Internet Links Links to selected websites related to reforestation and sustainable forest management. United Nations 2011 - International Year of the Forest U.N. General Assembly Resolution. IUCN Forest Conservation Programme Livelihood and landscape series No.1; Carbon, Forests and People. Towards the integrated management of carbon sequestration, the environment and sustainable livelihoods PowerPoint Slide Program showing the effects of conversion of forests to agriculture - world wide. Billion Tree Campaign United Nations Convention to Combat Desertificantion Desertification, in the words of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, is one of the world’s most alarming processes of environmental degradation. The issue is often obscured, however, by a common misperception: that it’s a natural problem of advancing deserts in faraway developing countries. In fact, Desertification is about land degradation: the loss of the land’s biological productivity, caused by human-induced factors and climate change. It affects one third of the earth’s surface and over a billion people. Moreover, it has potentially devastating consequences in terms of social and economic costs. Magazine Articles about LCHPP A Mission for Monarchs, American Forests Magazine Green Facts Scientific Facts on Forests Scientific Facts on Desertification Scientific Facts on Biodiversity Carbon Calculators Climate Change Calculator - American Forests This Personal Climate Change Calculator is an easy to use tool to help you measure your climate-affecting carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Stop Global Warming - Action Items There are many simple things you can do in your daily life — what you eat, what you drive, how you build your home — that can have an effect on your immediate surrounding, and on places as far away as Antactica. Here is a list of few things that you can do to make a difference. Tours to Monarch Sanctuaries that support LCHPP Spirit of Butterflies Tours ECO-EDUCATIONAL TOURISM AT ITS BEST. Visit the Magic of Monarchs in Mexico…renew yourself and help save the butterflies. First Prize Winner of Smithsonian Institute Magazine/US Tour Operators Association Conservation Award 2002 |Welcome| |Mission| |Location| |Reforestation| |Quality Trees| |Trees for Monarchs| |Highland Lakes| |Education| |Forest Biodiversity| |Accomplishments| |History| |Trees for Peace| |News| |Slide Show| |About Us| |Contributions| |Internet Links|