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13/5/2013
Bill Oddie, the naturalist and BBC television presenter, has made a provocative protest film intended to embarrass the global bank HSBC over its links to
logging companies blamed for the destruction of the
rainforest in Malaysia.
The ...
27/2/2013
Most villages along the Baram River in Malaysia cannot count on round-the-clock electricity. Diesel generators hum at night near longhouses in the northwestern corner of the island of Borneo. Mobile and Internet coverage are almost ...
15/2/2013
Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), one of the world’s largest paper companies, announced earlier this month that it will no longer cut down natural forests in Indonesia and will demand similar commitments from its suppliers. The announcement was received ...
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 ...
5/2/2013
Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), the company at the centre of a decades-long campaign against its
logging activities, has today committed to end all deforestation of natural forests.
The company today published a new "Forest Conservation Policy" ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
7/9/2012
Though Brazil's Amazon has been the focus of environmental groups for decades, the deforestation rate there has fallen dramatically in recent years as clear-cutting of Amazonian jungle in eight other countries has started to rise.
As a ...
24/8/2012
Norway’s environment minister on Friday urged Brazil and Indonesia to avoid backtracking on
policies to protect tropical forests, saying up to $2 billion in aid promised by Oslo hinged on proof of slower rates of forest clearance.Norway, ...
4/8/2012
Ivo Lubrinna has been wildcatting for gold in the jungle here for more than 30 years. It's a notoriously messy business, as crews strip away topsoil in the forest and along riverbanks and use mercury and other pollutants to draw precious metal ...
17/7/2012
From Tierra del Fuego to Tijuana, Latin America is highly vulnerable to climate change, which is expected to trigger a series of natural disasters that could even reverse local victories in the fight against poverty.
Droughts will grip ...
5/7/2012
More than half of Liberia's forests have been granted to
logging companies according to figures released to the Guardian from Global Witness – and all of the contracts have been issued during Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's government. "What we've seen ...
14/5/2012
According to a new report by Greenpeace, top U.S. car companies such as Ford, General Motors, and Nissan are sourcing pig iron that has resulted in the destruction of Amazon
rainforests, slave labor, and land conflict with indigenous tribes. ...
15/4/2012
The UN-REDD Programme is trying to unite economic and environmental interests in the deforestation debate by encouraging a sustainable industry.
Deforestation in the Atlantic Forest near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The global rate ...
3/4/2012
Several multinational companies have vowed to boycott the huge forestry conglomerate, Asia Pulp and Paper, after a public outcry after evidence emerged of illegal
logging by APP in Indonesia, that is damaging the habitat of rare animals such as ...
2/4/2012
French food company, Danone, has suspended all purchases from Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) following a Greenpeace investigation that linked APP to illegal
logging of ramin, a protected tree species, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Danone is only ...
23/3/2012
IUCN, an organisation which is dedicated to finding pragmatic solutions to pressing environment and development challenges, last week announced Jagdeo’s appointment. The organisation cited Jagdeo’s work in climate change and his vision to “show ...
10/3/2012
When the United Nations process on climate change unveiled the program known as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) three years ago, it was hailed by its architects as “an effort to create a financial value for the ...
9/3/2012
Indigenous villages dot the Amazon
rainforest along the border between Brazil and Peru, and everyone agrees that the people who live in them have taken better care of their lands than have the Portuguese and Spaniards who came later. That ...
13/2/2012
Brazilian deforestation and melting polar ice caps are feeding a boom in demand in the $2.1 billion market for satellite data, images and services used to monitor the planet.
More images means more satellites and that need has spurred ...
17/1/2012
Levi Strauss & Company had issued a new policy that will exclude fiber from controversial sources from its products. The move will effectively bar Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) as a supplier, according to the
Rainforest Action Network, a green group ...
17/1/2012
A proposed mechanism to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by protecting tropical forests has evolved considerably since it started to gain momentum during the 2005 climate talks in Montreal. Known then as "avoided deforestation", the concept was ...