News Archive (01 May 2005 - 31 May 2005)
WWF/World Bank Forest Alliance aims to reduce deforestation and curb illegal logging
New York, May 25, 2005. WWF and the World Bank (WB) today announced an ambitious global program aimed at reducing global deforestation rates by 10% by 2010. The announcement was made at the fifth meeting of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) both as a call to action for the international community and to mark the renewal of their cooperation agreement covering the Alliance for another five years. The present rate of global deforestation is more than 14 million hectares (about 54,000 square miles) per year, roughly equal to the size of Greece. Most of the losses occur in the tropics.
Government's backtracking causing shocking Amazon deforestation - WWF
Brasilia, Brazil/Gland, Switzerland - With over 26,000 square kilometres lost last year - more than half the size of Switzerland - the annual deforestation rate in the Amazon has again increased and is at its second highest ever. Around 17 percent of the natural vegetation in the Brazilian Amazon has already been devastated. According to WWF, this clearly shows that the Brazilian government has not met its objectives, set in 2003, to reduce the deforestation of the Amazonian forest.
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Get real, it's land clearing
The Tasmanian Labor and Federal Coalition Governments today have announced a simplistic package that fails to solve the most significant issue affecting Tasmania's natural environment - land clearing, says WWF-Australia. This problem has a workable solution. Today both Governments rejected the solution and chose to keep clearing the land.