First Tassie Treesit of the Season Costs Logging Company $10,000

-The Age
Forestry Tasmania wants protesters who blocked access to a harvesting area of state forest to repay the estimated $10,000 cost of their actions.
A protester tethered to a boom gate and 16 other activists from the group Still Wild, Still Threatened abandoned their blockade of a site in the Upper Florentine Valley, 120km west of [...]

Judge Rule Berkeley Treesitters Must Pay $26,000

By Will Kane, Daily Cal Staff Writer
A judge ruled Thursday that five protesters associated with the tree-sit must pay the University of California more than $26,000 in legal fees associated with the 22-month tree-sit.
Judge Cecilia Castellanos required that tree-sitter Michael “Shem” Schuck pay $8,500. She also ruled that unofficial tree-sit leader Erik “Ayr” Eisenberg pay [...]

Friend’s of The Earth becomes First major NGO to no longer support FSC certification

-from Earth’s Tree News (http://olyecology.livejournal.com)
Friends of the Earth (FoE) is the first major international NGO to confirm they no longer support Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification [search], which falsely suggests primary and old-growth forest logging is desirable and even sustainable. This is a major victory for those including Ecological Internet (EI) and FSC-Watch[1] who have [...]

Humboldt Tree-sitters Victorious!!! (We hope)

by David Askaripour-Forest Defender
Can you believe it! Both current Humboldt County tree-sits are officially saved and protected. Yesterday I, other Forest Defenders, and a crew from National Geographic accompanied Chief Forester and President of the newly formed Humboldt Redwood Company, Mike Jani, to Fern Gully Tree Village, Freshwater, CA, and the grove around the tree [...]

Avoiding Deforestation to Limit Climate Change ‘Cheap and Practical’

COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 23, 2008 (ENS) – Wealthy nations could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions globally by paying landowners in developing nations not to clear forested land for agriculture, finds a new study by a research team from Austria, Brazil and the United States.
The research attaches estimated dollar amounts to each metric ton of carbon [...]

Population boom will pressure forests: reports

Published: Monday, July 14, 2008
LONDON – Booming demand for food, fuel and wood as the world’s population surges from six to nine billion will put unprecedented and unsustainable demand on the world’s remaining forests, two new reports said on Monday.