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Indonesias president says he will work to register and recognize customary forests
2013-06-29 00:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Last month, Indonesias indigenous people won the right to manage their own customary forests after a landmark Constitutional Court ruling struck down a law that had previously given the central government control over indigenous land within the countrys forest estate. On Thursday, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced his support for the decision and said he was committed to taking a first step towards its implementation beginning a process to register and recognize traditional...
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Massive wind-stoked wildfires rage through Colorado forests
2013-06-24 23:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A trio of wind-driven wildfires roared unchecked across 76,000 acres of national forest in southwest Colorado on Monday and firefighters held the line against flames threatening the mountain town of South Fork. Crews have been hampered in battling the West Fork Complex fires - which consist of three separate blazes - by the steep mountainous terrain and winds in excess of 50 miles an hour (80 km/h) on some ridgelines. South Fork, the town of 600 residents evacuated last week as flames crept...
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Tasmania's old growth forests win protection after three-decade battle
2013-06-24 10:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Almost 200,000 hectares of Tasmania's old growth forest have been world heritage listed, bringing hope that a three-decade fight between environmentalists, politicians and loggers is over. The World Heritage Committee has extended the heritage listed boundary of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area by more than 170,000 hectares after accepting a proposal from the Australian government which will give the areas the highest level of environmental protection in the world. The old growth...
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Megadrought in US Southwest: A bad omen for forests globally
2013-06-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: As brutal fires torch tinder-dry dense forests and neighboring homes in the American West, researchers are examining the relationships between drought, wildfire, and a warming climate, predicting mass forest die-offs and prolonged megadrought for the Southwest. These forces are accelerating, they say, and already transforming the landscape. Unchecked, they may permanently destroy forests in the southwestern U.S. and in some other regions around the world. Across the West, megafires have become...
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Report: Forests on Indian reservations underfunded
2013-06-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Forests held in trust for Indian tribes across the nation are woefully underfunded by the federal government, according to a report issued Thursday by a panel of experts. The congressionally mandated report for the Intertribal Timber Council was released at the group's annual meeting on the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin. It found that tribal forests covering about 28,000 square miles nationwide receive about half of the funding per acre provided to national forests for wildfire...
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