WORLD RAINFOREST REPORT

AUTUMN - WINTER 2003 #58

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Phil de Lepervanche - Editor

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AUG 9
LIBERIAS RAINFORESTS. Charles Taylor finally leaves Liberia
AUG 8
Indonesia: Mounting opposition to MINING IN PROTECTED AREAS
AUG 8
Honduras: FOREST DEFENDER MURDERED in Olancho
AUG 5
Senegal: Government limits mining as a means to PROTECTING FORESTS.
AUG 3
Madagascar: RIO TINTO mining project goes ahead... for the worst
AUG 1
FOREST DEGRADATION: OIL & MINING A positive reaction from CIFOR
JULY 20
AUSTRALIAN HYPOCRISY over mining in Indonesian forests
JULY 16
The Red Planet is about to be spectacular! MARS IS GETTING BIGGER
JULY 4
EXTREME WEATHER PROMPTS UNPRECEDENTED GLOBAL WARMING ALERT
JULY 2
DEMOCRATS INTRODUCE FOREST THINNING LEGISTRATION. "South Dakota and America need a comprehensive, common sense approach to managing our forests and protecting our communities and municipal watersheds,"
JUNE 29
WORLD BANK SHOULD STOP MINING INDIGENOUS LANDS. A new report from the Forest Peoples Programme and the TebTebba Foundation
calls on the World Bank to drop its support for oil, gas and mining.
JUNE 29
ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL IMPACTS OF MINING. Mining is a short-term activity with long-term effects.
JUNE 28
THE AFFECTS OF MINING ON WOMEN: While mining has negative impacts on all those who live in the mining communities in general and those who are affected by the mining operations, there are distinct impacts and added burdens on women.
JUNE 28
INDIA: ISOLATED TRIBE FACES DISTRUCTION. If the people of the rainforest's days are numbered, so too will be the rainforests they live in. Protect the Jarawa tribe in India and their forest homes...Please send a letter.
JUNE 12
At Least 22 Indians Killed in Ecuador JUNGLE CLASH
JUNE 12
HOSTAGES IN THE AMAZON: Sentinels to Our Consciences. Indigenous warriors took ten oil workers hostage
JUNE 12
GREENPEACE UK RELEASES REPORT on Indonesian plywood. Government caught trashing Indonesia 's last rainforests
JUNE 12
Largest tree in Australia KILLED BY FORESTRY Tasmania
MAY 20
SWAZILAND: Paper mill pollutes river and people
MAY 14
TAKE ACTION NOW...Poland:expressway threatens wilderness. Send an email NOW
APR 20

Tim Keating, director of Rainforest Relief, will be presenting."RAINFOREST IN YOUR SHOPPING CART" -- a slide show and lecture on the destruction of the world's most diverse ecosystems for timber, gold, coffee and other common commodities -- at NYU on April 23 at 7 pm.

APR 11
R A I N F O R E S T R E L I E F.... Please join us to see what's been going on with our campaigns and projects.
MAR 27
ANOTHER VICTORY FOR RAINFORESTS!
MAR 25
ACTION ALERT Stop Destruction of Indonesian Rainforest &
Communities
MAR 17
Tree farming in Chile has displaced indigenous MAPUCHE INDIANS. But it has also fueled a rebirth of activism and pride.
MAR 14
"Environmental Defense"
TAKE ACTION for the environment...online
MAR 13
Kinko's forest-based products policy sets new standard
for PROTECTING THE WORLDS FORESTS
MAR 13
TAKE ACTION
Stop Alcoa From Destroying Iceland's Wilderness!
MAR 12

AMAZON NOMADS CELEBRATE LAND VICTORY Triumph for Brazil's last hunter-gatherers after 20-year Survival campaign

MAR 1
RAINFOREST TREE EATS UP POLLUTION. A botanist in Brazil has found a plant that he claims may hold the key to reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere.
MAR 1

EARTH DAY NYC APRIL 22, 2003. Help convince New York's leaders to put environmental issues at the top of their agenda on Earth Day.

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