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A major concern: plantation-driven deforestation ramps up in Borneo
2016-09-10 02:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Borneo, home to animals like orangutans, rhinos, elephants, and proboscis monkeys is also host to some of the fastest plantation expansion in the world. Now, a new study published yesterday in Nature examines how much of this expansion has been happening at the expense of primary forest. It finds that plantations in Indonesian Borneo have historically driven less deforestation than researchers expected but this seems to be changing. Borneo is the planets third-largest island, demarcated by three...
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Deforestation impacts felt for decades scientists
2016-08-22 12:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: The ecological and carbon cost of rainforest destruction goes on accumulating for years after nations halt the conversion of canopy into farmland, scientists have found. This implies that to meet ambitious targets, global strategies to combat climate change including forest restoration should have started years ago. Tropical forests soak up vast quantities of carbon dioxide released by industrial combustion of fossil fuels, limiting global warming. Burning, clear-felling and ploughing...
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Tropical Deforestation and Palm Oil
2016-07-28 14:12:00| Happi Breaking News
Duke, Union of Concerned Scientists study examines potential future deforestation.
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Cattle Grazing Is Now Causing Massive Deforestation Hotspots In The Peruvian Amazon
2016-07-19 23:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: Deforestation in the Amazon has been a growing problem over the past five decades, with ranchers leading the way in clearing rainforest for cattle and cultivation. But while Brazil, the largest country in South America, seems on track to reduce deforestation, other major Amazonian countries like Peru are increasingly struggling to protect their share of the world`s largest rainforest. In fact, a new wave of deforestation is underway in the Huanuco region of central Peru, which now has the highest...
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How Buddhist monks are battling deforestation in Cambodia
2016-07-08 08:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
DW: How Buddhist monks are battling deforestation in Cambodia Cambodia has one of the world's highest deforestation rates. But a group of Buddhist monks are stepping up efforts to save forests by publicly revealing wrongdoings and mobilizing local villagers. Ate Hoekstra reports. His memories often bring But Buntenh back to Cambodia thirty years ago. There were jungles as far as the eye could see. Centuries-old trees gave shade and provided shelter to birds and wild animals. The air was clean,...
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