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Join the SOS celebrity auction to help save the Sumatran Orangutan
Ecologist
1st March, 2012
With only 6,600 left in the wild, the Sumatran orangutan is critically endangered. Campaign group Sumatran Orangutan Society has organised a celebrity auction to raise money to protect them and their rainforest habitat more...
Who are the Mashco-Piro tribe and can they still hope to stay 'uncontacted'?
David Hill
1st February, 2012
Politicians deny the existence of isolated tribes like the Mashco-Piro as oil, gas and logging exploration increasingly encroaches on their forest territory more...
David v Goliath: Chevron plots to avoid cleaning up oil pollution in Amazon rainforest
Tom Levitt
9th January, 2011
Ecuador government urged not to give in to pressure from the US oil giant Chevron to drop record $18 billion fine for its part in the 'Chernobyl of the Amazon' more...
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...
What's happened to Guyana's rainforest deal with Norway?
Girish Gupta
25th November, 2011
Back in 2009 it was heralded as a potential model for REDD+ and reducing rates of deforestation but Norway's deal with Guyana appears to have made little progress 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...
Our sugarcane is greener than your corn: Brazil takes on US biofuel industry
Beth McLoughlin
4th October, 2011
Brazil claims to have clamped down on slash and burn tactics, slave labour and links to deforestation as it seeks to gain foothold in Europe’s lucrative biofuels market more...
Bamboo: can it live up to the 'green gold' hype?
Eifion Rees
30th August, 2011
It could reduce the pressure on native forests but the rapid expansion in bamboo plantations is in danger of making it the latest in a long line of tarnished 'wonder crops' more...
Belo Monte dam marks a troubling new era in Brazil's attitude to its rainforest
Karen Hoffmann
15th August, 2011
Belo Monte is just one of a dozen giant dam projects Brazil plans to build in the Amazon region in the coming decades and opens up the world's largest tropical rainforest to oil and mining exploration more...
Activists challenge 'corrupt' government in the battle for Sarawak's rainforests
Alex Joseph
10th August, 2011
Land seizures, rampant logging and oil palm expansion have decimated Sarawak's forests. But now an invigorated reform movement is fighting back - accusing the government and its chief minister Abdul Taib Mahmud of duplicity. Alex Joseph reports more...
The Rainforest Saver
Daniel Elkan
February 2005
After more than 20 years work, Mike Hands, a British tropical ecologist has come up with a groundbreaking way to stop vast areas of rainforest destroyed more...
Can the palm oil we eat ever be wildlife-friendly?
Tom Levitt
12th July, 2011
Conservationists battling to save Indonesia's rainforests are locked in a dispute over moves to make oil palm plantations more wildlife-friendly. Tom Levitt reports more...
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Greenwash and spin: palm oil lobby targets its critics
Alex Helan
8th July, 2011
The spread of oil palm plantations has come at the expense of vast swathes of tropical rainforest. But the billion-dollar palm oil industry is now mounting a major PR offensive. Alex Helan reports more...
Warning over REDD projects excluding rural poor from forests
Tom Levitt
16th June, 2011
Global study finds forests provide one-fifth of household income in rural communities and says access for them should be prioritised in REDD-type conservation projects more...
Barbie toy includes packaging from Indonesia deforestation
Ecologist
9th June, 2011
Greenpeace claim packaging for the barbie doll is produced using timber from critically endangered Indonesian rainforest more...
Fair trade carbon credits: will certification benefit people and planet?
Adam Corner
3rd May, 2011
In Uganda, as in the rest of the world, carbon trading is a controversial topic. But could the concept of fair trade carbon credits revolutionise the sector, or is it just a distraction from the bigger problems with carbon markets? Adam Corner investigates more...
Q&A: sustainable agriculture expert, Christian Mensah
Ruth Styles
20th April, 2011
Making Ghana’s cocoa sector more sustainable isn’t the easiest of tasks but for the Louis Bolk Institute’s Christian Mensah that’s all part of the job. Ruth Styles caught up with him to find out how he’s doing it more...
7 ways to help stop tropical deforestion & illegal logging
Peter Dauvergne & Jane Lister
11th March, 2011
A store like Walmart can wield more power than a country over a logging company - especially in the global South. But what's good for Walmart is not always good for the planet. Peter Dauvergne & Jane Lister outline 7 key tools for retailers to limit the impacts of timber consumption more...
WWF calls for 'scaling up' of beef production to combat deforestation in Brazil
Ecologist
22nd February, 2011
In an interview with the Ecologist, WWF Brazil CEO Denise Hamu says increasing productivity can help combat deforestation in the Amazon more...
World's largest ecological experiment to examine impact of oil palm plantations
Tom Levitt
1st February, 2011
Ten-year project will look at whether setting-aside natural forests within oil palm plantations can save threatened species such as the Orang-utan, Pygmy Elephant and Clouded Leopard more...
Logging company accused of ‘misleading public’ with carbon conservation project
Kara Moses
3rd December, 2010
Controversial Indonesian company Asia Pulp & Paper has come under fire from environmentalists because of 'false claims' over Sumatran rainforest carbon reserve more...
Shell funding of forest protection scheme could result in 'largest land grab of all time'
Ecologist
8th September, 2010
Oil giant's investment in Indonesian REDD conservation project is a crude attempt to increase profit and gloss over its expanding oil drilling operations, say campaigners more...
Cargill sticks with rainforest-destroying palm oil supplier
Ecologist
6th September, 2010
US food giant refuses to stop buying palm oil from Sinar Mas group as Burger King joins Nestle and others in criticising its illegal activities more...
Norway accused of 'hypocrisy' over ethical investment
Tom Levitt
24th August, 2010
The Norwegian government has sold its investment in one Malaysian logging and palm oil company but remains a big shareholder in another accused of destroying rainforest and orang-utan habitats more...
Palm oil giant Sinar Mas admits breaking law by clearing peatland
Tom Levitt
11th August, 2010
Indonesia's largest palm oil and pulp company started clearing land for palm oil plantations before it had received permits or made conservation assessments. Tom Levitt reports more...Members
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