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Sustainable tropical timber mostly a mirage, says new report
PENANG (MALAYSIA) – Deforestation of Southeast Asian rainforests and logging-related human rights violations are major problems compounded by global...
25 October, 2013European investments assist land grabs in Liberia
BRUSSELS (BELGIUM) / MONROVIA (LIBERIA), June 24, 2013 - European banks, pension funds and private equity funds have given...
24 June, 2013UN biodiversity talks favor false solutions to biodiversity crisis
HYDERABAD, INDIA, October 19, 2012 - After two weeks of talks, the United Nations Biodiversity Conference [1] comes to...
19 October, 2012Tree plantations are the problem, not the solution
COSTA RICA, 21 September 2011 – Today, Friends of the Earth International, together with many social movements around the...
21 September, 2011Governments urged not to rush into REDD deal and focus on effective forest conservation
CANCUN, MEXICO, 9 December 2010 – Draft texts on REDD (Reducing Emissions for Deforestation and Degradation) currently on the...
09 December, 2010Forest deals set to harm the environment and reward corporate investors
Cancun, 29 November 2010 - Dangerous forest projects are being established in tropical rainforest countries, in anticipation of agreement...
29 November, 2010Market mechanisms are a false solution to biodiversity loss
NAGOYA, JAPAN, 28 October, 2010 – With only one day of negotiations left at the Convention on Biological Diversity’s...
28 October, 2010Heads of state must take firm steps to halt biodiversity loss
NEW YORK, USA, September 22, 2010 – Heads of State discussing ways to save biodiversity today at the United...
22 September, 2010Tree plantations cause grave problems
COSTA RICA, September 21st, 2010 – Today Friends of the Earth International celebrates the international day against tree plantations,...
21 September, 2010Biodiversity lost at unprecedented rate
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND– On May 22, the Day of Biological Diversity, during the International Year of Biodiversity, 2010, Friends of...
22 May, 2010