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Harrison Ford causes stir investigating deforestation in Indonesia
2013-09-10 03:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Harrison Ford sparked a complaint from Indonesia's top forest official after the actor asked a series of tough questions about ongoing rainforest destruction in the Southeast Asian nation, reports Indonesian state media. Ford is in Indonesia filming a segment for Years of Living Dangerously, a Showtime documentary on climate change. The actor, known for his roles as Indiana Jones and Star Wars' Hans Solo, is taking a first hand look at deforestation in Sumatra. He's also interviewing several prominent...
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Toyota introduces new 1.0L compact in Indonesia; targeting first-time family car owners
2013-09-09 15:30:18| Green Car Congress
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Indonesia finally establishes REDD+ agency to tackle deforestation
2013-09-08 00:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Indonesia has finally established an agency to implement the country's Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) program. The REDD+ agency, established by a decree from President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Friday, is a ministry-level body that will coordinate a national REDD+ strategy between various ministries that influence and control land use policy across the sprawling archipelago. The agency will also oversee monitoring, reporting, and verifying emissions reductions...
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Indonesia should convert logging concessions to protected areas
2013-09-05 05:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Reclassifying logging concessions as permanent forest estates and thereby barring them from conversion to industrial plantations would be an effective strategy for helping conserve Indonesia's fast-dwindling forests, argues a new study published in PLoS ONE. The study, which involved an international team of researchers led by David Gaveau of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), analyzed forest loss in areas zoned for different uses in Indonesian Borneo. It found that deforestation...
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Starvation, Poverty Follow Indigenous Land Sales in Indonesia
2013-09-03 21:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: The village of Zanegi in Merauke Regency of Papua Province, Indonesia, lies desolate and silent, in contrast to the rumble and drone of bulldozers and chainsaws in the distance. At the end of a row of humble wooden houses, 31-year-old Yosefa, an indigenous Malind mother of three, crouches beside her hearth, raking the embers of a dying fire, whilst rocking to sleep her three-year old infant. The child is emaciated and hollow-eyed. Gaunt and lethargic from severe malnutrition herself, Yosefa wipes...
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