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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

No Aluminum Smelters in Cedros, Trinidad Rainforests editor's pick

http://www.nosmeltertnt.com/

5 out of 10 stars (4 votes)

protest against plans on the Island of Trinidad that calls for the forced industrialization of South Western Trinidad with two aluminum smelters, one from Alcoa, which would destroy many acres of rainforest and displace local peoples
Added: May. 21, 2006 | Rate It

Seeing REDD in the Amazon:A Win for People, Trees and Climate new

http://www.iied.org/pubs/pdfs/17052IIED.pdf

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) describes the increased use of REDD (reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation) procedures to preserve forests in Amazonia (pdf)
Added: May. 11, 2009 | Rate It

Causes of Rainforest Destruction, The popular

http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/background/causes.htm

6 out of 10 stars (13 votes)

information from the Rainforest Information Centre covering logging, agriculture, cash crops, cattle ranching, fuelwood, large dams, mining,colonisation and tourism; as well as more subtle causes such as overconsumption, exploitation, the debt burden and overpopulation
Added: Jan. 30, 2001 | Rate It

Avoided Deforestation Partners.org

http://www.adpartners.org/

10 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

works to harness market forces toward halting tropical deforestation through innovative public and private sector partnerships
Added: Feb. 08, 2008 | Rate It

Curse of Copper, The updated

http://foecanada.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=244&Itemid=113

Friends of the Earth Canada presents a video about attempts by Ascendant Copper to build a strip mine in the cloud forests of Ecuador against the wishes of the inhabitants
Added: May. 21, 2006 | Rate It

Greenpeace: Amazon Crimes File

http://activism.greenpeace.org/amazon/index.php

7 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

pictorial, text and action items regarding "a war in the Amazon jungle" being perpetuated by powerful loggers, farmers and companies
Added: Dec. 17, 2003 | Rate It

Hydroelectric Dams on the Madeira River updated

http://www.foei.org/en/get-involved/take-action/pdfs/RIO_MADEIRA.pdf

a report by Friends of the Earth International about the social and environmental threats posed by planned hydro-damns on the Madeira River -- the Amazon's largest tributary -- in Brazil (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It

Save Lembeh

http://www.save-lembeh.info/

campaign against plans for a goldmine in the Lembeh-Pulisan-Bangka region of Sulawesi, Indonesia that is threatening an area of rainforest, a lagoon and large numbers of endemic species
Added: Jan. 06, 2007 | Rate It

Save Tadoba: Stop Mining - Save Tiger

http://www.savetadoba.org/

a campaign against coal mining that would interfere with the Tadoba Forest and Tiger Reserve, India
Added: Dec. 14, 2008 | Rate It

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