• Gambia: Bee-keeping as a tool for forest protection and restoration

2005

• The unhealthy smell of money in forest fires

2003

• Guatemala: Deliberate fires raze tropical forest and serve logging interests
• South Africa: Tree plantations render corporation profits but fire, damages and death for the people

2002

• Chile: Forests burnt to substitute them by monoculture tree plantations
• Ethiopia: Deforestation and monoculture plantations behind the fires

1999

• Logging, landlessness and fires in the Brazilian Amazon
• Dayak people win lawsuit in Indonesia
• Nicaragua: demands to address forest fires
• Indonesia: people take action against companies' destructive activities

1998

• Roraima fires: more than meets the eye
• The Roraima Amazon forest fire in Brazil
• Nigeria: Shell sets forest ablaze
• SE Asia menaced by renewed fires in Indonesia

1997

• Amazon: Destruction by logging and fires continues
• Indonesia’s forests in flames
• Fires in the Amazon too

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

Fire Planet: The Politics and Culture of Combustion Pyne, Stephen J. (2000)
Briefing 18 - The CornerHouse

Global Review of Forest Fires - This report is a follow-up to the WWF International Discussion Paper "The Year the World Caught Fire" which was published in December 1997. To download the report in word format click here

LINKS

Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC)