Forest News 2012
- Cambodia: sacred forests bulldozed
- WWF: Pink deforestation under the Christmas tree
- Ikea adopt a purchasing policy to prevent links with deforestation in Southeast Asia
- Deutsche Bank divests from Vietnamese land grabber HAGL
- DLH accused of illegal timber purchases from Liberia
- Ghana’s Atiwa rainforest must be protected
- Is Malaysian timber legal?
- Timber smuggling continues in Madagascar
- Africa: mapped rights in the forest
- Brazil: Guarani leader murdered
- Germany seizes Congolese wood
- Indigenous rights at risk in Peru
- Congo: endangered the shy Okapi
- Ikea linked to tropical forests destruction?
- Report exposes threat to Guyana's Amazon forest
- Malaysia: Penan protestors arrested at Murum Dam site
- Southern Africa's dryland forests
- Forests burn in North-West Turkey
- Fashionable deforestation? Rayon and viscose under spotlight
- European forests go to North
- Tell the Snack Food 20: Cut Conflict Palm Oil, Not Rainforests
- Far far East: illegal logging in Russian taiga
- Illegal clearings in isolated indigenous peoples reserve in Peru’s Amazon
- Ancient deforestation: man or climate?
- Malaysia: Penan tribes against the dam
- An other threatened habitat: Gran Chaco
- New protected areas in Brazil
- Biomas without criteria
- And the oil palm expand back in Africa
- Private militia firm ordered to close over Guarani killings
- New Atlas: a tool to prevent misuse of the natural forest
- Sweden: Sámi protest against British mining company
- Europe's deforestation footprint is twice as big as China and Japan’s combined
- Global Green Groups Release Performance Milestones to Evaluate Progress of Asia Pulp and Paper Deforestation Pledge
- Japanese companies buying timber linked to illegal logging in Malaysia
- Palm oil alert
- Dropped murder case demonstrates continued impunity over Cambodian forest destruction
- Squatters invade Syrian forests
- Ecuador: scrapped the project of a Yasuni park
- Tesso Nilo raged by fires
- Europe failing to stop illegal timber, BBC
- Virunga: arrests and intimidation of local community leaders opposing oil exploration in the national park
- 80% of Malaysian Borneo degraded by logging
- Monkey Nation
- Guatemala: activist killed by gunmen
- Amazon deforestation increasing again
- Laos: rubber plantations fueling conflicts
- Ivory Coast: saving Côte d'Ivoire's fragile forests and people
- Indonesia: pulp and paper giant blocking deforestation probe
- Illegal timber exposed in Europe
- Burning the forest for paper
- Logging may destabilize soil carbon fluxes
- Indonesia on fire, paper and palm oil industry blamed
- Ireland will not sell its forests
- Brazil: Guarani man killed in ambush by gunmen
- Amazon at risk of forest fires in 2013
- Movimento civico chiede di fermare la deforestazione di São Tomé
- Civic movement demands to stop deforestation in São Tomé
- Brazilian police shoot Indians
- Zambia: government lifts ban on deforestation
- Paper vapor
- Sami people facing environment threat
- Russia: Puntin's iron fist on NGOs
- GE "franken-trees" and arrested activists
- Turkey: a battle on the trees of Gezi Park
- One million signatures to protect Indonesian rainforests
- Ghana: forest chaos and risky timber imports
- Brazil: evicted illegal ranchers from Yanomami land
- Congo: human rights abuses incompatible with forest certification
- Indonesia's indigenous people win right to millions of hectares of forest
- Amazon: no growth after deforestation. A new study
- No agreement on the moratorium
- Global demand driving illegal logging in the Russian Far East:
- Indonesia: more 300,000 ha to deforestation
- Deforestation is spreading malaria
- Indonesian NGOs call for improvement of APP's Forest Conservation Policy
- Indonesian military development program spreads fear in West Papua
- Worldwide protests demand protection for Peru’s uncontacted tribes
- European bison released into the wild in Germany
- Brazilian Indians occupy Congress in land protest
- Australia: forest deal at risk in Tasmania
- Escalating cost of forest conservation
- Indonesia will continue the forest moratorium
- International Paper, Dogwood Alliance to protect southern forests
- Ecotourism helps Amazon jungle communities survive
- Where are the trees?
- Awá tribe’s call to evict loggers
- Canada: the aboriginal movement and the miners
- Africa: palm oil impacts in Gabon
- Myanmar: exporting logs...
- Illegal loggers 'closing in' the tribe
- A brand new policy or "artful deception"?
- Almost one in five reptiles struggling to survive
- World’s largest sovereign wealth fund divests from palm oil companies
- Europe: the rush to buy dubious tropical wood
- Interpol cracks down in illegal logging in Latin America
- 60 percent of Africa's forest elephants killed for their ivory over past decade
- Congo: The "organised chaos" of logging sector
- Illegal loggers and pistoleros: the Far West on Mount Olympus
- The Vertical Forest
- Taiwan: the King of Trees
- Stop persecutions in Sumatra
- 11,000 forest elephants slaughtered in Gabon
- Climate: the hot spring in the northern forests
- Joint effort on Indonesian rainforest pays off
- The hidden tapirs
- One more publisher against rainforest distraction in Indonesia
- Nigeria: Shell condemned for oil pollution
- New forest policy in Cyprus
- Paper World: will paper tigers savage your brand reputation?
- The long fight of the Grassy Narrows
- What's wrong with the Swedish system
- Russia: forest activist assaulted in Moskow
- Ecuador: blowpipes against pipelines
- Ancient deforestation: cavemen absolved
- Heat wave burning up Australia
- Tiger attack - the ultimate impact of paper production
- Extraordinary new species discoveries in the Greater Mekong
- Amazon deforestation brings loss of microbial communities
- Social activist missing in Laos
- Don Pedro Casaldáliga Evacuated from his house due to death threats
- Bloody presents
- Raiders of the lost rain-forests
- Did you smoke your own forest?
- Siberian Evenk indigenous organization under attack
- Ethiopia: the last wild coffee forest
- Finnish NGO proposal: More protection on state-owned lands
- Welcome, Big Nose!
- NASA: deforestation signals from Central and West Africa
- Woodpecker finds allies against U.S. helicopters
- Investors must stop land grabbing
- China: the economy of deforestation
- Cargill’s not so secret expansion plans in Indonesia
- Putin's rage against indigenous peoples
- Controversial dam gets approval in Laos
- Deforestation in Indonesia exposed throughout Europe
- The empty engagement of APP
- Taking conflict out of our gadgets
- Vietnam: primeval forest destroyed for charcoal
- Amazon: when the natives blocked the dam
- Venezuela: Yanomami Indians massacred by goldminers
- African timber exporting countries failing to meet access to information commitments
- Hezbollah, Israel and United States: the financial war in the Congo forests
- Company boss named in forgery probe linked to Spanish construction giant
- Penan tribe blockade Murum dam
- Indonesia denied indigenous peoples
- Natural gas extraction is destroying forests in Pennsylvania
- Malaysia: Penan tribe blockade Murum dam site to avoid resettlement
- Disney: new global rainforest commitment
- Scientists name new snake species to criticize mine plans in Panama
- Two children may have died for you to have your mobile phone
- Burma rapidly losing forest coverage
- Indonesia: moratorium or business as usual?
- Deforestation now driven by profit, not poverty
- India: the invisible deforestation
- Germany: protest against exploitation for palm oil
- Cattle ranching and law enforcement key areas of action to slow Bolivia’s deforestation rate
- Swiss Attorney General opens criminal case against UBS over Malaysian money-laundering affair
- Philippine: farmers’ actions shut down Bioethanol plant
- Illegal loggers ‘closing in’ on Earth’s most threatened tribe, investigation shows
- India: the invisible deforestation
- Venezuela: Yanomami Indians massacred by goldminers?
- Sweden: Save Gotland's protected nature from mining!
- Illegal music for Gibson Guitar
- Uruguay: pulp plantations against chees
- Madagascar create the largest protected area
- Tree Species Maps for European Forests
- Bangladesh forests disappearing at alarming rate , says expert
- NASA map sees earth's trees in a new light
- Tropical forests storing more carbon than previous studies had suggested
- Illegal logging in Central Vietnam
- Goodbye to mountain forests?
- Cowboy carbon deal is not valid
- Cameroon to protect forests with satellite monitoring?
- Oil prospecting in Virunga National Park
- APP promises to protect already protected forests
- Bulgarian president vetoes forest act changes
- 2,000 Bornean orangutans at risk
- Peru: water or gold?
- Earth s most threatened tribe demands action against illegal logging
- Deforestation: KFC drops APP - at least in Indonesia
- Laos backtracks on controversial Xayaburi dam
- Cameroun and palm oil: the 12th trial Herakles
- Congo a solar-powered radio to connect remote forest communities
- Too cute to live? Save the slow loris
- Central Africa region named World Heritage site