- Amazon defenders face death or exile
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Ordinary Brazilians who report illegal logging face threats to their lives.
- The Amazon tribe protecting the forest with bows, arrows, GPS and camera traps
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 With authorities ineffective, the 2,200-strong Ka'apor, in the Brazilian state of Maranhão, are taking on the illegal loggers with technology and direct action. Now the Ka'apor are seeking support through NGOs and the media.
- Borneo's Killer Dams
Mega-Dams in Sarawak Threaten Indigenous Tribes with Ethnocide Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Sarawak, Malaysia, is home to thousands of endemic species, forty indigenous groups, and one of the largest transboundary rainforests remaining in the world. The state is also suffering from one of the world's highest rates of deforestation; only 5% of its primary forests remain. Now, Sarawak's forests and their inhabitants face another threat: the damming of its rivers for hydroelectric power.
- Breakfast of Biodiversity
The Truth About Rain Forest Destruction Resource Type: Book
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1988
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1988
- The Earthscan Action Handbook
Resource Type: Book Published: 1990 A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
- How to Save the World
Strategy for World Conservation Resource Type: Book Published: 1980 "How To Save The World" discusses, "Why the world needs saving now and how it can be done". Allen breaks his work down into seven chapters, devoting each to an important aspect of the global predicament. Securing the food supply, saving forests, preserving wildlife and presenting a strategy for conservation are all discussed as methods to improve the relationship between mankind and nature.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2016
Forests and trees Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2016 For countless centuries, forests, and the trees in them, have been seen as sources of life, livelihood, and spiritual meaning. For capitalism, however, forests are sites of extraction and profit-making, or obstacles in the way of 'development.' In this issue, we look at some of the threats to forests worldwide, and the ways in which people are resisting and defending the forests.
- A race for land is destroying the Guatemalan rainforest
Resource Type: Article Published: 2007 Agriculture is quickly decimating Guatemala's primal forests> It has experience the most rapid deforestatation of any nation in the last five years.
- Rumble in the jungle
Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Could Peru's uncontacted Amazonian tribes be wiped out by oil giants? Not if they don't exist.
- Saving the Tropical Forests
Resource Type: Book Published: 1989 The book provides a vision of hope for the tropical rainforests of the world. In Latin America, Africa, India and South East Asia, growing numbers of people are developing techniques and projects specifically designed to promote the wise use and preservation of remaining forest lands. The authors believe that action must be based on the development and improvement of existing alternatives to destruction or it will fail.
- Tree-top vigil highlights destruction of Tasmanian forest
Miranda Gibson hopes to bring international attention to the unprotected status of the ancient forests that are threatened by logging Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 For more than three months, 30-year-old Gibson has been living high above the canopy floor that is the home to some of Australia's most threatened indigenous wildlife, including the Tasmanian devil and spotted-tail quolls.
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