Deforestation rates in tropical countries are increasing, sustainable forest management is rare, mature forests are being replaced by even-aged, highly simplified stands. International accords are of limited use. But there are promising avenues for international action, some of the most important of which are being stimulated, nurtured, and implemented by non-governmental institutions, including private business interests. Includes six case studies of local initiatives. The possibility that we could have both timber products and a beautiful forest is rarely considered, perhaps because it is rarely exemplified.
Sustainable forestry works.
The World Rainforest Movement is a global network of citizens' groups of North and South involved in efforts to defend the world's rainforests against the forces that destroy them. It works to secure the lands and livelihoods of forest peoples and supports their efforts to defend the forests from commercial logging, dams, mining, plantations, shrimp farms, colonization and settlement and other projects that threaten them. Information, bulletin, worldwide action alerts, links. The Rainforest Foundation is an international network with projects in 18 rainforest countries throughout Asia, Africa, Central and South America. Penan children in Sarawak Rainforest Information Centre is a volunteer, non-profit organization dedicated to protecting rainforests.