World Wildlife Fund
A brief, general explanation of deforestation including information from causes to
consequences.
Biodiversity
and Conservation: A Hypertext Book by Peter J. Bryant, Chapter 10: FORESTS AND
DEFORESTATION. School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine,
Irvine, CA 92717, USA. Very informative, well-organized explanation of the impact of the
deforestation of temporate and tropical forests. Includes graph.... and sections on
logging of national forests and sustainable management of forests.
The New Forests Project - an
enlightened "effort to initiate reforestation and reduce deforestation in developing
countries".
Rainforest Action Network - RAN keeps fact sheets,
alerts, world rainforest monitoring reports, and other information packets available to
the public. The latest report states that Africa has already lost sixty-five percent
of its original forest cover, with almost twenty percent of Africa's tropical forests
cleared between 1960 and 1990 alone. The logging roads cut throught the forests have given
hunters unprecedented access to "bushmeat". Chimpanzees, gorillas, and monkeys
are being slaughtered for sale. The source of HIV-1 virus has now been traced to a
species of chimpanzee in Camaroon and Gabon living in old growth forests now riddled with
logging roads. The virus is transmitted by eating this bushmeat.
Frontier Regions by the World Resources
Institute - Interactive map showing the world's last remaining frontier forests. Click
on an area for more details. For example: "In the lower 48 States, only 1% of
original forest remains as forest frontier."
