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7/5/2013
As the two-year moratorium on deforestation faces expire, Indonesia has launched its first
forest governance index to address the current state of
forest protection and management of central and provincial government.
"Good
forest ...
7/4/2013
Last week, as some of us were heading off for the long holiday weekend (Easter is a holiday here in Brazil), the Brazilian government was quietly releasing deforestation trends showing an increase in deforestation for the first time in five ...
22/3/2013
Indonesia plans to use Rawa Tripa in its westernmost province of Aceh, where the country had a recent victory in peatlands
protection, as learning grounds to improve
forests governance and legal
enforcement through license review.
Rawa ...
18/2/2013
Illinois legislators are expected to introduce a bill in coming days or weeks that would regulate hydraulic fracturing in the state.
Known as Democratic Rep. John Bradley’s bill, it is expected to be shaped by months of discussions that ...
9/2/2013
Like in a desolate Edward Hopper landscape, the orangutan was clinging to the one last tree that stood next to the river in Kutai National Park in eastern Kalimantan. The joy of seeing this magnificent primate was spoiled by his destroyed habitat ...
28/1/2013
Bolivia has passed a land use law that aims to boost food security and slow deforestation in a region that is wracked by illegal
forest clearing.
Approved earlier this month, Ley 337 seeks to regulate land use in the Bolivian Amazon ...
4/12/2012
The city of Parauapebas, Brazil is booming: built over the remains of the Amazonian rainforest, the metropolis has grown 75-fold in less than 25 years, from 2,000 people upwards of 150,000. But little time for urban planning and both a spatial ...
25/11/2012
North of Gainesville, a church camp once attracted thousands of visitors because it was built around the gushing waters of Hornsby Springs. Then the spring stopped flowing and the camp had to spend more than $1 million to build a water park to ...
14/11/2012
As his helicopter descends through the smoke towards an Amazonian inferno, Evandro Carlos Selva checks the co-ordinates via a global positioning satellite and radios back to base a witness testimony to deforestation.
Flames lick up from ...
19/8/2012
Call it CSI: Singapore.
Unlike the Crime Scene Investigators from the popular TV series, these detectives are hired to look for evidence of rogue wood from stores increasingly worried about being duped by a global trade in illegal timber ...
31/5/2012
In the last twenty years, rights for indigenous
forest dwellers have expanded significantly, according to a new report by the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI). Covering nearly thirty tropical
forest countries, the report finds that ...
24/4/2012
Activists are warning that a proposed revamp of Brazil's tough environmental law could roll back historic gains in the fight against Amazon deforestation by opening parts of the rainforest to farming and increasing impunity for ...
24/4/2012
Activists are warning that a proposed revamping of Brazil’s tough environmental law could roll back recent historic gains in the fight against Amazon deforestation by opening parts of the rainforest to farming and increasing impunity for ...
8/4/2012
The leaders of thousands of
forest-dwelling tribesmen who have fought for years to preserve their ancestral lands from exploitation by an international mining corporation have promised to continue their struggle whatever the decision in a key ...
21/3/2012
The same follow-the-money approach used to catch drug kingpins and human traffickers could be used to track down the big operators behind large-scale illegal logging, the World Bank said on Tuesday.
Around the world, illegal loggers cut ...
12/3/2012
Our closest nonhuman relatives, the great apes, are in mortal danger. Every one of the six great ape species is endangered, and without more effective conservation measures, they may be extinct in the wild within a human generation.
The ...
5/3/2012
Brazil stands at a crossroads in its efforts to preserve the Amazon rainforest, as the government considers controversial legislation governing land use.
For most of the last decade it has made a dramatic reduction in the rate of ...
19/1/2012
The National Association of Music Merchants is doing a 'disservice' to its members by misrepresenting the provisions and spirit of the Lacey Act, a law that aims to curb illegal logging abroad, states a letter published by a coalition of ...
28/12/2011
2011 was designated as "Year of the
Forests" by the United Nations. While there was relatively little progress on intergovernmental
forest protection programs during the year, a lot happened elsewhere. Below is a look at some of the biggest ...
10/10/2011
This weekend around 500 people showed up for a rally and concert in Nashville, Tennessee. The rally was in support of Gibson Guitars, a US-company currently under investigation for allegedly importing illegally logged wood into the country, an ...
2/10/2011
Two weeks ago, Gibson Guitar abruptly canceled plans for what was to have been a major business announcement: the launch of a partnership with Fiji to become the island nation’s exclusive buyer of mahogany to make the Nashville company’s high-end ...
8/8/2011
A recent push to revise Brazil’s
forest code has emerged as one of the more contentious political issues in the country, pitting agribuisness against environmentalists trying to preserve the Amazon rainforest. Historically, the
forest code has ...
8/8/2011
Balancing agriculture and rainforest biodiversity in India’s Western Ghats
An Asian elephant wanders through tea fields in the Western Ghats. When one thinks of the world's great rainforests the Amazon, Congo, and the tropical ...
7/7/2011
A group of prominent scientists has condemned a bill that will potentially weaken Brazil's environmental
laws.
In a resolution issued this week, the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC), the world's largest scientific ...
20/6/2011
Dr. Seuss fans will recall the stocky, moustached Lorax who burst from a felled tree stump and declared to an entrepreneurial logger, "I speak for the trees." The Lorax later spoke for the fish, fowl and other creatures, as toxic industrial muck ...