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India successfully puts 3 satellites into orbit

Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on Wednesday successfully put into orbit three satellites using its trusted ...

Indonesia`s mangroves need proper management

Mangrove forests - a common natural feature of tropical and subtropical coastlines - are among the most biologically ...

Mangrove Fforest conservation needed to overcome climate change

Indonesia should prioritize mangrove forest conservation as a way to overcome climate change, a researcher has said. ...

Forests can`t afford delay in moratorium`s implementation

The government is supposed to impose a moratorium on deforestation starting January 2011, but it has been delayed for ...

Minister presents aid for Medan flood victims

Coordinating Minister for People`s Welfare Agung Laksono presented financial assistance amounting to Rp300 million to ...

Police mobilize two personnel to help flood victims

North Sumatra Police have mobilized personnel to help flood victims in the province, a police spokesman said. ...

Redd to cut 3.5 million new jobs

The application of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) scheme in Indonesia will only ...

Trade NGO: Green Protectionism in Timber and Paper Industry Threatens Trade War With China

-     Brussels and Washington Should Think Twice Before Acting     As the ...

Redd+ Indonesia website to be launched in April

A website of REDD+ Indonesia, will be officially launched in April 2011, according to the forestry ministry in a press ...

Aceh elementary schoolers campaign on global warming issues

Hundreds of elementary school students in Aceh Besar district campaigned on global warming and climate change issues ...

RI preparing Rp841.2 trillion to lower emissions

Under a commitment of the government under President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to lower emissions in Indonesia by 26 ...

RI`s peat forests can play important role in climate change

Peat swamp forests in Indonesia consist for 50 percent of tropical peat swamps and 10 percent of dry land, an ...

US journalist promoting Indonesia`s biodiversity conservation

Rhett Butler, a journalist who founded the popular environmental news site mongabay.com, traveled through Indonesia to ...

NGO: state loss from deforestation reaches Rp71 trillion

Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) has estimated that Indonesia suffered loss amounting up to around Rp71 trillion from ...

Mangrove forests in Sulawesi to vanish by 2038

Mangrove forests in Tomini Bay areas, covering Gorontalo, North Sulawesi and Central Sulawesi, are going to vanish by ...