News from the World's Rainforests

The world's rainforests are under seige. Over the last 100 years, very few of these forests have escaped severe and long-term damage. Here you will find the latest and most pertinent news about the world's rainforests and the people and wildlife living in them.


		Guyana Residents Meet with Mining Company Mahogany Listed Under CITES 2003 UN Report on World's Forests Trouble for Indonesian Forests More Agent Orange Sprayed (whatwhenwhere) Amazon Deforestation Up 15% Fire Threatens Indigenous in Brazil ITTO Must Combat Illegal Timber Trade Carbon Credits for Plantation Charcoal U.S. Groups Fight Gas Project in Peru's Amazon New Guinea Groups Split with WWF Over Forests Rainforest Villages Unravel Malaria Genetics Groups Challenge U.S. Zoo Imports Northern Spotted Owl Population Dropping Transboundary Conservation Areas Increasing Mugabe’s loggers to ravage rainforest Riders Threaten Alaska’s Forests Logger: Salween teak forest goes out in 2005 Latest news News archive In tropics, forest are cool but croplands are hotter Congo Groups Unite Plunder of Mau Forest a Threat to 3m People Amazon trees don't grow like they used to Last isolated Indians South of the Amazon Make Contact New York Times on Illegal Logging Logging Doubles Damage Lovelock on Climate Change Last of the Amazon Deforestation Causes Global Warming Washington Post on Illegal Logging Brazil Police Bust Wood Smugglers FSC Confirms Certified Loggers Still Destroying Pristine Forests In Memory of Jeremy Paster

Mahogany Nearing Endangered Species Status

Indonesian Forests on Borrowed Time

Amazon Deforestation Up 15 Percent

ITTO must address illegal timber trade and enforce forest laws

Rainforest villages provide clues to genetics of malaria

Northern spotted owl population dropping in Washington

Transboundary Conservation Areas Increasing

Mugabe’s loggers to ravage rainforest

Logger: Salween teak forest goes out in 2005

In tropics, forest are cool but croplands are hotter

Congo's 'civil society' unites to oppose threats to forests and peoples rights

Plunder of Mau Forest a Threat to 3m People

The ongoing destruction of the Mau catchment area is threatening the survival of over three million people, a lobby has said.
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Amazon trees don't grow like they used to: Scientists suspect shifts are due to more carbon dioxide

The Amazon's trees are growing at different rates than in the past, scientists report, and it appears that's due to growing emissions of carbon dioxide.
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Last isolated Indians South of the Amazon Make Contact

A group of previously uncontacted Ayoreo Indians has emerged from the forests of Paraguay, under pressure from deforestation all around them. The 17 people (five men, seven women and five children) are in excellent health, but acutely short of water. Colonists who have settled in their territory have taken possession of the permanent water holes for cattle ranching, leaving the Indians unable to get water in the dry season.
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Logging in the Amazon May Double Estimated Damage




	Freshly cut logs from the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil are seen in this August 18 photo. (Paulo Whitaker/Reuters)

A new study of satellite images from the Brazilian Amazon shows that the estimates of rainforest destruction should be doubled due to logging.
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Earth About to Catch 100,000-year "Morbid Fever"




	Fires raging in the Amazon. Photo from brazil-travel-guide.com.

James Lovelock, innovator of the Gaia hypothesis, predicts that the tropics will become scrub desert and that Civilization will not survive climate change.web
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National Geographic Magazine: Last of the Amazon




	Photographs by Alex Webb

National Geographic's amazing article on the loss of the Amazon from logging, ranching and production of soy and other crops.
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UN FAO Workshop




	Deforestation in Brazil (photo from UNFAO website)

A recent UN FAO workshop focused on the contribution of deforestation to global warming.
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Washington Post Article on Illegal Logging and China




	Page 1 of the Sunday, April 1, 2007 Washington Post.

The Washington Post has published an incredible article on illegal logging taking place in East Asia and around the world, to feed the insatiable demand of Chinese factories exporting wood products to the world.
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Brazilian Police Dismantle Gang that Smuggled Rosewood to U.S.




	Brazilian rosewood is used often by luthiers fashioning guitars. Some consider it the "holy grail" of guitar woods.

Brazilia police, along with the US Fish and Wildlife Service, uncovered a group of smugglers shipping illegally logged Brazilian rosewood to the US.
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Jeremy Paster, 1971 – 2007

Jeremy Paster, activist and friend of Rainforest Relief is remembered.
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