#conservation

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News Focus : RI`s failure to host global environment day regretted

Indonesia`s failure to be named host of World Environment Day (WED) 2011 is regrettable because the nation has lost a ...

Three hot spots detected in West Kalimantan

The Singaporean NOAA 18 (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) satellite has detected three hot spots in ...

Javan rhinos breed at Ujung Kulon: WWF

Rare and endangered Javan rhinos (Rhinoceros sondaicus) are found to have bred calves in Ujung Kulon National Park, ...

Sumatran elephants in Bengkulu increasingly isolated

Tens of Sumatran elephants (Elephas maximus) living in limited production forests at the special function Elephant ...

Govt boosting national fish consumption

The government is trying to increase the country`s national fish production and the people`s per capita fish ...

Indonesia should emulate Brazil in preserving natural forests : Obssrver

Indonesia should consider emulating Brazil in preserving the natural environment, its natural forests in particular, a ...

Deforestation, plantations limit Sumatran elephants` habitat in Bengkulu

Sumatran elephants living in Seblat Conservation and Limited Production Forests (HPT) in North Bengkulu district are ...

Govt Yet To Approve Seblat Elephant Preserve

The Forestry Ministry has not yet approved a proposal to raise the status of the Seblat limited production forest ...

Lao foreign minister visits Borobudur

Lao foreign minister Thongloun Sisoulith visited Borobudur Buddhist temple in Magelang, Central Java, on Tuesday to ...

Illegal logging widespread in Enggano

Illegal logging in Enggano Island, Bengkulu regency, Bengkulu province, had been increasing and threatened the forests ...

S Sumatra govt urged to overcome environmental damage

The South Sumatra branch of the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (WALHI) has urged the local government to ...

RI`s 112 bird species threatened by shrinking habitats

Out Of a total of 1,594 bird species existing in Indonesia, 112 are on the brink of extinction and included in the ...

Task force chief: only few aware of REDD

Chief of the REDD Plus Task Force Kuntoro Mangkusubroto has said only few people were aware of REDD (Reducing Emission ...

REDD implementation challenged by industry lobbyists

The implementation of REDD Plus (Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) has often faced ...

Wild elephants in Bengkulu remain in Danger

Bengkulu province in Sumatra island still had about 100 - 165 elephants but the population of those animals was ...