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BirdLife International - State of the World's Birds new editor's pick

http://www.birdlife.org/sowb/

annual report on birds from this global partnership of conservation organizations that strives to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity
Added: Oct. 23, 2008 | Rate It

Climate Change: Financing Global Forests new editor's pick

http://www.occ.gov.uk/activities/eliasch/Full_report_eliasch_review(1).pdf

a report prepared by Johan Eliasch for the Prime Minister (UK) that provides a comprehensive analysis of international financing to reduce forest loss and its associated impacts on climate change (pdf)
Added: Nov. 15, 2008 | Rate It

Don't Log the Forests for the Fuel new editor's pick

http://pressroomda.greenmediatoolshed.org/sites/default/files/Forest4Fuel08.pdf

examines the potential environmental and economic impacts of the cellulosic ethanol industry in the Southern United States (pdf)
Added: Oct. 28, 2008 | Rate It

Malaysian palm oil: Green gold or green wash? new editor's pick

http://www.foei.org/en/publications/pdfs/malaysian-palm-oil-report

a Friends of the Earth investigation into the sustainability claims of Malaysia's palm oil lobby, with a special focus on state of Sarawak (pdf)
Added: Oct. 23, 2008 | Rate It

The State of the Nation's Ecosystems editor's pick popular

http://www.heinzcenter.org/ecosystems/index.shtml

a report from the Heinz Center on the condition of US lands, waters, and living resources
Added: Oct. 15, 2002 | Rate It

Tropical Deforestation and Climate Change editor's pick popular

http://www.edf.org/documents/4930_TropicalDeforestation_and_ClimateChange.pdf

8 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

provides scientific perspectives on tropical deforestation and climate change, and a discussion of compensation payments made via the carbon market to reduce deforestation rates, by the Amazon Institute for Environmental Research, together with Environmental Defense
Added: Jun. 24, 2006 | Rate It

Biofuel by Decree editor's pick

http://www.terraper.org/file_upload/BiofuelbyDecree.pdf

10 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

report details how the Burmese military’s nation-wide campaign to plant eight million acres of the Jatropha tree for biodiesel production is resulting in human rights abuses including forced labor, land confiscation, loss of income and food insecurity (pdf)
Added: May. 01, 2008 | Rate It

Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) editor's pick

http://www.eia-international.org/campaigns/forests/

works to protect the world’s forests by combining undercover investigations with hard hitting reports and briefings, exposing criminal syndicates and unsustainable markets behind rampant illegal logging, and lobbying governments in timber producing and consuming countries to act
Added: Jul. 20, 2006 | Rate It

Ghosts on our Own Land editor's pick

http://www.forestpeoples.org/documents/prv_sector/oil_palm/ghosts_on_our_own_land_txt_06_eng.pdf

report by Forest Peoples Programme and Sawit Watch about the social and environmental impacts of oil palm plantation expansion in Indonesia (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It

South-East Asia's Peat Fires and Global Warming editor's pick

http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/peatfiresbackground.pdf

Biofuelwatch presents a fully referenced background piece regarding the seriousness of the destruction of Indonesia's peat forests for the global climate (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It

World Intact Forest Landscapes editor's pick

http://www.intactforests.org/

5 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

Greenpeace map assessing remaining blocks of intact forest landscapes larger than 500 sq. km not fragmented by infrastructure, such as roads, settlements, waterways, pipelines and power lines
Added: Apr. 10, 2006 | Rate It

Agrofuels and the Myth of the Marginal Lands new

http://www.gaiafoundation.org/documents/Agrofuels&MarginalMyth.pdf

a report by several organizations who point out that growing agrofuels on so-called "marginal lands" may not be what's best for the people associated with such lands (pdf)
Added: Oct. 23, 2008 | Rate It

A Global Overview of Forest Conservation popular

http://www.unep-wcmc.org/forest/data/cdrom2/

5 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

a statistical analysis of forest conservation trends in various regions published in 1997, including GIS files on forest and protected areas
Added: Jun. 01, 2004 | Rate It

A Place Out of Time popular

http://www.mongabay.com/

9 out of 10 stars (32 votes)

the wonders of tropical rainforests and the perils they face - information on tropical rainforests, biodiversity, and environmental destruction
Added: Jul. 23, 2001 | Rate It

Endangered Ecosystems of the United States popular

http://biology.usgs.gov/pubs/ecosys.htm

6 out of 10 stars (4 votes)

report provides estimates of declines of natural ecosystems in the US and provides a rationale for ecosystem-level conservation
Added: Feb. 04, 2001 | Rate It

Global Environment Outlook - 2000 popular

http://www.grida.no/geo2000/ov-e/index.htm

6 out of 10 stars (3 votes)

UNEP reviews the state of the world's environment, including information on each continent's forests, their status, and the threats they face
Added: Mar. 27, 2001 | Rate It

America's Endangered National Forests Report

http://www.forestadvocate.org/endangered/

a report from the National Forest Protection Alliance which examines some of the America's most endangered national forests and the market pressures to log these wild places
Added: Oct. 13, 2005 | Rate It

An Analysis of PNG's Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity with a Focus on Forest

http://forests.org/pdf/png/png_cbd_report.pdf

9 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

a report by Forests.org that highlights the failure of the Papua new Guinea government and World Bank to develop a biodiversity conservation strategy, and the continued failed efforts to reform industrial log exports (pdf)
Added: Jun. 02, 2002 | Rate It

Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) Threatens Bukit Tigapuluh Landscape

http://assets.panda.org/downloads/btp_investigation_jan_2008.pdf

a report from WWF calling for a halt to illegal logging that is taking place, in clear violation of Indonesian law, in Sumatran forests known for its rich biodiversity (pdf)
Added: Feb. 08, 2008 | Rate It

Banks, Pulp and People

http://www.pulpmillwatch.org/media/pdf/BPP_A_FIN_2.pdf

a report by Urgewald that describes the social and environmental impacts of the pulp industry and how it is financed and managed (pdf)
Added: Aug. 06, 2008 | Rate It

Bitter Fruit of Oil Palm, The

http://www.wrm.org.uy/plantations/material/oilpalm.html

introduction to the social and environmental impacts of oil palm plantations from the World Rainforest Movement
Added: Jun. 22, 2004 | Rate It

Bulldozing Progress

http://www.acfonline.org.au/uploads/res/res_acf-celcor_full.pdf

8 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

report from the Australian Conservation Foundation and Celcor investigates human rights abuses and corruption in Papua New Guinea's large scale logging industry (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It

Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation of Climate Change, Privatisation and Power

http://www.dhf.uu.se/pdffiler/DD2006_48_carbon_trading/carbon_trading_web.pdf

a critical analysis of carbon trading and carbon-offsets, in particular of those based on tree monocultures, published by the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It

Carving up the Congo Report

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/forests/africa/congo-report

4 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

Greenpeace exposes that logging in the Congo rainforest is out of control, falls short of calling for an end to industrial logging in Congo's ancient primary rainforest (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It

Conning the Congo

http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/international/press/reports/conning-the-congo.pdf

a report by Greenpeace that exposes the tax-evasion of export-driven resource extraction in the DRC and the neighboring Republic of the Congo (pdf)
Added: Aug. 04, 2008 | Rate It
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