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Forests: Useful Links
This page contains links to websites from governments, international
organizations, non-governmental organizations, businesses, media, and
other groups from around the world to help you research issues related
to forests. We have compiled these links from our own review of the
vast amount of information available on the Internet to help you to find
the most relevant sources for your research. Our Planet magazine does
not, however, endorse the viewpoints of any of the groups to which we
link, and we cannot guarantee the accuracy of the information posted
on these sites. Rather, we hope to provide you with a broad range of
opinions and perspectives.
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www.fsc.org
The Forest Stewardship Council provides standards for responsible forestry.
Products carrying the FSC label are independently certified to assure consumers
that they come from forests that are managed to meet the social, economic and
ecological needs of present and future generations.www.conservation.org
Conservation International's mission is to conserve the Earth's living heritage and to demonstrate that human
societies are able to live harmoniously with nature.
www.globalcanopy.org
The Global Canopy Programme is an alliance of 29 scientific institutions in 19 countries, which lead the world in
forest canopy research, education and conservation.
www.ForestsNow.org
The Forests Now Declaration, which calls for the protection of forests in the fight against climate change, has been
signed by over 300 high-level endorsers including leaders from across the world's great tropical forests.Me , w
fighting for the rainforest
www.rainforest-alliance.org
The Rainforest Alliance, based in New York City, works to conserve biodiversity and ensure sustainable
livelihoods by transforming land-use practices, business practices and consumer behaviour. The Alliance
works with people whose livelihoods depend on the land as well as with companies, from large multinational
corporations to small community-based cooperatives. Its aim is to bring responsibly produced goods and
services to a global marketplace where the demand for sustainability is growing steadily.
www.rainforestfoundation.org
The Rainforest Foundation was created by British singer Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler, in 1989 in order
to support indigenous and traditional people of the world's rainforests in their efforts to protect their
environment and fulfil their rights. It does this by assisting them in securing and controlling the natural
resources necessary for their long term well-being and managing these resources in ways which do not
harm their environment, violate their culture or compromise their future; and developing the means to
protect their individual and collective rights and to obtain, shape and control basic services from the state.
www.ran.org
The Rainforest Action Network uses what it calls"hard-hitting market campaigns" to align the policies of
multinational corporations with widespread public support for environmental protection. The organization
says it has already helped convince dozens of corporations - including Home Depot, Citigroup, Boise
Cascade, and Goldman Sachs - to change their practices, hence "helping to protect millions of acres of
forests in Canada, Indonesia, Brazil, Chile and beyond.",cientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) with an immediate challenge - to lift the threat of imminent extinction faced by gorillas,
himpanzees, bonobos and orangutans across their ranges in equatorial Africa and Southeast Asia. This website provides information on
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mostt 2.3 billion trees around the world. The target has now been raised to seven billion trees by the end of 2009. The BTC website has
he latest figures, as well as pages where anyone can pledge trees and enter their planted trees, the 'photo of the day'from one of the
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NCMC 2000, a UK-based charity. The centre's mandate is to evaluate and highlight the many values of biodiversity and put authoritative
:iodiversity knowledge at the centre of decision making. The website gives access to interactive maps, species information and
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ccess internet information service to support forest restoration projects worldwide and facilitates exchange of knowledge among forest
restoration projects.www.climate-standards.org/index.html
The Climate, Communities and Biodiversity Alliance has established a set of criteria for forest carbon projects that
minimize climate change, support sustainable development and conserve biodiversity.
www.worldagroforestry.org
The World Agroforestry Centre is the international leader in agroforestry research and development.
www.carbonpositive.net
Carbonpositive is a business that develops sustainable agroforestry and bioenergy projects in non-industrialised
countries and manages these Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects from beginning to end.
www.cbf-fund.org
The Congo Basin Forest Fund, launched in June 2008, aims to support innovative proposals to make the Congo
Basin forest worth more as a living resource than it would be cut down.
www.cbfp.org
The Congo Basin Forest Partnership is a voluntary agreement between governments, the private sector, civil society
and development organizations aimed at promoting the development, sustainable management and conservation
of the forest ecosystems of the Central Africa region.
www.greenbeltmovement.org
The Green Belt Movement, founded by 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wangari Maathai, began as a grassroots tree
planting programme and is now a prominent women's civil society organization in Kenya.
www.globaltrees.org
Over 8,000 tree species, 10 per cent of the world's total, are threatened with extinction. The Global Trees Campaign
aims to help conserve them through information, conservation and wise use.
www.internationaltreefoundation.org
The International Tree Foundation provides funds to help communities stop deforestation by planting, protecting
and promoting trees at home and abroad.
www.forestpeoples.org
The Forest Peoples Programme is an international NGO founded in 1990 to promote forest peoples' rights.
www.kinome.fr
Kinome is a French organization whose stated mission is to contribute significantly to reversing deforestation
through reforestation projects and by preserving existing forests.
http://reforestthetropics.org
Reforest the Tropics is an applied research organization working to mitigate global warming through sustainable
forestry and long-term verifiable carbon sequestration.OUR PLANET THE FUTURE OF FORESTS 23
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