Trees: 1/9 of 9
Forest carbon finance fails root and branch
Harriet Williams
10th February, 2009
Forest carbon finance, through avoided deforestation, is at best a sticking plaster solution that fails to get to the roots of the problem, argues Harriet Williams more...
How to 'read' a forest
Tom Wessels
3rd February, 2009
For most of us a walk in a forest goes by in a kind of green blur, but as Tom Wessels reveals, knowing what you are looking at can unravel complex stories etched into our forested landscape, fostering a sense of place that promotes future stewardship more...
Fight them for the Beeches
Jon Snow
2nd February, 2009
Permits for roadworks should be made conditional on utility companies filling the holes they dig with trees. By Jon Snow more...
Trees have rights too
Polly Higgins
10th December, 2008
Just as the humanitarian crisis of the Second World War gave birth to the swift implementation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 60 years ago in 1948, so now we have a planetary crisis that needs to be addressed with equal urgency. Now is the time to call for a Universal Declaration of Planetary Rights. more...
Tree Thieves
Steve Kemper
7th August, 2008
The environmental disaster that put paid to China's intensive logging spawned an illegal trade in timber that risks global erosion. In their rush to feed the dragon, loggers on both sides of the law can't see the trees for the wood, says Steve Kemper more...
GM trees in US
Claire Robinson
1st November, 2007
The US government has given he go-ahead for a test plot of genetically modified (GM) eucalyptus trees in Alabama. For the first time, these trees will be allowed to flower and set seed, opening the door to potential widespread contamination of the American South. more...
Behind the eco labels: Forestry Stewardship Council
Pat Thomas
1st April, 2007
One of the major causes of rainforest destruction and biodiversity loss in tropical zones is the illegal logging of hardwoods. The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) label, broadly speaking, exists to address this by promoting environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial and economically viable management of the world’s forests. more...
Biofuels Report: Forests or Fuel
Renton Righelato
1st March, 2007
The world’s forests are natural carbon ‘sinks’ that remove and store atmospheric CO2. So why, in the name of saving the earth, asks Renton Righelato, are we cutting down these precious resources to make way for fuel crops? more...
Protecting US forests
Derrick Jensen
1st February, 2004
The ongoing battle between US tree-sitters and North America’s big logging firms pitches some of the world’s most determined activists against some of its most ruthless corporations. It is a battle that the tree-sitters simply must not lose. more...
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