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Orangutan number declining in Sumatra island

The number of Orangutans living in the wild in Sumatra island has gone down from 1,000 in early 2000 to less than 200 ...

RI loses 4.9 mln ha despite forest moratorium

Indonesia has lost some 4.9 million hectares of its forests and peatlands, it was found during a revision of the ...

NGOs present forest destruction evidence to govt

Environmental NGOs consisting of Greenpeace, Walhi, KKI Warsi and WBH here Wednesday (Nov. 23) presented evidence of ...

Govt issues action plan for gas emission reduction

The government has issued an action plan for nationwide greenhouse gas emission reduction to achieve the emission ...

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 ...

Govt determined to fight forest fires as hot spots proliferate

The Indonesian government appears to be determined to reduce the number of forest fire hot spots by 20 percent ...

Moratorium "important political shift" but not enough

Greenpeace Southeast Asia has hailed the recently signed Presidential Instruction on Deforestation Moratorium as "an ...

Four kinds of exceptions to apply in forest clearing moratorium

The government is to make four kinds of exceptions in the implementation of Presidential Instruction No. 10/2011 on ...

Presidential regulation on forest clearing moratorium signed

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has already signed a presidential regulation that imposes a moratorium on forest ...

U.S., RI discuss future of peatland mangroves

The U.S. and Indonesia conducted a joint workshop on April 11-14, which brought together leading international ...

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 ...