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The author reflects on the carbon emissions policy of the Kyoto protocol, and how changes should be addressed as a new international delegation meets on the island of Bali in Indonesia in December 2007 to renegotiate a global plan of environmental protection. The problem of emissions caused by Indonesia's destruction of tropical rainforests and peat bogs is discussed.

The article reports that the Brazilian state of Pará has announced legal protection for 15 million hectares of Amazonian rainforest. The seven newly protected zones include two which together support 54 percent of all Amazonian animal and plant species. The government aims to increase satellite and ground vigilance of the newly protected zone, and to increase support for "conservation stewardship" by tribes who live in the forests.

Discusses the failure of a report from the House of Commons Environment Committee to endorse any practical steps for saving the tropical rainforests. Criticism from Friends of the Earth concerning imports of tropical timber from environmentally destructive sources.