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 4th February 2011
Arguably the most opposed dam project in the world received the go-ahead..
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 4th February 2011
Strong action needed against Illegal Logging during the International Year of Forests
As UN launches 2011 theme, green group calls on all nations to take responsibility
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 26th January 2011
Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Senator Joe Ludwig, today announced the Gillard Government will introduce legislation restricting the importation and sale of illegally logged timber
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26th January 2011
Corporate accountability here and now
The Public Eye Awards mark a critical counterpoint to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos. Organized since 2000 by Berne Declaration and Friends of the Earth (in 2009 replaced by Greenpeace), Public Eye reminds the corporate world that social and environmental misdeeds have consequences - for the affected people and territory, but...
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15th January 2011
2011- The United Nations-designated International Year of Forests - 2011
Wood of Life Exhibition Launched
by
Mr. Duncan Stewart
(Award-winning architect specialising in ecological design and energy, writer and popular television program producer/presenter and Patron of Just Forests)
Funded by
Concern Worldwide and Irish Aid at the Department of Foreign Affairs
See...
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15th January 2011
Abelardo Bayma Azevedo, the head of IBAMA, reportedly refused to grant the license due to environmental concerns.
Source: mongabay.com
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 13th January 2011
The supply of responsibly harvested African blackwood stands to increase significantly as a result of a 700% increase in the total area of forest in Tanzania certified under the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).
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 2nd January 2011
Invitation to the Launch of Just Forests Wild Garden
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 14th December 2010
Wild Tigers are on the verge of extinction
At the turn of the 20th Century, an estimated 100,000 wild tigers inhabited a range extending across Asia and the Russian Far East. But poaching, habitat loss, and fragmentation have relentlessly pushed tigers into smaller and smaller enclaves – in smaller numbers – to the verge of extinction. Today, there are perhaps 3,500 wild tigers living in...
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 12th December 2010
Protecting the world's rainforests is a central issue at this month's Climate Change Conference in Cancun. Huge sums are to be offered to countries that protect their forests. However, experts fear that these rewards could be misused, and that they could actually promote deforestation.
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