28 July 2015, Jakarta Post news - Southeast Asian nations meeting Tuesday to discuss the problem of haze that shrouds the regions skies every year made little progress, as the number of smog-belching forest fires was on the rise in Indonesia. Environment ministers from Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei and Singapore met in...

6 August 2015, Business Standard news - Indias forest cover comprises over a fifth - 21.23 percent - of the countrys total geographical area, parliament was told on Thursday. As per India State of Forest Report 2013, the total forest cover in the country is 697,898 square kilometers which is 21.23 percent of the total...

5 August 2015, Mongabay news - Global Forest Watch, a platform that maps a wide range of forest data, is now optimized for mobile users, potentially extending the tool for ground-based forest monitoring and deforestation detection. In a blog post put up last week, World Resources Institute (WRI) announced several new features...

15 July 2015, Dailysabah news - As part of the project Bal Ormanı Eylem Planı (Forest Action Plan for Honey Production) carried out for the development of beekeeping and forest protection, 233 special forests for honey production were established in 64 provinces, so far. According to the General Directorate of Forestry, the...

27 July 2015, Mongabay news - Cosmetics giant Avon promisedtoday to purge its palm oil supply chain of deforestation and rights abuses, making it the latest in a wave of major producers and consumers of the commodity to do so. At present, the New York-headquartered companyis assessing its sourcing, according to a company...

29 July 2015, Mongabay news -Lima hosted the COP-20 climate summit last December, proclaiming its freshly washed green credentials to the dignitaries of nearly 200 visiting countries. Peruvian president Ollanta Humala called on the assembly to abandon past false comparisons between economic growth or conservation of the planet...