#encroachment

Collection of encroachment news, found 29 news.

Indonesian pushes social forestry to realize ecological justice

Indonesian Forestry Minister Raja Juli Antoni said on Thursday the country’s social forestry program has become a ...

Aceh authorities clear 18.5 hectares of illegal oil palm

Authorities in Aceh have removed 18.5 hectares of illegal oil palm planted inside a protected forest in Babahrot ...

Indonesia reclaims encroached forest in Bengkulu’s elephant habitat

Indonesia's Ministry of Forestry has reclaimed 2,390 hectares of encroached forest land in the Seblat Landscape, ...

RI Govt to clear buildings along riverbanks to prevent flooding

Indonesia’s Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning Nusron Wahid has ordered the clearing of buildings ...

Forestry Ministry arrests suspect in illegal land trade in OKH Jambi

The Ministry of Forestry has named a resident of Tanjung Jabung District, identified by the initials YL, as a suspect ...

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 ...

News Feature - Mangrove forests in Bombana need preservation by otniel tamindael

The mangrove forests scattered in Bombana District, Southeast Sulawesi Province, need to be preserved as a habitat for ...

Forest conversion to mining decreases anoa population

The conversion of forest areas has threatened the population of anoa (Bubalus depressicornis) and other endangered ...

Walhi: 46 pct of river basins in Aceh damaged

The Indonesian Forum for Environment (Walhi) has said that 46 percent of the river basins in Aceh province have ...

Human, tiger conflicts kill one person and one tiger in 2011

A total of 10 man-versus-tiger conflicts occurred in Bengkulu province in 2011 causing the death of one person and ...

One dead as elephants run amok in India city

Two wild elephants trampled one person to death in a three-hour rampage in the southern Indian city of Mysore early ...

Elephant habitat in Bengkulu shrinking

The habitat of wild elephants in Bengkulu province is shrinking because encroachments into limited production forests ...

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 ...

Sumatran elephants in Bengkulu increasingly isolated

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