• New WRM Information tools

• China: Facing two evils -deforestation and monoculture tree plantations
• Nigeria: Michelin’s rubber plantations destroyed women’s livelihoods
• Malaysia: River siltation due to deforestation underlying severe floods in Sarawak

• Indonesia: Criminalization of social leader for the benefit of oil palm corporation

• Nigeria: Tyres at the expense of people’s livelihoods

• Paraguay: Action to protect Indigenous Peoples in voluntary isolation cannot be delayed

• The ADB is destroying the Mekong's forests and the planet's climate
• Brazil: Agribusiness, deforestation and climate change
• Costa Rica: Grass-roots resistance to open cast mining in Crucitas
• Mexico: Mining causes ecocide in Coahuayana, Michoacan 
• Nigeria: Gas flaring – major contributor to climate change and human rights abuses
• Cambodia: Indigenous women raise their voices to protect their forest and traditional livelihoods from rubber plantation companies français português
• Thailand: Diversity and community forest use versus monocultures and parks
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• Brazil: Amazon deforestation takes on new force français português
• Mangrove Loss and Climate Change—A Global Perspective français português
• The high cost of excessive paper consumption
• Forests, agrofuels and policies of hunger
• Second generation agrofuels will destroy ecosystems and worsen the food crisis
• Words and deeds in forest protection

• “Avoided deforestation" policies and indigenous peoples and local communities: urgent debate needed on potential social impacts

• A message from the Amazon against “environmental services”
• The causes of deforestation and those responsible for it
• The need to listen to and learn from local communities
• Those who protect and those who destroy the forests
  

• Direct and underlying causes of forest loss

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

• Amazonía: Selva y Bosques diez años después de Río
  Publicación de Censat-Agua Viva en ocasión de la Cumbre Mundial de Johannesburgo. Julio 2002 (only in Spanish)

• Bosque Amazónico: 10 años después de la Cumbre de la Tierra
  Análisis de la situación actual de los bosques amazónicos, en relación a su conservación, manejo y destrucción, teniendo como marco el cumplimiento o no de los acuerdos de Río.
  WRM - Diciembre de 2001. (only in Spanish)

• Rethinking the Causes of Deforestation: Lessons from Economic Models
  by Arild Angelsen & David Kaimowitz

• Sold Down the River / La forêt prise en otage. The need to control transnational forestry corporations: a European case study
  by Forests Monitor Ltd, March 2001