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US, Indonesia announce $28.5 million debt swap for forests

The United States and Indonesia on signed a $28.5 million debt-for-nature swap agreement on Monday, the US Embassy ...

Younger generation plays important role in green economics programs

Around 1,200 young people from over 100 countries participating in the UNEP Tunza International Children and Youth ...

Fires raze 200 hectares of forest area in C. Java

Fires have razed a total of 200 hectares of forest area in the current dry season in Central Java, a provincial ...

British minister calls on C Kalimantan people to preserve forests

The visiting United Kingdom`s environment minister, Jim Paice, here Friday called on the Central Kalimantan people ...

Greenpeace calls for protection of sumatran forest to save tigers

On the eighth day of the Greenpeace "Tiger Eyes" tour, five Greenpeace activists arrived in the area around the ...

Sumatran tiger population now only 400 : Greenpeace

The tiger population in the wild in Sumatra is believed to have dwindled to only 400 heads due to illegal logging in ...

WWF, Greenpeace Indonesia save Sumatran tigers and elephants

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is cooperating with Greenpeace in saving the Sumatran tigers ("Panthera tigris ...

Gorontalo, Japanese investors to manage forests for carbon trading

The Gorontalo provincial administration and a number of Japanese investors plan to cooperate in forest management ...

President vows to dedicate himself to forest preservation

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said, during the last three years of his presidency, he would dedicate himself to ...

VP kicks off Tunza int`l children, youth conference

Vice President Boediono officially kicked off the TUNZA International Children and Youth on the Road to Rio+20 ...

Norwegian minister for environment praises ri`s fight against climate change

Norway`s Minister for the Environment and International Development Erik Solheim has praised Indonesia`s commitment to ...

Greenpeace launches save tigers` home tour in Sumatra

Greenpeace recently launched a "Save Tigers` Home" Tour in Sumatra with a cultural blessing ceremony from the local ...

RI hoping no country to accept illegally logged wood

Indonesia is hoping no country in the world will buy or sell wood or products made of wood obtained through illegal ...

Indonesia part of global solution to climate change

Indonesia is committed to be proactive and part of a global solution to climate change, Foreign Affairs Minister Marty ...

Illegal logging to be discussed in climate change confab

Various issues related to illegal logging activities and forest monitoring will be discussed in the "Conference on the ...