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Congo Pygmies Losing Fight for Their Forests

Malaria linked to Amazon deforestation

New tropical timber pact takes aims at illegal logging

Parks, indian reserves slow Amazon deforestation

Venezuela plans 5000-mile pipeline across Amazon rain forest

Deforestation rates jump in Uganda and Burundi, fall in Rwanda

Study finds deforestation has pushed orangutans to brink of extinction

Scent-tagging wood could cut illegal timber smuggling

Tropical deforestation rates continue to climb

Malaysia’s deforestation rate increasing rapidly – 86% jump since 1990s

Dangerous times on Brazil’s Amazon frontier

Tsunami relief risks rainforest destruction

Australia warns neighbors to stop illegal rainforest logging

Deforestation causes 25% of greenhouse gas emissions

Changes in forest cover could affect climate as much as greenhouse gases in some areas

Congo rainforest – 600,000 sq km slated for logging

Amazon deforestation slows in Brazil for 2005

Governments making progress in fight against illegal logging says FAO

Tropical Atlantic cooling and deforestation correlate to drought in Africa

Britain is largest importer of illegal timber in EU says WWF

Nigeria has worst deforestation rate, FAO revises figures

United States has 7th highest rate of primary forest loss

World deforestation rates and forest cover statistics, 2000-2005

Global deforestation rates fall, but area the size of Panama still disppears each year

FAO deforestation stats are bogus

Logging threatens Mayan ruin, forest in Guatemala

20% of the world’s mangroves lost since 1980

Forests of Michoacan, Mexico disappearing

Vampires kill 23 in Brazil, deforestation blamed

Logging can have low impact on Amazon rainforest says FAO

Illegal timber from Honduras reaching the United States

Logging impact worse than thought in the Amazon

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