Forests
Overview Factsheets
About Rainforests - by the numbers 
Rainforests cover 2% of the Earth's surface, or 6% of its land mass, yet they house over half the plant and animal species on Earth. They originally covered at least twice that area.
Rainforest Action Network
Deforestation: The Global Assault Continues
World Resources Institute
Forest ecosystems
World Resources Institute
The Causes of Rainforest Destruction
Rainforest Information Center
The direct and underlying causes of forest loss
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World Rainforest Movement
The future of tropical forests
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World Rainforest Movement
What are underlying causes of deforestation?
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World Rainforest Movement
Key Websites & Resources
Declaration of the World Rainforest Movement Penang
An emergency call to action for the forests, their peoples and life on earth
World Rainforest Movement
Forests for Life: WWF's Global Annual Forest Report 1998
WWF - World Wide Fund for Nature
Rainforest Action Network (RAN)
Rainforest Action Network (RAN) works to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and nonviolent direct action. RAN accomplishes its mission through dynamic, hard-hitting campaigns that work to bring corporate and governmental policies into alignment with popular support for rainforest conservation. RAN works in alliance with environmental and human rights groups around the world, including indigenous forest communities and non-governmental organizations in rainforest countries.
Rainforest Information: Background and Information
Collection of good general articles on forests and rainforest issues.
Rainforest Information Centre
The Causes of Forest Decline
World Rainforest Movement
The State of the World's Forests 2001
UN Food and Agriculture Organization
UNEP Global Environment Outlook 3 - Forests
from the UNEP GEO-3 Report. (PDF format)
UNEP - United Nations Environemnt Programme
World Rainforest Movement
The World Rainforest Movement is an international network of citizens' groups of North and South involved in efforts to defend the world's rainforests. WRM is headquartered in Uruguay, while its European Office is based in the U.K.
WWF: Forests for Life Campaign
WWF works to protect forests, promotes their management to the highest possible standards, and is aiming to restore once-forested land to a more authentic state.
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