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Amazon 'uncontacted' tribes at risk from new highway plan
David Hill
19th January, 2012
Tension is mounting in one of the remotest regions in the Peruvian Amazon over plans to build a highway through the country's biggest national park 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...
Can becoming a vegetarian help save the planet?
Laurie Tuffrey
4th January, 2012
Globally, meat consumption has increased by 20 per cent in the last decade despite concerns about its environmental impact. So, asks Laurie Tuffrey, can going vegetarian really help the earth? more...
Take Action: Save orangutans with football star Puyol
Ben Hudson
22nd December, 2011
Act Now for Orangutans is a new campaign fronted by World Cup winner and Barcelona skipper Puyol aimed at the conservation of orangutansmore...
The National Trust awards recognising pioneering eco-campaigner Octavia Hill
Mike Collins
19th December, 2011
Octavia Hill was a tireless advocate for saving land and green spaces in and around Victorian London. She was also a founder of the National Trust, which is launching an award to recognise modern day 'unsung environmental heroes' more...
Biofuels not food the biggest driver of 'land grabbing' deals, says report
Laurie Tuffrey
18th December, 2011
'Land grab' report highlights growing interest from speculators in ‘flex’ crops like soya, palm oil and sugarcane that can be used for biofuels or food 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...
Biomass is the next biofuel 'land grab' on tropical forests, warn campaigners
Tom Levitt
5th December, 2011
Just as biofuels have gobbled up farmland that should have been growing food so the push on biomass by Monsanto, Cargill and others will see an 'unprecedented' grab on land, plants and biodiverse-rich forests more...
Conservation can only work by putting a value on forests
Ben Caldecott
29th November, 2011
REDD+ type projects to protect rainforests face many obstacles but we should not give up on market-based solutions, says Ben Caldecott from the investment bank Climate Change Capital more...
UN-backed coal power station linked to deforestation and land grabbing
Luke Starr
29th November, 2011
An Ecologist investigation reveals how the largest coal power plant to be awarded UN carbon credit funds is displacing poor communities and destroying forest in India. Luke Starr reports from Madhya Pradesh 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...
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UK charity dogged by 'monocultures and rights violations' claims
Ecologist
7th October, 2011
The Jewish National Fund UK has always denied a swirl of claims over its history and activities in the Middle East, including allegations of land grabbing Palestinian villages. But campaigners want the organisation stripped of its charitable status more...
A day in the life of...Nicola Peel, Amazon activist and filmmaker
Jan Goodey
5th October, 2011
Nicola Peel's new film Blood of the Amazon tells the story of the world's largest environmental lawsuit and investigates how the oil industry threatens a fragile rainforest environment. By Jan Goodey more...
Coffee: is the black stuff as green as it should be?
George Blacksell
4th October, 2011
From deforestation to fertiliser; our taste for coffee has left some of the world’s most precious eco-systems in a precarious state. George Blacksell looks at how the coffee industry is cleaning up its act 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...
Dwindling forests, dwindling futures – how forest dwellers being ignored by the Bangladeshi Government
A new Ecologist-produced film - to be screened by campaigners from the Forest People's Programme at the forthcoming Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Japan - highlights how the rights of indigenous peoples and their sustainable use of natural resources are being ignored by the Bangladesh Government more...
Up in smoke: a scientist's mission to stop slash-and-burn farming
Matilda Lee
22nd September, 2011
An Ecologist cover story in 2005 prompted the making of an epic documentary, Up in Smoke, about slash and burn farming. Now the film finally airs on More4 on September 27th... Matilda Lee reports more...
Ugandans mobilise to save Mabira forest from sugarcane plantation
Esther Nakkazi
20th September, 2011
One of Africa's last remaining tropical forests, Mabira is home to precious wildlife and is an eco tourist attraction. But it is now under threat from sugarcane production. Esther Nakkazi reports 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...
Revealed: how the Vietnamese military fuels destruction of Laos' forests
Faith Doherty
28th July, 2011
Undercover filming by the Environmental Investigation Agency has unearthed shocking evidence of military involvement in the illegal timber trade, all to feed western demand for stylish wood products, according to Faith Doherty more...
Five of the best… British walks
Noah Lee
15th July, 2011
Make friends, exercise and enjoy Britain’s natural beauty while you walk, says Noah Lee 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...Members
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