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SEPT 5	I'm writing with terrific news for the world's old growth forests. Boise Cascade, one-time "DINOSAUR OF THE LOGGING INDUSTRY," today announced its commitment to eliminate logging and purchasing of wood and paper products from endangered forests.
SEPT 3	A NEW ENVIRONMENTAL VICTORY IN CHILE. A Toronto-based mining company, Noranda Inc., has canceled plans to build one of the world's largest aluminum plants.
SEPT 3	Forest Groups' Declaration on WTO in Cancun
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.
FEB 21	"UPDATE" a. Boreal Footprint Project: Help Indigenous Communities Keep Corporate "Serial Slashers" Out of Ancient Canadian Forests
FEB 18	[BANK- BOYCOTT] World Bank Tribunal Bans Public and Media Participation in Lawsuit Over Access to Water in Bolivia
FEB 17	A must read for activists: MANAGING ACTIVISM is written for PR practitioners whose clients engage in risky businesses (fossil fuels, pesticides, genetically engineered foods, nuclear waste, toxic dumps, animal testing) and who therefore become the targets of "activist groups" including "environmentalists, workers' rights activists, animal rights groups and human rights campaigners.
FEB 17	GOOD NEWS FROM BRAZIL - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva extends moratorium on cutting mahogany.
FEB 12	Indonesia admits damage to forests from ILLEGAL LOGGING.
FEB 12	Conferees Approve Provisions to Expand Development in ALASKA NATIONAL FORESTS
FEB 6	HERE COMES THE SUPER TREES. Chilean joint venture is fast on its way to producing and exporting the world's first genetically modified tree.
FEB 5	We're looking for folks that would be interested in helping us out with an ACTION IN SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA in early April
FEB 4	New report shows LAND CLEARING IS DECIMATING QUEENSLAND WILDLIFE. BRISBANE: At least 100 million native mammals, birds and reptiles die each year as a result of broad-scale clearing of remnant vegetation in Queensland,
FEB 3	LOGGING POLLUTION DAMAGES NORTH COAST WATERSHEDS HUMBOLDT COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.
JAN 18	`Protesting is good for your health Taking part in protests and demonstrations can be good for your physical and mental health`
JAN 18	Clearcut logging continues in Canada’s rainforests
JAN 18	FOREST ALERT UPDATE: Russian Kyoto Campaign Hacked. The following action alert encouraging Russia to ratify Kyoto, thus bringing it into force, has been extremely successful.
JAN 17	e-news from Survival International, supporting tribal peoples worldwide.
`JAN 14`	Unique African Forest Wasted by Logging. The last two blocks of continuous tropical rainforest subsisting in the Upper Guinea forest in West Africa, are to be found in Liberia.
`JAN 13`	`Support Ontario's Indigenous Communities in their Struggle to Protect Ancient Forests.`
JAN 12	`SAVING THE TREES Home Depot is expected to deliver report on timber. Nation's largest wood retailer is reviewing progress on using sustainable timber sources.`
JAN 10	Asbury restricts rain forest wood in city projects. City officials have approved a measure to ban the use of tropical rain-forest wood in rebuilding the boardwalk or any other public structure unless that wood is certified to have been harvested in an environmentally friendly fashion.
JAN 10	Please do take a moment to send a letter to: Lula de Silver, President of Brazil. Rather than doing a joint letter, we’re encouraging everyone to send their own, so the new administration will receive as many as possible. Now is a crucially important time, reflecting on the escalation of tensions in the area, and as the new government determines its priorities and actions.