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12/23/99--World's Tallest Christmas Tree Lit as Logging Protest

12/13/99--Australian Residents Bring Logging to a Stand Still

12/8/99--Panicked Farmers Cut Queensland, Australia Trees

11/29/99--New Zealand Elects Conservationist Government

11/23/99--Australia Proposes International Woodmark

11/22/99--While Queensland, Australia Government Dithers, Land Clearing Soars

11/22/99--Australia's Desperate Attempt to Rescue Native Fauna

11/19/99--New Zealand Urged to Keep Rare Native Species

11/19/99--Tokyo Power Firm Stores CO2 in Tasmanian Trees

11/11/99--WTO Free Logging Agreement Attack on Australia's Sovereignty

11/8/99--Australia Gets A$400 Million Paper Mill

11/8/99--Pending Land Protection Causes Massive Queensland, Australia Clearing

11/8/99--Australian Land Clearance Free for All a "National Disgrace"

11/3/99--Australia's "Clearfell Olympic Games"

10/29/99--Australia Extends Woodchip Export Licenses

10/25/99--Australian Timber Tree Rediscovered

10/18/99--Beech Forest Figures in New Zealand Election

10/14/99--Australia Consumes Less Wood, Agency Says

10/12/99--Woodchip Production Down Again in Tasmania

10/6/99--Queensland to Forfeit Bushcare Millions

10/5/99--New Forest Laws Promise Rich Wood Harvest in Tasmania

10/5/99--Australians Organize Walks Against Woodchips

10/5/99--Australian Farmers Bulldoze Bush to Beat the Law

10/5/99--Bushland Corridor Created near Perth, Australia

10/1/99--Timberlands Applies for Beech Logging Consent in NZ

9/23/99--Catlins Block May be Logged in New Zealand

9/23/99--Solomon Islands: Greenpeace and SIDT Challenge Silvania Misinformation Campaign

9/22/99--Australian Minister Says RFAs Will Be Done by Year's End

9/20/99--New Zealand Logging Contract Angers Green Party Leader

9/19/99--Planning a Trip to the Daintree Rainforest, Australia

9/17/99--Queensland to End Native Forest Logging

9/17/99--New Zealand Kiwi ‘Free Falling’ Toward Extinction

9/16/99--Queensland Govt Announces SE Forest Decision

9/16/99--New Zealand Warns of Kiwi Extinction

9/14/99--Threat to Huon Pine at Mt Read in Tasmania

9/13/99--NZ Labour Party Would Halt Timberlands Logging

9/8/99--Queensland Stalling on Forest Agreement

9/3/99--Appeasement of Woodchippers in Australia

9/2/99--Unlocking the Forests' Secret Store--Carbon Dynamics in Australia

9/2/99--New Paper in Australia on Why Old Growth Logging Bad for Climate

9/2/99--World's First Greenhouse Bill in Australia

8/31/99--Australian Industry Environmental Standards Trail Many Developed Nations, Report Says

8/31/99--Sydney Bourse, NSW State Forest To Create Carbon Mkt

8/31/99--NZ Govt. Study: Logging Degrades Beech Forests

8/29/99--Forest Protection Threatens Mill Town In NE Victoria

8/27/99--Financial Stake 'Key to Sustainable Logging'

8/26/99--Violence, Parliament Put Australian Forests Process in Limbo

8/26/99--Mr Carr Announces Corrupt "RFA" Woodchip Agreement for SE Native Forests of NSW; Broken Election Promises

8/25/99--Canberra Sets Direction for Timber Industry

8/23/99--West Australian Government Risks Losing Funding Over Logging Stance

8/23/99--Commercialization of Rare Wollemi Pine Awarded

8/17/99--Secrets & Lies: The Anatomy of an Anti-Environmental PR Campaign in NZ

8/11/99--Pacific Islands Urged to Use Internet As Development Tool

8/8/99--Solomon Islands: Marovo Butubutu Development Foundation and Landowners’ Declaration

8/6/99--Pioneering Australian Forests Process in Trouble

7/30/99--$270 Million Reasons Why PM and Truss Are Wrong on Jobs Future in Logging Industry in NSW

7/28/99--Solomon Islands Potential World Heritage Area for Clear Felling

7/20/99--Cloning of Extinct Huia Bird Approved in New Zealand

7/17/99--Daintree Action Against Senator Hill in Cairns, Australia

7/13/99--UNESCO Declines to Add Australia’s Kakadu Park to Endangered List; Decision Essentially Gives Go Ahead for Uranium Mine

7/9/99--Minister Declares Logging Will Continue in Australian State Forest Despite Protest

7/9/99--TEPCO to Invest Y800 mln in Australia Forest Plan

6/30/99--International Woodchip Demand Sways Logging Decisions in W. Australia

6/25/99--Support Australia’s Kakadu National Park’s Listing As World Heritage Site ‘In Danger’

6/24/99--Australia: Environment Groups Reject Fraudulent, Pre-Determined Southern Forest "Agreement"

6/23/99--Shakeup for Australia's Environment Laws

6/9/99--Uranium Mine Threatens Heritage Site in Australia

6/7/99--Australian Environmental Reform Too Important to Rush

6/7/99--Cloning Used to Save Australia's Rarest Mammal

6/5/99--The New South Wales South Coast Forests Campaign in Australia

5/25/99--Nauru: Tiny, Rich Island Lurches Toward Bankruptcy

5/20/99--Stop Uranium Mining in Autralia's Kakadu National Park

5/14/99--Australia’s Tasmanian Tiger May Live Again

5/14/99--Bunnings Hardware of Australia Targeted for Old Growth Destruction

5/11/99--Western Australia Forest Agreement Fails to Satisfy

5/4/99--Best Western Australia's Ancient Forests to Go to Japan as Woodchips

4/28/99--Wood Chip Giant Plans to Sell Forest Holdings

4/23/99--Solomon Islands: Logging and Palm Oil Plantation Found Not Economic

4/16/99--Send Petitions to US Interior Secretary to Help Create World Heritage Site at Australia’s Kakadu Park

4/15/99--Small Book Creates Big Headache for Australian Forest Industry

4/13/99--Australian Town Votes to Boycott Companies Involved with Woodchips

4/12/99--Listen Closely Australia: Your Forests Are Being Felled

3/26/99--US Environmental Groups Seek Halt to NZ Timber Import

2/28/99--Lack of Government Coherence Threatens Daintree

2/25/99--Stop the Logging of Old Growth Forests in Western Australia

2/22/99--Australia: Indigenous Elders Call For Direct Action to Save Old Growth Forests

2/3/99--Fighting Fund Set Up to Support Arrested Protesters

2/2/99--Seven Controversial Arrests Over Logging Helicopter Escalates Debate

2/2/99--Australian Logging Jobs Disappearing, Mills Closing

1/28/99--Australian Forest Alliance wants Independent Sustainable Logging Advice

1/27/99--Australia: Anti-Loggers Locked in Behind Pickets

1/27/99--Victoria, Australia's Native Forests Sold for Cents

1/23/99--Appeal to Stop Unsustainable Woodchipping in Western Australia

1/20/99--Warning of Unwanted Pest Threat in New Zealand

1/13/99--Australia: Marginal Seats may Swing over Forest Policy Issues

1/10/99--Lowden Residents in Australia Mourn Timber Felling

1/9/99--Human Arrival in Australia led to Large Animals Extinction

1/1/99--Plea on Behalf of New Zealand's Beech Forests

1/1/99--Kimberly-Clark Will Stop Taking Woodchip from Otway State Forests

12/11/98--Shire of Collie Welcomes Government Bid for Wellington Forest

12/10/98--Government Bids for Wellington Forest

12/2/98--Horrendous Forest Decision in Australia's NSW

12/1/98--Australia Ignores UNESCO Demand to Halt Uranium Mine

11/24/98--All Worked up Over Anti-Stress Drug in South Pacific

11/20/98--Australian Forest Deal Favors Timber Industry

11/20/98--Australian Greens to Decide on Forest Blockades

11/19/98--Australian Voters to Shift Forest Log Jam

11/18/98--NSW Australian Government Backs Down to Loggers in Wilderness Area

11/17/98--Australian Wilderness Left Open to Logging

11/17/98--New Forest Blockade Sparks Legal Threat in Australia

11/16/98--Export Woodchipping to Come to Australia's North-East Forests

11/14/98--Seeing Woods Through the Trees in Australia

11/14/98--'Safe Hands' Have Dropped the Ball in Australia

11/9/98--Australian State to Unveil Carbon Credit Plan

11/7/98--Solomon Islands to End Unsustainable Forest Harvests

11/6/98--Australian Logging Deal A Disaster

11/4/98--Solomon Islands Reduce Logging Quotas

10/28/98--Loggers' Life in Eden, Australia really is a Lottery

10/27/98--Carr Hails $6M Forest Deal in a Bid for Logging Peace in Australia

10/26/98--Environmental Battle Waged in Australia's Kakadu National Park

10/10/98--Protesters Illegally Enter Closed Australian State Forest

10/7/98--Australia: Battle for the Forests, Who's Winning?

9/23/98--Changes in the Pacific's Forests Playing Field

9/22/98--Protector of Fiji Ecosystem Wins Conservation Award

9/17/98--Logging Native Forests in New Zealand

8/26/98--Howard Government in Australia Fails Environment

8/20/98--Australian Government Told Forest Logging Unsustainable

8/15/98--Eco-Politics Stirring in the Forest

8/14/98--Warning Dangerous Australian Environment Biodiversity Law in Progress

8/13/98--Australia: Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Bill Info Sheet

8/13/98--Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Bill Fails Leadership Test

8/1/95--Melanesia's Rainforests Aggressively Pursued by Asian Logging Companies

7/8/98--New Zealand's Flightless Takahe being Nurtured by Researchers

6/29/98--New Zealand Beech Forest Felling Gets Go Ahead to Ecologists Dismay

6/5/98--Borbidge Win a Disaster for Australian Daintree

5/11/98--Australian Blockade in the South-East Breaks NSW's Forest Truce

4/22/98--Solomon Islands to Nationalise Malaysian-Dominated Logging Industry

4/2/98--Harbor Construction in Shellharbour Threatens Marine Ecosystem

3/31/98--Heavy Smog Found in Air Above South Sea Paradises

3/19/98--Australian Conservationists interrupt Parliament with Daintree Demonstration

3/16/98--Hector the Ecosystem Protector Calls for Old Growth Protection

3/10/98--Greens Stand by Forest Protesters

3/9/98--Asian Impact on Tasmania's Forest Exports

2/2/98--Australian Protesters Increase against Rainforest Carnage

1/27/98--Australian Forest Protestors Vow to Carry On

1/24/98--Extinct Australian Wallaby Breed Found in New Zealand

1/14/98--More Trees Equals 30,000 More Jobs

1/11/98--Asian Crisis Hits Forestry in New Zealand

1/10/98--Government Buys 6000ha of Grasslands at Porters Pass

12/16/97--Daintree, Australia Road Crisis: Carrying Capacity Reached

12/12/97--Ancient Burning Tied to Australia Desert

12/10/97--Forest Clearance Has Turned Australia into Bargaining Chip

12/10/97--Drought Area in New South Wales, Australia, Rises to 28 Percent

12/9/97--Australian Bush Fires an Ecological Disaster

12/8/97--Hill Seeks Leeway for Land Use

12/5/97--Australia: Learning to Cope with Bushfire Season

12/4/97--Koalas Eat Themselves out of One Home, Into Another

12/4/97--Frantic Bid to Save Pilliga's Vanishing Forests

12/2/97--The Australian Daintree: Death by 1000 Cuts

12/3/97--Firefighters Exhausted as Fires Rage

12/1/97--Fires Still Rage Across Australian Bush

12/1/97--No Relief in Fight against Brushfires

11/29/97--Hundreds of Bush Fires breaking out in Southern Australia

11/27/97--Prime Minister Told Save the Trees and Breathe Easy

11/20/97--Forest Deal Sets New Rules for Australia

11/18/97--Clearing the Way for A Catastrophe

11/18/97--Daintree Rally for Buy-Back

11/11/97--Tang Hon Tat Receives FAO's Sen Award

11/10/97--Greens Forced into Cruel Choice on Forests

11/10/97--Logging Guarantee Fells Green Hopes

11/7/97--Greens Warn of Forest Deal

10/30/97--Daintree Rainforest Taskforce

10/15/97--New Zealand to Band Export of Unsustainably Cut Native Trees

10/9/97--Kakadu Go-Ahead Draws Blockade Threat

9/2/97--Extinction Looms for Many Australian Animals, Plants

9/2/97--Logging Equipment Sabotaged in Southeast Rainforests

8/26/97--East Gippsland Blockade Enters 7th Month

8/23/97--Experts Meet to Find Solution to Polynesia's Green Menace

8/22/97--Vanuatu, South Pacific, Ban on Export of Logs Overturned Questionably

8/21/97--Threatened Wildlife and Plants Find an Ark in City's West

8/18/97--Murray River Red Gum to be Conserved by Management

8/16/97--Solomon Island Prime Minister Jostles to Stay in Power

8/4/97--Development Pressure at Cape Tribulation

7/22/97--Progress in Keeping Tarkine, Australia Wild at Heart

7/15/98--Mauled Forest Exporters See Brighter Days in New Zealand

7/13/97--Government Releases Impact Guidelines on Chevron Pipeline

7/10/97--Botanists in Race to Reproduce The World's Oldest Plant

7/8/97--Logging Protests Continue to Obstruct Logging in East Gippsland

7/8/97--Logging Protest in the East Gippsland Rainforest to Continue

6/24/97--Activist Climbs Tree in Logging Protest in East Gippsland

6/20/97--New Zealand's Buller Forest Saved

6/13/97--Greens Leader Senator Brown Arrested at Logging Protest

6/13/97--Greens Leader Senator Brown Arrested at Logging Protest

6/12/97--Anti-loggers Threaten Legal Action After Arrests

4/6/97--Minister Protects 93,000 Hectares of West Coast Forest

3/18/97-- Report to Government Recommends Privatization of Publicly Owned Forests

3/18/97--Western Australia's Treetop Balancing Act

3/5/97--Koalas Sterilized as Population-Control Measure

3/2/97--Update on Native Forest Logging in Aotearoa

2/4/97--New Regional Agreement to Protect Forests

2/4/97--The Daintree: Community Says No to Development, Yes to Conservation

2/3/97--Peace in the Forests

1/30/97--New Park--Leafy Gifts to the Children of the Future

1/19/97--AUSAID's Most Innovative Environmental and Women's Programs Threatened

12/5/96--Malaysian Company to Defy Warning Not to Start Logging in Solomons

11/5/96--Action Alert for The Giblett Forest

10/21/96--RIC Projects Threatened by Axing of Environmental Initiative

10/18/96--Australian Shrub Could Be Oldest Life on Earth

6/11/96--Nature's Weedy Invaders 'Threaten Nation'

6/5/96--Australian Environment Under Threat

4/24/96-- Chipping Away at Australia's Old-Growth Forests

4/10/96--Australian Activists Greet Malaysian Prime Minister

3/26/96--Proposal to Cull 2,000 Koalas Quashed

3/25/96--Environment and Human Rights Groups Welcome Malaysian Prime Minister

3/7/96--Wetland Conservation in the Pacific Region

2/16/96--More on Solomon Islands Situation--Including Reports of Civil Disorder

2/13/96--Solomon Islands Still Depends on Forests for Trade

2/10/96--Solomon Islands Response to Australian Forest Aid Cut-Off

2/96--Power grid to put a "Hole in the Heart of the Daintree"

1/96--Australia's Toxic Green Olympics

1/96--Vanuatu Landowners Win Logging Legal Battle

1/96--Solomon Islands--Forest Crisis Documented by Australian Radio

1/96--Community Ecotourism Takes Off in Solomon Islands

1/96--Australia Cancels Solomon Islands Forest Aid

12/95--Vigil and Ethical Fast for the Future Supports Forest Struggles

12/95--Road Building in Australia

12/95--Solomon Islands Environmental Education

12/95--Solomons Logging Takes Toll: Murder & Corruption

12/95--Solomon Islands Forests Backgrounder

11/95--Vanuatu Logging Stories

11/95--Pohnpei Villagers Develop Community Action Plan for Forests

11/95--Coconut Fuel in Noumea, New Caledonia

10/95--Eco-Timber from the Solomon Islands Available on European Market

10/95--Mammals of the Pacific and Their Conservation

8/95--Seed Savers in Pacific

7/95--Soloman Islands Forests to be Cleared Before Controls in Place

7/95--"Road To Nowhere" to Divide Largest Temperate Rainforest

6/95--A History to Logging on Pavuvu Islands, Solomon Islands

6/95--Malaysian Logging Sparks Land Row with Solomon Island Locals

6/95--Fiji: Potential Cancer Cure May Spell Doom For Marine Life

5/95--Solomon Islands Government Clamps Down

5/95--Unique Samoan Rainforest Conservation Program

5/95--South Pacific: Region Moves to Protect Indigenous Knowledge

5/95--Solomon Island Opposition Calls for Logging Suspension

5/95--Pavuvu, Solomon Islands Logging Starts Despite Wide Opposition

4/95--Solomon Islands Asked to Withdraw Army, Stop Logging

3/95--Solomon Islands to Allow Logging on "Alientated" Lands

3/95--Launch of Pacific Campaign to Save Marine Turtle

3/95--Help Save Koalas from Extinction

3/95--Boycott Aussie Woodchips/Major Woodchip Expose

3/95--Australia's Largest Remaining Koala Habitat to be Destroyed

2/95--Australian Multinational Container Giant

2/95--Solomon Islands: More Trees Than Ever Being Felled and Exported

1/95--Stripping the Pacific Island Rain Forests

1/95--Australian Woodchipping Protested

1/95--Action Alert/Australia's Daintree

12/94--Wood Chipping Actions

12/94--Partial victory for NSW forests

12/94--Government Endorses "Final Solution" for Forests

12/94--Australian Forest (a bit) Saved from Woodchipping

12/94--Challenge to Support Alternative Development

11/94--Malaysian Coverage of Solomon Islands Logging

11/94--Logging Companies "Feel the Squeeze"

11/94--Vanuatu to ban log exports

11/94--Conservation Areas Set up in Pacific Region

10/94--Pacific Nations Drawing "Code of Conduct" for Timber Industry

10/94--Tourism as Logging Alternative in Solomon Islnds

10/94--Proposed Australian Tropical Timber Group

8/94--Solomon Islands Suspends Malaysian Logging Company

8/94--Australian Environmentalists Offer Solutions to Pacific Chainsaw Massacres

7/94--Corruption Surrounds South Pacific Logging

7/94--Solomon Islands Minister Alleges Timber Bribery

7/94--Bribery Attempt by Berjaya Investment in Solomon Islands

6/94--Vanuatu/Loggers Destroy Sacred Sites

5/94--Pressure mounts on Vanuatu over logging

5/94--The Solomon Islands Chainsaw Massacre

5/94--Attempts to Control Logging in Solomon Islands

4/94--Japan/ Tasmania & Woodchip Trade

4/94--Government Minister Calls for Timber Labeling

3/94--The Solomon Islands Logging Dilemma

3/94--Greenies in Log Talks with Overseas Buyers

2/94--Lee Sing Timber to Diversify Solomons Operation

1/94--Frightening Facts about Logging in Melanesia

12/93--Vanuatu Logging News

11/93--Rainforest Activists Protest Timber Ship from Malaysia

11/93--Protesters Paddle Against Malaysian Timber Shipment

10/93--Vanuatu Landowners Want a New Company

10/93--Vanuatu Ministers tour Malaysian logging

10/93--The Dangers of an Urbanised Pacific

10/93--Solomon Islands Logging Licence Moratorium

9/93--Overview to Pacific Logging; ABC Radio

8/93--Vanuatu Youth Question Logging Operations

8/93--Vanuatu Wants Only Genuine Foreign Companies

8/93--Vanuatu Orders Malaysian Barges Out

8/93--Vanuatu Delays Logging Operations

8/93--Fiji Wood Chips Destined for Japan

7/93--The Rapid Rape of the Forests of the Solomons

3/93--Timber Ship Action to Halt Rainforest Destruction

3/93--Sydney Action - Sarawak

3/93--Bongil Bongil Up for Grabs

12/92--Malaysian Dirty Tricks to Block Rainforest Timbers Ban

10/91--Timber Harvesters and Preservationists at Loggerheads in Tasmania

9/91--Time to stop "Burning Off"

9/91--Owl Stops Aussie Logging

9/91--Cabinet to Decide on Rainforest Wood Ban

8/91--Malaysian Tribal Blockades Hold Logging Company at Bay

8/91--Battle Continues for Chaelundi Forest

6/91--Chaelundi/Blockade Continuing

5/91--Chaelundi/Old Growth Forests

8/88--Debating the Fate of Tasmania's Ancient Rain Forest

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