TROPICAL FORESTS:ROB PORTMAN

Congressional Testimony;  March 4, 1998 ;     700+ words ......legislation is to preserve and protect tropical forests worldwide on a sustained basis. This...The Problem As this Committee knows, tropical forests provide a wide range of benefits...that the world has lost half of its tropical forests. The most comprehensive survey of...

Congress agrees on debt-for-conservation plan on tropical forests

AP Online;  July 15, 1998 ;     320 words ......States by taking steps to protect their tropical forests under a ``debt-for-nature'' plan approved...exchange for actions to save endangered tropical forests. The measure sets aside $325 million...with countries that have threatened tropical forests. ``This is an innovative, ...

Emerging Threats to Tropical Forests

Copeia;  September 10, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Emerging Threats to Tropical Forests. William F. Laurance, and Carlos...myriad emerging threats to tropical forests around the globe. But such...explores emerging threats to tropical forests within the context of a diverse...

Report: 95 percent of world's tropical forests unprotected

AP Worldstream;  May 25, 2006 ;     700+ words ......All but a fraction of the world's tropical forests remain unprotected, despite a significant...acres) _ two-thirds of the world's tropical forests _ in 33 countries. All of these tropical forests studied have been designated by the...

Countries asked to pay for oxygen produced by Indonesian tropical...

Indonesian Commercial Newsletter;  August 1, 2007 ;     122 words ......oxygen produced by Indonesian tropical forests for world consumption. Countries...Papua New Guinea have large tropical forests to serve as the world lungs...by the word come from the tropical forests of the four countries, he...

New alarm sounded on tropical forests

Chicago Sun-Times;  June 8, 1990 ;     426 words ...WASHINGTON The Earth's tropical forests are vanishing nearly 50 percent...the world loses an area of tropical forests almost as big as the state...million to 50 million acres of tropical forests may be stripped each year...

Almost All Tropical Forests Unprotected

AP Online;  May 25, 2006 ;     618 words ......MEXICO CITY Almost all the world's tropical forests remain effectively unprotected even...acres _ two-thirds of the world's tropical forests _ in 33 countries. All of those forests...most of the world's countries with tropical forests, was formed under the auspices of...

U.S. OFFERS TO FORGIVE DEBTS IF TROPICAL FORESTS ARE...

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  July 30, 1998 ;     133 words ......United States by protecting their tropical forests. Under the law, $325 million will...with countries that have endangered tropical forests. ``This legislation is proof that...Portman noted that half the world's tropical forests are in four countries - Indonesia...

Clinton signs `debt-for-nature' bill to protect tropical forests

AP Online;  July 29, 1998 ;     144 words ......United States by protecting their tropical forests. Under the law, $325 million will...with countries that have endangered tropical forests. ``This legislation is proof that...Portman noted that half of the world's tropical forests are in four countries - Indonesia...

Sustainable logging proves unsupportable: no simple solution for tropical...

U.S. News & World Report;  June 29, 1998 ;     700+ words ......ban on funding log- ging in virgin tropical forests. But the bank, the largest funder...that sustainable harvests may damage tropical forests and their wealth of biodiver- sity...commercial value. Because of that, tropical forests aren't clear-cut. Yet loggers, who...

Report: Tropical Forests Left Unprotected

AP Online;  May 25, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Ninety-five percent of the world's tropical forests remain unprotected, despite a significant...Kent Gilbert) Almost all the world's tropical forests remain effectively unprotected even...acres _ two-thirds of the world's tropical forests _ in 33 countries. All of those forests...

TROPICAL FORESTS: COMMISSION PROPOSES PRECISE STRATEGY

Europe Environment;  March 16, 1993 ;     302 words ......mmunity's strategy to help save the world's tropical forests from destruction on March 2. The proposed...The Regulation would concern all tropical forests in Central and South America, Africa...preservation and sustainable management of tropical forests. The aim of the Regulation is ...

Are tropical forests really disappearing?(WORLDWATCH)(Brief article)

Geographical;  March 1, 2008 ;     256 words ...Evidence that the world's tropical forests are shrinking may not be as...monitoring of the world's tropical forests, including the establishment...What is happening to the tropical forests is so important, both to the...

Big Mac and the tropical forests. (natural resources being plundered for...

Monthly Review;  December 1, 1985 ;     700+ words ...BIG MAC AND THE TROPICAL FORESTS Hello, fast-food chains. Goodbye, tropical forests. Sound like an odd connection? The free...devastating. These are the harsh facts: the tropical forests are being leveled for commercial purposes...

The kindest cut; Forest management.(Preserving tropical forests)

The Economist (US);  May 27, 2006 ;     439 words ......could be the best way to preserve tropical forests DEPRESSING reports about how quickly the world's tropical forests are being felled are commonplace...roughly two-thirds of the world's tropical forests. The concept is important, explains...