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Indonesia Allows Adoption of Sumatran Tigers as Pets for $100,000
In what might be one of the most unorthodox methods of preserving an endangered species, the government of Indonesia announced recently that it will begin authorizing individuals to adopt the imperiled Sumatran Tigers to raise as pets. Groups committed
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Willie Smits on Regrowing the Indonesian Rainforest and Harvesting Biofuels
Image: Casajuntoalrio Willie Smits long ago abandoned the customary role of the microbiologist. After working in the Indonesian rainforest for three decades (and marrying a tribal queen), he has taken it upon himself to regrow the delicate ecosystems
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First-Time Footage of Super Rare Sumatran Tiger & Cubs Released (Video)
Aw... WWF is really kicking in to the Year of Biodiversity quickly, just releasing first-time footage of some super-rare Sumatran tigers (mother + cubs) as the pass in front of and then, from what I can tell from the audio, attempt to lick, eat or
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Turning Gas Stations Into Green Spaces in Indonesia
Around the world, cars and the infrastructure devoted to them -- highways, parking lots, gas stations -- have covered open space over with asphalt. But with the closure last month of the first of
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Versace, Valentino, and Prada Packaging Supplier Cuts Ties With Rainforest Paper Producer
Prada boutique in Tokyo. Credit: fukagawa, CC Rainforest Action Network's (RAN) has announced that New Hampshire-based luxury packaging company PAK 2000, a supplier of packaging to fashion brands including Versace, Valentino, Prada and J.Crew, will cut
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Indonesia Suspends Controversial Paper Company's License to Review Environmental Record
Indonesia may have deported a total of thirteen activists and two journalists over
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Indonesia Scores One For Press Repression & Environmental Destruction - Reporters, Activists Deported
Seems the government of Indonesia didn't much like Greenpeace activists trying to disrupt the continued destruction of rainforest for plantation agriculture. Nor did they appreciate
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Dhaka, Manila & Jakarta Worst Climate-Affected Asian Mega-Cities - Hits Closer to Home Than You Might Think
Want to know which cities in Asia are going to get really whacked by climate change, and which ones have the greatest ability to adapt to it? Well, WWF has just released a new report that ranks 11 of them
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Illegal Logging Makes Indonesia World's Third Largest Emitter of Greenhouses Gases
After U.S. and China... Indonesia is made up of 17,508 islands, most of which were totally covered by forest until about 50 years ago when that number dropped to 80%. But now, illegal logging and the burning of forests are making the country the third
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THTV: Pro Surfer Rob Machado on Indonesia, Wells & Drinking Water Part 2 (Video)
THTV: Rob Machado & Graham Hill -- The Drifter -- Part 2 from susty.tv on Vimeo. Hot on the heals of yesterday's Live Earth Run For Water announcement from Kevin Wall and celeb supporters in do-goodness Jessica Biel, Alexandra Cousteau, and Pete Wentz
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THTV: Pro Surfer Rob Machado is 'The Drifter' in New Surf Flick, Part 1 (Video)
TreeHugger founder Graham Hill sat down with professional surfer and now "drifter" Rob Machado. The film The Drifter follows Machado in Indonesia as he surfs and attempts
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World Bank Suspends Loans to Palm Oil Sector Over Social & Environmental Concerns
Remember how an internal audit of the World Bank's International Finance Corporation showed that it violated its own procedures in lending to palm oil companies -- the social and environmental impacts of
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New Indonesian Law Authorizes Environment Ministry to Fine, Shut Down Polluting Corporations
When and how the following actually gets enforced remains to be seen, but it would be really cool if it did: Reuters reports that Indonesia's parliament has passed
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XSProject Turns Jakarta's Excessive Trash into Treasure
Indonesia is a land of intrigue, beauty, and deep cultural strong holds. But the uglier side of this exotic culture comes in the form of an enormous trash problem. Heaping
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Indonesia Hints at 40% Emissions Reductions by 2030 - If International Support is Forthcoming
Now we're talking! The Financial Times has one of the most encouraging bits of climate change news I've heard in a while. Indonesia, whose rapid
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Greenpeace Accuses New Zealand Dairy Giant of Destroying Rainforest via Palm Oil Use
First it was the Brazilian cattle industry and global shoe brands which Greenpeace outed for their aiding and abetting deforestation and, therefore,
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World Bank Broke Its Own Environmental Rules to Lend to Palm Oil Corporation, Internal Audit Reveals
Unchecked conversion of forest to palm oil plantation in Indonesia is an environmental and social problem of
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LUSH Cosmetics Tells Palm Oil to Suds Off
Photo credit: Olivier Bruchez LUSH Cosmetics is washing its hands off palm oil, and it's encouraging other multinational corporations to lather up to something else. Found in food products, biofuels, and many cosmetics, palm oil has been pilloried for
