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June 26 - Amazon Forest Could Vanish Fast - yet another scientific study calls into question the medium term sustainability of the Amazon rainforest; as a new model predicts that the Amazon River basin in Brazil may be past the point of sustainability in as little as a decade (more)

June 18- Amazon Rainforest Faces Final Assault - a "final and definitive assault" is being launched on the Amazon'srainforests as a tidal wave of major government-backed highways, dams, power lines and other infrastructure projects are being fast-tracked through Brazil's parliament (more)

June 9 - Eco-Forestry Forum Calls for Strong Leadership, Releases Major Report - a new report on proposed Papua New Guinea logging operations finds widespread and wanton disregard for the environment and local people's needs (more)

June 8 - Ecuador Gives Green Light to Oil Pipeline at Expense of Rainforests - Ecuador has approved the environmental license for the controversial oil pipeline that will devastate many of its rainforests (more)

June 7 - Saving Forests Is Top Priority in Amazon - Time to Certify All Logging - a new poll indicates that saving forests is the top priority for those living in Brazil's portion of the Amazon (more)

May 29 - ACTION! Protect Tierra Del Fuego's Ancient Gondwana Forests - the Trillium Corporation of the United States threatens to carry out senseless industrial destruction of nearly one million acres of these priceless temperate forests (more)

May 10 - Managing Brazil's Rainforests - environmentally based management of rainforests, independently certified as sustainable and meeting or exceeding current Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standards, would maintain many biodiversity and ecosystem values found in the World's rainforests (more)

May 20 - Liberia's Rain Forest Vanishes as Foreign Logging Expands (more)

May 8 - World's Nature Reserves Severely Threatened

May 5 - Biodiversity Endgame: Buy Conservation of Endangered Ecosystems (more)

May 2 - Papua New Guinea - Wilderness Laid Waste by Corruption - (more)

May 2- Papua New Guinea Loggers Accused of Corruption and Rape - (more)

April 23 - Japan's Insatiable Appetite for Timber Imports - (more)

April 21 - Indonesia Bans Some Rainforest Timbers - (more)

April 20 - Brazilian Amazon Threatened by Expanded Agriculture & Illegal Logging - (more)

April 13 - PNG Government Tries to Greenwash Abysmal Review of Timber Industry (more)

April 14 - Biodiversity Gives Carbon Sinks a Boost (more)

April 10 - Bush Drops Campaign Pledge to Finance Rainforest Conservation (more)

April 4 - VICTORY! Canada, Timber Firms Agree On Pact to Protect Rainforest (more)

April 3 - ACTION! Help Stop Old Growth Logging In Southern Portugal