Blogposts tagged 'Ancient Forests'

Can cutting down forests affect deep water fish?

Posted by saunvedan - 2 September 2008 at 3:16pm - 0 Comments

Forest In a word, yes. A marine ecologist in New Zealand has won a top award by showing how deforestation has affected marine ecosystems such as cutting down of the once intact rainforest in the country's South Island. As this latest research shows, not only do forests regulate the climate but also provide for plant and animal species in the water as well as on land.

Article tagged as: ancient forests, biodiversity, deforestation, marine life

Letter to the Heads of State of G8 countries

Publication date: 21 March, 2007

Publication date: July 2000

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Letter to the Heads of State of G8 countries

Article tagged as: ancient forests, g8, government, illegal logging, timber trade

A history of Greenpeace's Canadian rainforest campaign

Publication date: 22 March, 2007

Publication date: April 2001

Summary
A short, chronological history of Greenpeace's Canadian Rainforest Campaign; 1991-2001.

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A history of Greenpeace's Canadian Rainforest Campaign

Article tagged as: ancient forests, canada, logging, reports

Protecting Canada's Great Bear rainforest

Publication date: 30 April, 2001

The first steps

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Protecting Canada's Great Bear rainforest

Article tagged as: ancient forests, bears, canada, conservation, environmental policy, logging, reports

Protect the Amazon- Stop criminal timber imports

Publication date: 2 July, 2000

The Amazon rainforest is one of the biologically richest areas in the world containing more than one-third of the world's remaining ancient forests and supporting up to 50% of the planet's land-based animal and plant species. The Amazon contains more than 2.5 million species of insects, more than 300 species of mammals, 2000 species of fish and more than 60,000 species of plants.

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