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Asia Pulp & Paper commits to end rainforest destruction
2013-02-05 11:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), the company at the centre of a decades-long campaign against its logging activities, has today committed to end all deforestation of natural forests. The company today published a new "Forest Conservation Policy" committing it to end development of all natural forested areas, including peat forests, improve its peatland management to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and work more closely with local communities and other stakeholders. Crucially, the stated strategy applies...
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HarperCollins establishes policy barring paper sourced from rainforest destruction
2013-01-29 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: HarperCollins has established a policy that excludes paper sourced from destruction of tropical rainforests and old growth forests. The revised policy, posted on its web site earlier this month, is a response to a campaign by the Rainforest Action Network (RAN), an activist group that is targeting companies linked to clearing of Indonesian rainforests and peatlands for pulp and paper production: Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) and Asia and Asia Pacific Resources International (APRIL). With the new...
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Brazil to survey Amazon rainforest
2013-01-28 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The Brazilian government has announced that it plans to undertake the huge task of recording an inventory of the trees in the Amazon rainforest. The Forestry Ministry said the census would take four years to complete, and would provide detailed data on tree species, soils and biodiversity in the world's largest rainforest. The last exhaustive survey was carried out more than 30 years ago. Luis Meneses runs the Global Canopy programme, an alliance of universities and research centres around...
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Large blocks of Sumatra's endangered rainforest may be put up for mining, logging
2013-01-28 02:37:55| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The Indonesian province of Aceh on the western tip of the island of Sumatra may be preparing to lift the protected status of key areas of lowland rainforest potentially ending its bid to earn carbon credits from forest conservation and putting several endangered species at increased risk, according to reports. Under a draft plan developed by the Aceh parliament's spatial planning committee, some 71,857 hectares of protected areas will lose their protected status and be turned over for logging,...
Climate change hurting Amazon rainforest warns Nasa - Responding to Climate Change
2013-01-21 10:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: Large areas of the Amazon rainforest appear to be deteriorating as a result of drought due to climate change, new research from Nasa reveals. An area of the Amazon rainforest twice the size of California has suffered from a megadrought that began in 2005, causing widespread changes to the forest canopy that were detectable by satellite. While rainfall levels picked up post 2005, the old-growth forest in southwestern Amazonia appears to have struggled to recover before another drought hit the...
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