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Goodbye to West Africa’s Rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jan 2006

Scent-tagging wood could cut illegal timber smuggling

Mongabay.com 5 Jan 2006

Tropical deforestation rates continue to climb

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jan 2006

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

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Dec 2005

Dangerous times on Brazil’s Amazon frontier

Reuters 22 Dec 2005

Australia warns neighbors to stop illegal rainforest logging

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Dec 2005

Deforestation causes 25% of greenhouse gas emissions

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Dec 2005

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

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Dec 2005

Amazon deforestation slows in Brazil for 2005

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Dec 2005

Congo rainforest – 600,000 sq km slated for logging

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Dec 2005

Governments making progress in fight against illegal logging says FAO

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2005

Tropical Atlantic cooling and deforestation correlate to drought in Africa

University Of California - Santa Barbara 2 Dec 2005

Britain is largest importer of illegal timber in EU says WWF

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Nov 2005

Nigeria has worst deforestation rate, FAO revises figures

November 17 17 Nov 2005

United States has 7th highest rate of primary forest loss

November 16 16 Nov 2005

World deforestation rates and forest cover statistics, 2000-2005

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Nov 2005

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

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Nov 2005

FAO deforestation stats are bogus

Rainforest Foundation News 14 Nov 2005

Logging threatens Mayan ruin, forest in Guatemala

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Nov 2005

20% of the world’s mangroves lost since 1980

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Nov 2005

Forests of Michoacan, Mexico disappearing

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Nov 2005

Logging can have low impact on Amazon rainforest says FAO

Modified Fao 5 Nov 2005

Illegal timber from Honduras reaching the United States

Mongabay.com 4 Nov 2005

Logging impact worse than thought in the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Nov 2005

Hunting ban threatens Congo forest dwellers

Irin 31 Oct 2005

China fuels illegal logging in Burma

Global Witness 31 Oct 2005

Timber traffickers arrested in Brazil

The Associated Press 31 Oct 2005

Congo’s Kabila calls for rainforest protection

David Lewis 30 Oct 2005

Deforestation does not cause flooding says new study

Fao/cifor News 12 Oct 2005

Amazon at record low — communities isolated, commerce stalled

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Oct 2005

Extreme drought drops Amazon river to record low levels

Peter Blackburn 7 Oct 2005

Bush administration sued over forest decision

Terence Chea 7 Oct 2005

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