#deforestation

Collection of deforestation news, found 623 news.

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 ...

Forest trampling threatening Raflesia Arnoldi`s habitat

Trampling activity in Bukit Daun register 5 Protected Forest in Kepahiang and Central Bengkulu district is ...

Greenpeace: time for government to back efforts to stop deforestation

Greenpeace Southeast Asia hailed the recent news that the palmoil arm of Sinar Mas, Golden Agri-Resources, would halt ...

Japan offers emission reduction exchange mechanism with RI

Japanese entrepreneurs grouped in Keidanren offer to establish a mechanism for emission reduction exchange with ...

VP : RI remains committed to implementing REDD+

Indonesia remains committed to implementing the Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation ...

Bengkulu's conservation agency sets trap to catch tiger

Bengkulu`s Natural Resources and Conservation Agency (BKSDA) has set up a trap to catch a Sumatran Tiger (Panthera ...

Sumatran tiger population in Jambi keeps declining

The population of critically endangered Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris Sumatrae) in Jambi province keeps declining. ...