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23/4/2013
Home to giant catfish and stingrays, feeding over 60 million people, and with the largest abundance of freshwater fish in the world, the Mekong River, and its numerous tributaries, brings food, culture, and life to much of Southeast Asia. Despite ...
11/4/2013
The UK government has officially joined an innovative new public-private initiative designed to harness the power of private sector companies to tackle deforestation around the world.
Climate Change Minister Greg Barker confirmed ...
4/4/2013
Rising foreign demand for beef and soybeans will tempt Brazil to clear more of the Amazon
rainforest, in a reversal of recent success in slowing forest losses, a study said on Thursday.
About 30 percent of deforestation in Brazil in the ...
3/4/2013
A few weeks ago the Skoll World Forum hosted an online debate on how increased global consumption can be balanced with sustainability. The debate asks how a rapidly growing world that is ever consuming can hope to feed everyone, and at the same ...
3/4/2013
While much has been written about the potential of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by protecting tropical forests, a proposed program to do just that has been challenged by a number of factors, including concerns about the accuracy of measuring ...
20/3/2013
As bikini season approaches, Jersey Shore beach towns are preparing for their annual influx of tourists. This year, that will mean more than dusting off the cotton candy machines and stocking up on vomit deodorizer. When Hurricane Sandy hit last ...
14/3/2013
Indonesia's Ministry of Forestry is close to accepting a proposal to open 1.2 million hectares of forest in Aceh for mining,
logging, and palm oil production, reports the Aceh Post.
In an article posted Wednesday, Tgk. Anwar, the ...
10/3/2013
The flight from Quito to Coca, a small oil town in the Ecuadorian Amazon, takes off a couple of hours late, so we don't reach Coca until around noon. Then we have to take a helicopter up the Napo river to reach Añangu, in the heart of Yasuni, the ...
17/2/2013
Here at the World Bank we believe that independent internal evaluation is central to strengthening our work. Rigorous, evidence-based evaluation informs the design of global programs and enhances the development impact of partner and country ...
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 ...
5/2/2013
Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), a forestry giant that has been widely criticized for its role in driving deforestation and contributing to social conflict in Indonesia, today announced a zero deforestation policy that could have a dramatic impact on ...
28/1/2013
In Indonesia, the name for the island of Borneo is Kalimantan. It is the third largest island in the world, renowned for its lush tropical
rainforests, one of only two strongholds for the intelligent, endangered orangutan.
While ...
27/1/2013
In the 1980's and 1990's more timber was removed from the
rainforests Borneo than from all of Africa and South America combined. This tragic loss of habitat, with its attendant loss of wildlife and indigenous cultures, has gone largely ...
25/1/2013
The Brazilian government has announced that it plans to undertake the huge task of recording an inventory of the trees in the Amazon
rainforest.
The Forestry Ministry said the census would take four years to complete, and would provide ...
16/1/2013
Trees in Brazil’s Amazon
rainforest are being fitted with mobile phones in an attempt to tackle illegal
logging and deforestation.Devices smaller than a pack of cards are being attache d to the trees in protected areas to alert officials ...
8/1/2013
Last year ended on a sad note, with the accidental drowning death of Rebecca Tarbotton in Mexico, at 39 years of age. Becky was the inspirational executive director of San Francisco-based
Rainforest Action Network, but her roots were in British ...
31/12/2012
2012 was another year of mixed news for the world's tropical forests. This is a look at some of the most significant tropical
rainforest-related news stories for 2012.
There were many other important stories in 2012 and some were ...
22/12/2012
The Norwegian government pays USD 167 million to Brazil as payment for sharp reduction in deforestation in the Amazon in 2011.
The money put into the Amazon Fund, which funds projects to reduce deforestation further.
Norway ...
19/12/2012
Brazil has launched a new platform that enables farmers and ranchers who have cleared forest beyond the legal minimum to come into compliance by purchasing forest "quotas" from landowners who have more than the mandated level of forest cover, ...
14/12/2012
Brazil recently announced its lowest rate of deforestation since recordings began roughly 25 years ago, and the
rainforest nations of Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) say they, too, have slowed deforestation rates ...
2/12/2012
Norway sent a delegation to Indonesia in the past week to discuss sustainability issues such as reducing the destruction of the Southeast Asian nation’s forests and curbing greenhouse gases.
As Indonesia tries to improve its living ...
28/11/2012
An initiative that aims to slow global warming by paying developing countries to protect and better manage their forests is expected to be an important storyline during
climate talks in Doha this week and next. REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from ...
26/11/2012
The Yasuni-ITT Initiative has been called many things: controversial, ecological blackmail, revolutionary, pioneering, and the best chance to keep oil companies out of Ecuador's Yasuni National Park. But now, after a number of ups and downs, the ...
25/11/2012
The Amazon has been viewed for ages as a vast quilt of rain forest interspersed by remote river outposts. But the surging population growth of cities in the jungle is turning that rural vision on its head and alarming scientists, as an array of ...
11/11/2012
By most accounts, deforestation in tropical
rainforests adds more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than the sum total of cars and trucks on the world’s roads. According to the World Carfree Network (WCN), cars and trucks account for about 14 ...