Topic: Indonesia
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian officials and forestry experts are to investigate claims that illegal logging contributed to floods that have killed at least 145 people, the Forestry Ministry said on Monday.This comes ahead of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's visit to the flood-wreaked ...
Indonesia now has the world's second largest levels of greenhouse gas emissions, adding to global warming. Much of the forest loss stems from the expansion of Indonesia's plywood, pulp and palm oil industries. During a climate conference last May in Oslo, Indonesia ...
Over the past decade, scientists on Borneo have found insects, plants, fish, and even a bird that are new to science at the rate of about three per month. But in the past 5 years, Indonesia has reduced illegal logging, and there ...
Air pollution can be defined as any harmful material that is present in the earth’s atmosphere. While the earth does have built-in mechanisms for getting rid of air pollution, it is usually better for all living things to reduce the amount of ...
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The consistent monsoon climate and almost even distribution of rainfall in Indonesia make it possible for the same types of crops to be grown throughout the country. Intensive cultivation is restricted to Java, Bali, Lombok, and certain areas of Sumatra and Celebes. ...
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 concrete ...
Illegal logging in deforestation hotspots like the Brazilian Amazon, Indonesia and central Africa has fallen by between 50 and 75 per cent in the past decade, according to a new study by the international affairs think tank Chatham House in London. In ...
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 timber, ...
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 ...
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