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A handler deployed to repel tigers from a village in South Aceh

The South Aceh district government has sent a tiger handler named Teungku Syarwani Sabil (83) to help handle conflicts ...

BKSDA confirms another Sumatran tiger killed in Riau, Indonesia

Riau Province's Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) confirmed the accuracy of a photo circulated by a ...

RI to receive US$103.78-million GCF fund for lowering gas emissions

approved US$103.78 million of funding for Indonesia to acknowledge its achievement, the minister stated here on ...

Ministry releases West Kalimantan's 6,901 ha of protected forest area

The Environmental Affairs and Forestry (LHK) Ministry officially issued a decree (SK) on releasing 6,901 hectares of ...

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Forestry partnerships in Jambi help small farmers, resolve conflicts

Many smallholder farmers in Indonesia, who depend on selling fresh oil palm fruit bunches to earn a living, are ...

Tabanan applies integrated farming concept for ecotourism development

Tabanan District in Bali Province has vowed to boost its ecotourism sector by developing a tourist village based on the ...

Local community of 10 villages involved in Meru Betiri conservation

The Meru Betiri National Park management in East Java has involved the residents of 10 adjoining villages in its ...

Mangrove forests to hereafter not be converted into ponds: Minister

Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Eddhy Prabowo has made assurance that mangrove forests would henceforth not be ...

Jokowi reminds aides of carbon emission reduction target in 2020

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has jogged his aides’ memory on Indonesia's target to lower greenhouse gas ...

Norway to pay Rp812 billion for gas emission reduction in Indonesia

The Government of Norway will for the first time pay up to Rp812.86 billion or 530 million NOK to Indonesia ...

Govt prioritizes changing public mindset on reducing land degradation

The government has channeled its efforts to change the public outlook in preventing environmental degradation, ...

Two truck drivers in C Kalimantan arrested for illegal logging cases

The police in North Barito District, Central Kalimantan Province, stopped two trucks carrying several pieces of ...

Wild Sumatran tiger captured in West Sumatra's Solok District

A Sumatran tiger (Pantera Tigris Sumatrae) got ensnared in a trap recently installed by the West Sumatra Natural ...

Deforestation pushing Javan leopards to wander into human settlements

The forestry research center of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry has revealed that deforestation has led to a ...

Indonesia to optimally utilize Norway's climate fund

The Indonesian government will optimally utilize the climate fund obtained from Norway under a letter of intent (LoI) ...