To: The Honorable Mr. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva President of the Federal Republic of Brazil

The North Cascades Keystone Forest, ranging from Interstate 90 in Washington north to the Canadian border, is among the wildest places in America. During the months when the North Cascades Highway (SR 20) is under snow, the area features the...

The Sierra Keystone Forest, part of the larger Sierra Nevada forest ecoregion, hosts one of the most diverse and extensive forest ecosystems in North America. These magnificent forests, forming a mixed conifer forest landscape, provide habitat...

Known as the “American Serengeti,” stretching across Idaho and Montana into the extreme northwest section of eastern Washington, the Northwest Rockies Keystone Forest is part of the greater North Central Rockies forest ecoregion. This keystone...

The Florida panhandle, centered on the Apalachicola River Basin and part of the larger Southeastern Conifer forest ecoregion, is a well-known hotspot for biodiversity. It is home to the richest endemic plant life in the south and 75 percent of...

The Blue Ridge-Appalachia Keystone Forest overlaps both the larger Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests and the Appalachian Blue Ridge forest ecoregions. They are some of the oldest and most biologically diverse temperate forests in the world.

In northern Lapland, many Sámi indigenous peoples still practice traditional reindeer herding, relying on remaining old-growth forests to provide vital food for their reindeer during the cold winter months. The Sámi reindeer herders have been...

Manaus, Brazil, February 18, 2005. Greenpeace welcomed today the Brazilian government’s commitment to protect more than 12 million acres of Amazon rainforest and issue a six-month deforestation moratorium for an additional 19.8 million acres.

The northern limit of North America’s coastal temperate rainforest is in Alaska. This is the rarest forest type on Earth with 38 percent of this ancient forest in Alaska. This keystone forest is part of the larger Northern Pacific Coastal forest...