Forest Alert

ForestAlert.org is a non-profit Web site-based group set up to provide a wide audience with information on the trade in the rapidly dwindling tropical forests of Asia and Russia, particularly the trade ending up in Japan and China. The aim is to provide researchers, NGOs, corporations and informed, interested individuals with objective analysis of which countries and which companies are engaged in this unsustainable trade, and provide a means of sending messages to companies involved. The information has been collated from the UK and from Tokyo and the research will be an on-going process. We envisage the site's content will be improved in response to user demand. We do NOT envisage ever charging fees for viewing any of the information on the site and want to make it accessible by as wide an audience as possible.

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