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Homemade drones used in Borneo to save forests
2016-09-26 10:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTS: Borneo is a large island that is home to one of the most uniquely valuable forests in the world, with a biodiversity every bit as rich as that of Amazonia. But this very richness has long since aroused the interest of big forest companies. Since the 1960s, the island has lost half of its forests. Whether it is caused by clear-cut logging, palm-oil cultivation or mining, deforestation is an ever-increasing scourge for the natural environment. In recent years, Borneos forest dwellers themselves have...
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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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Christmas gift to the planet: massive rainforest reserve created in Borneo
2015-12-24 07:06:22| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Christmas has come early for some of the planets most endangered animals: the Malaysian state of Sabah has established a 68,000-hectare rainforest reserve that houses orangutans, elephants, and clouded leopards, among countless other species. The decision was announced today by the Rainforest Trust, an NGO that raised money to support the designation of a logging concession as a Class I Forest Reserve. Although the area was heavily exploited for timber, Kuamut Forest Reserve nonetheless serves...
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One-Third World Orangutans at Risk From Fires in Sumatra and Borneo
2015-11-01 15:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Despite some rainfall in the last few days, thousands of fires continue to burn on the main islands of Sumatra and Borneo. Unlike previous years, when fires mainly impacted agricultural land, these fires, fueled by a particularly dry season due to El Nino, have swept into national parks and primary forests, the last refuges for so many iconic endangered species, such as orangutans, rhinoceros and tigers. All these animals hover on the brink of extinction and now the odds have been tipped even...
Who's to blame forest loss in Borneo timber concession?
2015-04-07 01:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Google Earth image showing GPS points where forest loss occurred within the past year in a West Kalimantan concession held by PT Bumi Mekar Hijau (BMH). The apparent loss of some 4,000 hectares of forested peatland in Indonesian Borneo is raising questions on who bears responsibility for forest clearing in un-utilized concessions. On Monday, Greenomics-Indonesia issued a report revealing the loss of significant tracts of peat forest in a West Kalimantan concession held by PT Bumi Mekar Hijau...
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