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Matt Finer of US-based environment group Save America's Forests,
commenting on a survey of land earmarked for exploration by
energy companies
"For many developing countries, avoiLo
deforestation is pretty much the only way
can engage in the climate change regime and
some benefits."
Yvo de Boer, head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat
"[The deforestation talks are] a ploy by developed
countries to shy away from their commitments to
Ishaku Huzi Mshelia, head of the Nigeria-based Clean Energy and
Safe Environment Initiative"The discovery of such a large population [125,000]
f western lowland gorillas [in the Republic of Congo]
; absolutely fantastic news for the sub-species any
or conservationists, but we should be careful not
a fnn rnr InlIrant"
Jillian Miller, executive director of conservation group
The Gorilla Organization
a lose our identity when we're displaced. We fee
A in the big cities and it's an alien habitat for u
)ur ties and traditions are with our Mother Earth.
)nce we leave our lands, our lanquaqe and family
tracrt..roc orain to brade nrw
Luis Evelis Andrade, president of the National Indigenous
Organization of Colombia (ONIC)"Indonesia will have an additional potential to
absorb 2.4 million tons of carbon if the government
is successful in its efforts to mobilize the people to
plant 100 million trees by the end of 2008:'
Indonesian Forestry Minister M.S. Kaban
he biggest challenge now for the cedars of
Nizar Hani, scientific coordinator of the Barouk Cedar Nature Reserve
in Lebanon
"The key to saving the Amazon and the rest of the
world's great rainforests is actually very simple: just
put a fair price on the role they play in providing a
quarter of the world's oxygen, a fifth of fresh water
Swedish millionaire Johan Eliasch, who has bought 400,000 acres
in the Brazilian Amazon, near the river town of Manicorepercentage of the planet's land area
that is forested - just under 4 billion
hectares, at least one-third less
than before the dawn of agriculture
10,000 years ago. - Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO)
percentage of world greenhouse gas
emissions caused by deforestation.
-Stern Reviewpercentage of extra carbon dioxide stored by untouched
natural forests compared to plantation forests.
-Australian National University
amount of paper in pounds that the
average American uses every year
(310 kg). Average per capita paper
use worldwide is 110 pounds (50 kg).
- industry figurespercentage of the 634 known
species and subspecies of
primates at risk of extinction.
Previous estimates 5 years
ago put the figure at
39 per cent. - World
Conservation Union (IUCN)height in metres (379.1 ft):of the
world's tallest tree, a redwood
discovered in a remote California forest
which has been named 'Hyperion'
San Francisco Chronicle
percentage of all print-outs
and photocopies that are
thrown out before the end of
the day. - shrinkpaper.orgworldwide deforestation rate per year in hectares
- an area the size of Greece or Nicaragua.
- Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)number of western lowland gorillas found in remote
forests in the Republic of Congo on 5 August.
Associated Pressamount that Brazil wants to raise over the next 13 years
for the Amazon Fund, launched on 31 July by Brazilian
president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to fight deforestation.
Reuters12 THE FUTURE OF FORESTS
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