
Timber: 1/4 of 4
Rape of a Nation
Paul Kingsnorth
29th January, 2009
Armed and financed by Western corporations, Indonesia is waging a brutal but unreported war against a tribal people with little more than bows and arrows tp defend itself. The West Papuan conflict is a war for gold, timber and cultural supremacy 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...
Reclaimed Wood
Ecologist
1st June, 2005
For aesthetic and ethical reasons, salvaged timber is the best. more...
Amazon Crime
Greg Nasmyth
1st May, 2004
Deep in the Amazon rainforest, renegade logging firms are stealing the land of impoverished communities and stripping it of the trees on which the whole world depends. Greg Nasmyth boards a 700-tonne icebreaker to join a group of Greenpeace activists in their bid to stop them. more...




