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Satellite-based forest mapping platform hits its stride
2015-06-26 22:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Global Forest Watch, a young online forest monitoring and alert system, provides free, near real-time data on deforestation and tree-cover loss around the world. It allows users to create customized interactive maps detailing forest change, concession areas for natural resource extraction and agricultural production, conservation areas, and community land boundaries. The system acts as a research platform, providing country profiles and rankings based on forest statistics, and allowing users to crowdsource...
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New reserve in Peru protect nearly a million acres of pristine forest
2015-06-26 21:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A tract of Peruvian rainforest bigger than California's Yosemite National Park is officially more protected, with formal declaration of the Maijuna-Kichwa Regional Conservation Area (RCA) made last week in Lima. Those involved with the reserve's formation hope it will safeguard the area's biodiversity as well as the ancestral homeland and way of life of local indigenous communities. Northeastern Peru, sandwiched between Ecuador, Colombia, and Brazil, still has large tracts of forest untouched...
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Illegal forest clearing spotted in Aceh's biggest peat swamp
2015-06-26 14:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Encroachers have been clearing forest at three locations in Aceh's biggest peat swamp since February, analysis of Landsat satellite imagery by environmental group Greenomics-Indonesia shows. The Rawa Singkil Wildlife Reserve, on the western coast of Indonesia's Aceh province and the island of Sumatra, is home to the densest population of critically endangered Sumatran orangutans in the Leuser Ecosystem. It is not yet clear who is responsible for the deforestation, but encroachment for oil palm...
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Nominations Open For Forest Industry Aboriginal Business Award
2015-06-24 08:23:00| pulpandpaperonline Home Page
The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) and the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business (CCAB) today opened nominations for the 2015 Aboriginal Business Leadership Award
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Honeywell Technology Modernizes Mill for Europe's Largest Forest Industry Company
2015-06-23 12:31:11| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Controls, Safety and Management Systems to Help Finland's Stora Enso Meet Rising Demand for Renewable Packaging Board HELSINKI, Finland - Honeywell (NYSE:HON) Process Solutions (HPS) has announced that Europe's largest pulp, board and paper manufacturer will use HPS process automation, safety system and...
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