Applicants for forest concessions in Indonesia will soon be required to prove there aren’t overlapping claims on their holdings, reports The Jakarta Globe. The move, which offers the potential to reduce land disputes between forest developers and local…
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Jan 04
Mouths are sewn shut in protest against deforestation in Indonesia
Twenty-eight Indonesians have taken the extreme measure of sewing their mouths shut in a protest turned hunger-strike against a forest concession on Padang Island, reports the Jakarta Globe. Around a hundred protesters, mostly natives of Padang Island,…
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International Sustainability Standards: Pros and Cons
Sustainability is an economic, social, and ecological concept. It is intended to be a means of configuring civilization and human activity so that society and its members are able to meet their needs and express their greatest potential in the present,…
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Plastic Bags: On Their Way Out?
In California alone, consumers use upwards of 19 million plastic bags per year, which require approximately 8 million barrels of oil to produce. 90 percent of the bags used in the United States never get recycled. Globally, of the 500 billion of the fl…
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Indonesian president urges consumers not to support illegally logging
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono urged the world not to encourage illegal logging in Indonesia by purchasing illicit wood products, reports the Jakarta Globe.
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Legal organization backs Greenpeace in fighting eviction for alleged zoning violation
The Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) and other local NGOs are supporting Greenpeace as it battles eviction from its office in Jakarta over an alleged zoning violation, reports the Jakarta Globe.
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The Bay Citizen: Seiridium, Fungal Killer of Cypresses Worldwide, Is Traced to California
The fungus, Seiridium, causes cypress canker disease, which has felled up to 95 percent of the cypress trees in some timber plantations and forests across the globe.
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Papuan economist named Indonesia’s new environment minister
An economist from Indonesian New Guinea has been named Indonesia’s environment minister, reports the Jakarta Globe.
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Icelandic Duo Hopscotches Globe to Rear Prized Bluefin
What do you get when you combine two entrepreneurs from Iceland and fish farms in Croatia and Mexico? The answer: a possible …
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Record Arctic ozone hole appears
A huge hole that appeared in the Earth’s protective ozone layer above the Arctic in 2011 was the largest recorded in the Northern Hemisphere, triggering worries the event could occur again and be even worse, scientists said in a report on Monday.
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