Topic: Southeast Asia
A coalition of environmental groups headed by WWF accused Indonesia's biggest paper producer Asia Pulp & Paper Wednesday of clearing forest in a tiger sanctuary set up by the company.The report, "The truth behind APP's greenwashing" by the coalition Eyes on the ...
Greenpeace on Friday accused Indonesia of waging a vendetta against the environmental group, after the head of its British branch was denied entry to Jakarta to campaign against deforestation.Greenpeace UK director John Sauven was blocked by immigration officials on arrival at Jakarta ...
The United States forgave almost $30 million in Indonesian debt Thursday, diverting the funds to tropical forest conservation on Borneo.The debt-for-nature swap is authorised under the US Tropical Forest Conservation Act, aimed at mitigating climate change by reducing deforestation which releases greenhouse ...
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia, the word's No.2 palm oil producer, will come up with a certification scheme to ensure the tropical oil is grown without clearing forests and destroying wildlife, a newspaper reported on Monday.The Business Times quoted Commodities Minister Bernard ...
The Vietnamese army is playing a key role in smuggling wood from the jungles of Laos, a multi-million dollar activity that threatens millions of livelihoods, a new report said Thursday.Hanoi denied the claim of the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), which said ...
Forest groups on Wednesday welcomed an Indonesian commitment to protect the rights of indigenous people who have long complained that their land is being stolen in the name of conservation schemes.With billions of dollars in foreign aid and carbon offsets potentially on ...
OSLO (Reuters) - Norway backed Indonesia's drive to slow deforestation on Thursday under a $1 billion deal with Oslo even though Jakarta said it faced a "maze" of reforms and lacks maps to pin down exact conservation areas."Any nation can do more. ...
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's freshly inked two-year forest moratorium was breached on its first day as a plantation company burned carbon-rich peatlands on Borneo island, an investigation by an environmental group said.Indonesia revealed a long list of exemptions to its much-delayed two-year ...
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 rate of destruction of the world's three largest forests fell 25 percent this decade compared with the previous one, but remains alarmingly high in some countries, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said.A report entitled The State of ...
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