Asia-Pacific forestry information

2016

01.13

Indonesia appoints conservationist to save country’s declining

13 January 2016, Mongabay news - Indonesian President Joko Widodo has appointed conservationist Nazir Foead to head up a newly-created peatland restoration agency, which aims to resurrect peatlands devastated by recent fires. Peat forest during the dry season. Photo by Rhett A. Butler The establishment of the agency, announced...

2016

01.13

APP to work with 500 villages to combat deforestation

13 January 2016, Mongabay news - The worlds largest pulp and paper supplier, Asia Pulp Paper (APP), will establish an up to $10 million program to support the economic development of 500 villages in and around its supply chain in Indonesia. The initiative was announced at the UN climate talks in Paris last month, and is another...

2016

01.13

Palm oil co suspends forest conversion to comply with Wilmar’s zero

13 January 2016, Mongabay news - A Malaysian palm oil company has suspended forest clearing on a small portion of its holdings to comply with Wilmars zero deforestation policy, reports The Edge Financial Daily. Jaya Tiasa Holdings Bhd, a publicly-listed Malaysian company with nearly 70,000 hectares of plantations in Sarawak...

2016

01.07

Indonesia to sue another 10 firms over forest fires

7 January 2016, Straits Times news - The Indonesian government plans to take 10 more companies to court over illegal forest fires, strongly believed to have led to the transboundary haze crisis last year. A cordon is placed near a burnt area during investigations in Rimbo Panjang, Riau province.PHOTO: AFP The move, revealed by...

2015

12.30

California’s ongoing drought threatens nearly 60 million large trees

30 December 2015, Mongabay news - Though increased precipitation thanks to the El Niño event heating up Pacific waters has provided some small relief, California is still in the grip of a four-year drought, the impacts of which are making themselves known in many ways. On April 1 of this year, for instance, snowpack in...

2015

12.24

Indonesia defends COP21 emissions reporting from Greenpeace critique

24 December 2015, Mongabay news - The NGO said the Indonesian government had dramatically underestimated deforestation and peatland degradation in the archipelago. It also took issue with the exclusion of emissions from Indonesias annual wildfires, which this year were particularly devastating because of an extended dry season...

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