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Indonesian NGOs call for improvement of APPs Forest Conservation Policy
2013-05-06 05:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Eyes on the Forest: At least eleven social and environmental civil society groups and networks sent a joint letter to Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) on 24 April 2013, explaining the substantial social and conservation issues APP has failed to address adequately in its Forest Conservation Policy and associated documents. On 5 February 2013, the Sinar Mas Group's Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) published a new "Forest Conservation Policy' (FCP). Since then, SMG/APP organized several "focus group discussion' meetings with various...
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Prem Watsa Owns 30% Resolute Forest Products
2013-05-04 14:10:33| Paper - Topix.net
Prem Watsa 's Toronto-based Fairfax Financial Holding now owns more than 30% of Resolute Forest Products Inc.
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Nicaragua cloud forest 'under siege'
2013-05-03 11:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: A famed rainforest in Nicaragua is under growing threat from illegal loggers, say indigenous leaders. The Bosawas Biosphere Reserve is Central America's largest tropical forest with clouds constantly drifting over the hilly terrain. But the Mayangna and Miskito people who live there say 30,000 hectares a year are being deforested by "colonists". They are calling on US president Barack Obama, who is visiting the region, to support their battle. Described by the United Nations as a global...
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Greater Mekong countries 'lost one-third of forest cover in 40 years'
2013-05-02 11:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Five Asian countries have lost nearly one-third of their forests in the last 35 years and could be left with little more than 10-20% of their original cover by 2030 with devastating effects on wildlife and humans, a new report suggests. Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Thailand and Vietnam have lost nearly 40m hectares (ha) of forest cover since 1980 but have retained about 98m ha of natural forest, just over half of the region's land area. Using satellite data, the WWF researchers calculated that...
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Changes at the top at Balfour Beatty Construction and at NY developer Forest City Ratner
2013-05-01 01:36:02| ENR.com: Headline News
Other executive news at ASFE, Boldt Co., Parsons Brinckerhoff, JMT, Parsons Corp., Hill International, URS and Skanska
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