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Probe confirms Singapore-based palm oil company engaged in land-grabbing in Borneo
2013-04-26 20:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: An independent investigation has shown that First Resources Ltd, a palm oil plantation company and member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), failed to obtain proper consent from local communities before clearing rainforests for plantations in Indonesian Borneo, an Indonesian indigenous rights group reported last week. A Moody International investigation found that PT Borneo Surya Mining Jaya, a unit of Singapore-based First Resources, failed to obtain free, prior and informed consent...
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Improving community healthcare helps protect rainforests in Borneo
2013-03-14 01:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Providing high quality healthcare to communities around a rainforest park in Indonesian Borneo may be helping reduce chronic illegal logging, suggests a new assessment published by a conservation group. The five-year impact assessment published by Indonesia-based Alam Sehat Lestari (ASRI) is based on surveys of nearly 1,500 households and 6,345 people living around Gunung Palung National Park in West Kalimantan. The study compares key health, economic, and conservation indicators to a baseline survey...
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NASA data registers strong deforestation signals in Sumatra, Borneo, Brazil, Gabon
2013-01-29 14:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: NASA satellites picked up signals of extensive potential deforestation in Sumatra, Borneo, Central Africa, the Brazilian and Peruvian Amazon, the Chocó in Colombia and Ecuador, and the Chaco region of Paraguay between October 1 and December 31, 2012, according to the latest update on Mongabay.com's Global Forest Disturbance Alert System (GloF-DAS). Deforestation signals were particularly strong on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, where large areas of forest have been converted for palm oil and...
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