Topic: Borneo
The 32 countries sharing the world's three largest rainforest basins agreed Friday to cooperate in tackling deforestation and called on industrialised nations to help finance their efforts.The agreement came in a declaration at the end of a first meeting in the Congolese ...
BRAZZAVILLE (Reuters) - The Republic of Congo will plant 1 million hectares of trees by 2020 to restore degraded forest and provide wood for paper and fuel, the president said on Friday.President Denis Sassou N'Guesso made the announcement on the final day ...
GEMENA, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Reuters) - Simon Kasagana knows his meager livelihood depends on the forest, but like many others eking out a living in the vast Congo basin, he has little choice but to destroy it.He used to be ...
Indonesia admitted Tuesday that hundreds of mine and plantation companies are operating illegally on Borneo island, and promised to beef up law enforcement to protect forests and threatened species.The forestry ministry made the startling admission that less than 20 percent of plantation ...
Indonesia has chosen its Borneo island to conduct a pilot project aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, as part of a deal with Norway, an official said Thursday.Norway agreed in May to contribute up to a billion dollars to help ...
I am Filipino, and I grew up in the Philippines. Still. Check out ; a Philippine province where a dribble of political will allowed for the creation of several world-class eco-tourism hotspots. And the Masarang Foundation is an Indonesian non-profit organization dedicated ...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Six provincial governors from Indonesia, Laos and the Philippines on Thursday backed an expanded U.N. scheme aimed at protecting and conserving forests in return for carbon credits.In a joint statement after a meeting on the sidelines of an annual ...
Logging and agribusiness is threatening environmental destruction in Indonesia's Papua region, one of the world's last vast wildernesses, local leaders said on Thursday.The governors of the two provinces in the region on the western end of New Guinea island told an international ...
Logging and agribusiness is threatening environmental destruction in Indonesia's Papua region, one of the world's last vast wildernesses, local leaders said on Thursday.The governors of the two provinces in the region on the western end of New Guinea island told an international ...
Illegal logging and palm oil plantations are destroying the forests of Borneo and Sumatra. Many rainforests are experiencing this fate, most notably in Indonesia, which contains the world's third-largest area of rainforest. It is here that degradation and deforestation is occurring at ...
![Sabah, Malaysian Borneo [2011]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/jzUjzElgbMY/0.jpg)
