A new online carbon calculator helps people easily calculate how much they are adding to global greenhouse gases. The CI carbon calculator offers a way to offset those emissions by helping protect tropical forests from being burned and cleared.
Tropical deforestation emits at least 20 percent of total greenhouse gases that cause climate change — [...]

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Mooi tribe members tell of their fears that deforestation will destroy their livlihood and their children’s future.

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A new Greenpeace report Cooking The Climate highlights the huge amount of carbon dioxide getting released into the atmosphere as a result of rainforest destruction. Destruction of rain forests for palm oil plantation production is a major cause of carbon dioxide emissions.
Greenpeace investigations centred on the tiny Indonesian
province of Riau on the island of Sumatra [...]

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U.S. Government Sued for Allowing Imports of Peruvian Mahogany.
Doubly illegal, mahogany from the Peruvian Amazon is being imported into the United States for deluxe furniture under the noses of three federal agencies, according to a lawsuit filed today by two Peruvian indigenous groups and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a U.S. conservation organization. The [...]

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Dominican Today.
Sao Paulo.– Greenpeace volunteers unfurled a 300 square metre banner in a massive area of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest this morning with the words ‘KFC – Amazon Criminal’ – in advance of Kentucky Fried Chicken’s (KFC) Annual General Meeting in Louisville, Kentucky tomorrow.
Activists in 2 inflatable boats also protested against US commodities giant [...]

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Rainforest loss in the Amazon tops 200,000 square miles, new figures from Brazilian government.
Rainforest loss in the Amazon tops 200,000 square miles, new figures from Brazilian government mongabay.com May 20, 2005 New figures from the Brazilian government show that 10,088 square miles of rain forest were destroyed in the 12 months ending in August [...]

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Maggi protests report blaming him for "rape of rainforest" – News – AE-Brazil.

Governor of Mato Grosso and "Soy King" Blairo Maggi (Popular Socialist Party – PPS) refuted a report in the Friday edition of British daily "The Independent" calling him the man behind "the rape of the rainforest".
"I think the accusation is shocking, an exaggeration [...]

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Reuters AlertNet – Brazil Greens quit govt over Amazon destruction.
BRASILIA, Brazil, May 19 (Reuters) – Legislators for Brazil’s small Green Party quit the government on Thursday to protest its failure to prevent a near-record rise in destruction of the Amazon rainforest.
The party said Wednesday’s government announcement that Amazon deforestation hit its second-highest level last year [...]

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Khaleej Times Online.
FLORES, GUATEMALA – There are only a few paths through the wilderness of the rain forest near Peten, 500 kilometres north of Guatemala City.
To the right and left of those trails, vast tracts of land that used to be part of the central American rain forest are burning. Squatters, ranchers and peasants [...]

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Economist.com | The disappearing Amazon rainforest.
The disappearing Amazon rainforest May 19th 2005 From The Economist Global Agenda
IF IT were simply a matter of passing strong laws to protect it, the Amazon rainforest—the world’s largest tropical forest, around the size of western Europe—would be safe. Brazil, whose territory includes about two-thirds of the [...]

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