Forests

Forests for Climate

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:18:35 GMT

In the race to fight global warming, time is of the essence. Tropical deforestation is responsible for about 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions – more than all the cars, trucks, planes, boats, and trains in the world combined.

Solutions to Amazon Deforestation

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:05:28 GMT

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Music Wood

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:30:25 GMT

Fast Facts

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:29:41 GMT

The Tongass National Forest is the size of Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island combined – making it the nation’s largest national forest. The 17 million acres stretches along 500 miles of Alaska’s coast and is the last great expanse of coastal temperate rainforest in the United States.

Current Threats

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:29:28 GMT

The Tongass National Forest is often called the "crown jewel" of the national forest system for its tremendous biological diversity. But that’s not the Tongass’s only claim to fame. Since 1950, approximately one million acres of the biggest and best trees in southeast Alaska have been clearcut – making it the most heavily logged and biggest money loser of the national forest system.

Alaska's Rainforest

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:26:37 GMT

Did you know that it takes 90 years to grow a box of Kleenex? That’s right, every time you use a Kleenex tissue, you are blowing away ancient forests. And every time you use Scott or Cottonelle toilet paper, you’re flushing old growth trees down the toilet.

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U.S. Forests

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:25:27 GMT

Our national forests are precious and irreplaceable. They provide us with clean air and water, soil production, flood control, climate stability and other essential needs. They also offer scenic beauty, recreational activities and related jobs, and vital wildlife habitat.

North American Forests

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:24:12 GMT

Canada's boreal forest is an ecological gem, a refuge of wilderness in a world where more than four fifths of all intact forest landscapes have been lost or degraded. It stretches from Alaska to the Atlantic Ocean across an area of approximately 1.4 billion acres and is Canada's largest ecosystem.

Get Involved

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:22:07 GMT

Get The Facts

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:21:06 GMT

Kleenex Free Classrooms: Protecting the Boreal Forest

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:15:49 GMT

The North American Boreal forest is one of the largest intact ancient forests. In addition to being an important area for First Nations and indigenous communities, the Boreal forest is also home to caribou, lynx, songbirds and wolves. As one of the largest storehouses of carbon on the planet, it is essential in the fight against global warming.

Let Out Your Creative Juices

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:47:58 GMT

The Ancient Forests

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:47:22 GMT

The Solution

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:46:37 GMT

The Problem

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:45:56 GMT

Forest Defenders Camp

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:38:01 GMT

The Forest Defenders Camp is part of our international effort to protect the world's remaining forests and global climate prior to December's negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol. The camp is located 150km to the south and east of Pekanbaru, on the border of the plantations operated by subsidiaries of the company PT Duta Palma Nusantara. The camp is based close to the boundary of forest destruction, where a palm oil plantation is clearing peatland forest.

Our work in Paradise

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:33:55 GMT

Greenpeace has been working in the Paradise Forests for over a decade exposing illegal and destructive logging and working with local communities to reclaim their traditional lands and create sustainable solutions. Our work has seen us confront the illegal loggers in the forest and in the consumer countries.

Paradise Forests

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:30:30 GMT

Only 20 percent of the world's ancient forests remain in large, intact tracts. Some of the ancient forests under greatest threat are the ‘Paradise Forests’.

Congo Rainforest

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:58:22 GMT

Covering 358 million acres, the forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) provide livelihoods for 40 million people and play an important role in both biodiversity protection and global climate stability. Now relative stability has returned to the DRC after years of war, the threat of uncontrolled industrial logging hangs over the second largest rainforest in the world.

Amazon Rainforest

Wed, 17 May 2006 19:11:10 GMT

Fifteen percent of the Amazon rainforest has already been destroyed. Since the 1970s, an area of ancient rainforest the size of France has been lost.