Forests
Finding Balance - Forests and Family Planning in Madagascar
Filmed in Madagascar, this 9-minute documentary explores the linkages between population growth and environmental destruction in one of the worlds most biologically unique places.
Finding Balance was produced by Population Action International to raise awareness about the interconnections between womens health and environmental sustainability. [Read more.]
Why Population Matters-- Forests and Trees
The world's forests are retreating rapidly in response to the expansion of human activities, driven in large part by population growth. An estimated 59,500 million square miles of tropical forest, nearly equivalent in size to the state of Florida, disappeared each year during the 1980s....[Read more.]
Why Population Growth Matters to the Future of Forests
The world's forests provide goods and services essential to human and planetary well-being. But forests are disappearing faster today than ever before. Due both to deforestation and human population growth, the current ratio of forests to human beings is less thn half what it was in 1960. [Read more]
Forest Futures: Population, Consumption and Wood Resources
The accelerating loss of the worlds forests presents one of the major environmental challenges of the next century. The growth of human populationfrom a few million people in prehistory to 6 billion todaylooms large among the factors contributing to this loss. [Read more.]
