A new study has found that the demand for land to grow crops, fuel and wood is on track to exceed supply. Published by the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), a global coalition of forest conservation organizations, the report, "Seeing Through the Trees," estimates that the planet -- excluding tropical forests -- has only 200 of the 515 million hectares humans will need by 2030.Co-author of the report Andy White said, "It will mean more deforestation, more conflict, more carbon emissions, more climate change and less prosperity for everyone." Currently one-fifth of carbon emissions is caused by deforestation.
GET INFORMED
- Read "Forests to fall for food and fuel" (BBC News, July 13, 2008)
- Visit the Rights and Resources Initiative Web site
- Eliminate these palm oil products from your life to help stop rainforest deforestation
- Sign the Defenders of Wildlife petition urging U.S. Forest Service Chief Gail Kimbell to protect roadless areas and old-growth forests in the Tongass National Forest -- and the martens and other forest wildlife that live there
- Protect an acre of forest for $15 to combat climate change
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