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01/10/08 Brazil Amazon logging speeds up, Associated Press
07/02/08 Australia Islam group urges forest fire jihad Josh Gordon The Sunday Age
08/02/08 US Asia Office supply giant Staples Inc. drops Asia Pulp & Paper Co. Ltd. (APP), Wall Street Journal.
24/01/08 Finland FSC Special Paper Required for Harry Potter Book By THE NEW YORK TIMES
21/01/08 US Wal-Mart Cuts 1,000 Magazines From Its Stores Paper News
04/01/08 Siberia, Alaska, Canada and Europe. Forests failing in carbon relief role scientist; John Miller, University of Colorado, Nature Magazine and James Randerson, Guardian
28/12/07 Indonesia Waste OS 28/12/07 Call for more trees to stop landslides Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta, The Age with AFP
24/12/07 Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya, Niger, Uganda Waste OS 24/12/07 Extinction breathing down neck of giraffes Nairobi, AFP Our highlighting
19/12/07 Climate change and forests - Good news, but no certainty of salvation, for forests and their friends The Economist, Bali Climate Conference
28/11/07 - Borneo Peat bog destruction emissions reached 40pc of global total
By Thomas Bell in Central Borneo, Telegraph Indonesia our highlighting Links
18/11/07 UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Experts warn of global disaster WASHINGTON POST , Doug Struck with STEPHEN CAUCHI, The Age
16/11/07 - US Katrina, Rita Caused Forestry Disaster - Die-Off Will Add To Buildup of Greenhouse Gases By Marc Kaufman Washington Post Staff Writer
14/11/07 - UN Environment Programme - How we're destroying our habitat Sian Powell The Australian
07/11/07 - Indonesia Singapore; China Australia UN Kyoto Protocol. Timber baron acquitted over illegal logging, Mark Forbes, Jakarta The Age; Links
04/11/07 - Ivory Coast and Ghana; United Nations Malaysia Indonesia Singapore Australia Bitter life of chocolate's child slaves Carmel Egan, The Age
01/11/07 - Canada , US Forests losing the ability to absorb man-made carbon, Steve Connor, Science Editor, The Independent
30/10/07 - Indonesia, Singapore Wall Street Journal inquiry pushes FSC to cancel logging certification in endangered forest mongabay.com Indonesia, Singapore
25/10/07 - US Air Resources Board adopts forestry protocols - Provides foundation for using forestlands to measure greenhouse gas reductions The Air Resources Board-California Environmental Protection Agency.
25/10/07 - UN Save the planet? It's now or never, warns landmark UN report AFP
12/10/07 - US Environmentalists are upset at Sears Catalog Paper News our highlighting
11/10/07 - Indonesia Malaysia Australia - Palm oil furore could stymie green fuel plan Marian Wilkinson Environment Editor SMH Campaign Links
1/10/07 - Peru "They exist" - uncontacted Indians spotted from the air Survival-International Links
1/10/07 - Australia, India, Cambodia, Sumatra, Siberia - Melbourne in worldwide fight to save the tiger - Steve Butcher, The Age
23/09/07 - Indonesia Indonesian earthquakes threaten National Park - http://www.fauna-flora.org/news_earthquakes.phpSumatra
21/09/07 - Indonesia Indonesia leads call for scheme to save forests, Mark Forbes, The Age;
04/09/07 - Indonesia ; Borneo ; Malaysia; US EU China India Orangutans squeezed by biofuel boom By Chris Brummitt - Associated Press our highlighting
29/08/07 - GREECE Political crisis as Greek fires rage ,Ian Fisher and Anthee Carassav, Makistos., NEW YORK TIMES, AFP
20/08/07 - Indonesia - Closure concerns for paper groups. By JOHN AGLIONBY and TAUFAN HIDAYAT, Financial Times (UK)
31/07/07 - Indonesia Indonesia Sees Slower Palm Oil Expansion from 2010 Fitri Wulandari and Lewa Pardomuan, REUTERS NEWS SERVICE
26/07/07 - Indonesia Palm oil workers killing orangutans Agençe France-Presse
29/03/07 - Singapore ; Indonesia Timber DNA profiles reduce market for illegal logging, Philip Hopkins. The Age, Business
29/03/07 - Australia Indonesia Indonesia welcomes forest fund Geoff Thompson ABC news On-line
28/03/07 - Andes, Indonesia ; Brazil; African Rift Mountains, Zambian and Angolan highlands, South African Cape region, south-east Australia, Himalayas and the Arctic. Climate zones to disappear , James Randerson, London, Guardian;
15/03/07 - Thailand Haze reaches 'danger' level in Thailand, AP Digital Climate OS
14/03/07 - Thailand ENVIRONMENT-THAILAND:Smog Hits Emergency Levels, Marwaan Macan-Markar, IPS;
10/03/07 - Sarawak- Malaysia LAST STAND IN SARAWAK, Paul Malone, Canberra -Your Guide;
08/03/07 - INDIA ; Thailand; UK Warbler bird reappears after 140 years , London, Reuters ;
07/03/07 - Tanzania ; Tanzania's high haven for endangered species, New York, Reuters
14/11/06 - The World Warming threat to Australian species AFP and AP The World
11/10/06 Indonesia Malaysia AUSTRALIA PALM OIL CAMPAIGN Oct 06 Rainforest Information Centre - Web Announcement
11/10/06 - Colombia - Happy bird day — forest reveals a new species , Lauren Dake, Bogota, The Age
10/10/06 - Indonesia Malaysia - Haze raises tourism fears, Kuala Lumpur, AP, REUTERS
29/09/06 - China India - Roar of India's tigers close to being silenced Delhi, AP Links
26/09/06 - China - Tigers learn the law of the jungle, Reuters -our highlighting Links
25/09/06 - Australia - Zoo hopes for big cat litter Chris Evans, The Age - our highlighting Links
23/09/06 - Christmas Island Australia It's war on Christmas Island invaders , Jewel Topsfield, Canberra, The Age Links
12/09/06 - UK Kew boss: 'World must wake up to the dangers of biofuels', Independent (UK)
01/09/06 - Brazil Brazil proposes fund to save rainforests, Reuters
26/08/06 - China China's first eco-village proves a hard sell, - Mary-Anne Toy, Huangbaiyu, The Age China -our highlighting
23/08/06 - PNG ANZ attacked over PNG logging 'links' AAP
22/08/06 - Australia PaperlinX says global outlook improving , The Age , Business, Strezlecki's Central Highlands August 06
16/08/06 - United Kingdom Forests under threat from global warming, The Age
15/08/2006 - Sarawak ; Indonesia Where orang-utans go for rehab, Diana Plater, The Age - Travel
14/08/2006 - SPAIN Spain's 'fire terrorists' torch parts of Galicia Reuters
09/08/2006 - CHINA Giant panda delivers big baby, - Beijing, Reuters
07/08/2006 - PNG - Malaysia China US Europe; PNG logging industry corrupt: report, By PNG correspondent Steve Marshall, ABC On-line
20/07/2006 - Siberia; India Nepal; Burma, Bhutan, and India; Myanmar Thailand. - Tiger Habitat Plummeted 40 Percent in 10 Years, Survey Finds, Brian Handwerk, for National Geographic News Links
29/06/2006 - Indonesia; West Papua What's wrong in Papua, - Kenneth Davidson. The Age
28/06/2006 - Burma, Thailand and Laos Land for opium falls 22%, _ GUARDIAN, - - Links
24/06/2006 - United Nations ; Sierra, Congo and Darfur UN takes aim at gun runners; - The Age - Links
24/06/2006 - Congo 'Congolese credit card' gives bangs for bucks, - David Lewis, Congo, Reuters;
19/06/06 - Indonesia - The illegal logging that continues unchecked across Indonesia has had a worse impact on human lives than expected, experts say. - Jakarta Post
16/6/06 - MALAYSIA , U. S. - A free-trade pact between the United States and Malaysia could encourage more illegal logging and accelerate rainforest destruction in Southeast Asia, an international environmental group said on Thursday ; Mark Bendeich - REUTERS NEWS SERVICE
08/6/06 - London - Birds of the world under increasing threat, -Ian Sample, London, The Guardian.
05/6/06 Australians urged to act on unsustainable palm oil CamWalker FOE Australia Website Announcment Australia; Indonesia; West Papua; Malaysia
01/6/06 - Japan - Japan counts AFS products as legal and sustainable for public procurement -NAFI - News Release
29/5/06 - Christmas Island - Christmas Island space plan 'not dead', - The Age
19/05/06 - Indonesia - Indonesian Rainforest Victory as Large Orangutan Habitat Safe for Now from Oil Palm, - by Earth Action Network :
12/5/06 - China - China Paper Demand Consuming Forests - Study - Story by Nao Nakanishi and Fitri Wulandari ; (and Gilbert Le Gras in Washington.) Reuters
6th May 2006 - Switzerland - More plants and animals join 'red list' of endangered species, By Stephen Cauchi, The Age May 6, 2006
30/03/06 - China PNG - Illegal timber heads for Beijing, By Mary-Anne Toy SM Herald Correspondent in Beijing
12/03/06 - Laos - Rock rat back from 'extinction' - By Guy Gugliotta, Washington Post
09/03/06 - Australia, Britain, Europe, US - Big companies 'at risk' on kickbacks - By Leon Gettler, Management Reporter, The Age - Business
09/03/06 - Brazil - Tree nursery of Aracruz Celulose destructed by rural women in the South of Brazil on 8 March - Letter: Winnie <winnie.fase@terra.com.br>Organization: Fase ES
08/03/06 - Laos - In Laos, a hard-fought war on drugs bears fruit - By Ed Cropley, Phongsali, Laos - Reuters
08/03/06 - West Papua - Greens accept invitation to visit West Papua [Greens-Media] SENATOR KERRY NETTLE
28/02/06 - South Africa - South African View of FSC seal on industrial plantations - letter by Phillip Owen, GEASPHERE
20/02/06 - Australia - INTERNATIONAL REPORT RANKS TASMANIAN LOGGING ALONGSIDE BURMA, THE PHILIPPINES AND INDONESIA - MEDIA RELEASE; FOE, TWS, ACF
09/02/06 - Beijing - China puts polluters' names on show - By Mary-Anne Toy, The Age -
8th Feb 2006 - China - China takes on toxic industry - The Age - related
8th Feb 2006 - China - Headlong to growth overload The Age - Opinion
8th Feb 2006 - West Papua - Paradise found: scientists discover 'lost world' in remote jungle The Age - with agencies video
February 8, 2006 - West Papua (Australia and Indonesia ) The looming conflict over West Papua - The Age - Opinion
Feb 7, 2006 - Canada - Greenpeace celebrates huge victory ten years in the making for Canada's Rainforest - media release, Greenpeace - Canada
Feb 7, 2006 - Canada - Woods for the bears - By: Julian Rush - BBC Channel 4 .com Special Report
27th Jan 2006 - Burma - Burma loggers resume pirate trade - By Connie Levett, Bangkok - The Age
18th Jan 2006 - UK and Australia - The Random House Group gains FSC-CoC certification - FSC news -
18 Jan 2006 - Nairobi - Global unions & UN green action plan - LabourNet. Resource website of the Labour Council of NSW - with Links
16/01/06 - Uruguay - Pulp Factions: Uruguay’s Environmentalists v. Big Paper - Raúl Pierri, Special to CorpWatch
4th Jan 2006 - U S - Amcor warns of 'price-fixing' fallout - Blair Speedy - The Australian
3rd January 2006 - Afghanistan - UN agency helps Afghanistan develop pioneering environmental legislation, UN News Agency
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19/12/05 - Indonesia - Neighbours warned to act on illegal logging - Greg Roberts
10th December, 2005 - Christmas Island - Mining threat to island's rainforest - Melissa Fyfe, The Age
07/12/2005 - Liberia - Liberia’s peace and security threatened by the unabated and illegal exploitation of Liberia’s natural resources by ex-combatants- Press Release - Global Witness.Org - with links
6th December, 2005 - US - Leo goes green - Leonardo Di Caprio is going green, Reuters AP
November 29, 2005 - Papua New Guinea, Bolivia, Chile and Guatemala UN - USA, Money for rainforests bid put to UN - LOS ANGELES TIMES
22nd April 2005 - Lithuania - Lithuania state-forests now 100% FSC-certified - April 22nd, 2005
14th February, 2005 - Japan - Japanese Companies Embarrassed by Gunns' Action - Senator Brown
3rd February, 2005 - USA - Under Pressure, WWF Defends Support for Commercial Old-Growth Logging
Nov 2004 - Thailand Australia Japan Asia's birds under extinction threat Bangkok. AFP
Oct 2004 - Thailand Bird flu forces endangered tiger cull The Age
Jan 2004 - Africa; Congo ; Liberia - HOW TIMBER FUELS THE WORLD'S WORST CONFLICTS - ALICE BLONDEL * Global Witness, London
April 2003 - Germany -How Süddeutsche Zeitung sees Tasmania - By URS WALTERLIN
January 2003 - China - A reckless harvest - China is protecting its own trees but has begun instead to devour Asia's forests. Brook Larmer and Alexandra A. Seno The Bulletin
January 2003 - Argentina, Philippines, Bolivia, Belize and Guyana, Papua New Guinea and Kenya - The green land grab, - The Bulletin
January 2003 - Afghanistan - Afghanistan: A matter of survival, - The Bulletin
Fri Nov2002 - USA - *Bush to allow logging in protected forests* - Suzanne Goldenberg - *The Guardian*
03/03/02 - Netherlands - New Greenpeace ship Esperanza blocks import of ancient forest - Sunday, 03 March, 2002: Media Release - Greenpeace
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03- 14/06/92 - Brazil - Address to the Plenary Session, Earth Summit, Rio Centro, Brazil 1992 - Severn Suzuki - Enviromental Children's Organisation Links - U-Tube