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Indonesian palm oil giant clearing peat forest despite RSPO membership, alleges Greenpeace
2013-04-25 06:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A major Indonesian palm oil producer continues to clear rainforests in Sumatra despite being a prominent member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), casting doubts on the body's effectiveness in limiting deforestation, alleges a new report from Greenpeace. The report, titled A Dirty Business, is based on a field investigation itno the Darmex Agro group's operations in Riau province. Greenpeace says the palm oil producer, better known as Duta Palma, has been clearing "hundreds of hectares...
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Sri Lanka: Clearing Forest Reserves To Rob Timber Army Refutes Allegations
2013-04-23 13:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sunday Leader: Accusations have been levelled against Sri Lanka Army for clearing forestlands in Vavuniya for an alleged re-settlement drive. Environmentalists are up in arms against clearing of nearly 1,500 acres of thick forestlands in Karunkalikulam Forest Reserve in the Vavuniya District. Director Environment Conservation Trust Sajeewa Chamikara said that in order to settle over 1,200 Sinhala Buddhist families nearly 1,500 acres from the Karunkalikulam Forest Reserve have been cleared over the past 1 2...
East Africa: EAC Introduces Mandatory Clearing Certificate
2013-03-27 07:46:38| Logistics - Topix.net
ALL clearing and forwarding agents in Tanzania and the other four East African countries will be required to have the newly introduced 'East African Customs Freight Forwarding Practicing Certificate,' which is set to become a mandatory requirement for the industry before the end of this year.
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Clearing Forests May Transform Local and Global Climate
2013-03-04 12:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: In the last 15 years 200,000 hectares of the Mau Forest in western Kenya have been converted to agricultural land. Previously called a water tower because it supplied water to the Rift Valley and Lake Victoria, the forest region has dried up; in 2009 the rainy seasonfrom August to Novembersaw no rain, and since then precipitation has been modest. Whereas hydropower used to provide the bulk of Kenyas power ongoing droughts have led investors to pull out of hydro projects; power rationing and...
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Rock clearing on drought-hit Mississippi River nears completion
2013-01-29 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin removing riverbed rock obstructions from the Mississippi River near Grand Tower, Illinois, on Tuesday night in the final phase of a project aimed at keeping the drought-hit shipping artery open to barge traffic. The river will be closed to navigation daily from midnight until noon between Grand Tower and Thebes, Illinois, 31 miles downriver, where the Corps has been blasting and removing rock pinnacles since mid-December, the Corps said on Tuesday. ...
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