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Brazil Repeals Forest Code and Deforestation Accelerates
2014-01-08 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EP: In 2014, constitutional challenges to Brazil's dismantled Forest Code will determine if wholesale destruction of the earth's largest forest complexes¾and important carbon sinks¾will continue. These rulings may herald a return of Brazil's environmental policy that for decades attempted to protect the largest tropical forests in the world. Brazil's iconic Amazon forest provides an essential natural defense against global warming by capturing world-wide carbon dioxide emissions. Once...
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Kenyan families flee Embobut forest to avoid forced evictions by police
2014-01-07 13:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Families in Kenya were reportedly fleeing their homes and taking what possessions they could on Tuesday after police gathered near the Embobut forest to evict thousands of indigenous Sengwer people and others said to be threatening urban water supplies. The forest, in the Cherangani hills near the town of Eldoret in western Kenya, has been the ancestral home of marginalised hunter-gatherer Sengwer communities for centuries, but the area has been invaded in the past 20 years by many thousands of...
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Forest Service May Try To Recoup Rim Fire Costs With Logging
2014-01-06 21:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: The U.S. Forest Service has proposed a large salvage logging operation in the area affected by last year's historic Rim Fire, which burned 410-square miles of California's Sierra Nevada. The proposal is meeting stiff opposition from environmental groups who say the land is better left untouched.
Historical year for Indonesia`s forest protection
2014-01-03 13:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Antara: During the past one year, the Indonesian government has made several historic policies and breakthroughs for the preservation of its forest, the worlds third largest after the Amazon in Brazil and Congos forest, if they are implemented properly. Indonesia has over the past year among other things established Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) Agency, extended forest moratorium for another two years to prevent new clearing of primary forests and peat lands, signed...
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Indonesia`s rain forest agency set to be in full swing
2013-12-30 10:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Antara: A new agency to protect Indonesias rainforests is ready to begin work to implement a first of its kind environmental program. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono signed Presidential Regulation No. 62/2013 on August 31, 2013, entitled Managing Body for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD), concluding a process that took more than two years. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, known as REDD+, is a UN-designed program to ensure that it becomes...
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