deforestation

Activists use their bodies to prevent the cutting of trees.

Following the establishment of the Xapuri Rural Workers’ Union, Brazilian activist Chico Mendes becomes a symbol for peaceful resistance to social injustice and environmental destruction.

This arboretum is founded by Mexican environmentalist Miguel Angel de Quevedo.

Following the emergence of its colonial forest service, France establishes the first forest reserves to manage the precious tropical rain forests in Cochinchina (present-day Vietnam).

An act nationalizing private forests in order to protect them ended up backfiring.

The passage of the first forest regulations in India under British rule leads to the establishment of the Imperial Forest Service.

Increased international demand for rubber leads to destruction of forests in Amazon River basin.

The American diplomat and philologist George Perkins Marsh publishes Man and Nature.

In Sylvicultura Oeconomica, written in response to the widespread scarcity of wood throughout Europe, Hans Carl von Carlowitz summarizes extant forestry knowledge and supplements it with his own observations.

Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the French Minister of Finance under King Louis XIV, oversees “L’ordonnance des eaux et forêts,” ushering in a new system of forest management.