works to protect the world’s forests by combining undercover investigations with hard hitting reports and briefings, exposing criminal syndicates and unsustainable markets behind rampant illegal logging, and lobbying governments in timber producing and consuming countries to act

protest against plans on the Island of Trinidad that calls for the forced industrialization of South Western Trinidad with two aluminum smelters, one from Alcoa, which would destroy many acres of rainforest and displace local peoples

information from the Rainforest Information Centre covering logging, agriculture, cash crops, cattle ranching, fuelwood, large dams, mining,colonisation and tourism; as well as more subtle causes such as overconsumption, exploitation, the debt burden and overpopulation

Friends of the Earth Canada presents a video about attempts by Ascendant Copper to build a strip mine in the cloud forests of Ecuador against the wishes of the inhabitants

works to harness market forces toward halting tropical deforestation through innovative public and private sector partnerships

pictorial, text and action items regarding "a war in the Amazon jungle" being perpetuated by powerful loggers, farmers and companies

a report by Friends of the Earth International about the social and environmental threats posed by planned hydro-damns on the Madeira River -- the Amazon's largest tributary -- in Brazil (pdf)

a report by CEESP and the Philippine Indigenous Peoples' Links looking at the massive environmental damage and the serious human rights abuses linked to the mining industry in the Philippines (pdf)

campaign against plans for a goldmine in the Lembeh-Pulisan-Bangka region of Sulawesi , Indonesia which is threatening an area of rainforest, a lagoon and large numbers of endemic species