Amazon rainforest: 1/9 of 9
Urge Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff to save the Amazon rainforest
Ben Hudson
14th December 2011
The new Brazilian Forest Code proposes to relax land regulation in the Amazon rainforest which will increase logging, cattle ranching and other destructive activities. Tell President Dilma to veto the decision before it is too late more...
Brazil’s Forest Code: call for farmers to be paid to protect Amazon
George Blacksell
24th September, 2011
Brazilian government urged to start paying farmers to protect Amazon land as it pushes on with plans to scrap historic forest protection laws more...
How indigenous cultures can save themselves...and us
Matilda Lee
9th July, 2010
Many cultures have lived in harmony with their ecosystems for centuries. The Gaia Foundation have made it their mission to listen and learn from them. It's time we did too more...
Amazon rainforest claims not bogus admits The Sunday Times
Ecologist
21st June, 2010
Newspaper apologises for article that disputed 'peer-reviewed scientific evidence' that up to 40 per cent of the Amazon rainforest is at risk from climate change more...
Forget trees and carbon: trees and rain is the real problem
Peter Bunyard
24th August, 2009
As economists and policymakers scramble to put a price on the stored carbon of rainforests, they could be missing the bigger (wetter) picture... more...
New report estimates rainforest's value to humanity
News
27th March, 2009
There have been plenty of attempts to try and value standing rainforest – you can tot up its total carbon content, you can value the ecosystem services it provides, you can look at its land value…more...
Small and local saves the rainforest
News
19th July, 2007
Small, local initiatives are the best way to preserve tropical rainforests but are being ignored by governments, a new study has shown. more...
A stake through the heart of the world
Peter Bunyard
1st July, 2005
Scientists mapping the effects of deforestation in the Amazon are increasingly concerned that we are reaching a tipping point – when the forest will start to die back of its own accord and rain, currently generated by the Amazon forests, will stop falling, not just in neighbouring countries but as far afield as the United States and South Africa.more...
Amazon Crime
Greg Nasmyth
1st May, 2004
Deep in the Amazon rainforest, renegade logging firms are stealing the land of impoverished communities and stripping it of the trees on which the whole world depends. Greg Nasmyth boards a 700-tonne icebreaker to join a group of Greenpeace activists in their bid to stop them. more...
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