Deforestation
Alternative labels
Logging
Fact sheet
Fact Check: Is Queensland clearing land as fast as Brazil?
The Queensland Greens' website claims land clearing in Queensland is on par with Brazil, with more than 1 million hectares of native bush and forest being cleared over the last four years
Article
The possum or the timber industry
Victoria's state emblem, the Leadbeater's possum, is one of the most critically endangered animals in Australia. Fire and logging have decimated its habitat, causing Leadbeater's numbers to plummet. A fierce and secretive political debate is now raging over whether the possum and the industry can both survive, or if one has to go. Rachel Carbonell...
Report
Blood timber: how Europe helped fund war in the Central African Republic
This investigation reveals how logging companies have paid millions of euros into the hands of rebels guilty of mass murder, kidnappings, rapes and the forced recruitment of child soldiers.
Report
Climate change, carbon and wildfires
This report argues that atmospheric carbon estimates should include wildfires as a significant source of atmospheric greenhouse gas, and effort to reduce atmospheric carbon must include measures to curb wildfires.
Journal article
Researching illegal logging and deforestation
Tropical deforestation such as in the Amazon can be studied well from a green criminological perspective, argues this paper, giving an account of various ethnographic visits to the rainforests of the Amazon in the period 2003-2014. Abstract