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3/2/2012
The Indonesian government plans to create a massive plantation firm next month when it will combine the assets of state-owned rubber and palm oil companies, reports Reuters.
The new corporation, which will be consolidated under the ...
3/2/2012
Confiscated timber stocks in Madagascar must be managed in a "transparent manner" to deter future illegal logging and boosting demand for endangered rainforest timber, says a letter published by a coalition of NGOs.
The letter, released ...
3/2/2012
Five villagers were shot in Indonesia's Riau Province on the island of Sumatra during a clash in a land dispute over an oil palm plantation, reports The Jakarta Post and Republika.
The violence occurred when heavy machinery owned by PT ...
3/2/2012
Opening the door to the animal house, passing a rhino on the way and patting the giraffe inside, Sarah Forsyth points out small white boxes that dot the walls. "Everywhere you look there's a detector or a motion sensor," she says, chuckling in ...
2/2/2012
Cambodian authorities have arrested at least six protesters in an on-going dispute over forced evictions in Phnom Penh, that saw two of the female demonstrators tear off their shirts in a rare act of defiance in this modest society.
The ...
2/2/2012
The story of a pair of buffalo aggressively prowling the edges of a village in eastern Burkina Faso is a warning sign of severe water stress in the region which threatens humans and wild animals alike.
People in nearly half of Burkina ...
2/2/2012
Indonesia's government plans to create one of the world's largest palm oil and rubber firms in March by combining state planters with total assets of $5.6 billion, a government minister told Reuters on Thursday.
A planned listing of the ...
2/2/2012
The European Union's climate commissioner, Connie Hedegaard, has warned about expanding the use of biofuels as the EU executive finalises an assessment of the potentially damaging effects they may have over the earth's climate. She spoke to ...
2/2/2012
The global rush for land in developing countries around the world could trigger a new wave of civil unrest if governments fail to recognise the rights of those using land without formal legal titles, according to new studies.
Research ...
1/2/2012
Sitting on the porch of his ramshackle wooden hut, shaded from the Amazonian sun by the thick rainforest canopy, Brazil nut collector Eleuterio Martin admits he has never heard of global warming.
Yet Martin, 73, is now set to play his ...
1/2/2012
International negotiators are closing in on a new solution for combating climate change -- and saving the world's remaining forests.
Some 20 percent of all greenhouse-gas emissions now come from deforestation, especially in the lush, ...
31/1/2012
Woods Hole Research Center Biomass in the Democratic Republic of the Congo data -- including cloud-penetrating LiDAR -- and field observations from forests, woodlands and savannas across Africa, Asia, and South America, researchers say they were ...
31/1/2012
Chance encounters near an isolated Amazon tribe have resulted in the most detailed pictures ever taken of them.
Campaign group Survival International has released images of the Mashco-Piro tribe, which lives near the Manu National Park ...
31/1/2012
The world's second largest mining company, Vale, has been given the dubious honor of being voted the world's most awful corporation in terms of human rights abuses and environmental destruction by the Public Eye Awards. Vale received over 25,000 ...
31/1/2012
Thousands of farmers in Tanzania's Rufiji Delta have been accused of destroying mangroves as they search for new land to grow their rice crops, which are being damaged by salt-water intrusion.
The salt water, pushed inland by surging ...
30/1/2012
Growing inequality, environmental decline and "teetering" economies mean the world must change the way it does business, a UN report concludes.
Health and education must improve, it says. Subsidies on fossil fuels should end, and ...
29/1/2012
Five thousand metres above the most biodiverse corner of the Amazon, tropical ecologist Greg Asner and his team see a kaleidoscope of colours among a mass of green.
Huddled in a twin-engine Dornier 228 aeroplane called the Carnegie ...
29/1/2012
Developing primate conservation projects, particularly for great apes, can contribute toward the long-term health of forests and to carbon sequestration schemes, scientists contend.
Ian Redmond, a tropical field biologist and ...
28/1/2012
Whether rotating her crops, sowing seed from previous harvests or gathering rainwater, Susan Gama is pulling out all the stops in an attempt to keep her livelihood going.
Subsistence farmers like Gama in this southern African nation are ...
27/1/2012
A new population of one of the world's rarest primates-the brown spider monkey (Ateles hybridus)-has been found in Colombia's Selva de Florencia National Park, conservationists announced this week.
During a recent survey, scientists ...
27/1/2012
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruled on Friday that palm oil-based biofuels will not meet the renewable fuels standard due to carbon emissions associated with deforestation, reports The Hill.
According to a notice ...
27/1/2012
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has released a set of photos from a visit to a contested area of forest set to be converted for oil palm plantations in Indonesian Borneo.
The pictures, taken this month, show an area of ...
27/1/2012
Sinar Mas Group, an Indonesia-based conglomerate, is working on a deal to list its Indonesian coal assets on the Singapore Exchange by swapping shares with a small forestry firm that is already listed on the stock market, reports Reuters. The ...
27/1/2012
Biodiversity loss is probably a challenge that is often ignored as climate change looms. Currently the world is losing species at a rate that is 100 to 1000 times faster than the natural extinction rate, further, it is currently seeing the sixth ...
27/1/2012
NASA released a new, high-resolution "Blue Marble" image of Earth this week, taken from instruments aboard the recently launched Suomi NPP satellite. The image is actually a composite of many pictures from Jan. 4, 2012 that were stitched ...