Unequivocal Support for Recent Forest-Conservation Initiatives in Indonesia

Whereas, the Republic of Indonesia sustains some of the richest biological and cultural diversity of any nation on Earth, distributed across an archipelago of over 17,000 islands that span both the Asian and Australasian biogeographic regions; and

The Urgent Need to Maximize Biodiversity Conservation in Forest Carbon-Trading

A joint communiqué of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) and the Society for Tropical Ecology (GTÖ) during their joint annual meeting in Marburg, Germany, 26-29 July 2009

WHEREAS, tropical forests are among the biologically-richest ecosystems on earth, sustaining at least half of all plant, animal, and fungal species in an area spanning just 7% of the planet's land surface; and

Declaration to Establish Permanent Protected Status and Preservation Guidelines for Brownsberg, Nassau and Lely Mountains in Suriname

To His Excellency: Drs Ronald Venetiaan, President of the Republic of Suriname

WHEREAS Suriname along with Guyana, French Guiana, eastern Venezuela, and northern Brazil lies in a unique region referred to as the Guiana Shield, is one of the world’s least disturbed regions, has the lowest population density of any country in the world, and may represent one of the very few areas where extensive tracts of natural forests and other ecosystems can be conserved for future generations.

Protection of Threatened Tropical Dry-Forests in Jalisco, Mexico

WHEREAS the Chamela-Cuixmala Biosphere Reserve of coastal Jalisco, Mexico is one of the most important protected areas and best-studied tropical dry forests in the Neotropics, and provides habitat for more than 1200 species of plants, of which 314 are endemic to Mexico; 427 species of vertebrates, of which about 79 are endemic to Mexico; and more than 2000 species of insects; and...

The Critical Need for Forest Conservation and Strategic Research in Tropical Asia

WHEREAS, the biological diversity of tropical forests in Asia is among the very richest and most spectacular on the planet, and likely accounts for at least a quarter of all species on Earth; and

The Critical Need to Slow the Pace of Amazon Deforestation

WHEREAS, the forests of Amazonia are of critical importance as an unparalleled refuge for biological diversity, as an enormous heat-engine that helps to maintain regional and global precipitation patterns, and as a massive stock of terrestrial carbon that slows the rapid build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere; and