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Razing the Rainforest : In the News
The world’s remaining great forests
- Source: The Guardian
20th July 2010
The Earth was once covered in ancient forests, 80% of which have been either destroyed or degraded, according to conservationists. Half of that has been in the last 30 years.
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Amazon forest fires ‘on the rise’
- Source: BBC News
- 7th June 2010
The number of fires destroying Amazon rainforests are increasing, a study from University of Exeter Geography Department has found. A team of scientists said fires in the region could release similar amounts of carbon as deliberate deforestation.
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Forest loss slows, as China plants and Brazil preserves
- Source: BBC News
- 25th March 2010
The world's net rate of forest loss has slowed markedly in the last decade, with less logging in the Amazon and China planting trees on a grand scale.
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Copenhagen ‘fails forest people’
- Source: BBC News
- 22nd January 2010
A multi-billion dollar deal tabled at the Copenhagen climate summit could lead to conflicts in forest-rich nations, a report has warned. The study by the Rights and Resources Initiative said the funds could place "unprecedented pressure" on some areas.
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Amazon deforestation ‘record low’
- Source: BBC News
- 13th November 2009
The rate of deforestation in the Amazon has dropped by 45% and is the lowest on record since monitoring began 21 years ago, Brazil's government says. According to the latest annual figures, just over 7,000 sq km was destroyed between July 2008 and August 2009.
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Rainforest - The Burning Issue launched
- Source: The Prince's Rainforest Project
- 23rd October 2009
The PRP has just released a new online, interactive booklet that describes how rainforests are in the front line in the fight against climate change and explains how a new form of international collaboration could help to reduce tropical deforestation, with many benefits for developed and developiong countries
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‘Boom and bust of deforestation’
- Source: BBC News
- 11th June 2009
Cutting down Amazon forest for cattle and soy does not bring long-term economic progress, researchers say.
A study of 286 Amazon municipalities found that deforestation brought quick benefits that were soon reversed.
Rainforest is worth more standing
- Source: BBC News
- 5th June 2009
A new analysis has shown that payments to reduce carbon emissions from the forests could generate more income than palm oil production on deforested land.
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