trade, global biodiversity, climate
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US-S'pore
plan to tackle green issues
Ending illegal trade in timber and wildlife among items on agenda
By Arti Mulchand Straits Times 2 Nov 07
Seeing the carbon for the trees
Peter Seligmann BBC 21 Oct 07
May a billion trees bloom
Clement Mesenas Today Online 22 Oct 07
Biodiversity said to be key to healthy
forests: study
Yahoo News 16 Oct 07
Congo Pygmies Go High-Tech to Protect
Forest Home
Story by Pascal Fletcher PlanetArk 12 Oct 07
“Zero” Amazon Deforestation Possible
by 2015, Brazilian NGOs say by Alana Herro WorldWatch 10 Oct 07
Greenpeace Urges Indonesia to Stop Forest
Destruction
Story by Adhityani Arga PlanetArk 10 Oct 07
Indonesia seeks US$1.8b to keep forests
Business Times 10 Oct 07
Indonesia aims to plant 79 million trees
By Zakki Hakim, Associated Press Yahoo News 5 Oct 07
Brazil Urges World Support for Amazon
Story by Raymond Colitt and Maria Pia Palermo
PlanetArk 4 Oct 07
Jane Goodall says biofuel crops hurt
rain forests
by Timothy Gardner Yahoo News 27 Sep 07
Promote sustainable forest management:
George Yeo
Straits Times 25 Sep 07
Indonesia Wants Incentives to Halt Deforestation
Story by Lucy Hornby PlanetArk 20 Sep 07
Malaysia to step up laws on illegal logging
Yahoo News 18 Sep 07
Support Builds for Carbon Cash to Save
Forests
PlanetArk 13 Sep 07
Australia, Indonesia Back Kalimantan
Forest Plan
PlanetArk 10 Sep 07
Greek forest fires could be CO2 threat
By Robin Pomeroy Yahoo News 2 Sep 07
Indonesia calls on rainforest nations
to close ranks
Straits Times 2 Sep 07
Indonesia Seeks Plan to Save Rare Tigers,
Elephants
PlanetArk 30 Aug 07
Indonesia Hopes to Include Peat in New
Climate Deal
Story by Adhityani Arga PlanetArk 28 Aug 07
Indonesia Logging Curbs Hit Pulp Industry
- Firms
PlanetArk 24 Aug 07
Amazon Deforestation Drops Sharply -
Brazil Govt
Story by Raymond Colitt PlanetArk 13 Aug 07
Trees Won't Fix Global Warming
Andrea Thompson LiveScience.com Yahoo News 12 Aug 07
Abdullah: No new logging licences to
be granted
Straits Times 11 Aug 07
Habitat loss threatens pygmy elephants
By Vijay Joshi Yahoo News 9 Aug 07
Indonesia Sees Slower Palm Oil Expansion
from 2010
Story by Fitri Wulandari and Lewa Pardomuan
PlanetArk 31 Jul 07
East Africa battles deforestation with
butterfly nets
by Beatrice Debut Yahoo News 26 Jul 07
World Bank Fund Encourages Developing
Countries to Stop Deforestation Story by Ben Wilson PlanetArk 25
Jul 07
Chinese Paper Firm Profits from Fighting
Deserts
Story by Kitty Bu PlanetArk 23 Jul 07
Despite Chinese ban, Myanmar timber still
crosses border
by Mon Mon Myat Yahoo News 15 Jul 07
Forestry body pushes for forest rangers
to take lead in illegal logging battle Desy Nurhayati The Jakarta
Post 14 Jul 07
Voracious China gobbles up forests, recycled
paper
by P. Parameswaran Yahoo News 13 Jul 07
Palm Oil Firms Burning Indonesia Forests
- Greenpeace
Story by Adhityani Arga PlanetArk 13 Jul 07
China Urges Responsible Logging Overseas
PlanetArk 11 Jul 07
Indonesian Government to revive ruined
Central Kalimantan forest Jakarta Post 7 Jul 07
How Can Carbon Trading Save Peatlands
and Rainforests? PlanetArk 3 Jul 07
Indonesia Wants Deforestation in New
Climate Deal
Story by Adhityani Arga PlanetArk 2 Jul 07
US considers Indonesian debt-for-nature
swap
Yahoo News 3 Jul 07
Germany to write off Indonesia's debts
if national parks in Sumatra are preserved Antara News 30 Jun 07
Congo to Cancel Logging Deals to Protect
Forests
Story by Joe Bavier PlanetArk 25 Jun 07
Are You Eating Dinner on a Piece of Rainforest?
Story by Sylvia Westall PlanetArk 12 Jun 07
Logging May Wreck Orangutan Forests in
Decade - UN
Story by Alister Doyle PlanetArk 5 Jun 07
China Struggles to Choke Off Illegal
Wood Trade
Story by Emma Graham-Harrison PlanetArk 12 Jun 07
Chinese demand drives global deforestation
By Tansa Musa Yahoo News 11 Jun 07
Indonesian Vice-President's Call to the
World: Help us save our forests, or suffer consequences By Devi Asmarani
The Straits Times 5 Jun 07
What's So Bad About Deforestation?
PlanetArk 5 Jun 07
Palm Oil Puts Squeeze on Asia's Endangered
Orangutan PlanetArk 29 May 07
Malaysia Uproots Forest to Build Graveyard
Story by Clarence Fernandez PlanetArk 28 May 07
EU stops importing Malaysian ramin
Elizabeth John New Straits Times 27 May 07
Indonesian hardwood on brink of extinction:
activists
Yahoo News 25 May 07
Malaysia on PR Campaign Over Rainforests,
Wildlife
Story by Naveen Thukral PlanetArk 24 May 07
The 2010 Climate Change Challenge
UNEP 22 May 07
Slowing Deforestation Key to Climate
Fight - Experts
PlanetArk 15 May 07
Malaysia Cracks Down on Smuggled Indonesian
Logs
PlanetArk 10 May 07
World Must Seek Change in China Timber
Trade - Report
Story by Jeremy Lovell PlanetArk 10 May 07
China's reforestation programme hurts
farmers' livelihood
Channel NewsAsia 9 May 07
Indonesia deforestation fastest in world:
Greenpeace
By Ahmad Pathoni Yahoo News 3 May 07
EU governments failing the forests
WWF 30 Apr 07
Indonesian minister questions release
of illegal logging suspects Channel NewsAsia 28 Apr 07
Indonesia's Aceh, Papua Pledge to Protect
Forests
PlanetArk 27 Apr 07
Don't Buy Products From Illegal Logging
- Indonesia
Story by Achmad Sukarsono PlanetArk 10 Apr 07
Australia Seeks Backing for Deforestation
Fund
Story by Rob Taylor PlanetArk 30 Mar 07
S'pore-based firm uses DNA test
to curb illegal timber trade Channel NewsAsia 6 Apr 07
Tracking System Aids Fight Against Illegal
Logging
Story by Jeremy Lovell PlanetArk 22 Mar 07
Save forests to fight global warming:
Stern
Yahoo News 23 Mar 07
World's Forests Disappearing But
at Slower Rate
Story by Robin Pomeroy PlanetArk 13 Mar 07
Malaysians in buying bid to save
forests, says report
Yahoo News 27 Feb 07
Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei agree
to save "Heart of Borneo"
Yahoo News 12 Feb 07
Illegal logging threatens endangered
orangutans: UN
by Karen Calabria Yahoo News 6 Feb 07
Indonesian Minister warns company
for posing threat to 1,600 orangutans Antara 25 Jan 07
EU bio-fuel demand threatens Indonesian
forests: Greenpeace Yahoo News 18 Jan 07
Indonesian floods leave 12 dead,
70,000 homeless: Illegal logging blamed Yahoo News 23 Dec 06
Indonesia's forest destruction downgrades
international confidence Antara 8 Dec 06
Palm Oil Wildlife Conservation Fund launched
The Star 6 Dec 06
Brazil Creates Largest Tropical Rainforest
Preserve
PlanetArk 5 Dec 06
Guardians of the region's greenery
M'sia, Indonesia, Brunei agree to prevent destruction of Borneo's rainforest
Fawziah Selamat Today Online 29 Nov 06
Eight officials sentenced for illegal
logging in Cambodia
Yahoo News 24 Nov 06
World's Forests are Making a Comeback
- Study
PlanetArk 14 Nov 06
Amazon deforestation lowest since 1991
By Tales Azzoni, Associated Press Writer Yahoo News 27 Oct 06
Global forests disappearing for a pittance:
World Bank
Carbon trading can save forests Yahoo News 23 Oct 06
Paper firm posing threat to Indonesian
forest: WWF
Yahoo News 20 Oct 06
Indonesia: Community given opportunity
to participate in forest conservation Antara 4 Oct 06
Indonesia to offer 17 mln hectares of
forest concessions
Yahoo News 28 Sep 06
Indonesia won't compromise with illegal
loggers
Antara 26 Sep 06
Illegal Logging Costing Nations Billions
- World Bank
Story by David Fogarty PlanetArk 18 Sep 06
IMF, WB also responsible for forest destruction
in Indonesia
Antara 17 Sep 06
Malaysia Denies Rain Forests Being Destroyed
for Palm Oil Cultivation By Associated Press ENN 13 Sep 06
Forest land in Indonesia may be reduced
to 10 % by 2020
Antara 31 Aug 06
Deforestation rates slashed in Paraguay
WWF 30 Aug 06
China denies plundering world's rain
forests
Yahoo News 15 Aug 06
Tsunami boosts illegal Indonesia logging
By Michael Casey Yahoo News 5 Aug 06
Amazon Rain Forest Not Helped by "Light"
Logging
Scott Norris National Geographic 1 Aug 06
DNA Technology To Curb Illegal Timber
Trade
Bernama 29 Jul 06
Malaysia, Indonesia in one-million-euro
palm oil promotion
Yahoo News 20 Jul 06
Direct link established between tropical
tree and insect diversity EurekAlert 18 Jul 06
WWF warns over pulp giant in Indonesia
Yahoo News 11 Jul 06
Malaysian state to log orangutan habitats
Yahoo News 16 Jul 06
Ex-Indonesian general arrested for illegal
logging
AFP Yahoo News 5 Jul 06
World Bank vows to improve forestry program
in Cambodia
Yahoo News 30 Jun 06
China Cracking Down on Illegal Timber
from Myanmar
By Reuters ENN 1 Jun 06
Tropical Timber is Better Protected,
Not Safe - Report
Story by Jeremy Lovell PlanetArk 26 May 06
Shoppers' thirst for palm oil threatens
to wipe out orangutan
By Martin Hickman The Independent 23 May 06
Himalayan forests disappearing
New Scientist EurekAlert 17 May 06
El Salvador Tropical Coffee Forests Threatened
PlanetArk 17 May 06
Colombia Steps up Sales of Eco-Friendly
Coffee
Story by Jeff Coelho PlanetArk 18 May 06
The forest is a pharmacy and more
Coffee with Dr Paul Cox Ethnobotanist
Today Online 28 Apr 06
Crane opens up forest canopy
BBC 27 Apr 06
Heart of Borneo: medical treasure trove
at risk
WWF 27 Apr 06
Environmentalists urge Malaysia to save
130 million-year-old rainforest Written by AP PlanetSave 20 Apr 06
S'pore can do more to rein in illegal
logging
Letter from Tan Choon Ming Straits Times Forum Online 19 Apr 06
Developing nations may save the tropical
forest
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute EurekAlert 14 Apr 06
The future of tropical forests: New projections
hopeful
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute EurekAlert 6 Apr 06
World's Forests Continue To Shrink
By Earth Policy Institute ENN 5 Apr 06
WWF Hails Decision to Create Malaysia's
Largest Protected Area for Endangered Orangutans, Rhinos and Elephants
By World Wildlife Fund ENN 3 Apr 06
Borneo Rainforests a Treasure Trove of
Rare Species
Story by Diyan Jari and Reuben Carder PlanetArk 30 Mar 06
Heart of Borneo: Conservation vision
gives hope to treasure island WWF 28 Mar 06
China Major Conduit for Illegal Wood,
Report Says
Story by Reuben Carder PlanetArk 24 Mar 06
Greater Efforts Needed to Save Amazon
Rainforests
PlanetArk 23 Mar 06
Women on patrol: Curbing illegal logging
on the Tibetan Plateau
By Alex Marston WWF 8 Mar 06
Brazil Opens Chunks of Amazon Forest
to Logging
Story by Raymond Colitt PlanetArk 3 Mar 06
Illegal Loggers Clearing PNG's Forests
- Report
PlanetArk 1 Mar 06
Illegal logging may have contributed
to disaster
By Paul Alexander The Associated Press Seattle Times 17 Feb 06
Brazil's president creates new forest
reserves in Amazon
Written by Michael Astor PlanetSave 14 Feb 06
Outrage over Indonesian plans for palm
oil plantation in rainforest By Associated Press Channel NewsAsia
8 Feb 06
UN Reaches New Pact to Manage Tropical
Timber
PlanetArk 31 Jan 06
Biofuel to Drive Indonesian Palm Oil
Expansion
PlanetArk 27 Jan 05
Malaysia Eyes Green Bonds to Grow Forests
Story by Barani Krishnan PlanetArk 27 Jan 05
Study of Tropical Forests Worldwide Reveals
that Nature Encourages Diversity By Kim McDonald EurekAlert 26 Jan
06
Forests in Indochina receive FSC certification
WWF 26 Jan 05
The Power to Change... By Choosing the
Coffee We Drink
A Guest Commentary by Gordon Feller, Urban Age Institute
ENN 13 Jan 06
Deadly landslide in Indonesia sets off
debate over role of logging in disaster Written by Michael Casey PlanetSave
6 Jan 06
Indonesia faces more disasters unless
govt reforests: activists Channel NewsAsia 4 Jan 06
Illegal logging may spark more disasters
Story by Carey Gillam The Straits Times 5 Jan 06
Fears for Dwindling Forests in Pakistani
Quake Zone
By Abu Arqam Naqash, Reuters ENN 23 Dec 05
Researchers discover trees in Amazon
much older than assumed EurekAlert 13 Dec 05
Greenpeace Warns WTO Threatening
Last Ancient Forests PlanetArk 12 Dec 05
Incentives to curb deforestation needed
to counter climate change FAO 9 Dec 05
Study: Temperate Forests Could Worsen
Global Warming EurekAlert 6 Dec 05
Brazil Says Deforestation Slows, Critics
Cautious
Story by Raymond Colitt PlanetArk 6 Dec 05
Modern forests suffer from century-old
logging legacy
EurekAlert 5 Dec 05
Governments making progress in curbing
illegal logging
FAO website 1 Dec 05
Forests Urged as New Front in Global
Warming Fight
Story by Alister Doyle PlanetArk 1 Dec 05
Nations want cash not to fell trees
By Tim Hirsch BBC 30 Nov 05
Showering with a clean conscience: Palm
oil will soon be produced without threatening tropical forests WWF
23 Nov 05
Illegal timber trade in Europe driving
global forest loss and poverty WWF website 22 Nov 05
Forests flushed down the toilet
WWF website 21 Nov 05
Deforestation slowing, UN says
BBC Online 14 Nov 05
FACTBOX - The World's Forests
PlanetArk, 15 Nov 05 World
Forest Losses Slowing But Still Alarming - UN Story by Crispian Balmer PlanetArk
15 Nov 05
Rainforest conservation worth the
cost, University of Alberta shows Eurekalert 31 Oct 05
Malaysia To Introduce Prison Sentences
for Illegal Logging
By Associated Press ENN website 30 Aug 05
Deforestation of Amazon 'halved'
By Tom Gibb BBC Online 26 Aug 05
World's largest oil palm plantation
scould spell disaster for upland forests of Indonesian Borneo
WWF website, 12 Aug 05
'Myth' That Forests Improve Water
Flows - Study
Story by Alister Doyle PlanetArk website, 29 Jul 05
Most of Borneo's lowland forests could
be lost within the next decade WWF website, 7 Jun 05
Consumer group charges palm oil plantations
threaten rain forests in Indonesia, Malaysia
Written by Michael Casey PlanetSave website, 3 Jun 05
WWF and World Bank join forces to reduce
global deforestation
WWF Newsroom 25 May 05
NGOs Say World Bank Policies Harm Forests
by David Lewis PlanetArk website, 15 Apr 05
Forests, Natural Disasters and Human
Security: Examining the Linkages IUCN website 5 Apr 05
Forest fires, tsunami, deforestation
and Millennium Goals
FAO newsroom 15 Mar 05
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