Topic: Indonesia
BANCO, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - They inhabit a polluted part of Ivory Coast's main city with few jobs and a swelling population, but residents of Abidjan's slums have a rare respite: a stretch of pristine rainforest. From their wooden shacks and unpainted ...
OSLO (Reuters) - Illegal logging has fallen by 22 percent worldwide in the past decade but remains a huge problem from Brazil to Indonesia, a study showed on Thursday. It also said that China was the main importer and processor of illegal ...
Worldwide action has dramatically cut illegal logging across the globe, report saysTougher enforcement and strict new rules have led to a dramatic drop in illegal logging, a British think tank says, saving huge swaths of green and cutting carbon dioxide emissions across ...
Greenpeace on Thursday said a promised moratorium on deforestation would have little impact on Indonesia's huge carbon footprint unless it is extended to existing concessions. The environmental group also urged President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to begin the moratorium immediately instead of next ...
International meeting to enact deforestation measures opens in OsloLast December, an international conference on climate change approved global plans prevent deforestation. But those plans have not been implemented, and now a smaller meeting of nations in Oslo will try Thursday to find ...
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Wednesday he would introduce a two-year moratorium on deforestation, a large source of income for his country which also contributes heavily to global warming. "We will ... conduct a moratorium for two years where we stop ...
Indonesia's anti-graft commission is investigating rampant corruption in the forestry sector that has cost the state more than 100 billion dollars, an official said Thursday. Corruption Eradication Commission deputy chairman Mohammad Jasin said investigators had found "indications of violations" of forestry rules ...
Anglo-Dutch food and cosmetics giant Unilever said Wednesday it would continue to get 65 percent of its total palm oil purchases from Indonesia, despite concerns about deforestation by the industry. The comment came after Unilever suspended future purchases from palm oil giant ...
Anglo-Dutch food and cosmetics giant Unilever said Wednesday it would continue to get 65 percent of its total palm oil purchases from Indonesia, despite concerns about deforestation by the industry. The comment came after Unilever suspended future purchases from palm oil giant ...
Dayak tribesman Hanye Jaang didn't know it, but he used to be part of a multi-billion-dollar "mafia" that is ravaging Indonesia's forests and, scientists say, warming the climate. The wiry 36-year-old still cuts down trees but now he's doing it legally in ...
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