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Commercial Palm Oil Production in Southeast Asia Violating Indigenous Peoples' Rights: New Survey
Take this one as reinforcement of what plenty of environmental NGOs have been saying for some time: The commercial palm oil industry in Indonesia and Malaysia is trampling the rights of indigenous people and destroying
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REDD to Offer No Net Emission Reductions in Indonesia - Too Many Forested Areas Omitted by Government
Another interesting twist in the ongoing saga of Indonesia's greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and how to slow them: As Mongabay reports, a new report by the World Agroforestry Centre shows that because so many of the nation's emissions from
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Micro Frog Found in Search for World's Lost Amphibians
Image: Conservation International (CI) Pea-Sized Frog is Old World's Smallest The smallest frog known on the Asian, European or African continents - and one of the world's tiniest frogs - was found by a group of scientists searching for "lost
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Even Logged Rainforest Holds High Biodiversity Levels & Is Worth Protecting: Study
Conventional political wisdom on rainforest degradation is that once you've logged an area once, or even twice, removing the largest most valuable trees, the forest becomes
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Rare Otter Spotted for the First Time in 100 Years
To say sightings of Lutra sumatrana, better known as the hairy-nosed otter, in Borneo are rare would be an understatement. The most recent spotting occurred after one of the otters was struck by a car and killed in Brunei.
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Major Asian Paper Corps Undermine Indonesia's Carbon Emission Reduction Commitments
Echoing a recent Greenpeace report on the deforestation in Indonesia by the paper industry, Eyes on the Forest is highlighting the actions of Asia Pulp & Paper and APRIL in illegally clearing forests and undermining government
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Walmart 'Surprised' Greenpeace Singled Out Them For Indonesian Rainforest Destruction Criticism
Responding to Greenpeace's recent report (a screengrab of which is above) on the wholesale destruction of Indonesian rainforest by Sinar Mas Group affiliate Asia Pulp & Paper, Walmart issued a press statement Wednesday expressing shock that it would be
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Walmart, KFC, Burger King Paper Purchases Destroying Indonesia's Rainforests: Greenpeace
photo: Patrick Barry via flickr Greenpeace is again pointing a finger the international companies responsible for Indonesian deforestation, and the international brands aiding and abetting them through purchasing their products. This time it's the Sinar
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While You Were Gawking at the Gulf Gusher: UN's REDD Forest Preservation Deal Gets Major Funding
One more story making the rounds last week
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Scientists Discover a Big-Nosed Frog in Indonesia
Biologists stationed in the Foja Mountains of Indonesia were fortunate enough to uncover a number of animals previously unknown to science, including one frog with an impressive schnoz. The frog's nose, which has earned it the nickname
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Deforestation Victory! Nestlé Will Stop Using Rainforest-Destroying Palm Oil
Concerned about forest-destroying palm oil? You can now rest a little easier. The world's largest food and drinks conglomerate, Nestlé has pledged to stop using palm oil linked to rainforest destruction.
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More Dirty Deforestation: 55% of Indonesia's Logging Illegal + Cargill's Two Hidden Palm Oil Plantations
There's a reason Indonesia is the third-largest greenhouse gas emitter and this is far and away the biggest part: Yale e360 highlights a new report produced by some of the biggest names in environmental activism that shows how
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Indonesia to Add 4000 MW of Geothermal Power by 2014... And Add Another 10 GW of Coal by 2012
Indonesia may not be tapping into much of its superior
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For Sale: Naming Rights to Newly Discovered Species
Once biologists started figuring out that their discoveries could get a lot of attention riding the coattails of a famous namesake, they began to get quite creative with taxonomy. As a result, there's a myriad of new species named after fictional
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Eco-Certified Paper Razing Sumatran Orangutans' Rainforest Homes, Displacing Indigenous Peoples
European consumers of Golden Plus and Lucky Boss brand copy paper got an unpleasant surprise this week when a federation of EU environmental groups announced that the
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Indonesia to Allow Underground Mining in Protected Forests
Indonesia and protecting forests haven't really played well together in recent years. Due to high deforestation rates, the nation ranks among the top tier of greenhouse gas emitters--not to mention the effect all this
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Y'Know the Flying Dragons in Avatar? Tiny Real-Life Version Photographed in Indonesia
A Reddit.com user by the name of Biophilia_curiosus posted a few photos that he took in Indonesia. They show an amazing species of gliding lizard which basically
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EU May Classify Palm Oil Plantations as 'Forests' in Sustainable Biofuels Scheme
A leaked draft version of a European Commission report on implementation of EU sustainable biofuels plans would permit classification of palm oil plantations as intact forest, EU Observer reports. The
