We had some really great threads last year, with the following four nominated for the Thread of the Year award in this January's Environment Site Awards ceremony.
Deforestation ForumGod has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. - John Muir
In January, the Brazilian government announced that the rate of deforestation in the Amazon jungle had soared in the last half of 2007, just months after officials had celebrated three years of steep falls.
The Brazilian minister for the environment, Marina Silva, has resigned . The president kept on undermining her attempts to defend the Amazon by pandering to business concerns.
Long term the Amazon is doomed anyway.The greening of the Sahel will reduce the amount of dust blowing from the Bodel Depression and this will starve the Amazon.Maybe.
Amazon's future in delicate balance
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