State of the rainforest 2014 - page 2

Contents
State of the rainforest 2014 Preface
Findings and main messages
Recommendations
Part 1
Importance of the rainforest and biodiversity
Why forests are critical for development
Rainforest biodiversity – treasure under threat
What do we get from the rainforest?
The rainforest and climate change
People in the rainforests
Food in the forest
Part 2
Deforestation: Time for policy change
State of the world’s rainforest
Brazil: Forest hero, but still a deforestation champion
Is REDD+ saving the rainforest?
Part 3
People who protect forests
The Amazon
Brazil: Indigenous peoples plan their own future
Peru: Watching the gates to isolated tribes
Central Africa’s rainforest
DR Congo: Forced to leave their land
Southeast Asia and Oceania
Indonesia: A view from the forest
Local perspectives in rainforest research
Papua New Guinea: Told the loggers to leave
Part 4
Drivers of deforestation
Why are tropical forests disappearing?
The path to no-deforestation investments
Forest crime
Notes
Bibliography
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Editor: Ellen Hofsvang
Cartographer: Riccardo Pravettoni
Layout: GRID-Arendal
Contributors text: Frances Seymour, Miriam van Heist, Tasso Azevedo,
David Hill, Kamilla Berggrav, Riccardo Pravettoni, Marine Gauthier,
Siri Gilbert, Maria Guzmán-Gallegos, Bård Lahn, Christian Nellemann,
Hanne Jørstad, Johan Knagenhjelm, Vemund Olsen, Lars Løvold, Nils
Hermann Ranum, Ellen Hofsvang.
Thanks to: Erik Steineger, Svein Erik Stave, Jan Thomas Odegard, Axel
Borchgrevink, Lorelou Desjardins, Hanne Brown, Solveig Firing Lunde,
Victorine Che Thöner, for review and ideas.
Thanks to: Warsi and YMP (Indonesia), CPI (Brazil), ORAU (Peru),
Africapacity (DRC) and partner organisations in DRC and PNG for
contribution to the report and facilitation of field visits.
Photo credits: Bo Mathisen (cover, 9, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 35, 42),
Johan Wildhagen (9, 15, 39, 52) Thomas Marent (7, 10, 12) Lars Løvold
(18, 45) Jørgen Braastad (23, 75) Arild Hagen (13, 16, 93) Ellen Hofsvang
(15, 19, 59–64, 67) David Hill (p 48–49) Riccardo Pravettoni (55, 56)
Siri Gilbert (65) Douglas Sheil (66) Johan Knagenhjelm (68–70)
Geir Erichsrud (71). Others: RFN and GRID-Arendal.
© Rainforest Foundation Norway and GRID-Arendal. September, 2014
The report is produced with funding from Norad – The Norwegian
Agency for Development Cooperation.