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No need for govt to prioritize 26 pct carbon reduction target

The government does not need to prioritize the target of reducing carbon dioxide by 26 percent in 2020 as Indonesia ...

WWF urges policymakers to support bold forest conservation target

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is urging policymakers and business leaders to quickly back a bold target to ...

Forestry minister pledges pro-people, pro-growth policies

Indonesia has joined the world in celebrating the International Year of Forest 2011 as declared by The United Nations ...

Govt committed to keeping Papua`s forest regions intact

Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan said his ministry remains committed to keeping Papua`s primary forest regions ...

Addressing malaria global elimination

- Malaria is known as a frightening specter across the world, especially in countries with vast tropical forests, such ...

Malignant malaria still haunts Indonesia

For many years, malaria has been a frightening specter across the world, especially in countries with vast areas of ...

RI forests under heavy pressure: NGO

Indonesia`s forests are under heavy pressure due to illegal logging, encroachment and land conversion activities that ...

Papua`s tourism potentials the best in world

Chairman of the Jayapura Association of Indonesian Development Youths Hendrik Yance Udam said that the tourism ...

People`s green lifestyle awareness for better earth

In recent years after the awareness of the effect of global warming there was a certain lifestyle adopted to support ...

Riau Walhi activists observe Earth Day

Dozens of environmental activists from Riau`s Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) took to the streets here ...

RI`s many old oil wells can still be made productive

Indonesia`s oil production can be boosted by reactivating the many old but still productive oil wells it has ...

Students to promote mangrove preservation through concert

Diponegoro University (UNDIP) students grouped in a mangrove forest preservation community called KeSEMat are to ...

Indonesia`s agarwood potential to increase

From the tropical rain forests in Sumatra and Kalimantan to Papua and the pastures of Nusa Tenggara, land in ...

Lampung University students to transplant coral reefs

Students of the Biology Division, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Lampung (Unila), will ...

Indonesia`s mangroves need proper management

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