WORLD TREE NEWS

Biofuels destroy rainforest. It would take a palm oil plantation 840 years to soak up the carbon released by the destruction of forest trees and top soil.

The UN Environment Programme has launched a major worldwide tree planting campaign, with the goal of planting 7 billion trees by the end of 2009.

The insurers of a village council bullied the councilors to fell the old Lucombe oak due to a fungus infection, but a citizen’s campaign saved the tree.

Clayoquot Sound continues to be at the forefront of old-growth forest conservation on Vancouver Island, merging First Nations' values into national law.

Environmental organisations support First Nations' land-use planning initiatives into law, furthering protection for sacred trees in the old-growth forest.

A study by the Imperial College London undercuts the believe that destruction of rainforest leads to long-term improvement of local jobs and infrastructure.