#land use

Collection of land use news, found 261 news.

Lessons learnt on managing mangroves sustainably

Indonesia`s mangrove swamp is the largest in the world, covering some 3.2 million hectares, or 22 percent of the total ...

Uncertain laws make employers to be restless: Association

Chief of Indonesian Employers Association (Apindo) Sofyan Wanandi said on Wednesday businessmen had been made restless ...

Take firm action against forest fire perpetrators

The Indonesian Forum for Environment (Walhi) has asked the government to take the firmest possible action against ...

RI forest moratorium overlapping

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in May 2013 extended the country`s forest moratorium but it was ...

Greenpeace asks Indonesia to carry out forest moratorium

Greenpeace Indonesia has asked the government to firmly carry out its commitment of forest moratorium because ...

Hotspots show weaknesses of Indonesia`s forest moratorium: Greenpeace

Greenpeace said Thursday half of the hotspots detected on June 11-18, whose smoke travelled to Singapore and Malaysia ...

Bogor hosts soil, water assessment toll conference

The Third Conference and Workshop on Soil and Water Assessment Toll for Southeast and East Asia (SWAT-SEEA) is being ...

Moratorium Extension Needed For Better Forest Governance

A tag of war between environmental groups and forest industrialists have resumed as Indonesia`s regulation on a ...

Indonesia suffers sixty floodings in a decade

Indonesia has suffered sixty times of floodings as shown by data collected over a last decade and is thus recorded as ...

Indonesia urged to extend, strengthen moratorium on deforestation

A number of non-governmental organizations have urged the Indonesian government to extend two-year moratorium on ...

Indonesia to restore polluted rivers

Indonesia is a tropical country having at least 5,590 rivers and 65,017 tributaries with a total length of the rivers ...

Indonesia to Continue The Moratorium of Primary and Peat Forest Conversion

- The Minister of Forestry, Zulkifli Hasan, once again asserted the commitment of Indonesia to ensure the ...

Bombay Sapphire® Gin Distillery Achieves World's First 'Outstanding' Design-Stage BREEAM Sustainability Accolade

-     Site named as one of world's most sustainable distilleries ahead of opening in Autumn 2013, ...

REDD+ working unit urges Indonesia govt to extend forest moratorium

The Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) National Strategy Working Unit urged the ...

NIIT Technologies Implements Cargo Ground Handling System for Cathay Pacific Services Limited

-System enhances operational efficiency, performance and productivity     NIIT Technologies Ltd. ...