---

• n  the state of being clear of trees
• n  the removal of trees

• At the UN climate change summit in Bali, global deforestation an oft-forgotten source of CO2 emissions is finally getting attention.
• He first addressed deforestation as a graduate student at Columbia University.
• Yet rampant deforestation, a swelling human population and the early effects of climate change have already pushed countless species out of existence.

• disforestation

News & Articles

---

• Satellite spots 'hidden' fires in Amazon that outdo deforestation
  Small fires in the Amazon rain forest are having a huge impact.A new satellite imaging technique has allowed scientists to see Amazonian fires burning beneath the jungle canopy, called "understory fires," which were previously difficult to detect. These fires destroy several times more forest than is taken out by deforestation each year, according to a new study, published recently in the ...
  June 11, 2013 - MSNBC
• The Amazon's Secret Killer
  The biggest killers of Amazon trees might not be the massive walls of flame set by humans for deforestation, but stealthy understory fires that eat away at the trees like a cancer beneath the canopy. Continue reading ?
  June 11, 2013 - Discovery News
• Costa Rica's Biodiversity
  Farmers in Costa Rica are encouraged to set aside part of their land from production to help maintain biodiversity and prevent deforestation. Costa Rican Farmland Low intensity farmland near San Vito, Costa Rica, where as much as a third of the land consists of forest fragments, directly integrating biodiversity and its services into food production. Farmers in Costa Rica are encouraged to set ...
  June 10, 2013 - The Online NewsHour

Quotes

---

• Pope Benedict XVI in PinkNews.co.uk
  There are scars which mark the surface of our earth, erosion, deforestation, the squandering of the world's mineral and ocean resources in order to fuel an insatiable consumption,the Pope said.
• Jens Stoltenberg in International Herald Tribune
  Efforts against deforestation may give us the largest, quickest and cheapest reductions in greenhouse gas emissions,Stoltenberg told reporters. "Brazilian efforts against deforestation are therefore of vital importance if we shall succeed...
• John Key in TVNZ
  Key says he was not going to stop imports of palm kernel, because it was "used for about 1% of feed in New Zealand". "It's a waste product, in my opinion it's not leading to deforestation and on that basis I have no intention of intervening."