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Villagers occupy govt office in Indonesia Borneo in protest against palm oil land grab
2013-09-18 22:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Villagers in Indonesias Central Kalimantan province occupied a local government office last week, fed up with the governments lack of action to resolve a long-running land dispute with palm oil company PT Rezeki Alam Semesta Raya. Around 29 villagers occupied the Kuala Kapuas district head office in Central Kalimantan on Thursday. The residents of Sei Ahas, Katimpun, Kalumpang and Pulau Kaladan villages demanded the company return nearly 3,000 hectares of customary land, which they said was...
Large-scale opposition among Borneo villagers to deforestation
2013-09-10 07:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Nearly two-thirds of villagers surveyed across rainforests in Indonesian and Malaysian Borneo are against large-scale deforestation due to the adverse impacts on livelihoods and the environment, finds a comprehensive new study across 185 communities. The research, conducted over a one-year period by an international team of scientists, is published in this week's issue of the journal PLOS ONE. The study found that people who live near forests place the greatest value on the benefits they afford,...
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80% of rainforests in Malaysian Borneo logged
2013-07-17 23:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: 80 percent of the rainforests in Malaysian Borneo have been heavily impacted by logging, finds a comprehensive study that offers the first assessment of the spread of industrial logging and logging roads across areas that were considered some of Earth's wildest lands less than 30 years ago. The research, conducted by a team of scientists from the University of Tasmania, University of Papua New Guinea, and the Carnegie Institution for Science, is based on analysis of satellite data using Carnegie...
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Malaysia: Activists raise alarm over park that will dispossess Borneo tribe of land
2013-07-11 01:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Rights activists are warning that a proposal to classify islands forming in the midst of the Bakun Dam reservoir will further deprive indigenous forest people of their traditional land. The Borneo Project, a Berkeley-based group that advocates on behalf of Sarawak's forest people, has started a petition calling upon Sarawak's chief minister Abdul Taib Mahmud to cancel plans to establish "Bakun Islands National Park", highlands that became islands once the massive dam was completed in 2011. The...
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Australia terminates landmark REDD+ project in Borneo
2013-07-03 15:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Australia is ending its major forest restoration project in Indonesian Borneo, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Launched during the peak of excitement about the potential of forest conservation to help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in 2007, the $47 million initiative aimed to restore 200,000 hectares of peatland that had been drained for the ill-conceived mega-rice project in the mid-1990s. The project, known as the Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership (KFCP), would have re-flooded...
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