Australia is setting up a A$200m ($160m, �80m) fund to protect the world's forests, in a bid to tackle illegal logging and global warming.The fund's main aims are to reduce deforestation and plant new forests.
PM John Howard said the idea would make more difference than signing the Kyoto protocol on greenhouse gas emissions.
Critics said Mr Howard, who has refused to sign the protocol, was trying to bolster his environmental credentials ahead of elections later this year.
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