News Archive

19 February 2010 - Two-Thirds of Peru's Amazon Threatened by Oil and Gas Development
Source: e360 Digest

10 February 2010 - Growth of World's Cities, Global Trade are Driving Deforestation
Source: e360 Digest

29 January 2010 - Corrupt Indonesian Military Closely Tied To Illegal Logging, Study Says
Source: e360 Digest

26 January 2010 - Failure of Copenhagen may spur dodgy REDD deals, says report.
Article by: Rhett A. Butler
Source: Mongabay.com

25 January 2010 - Forestry sector needs transparency to reduce risks of REDD
Source: Mongabay.com

22 January 2010 - Copenhagen 'fails forest people'
Article by: Mark Kinver
Source: BBC News

21 January 2010 - Indigenous in Borneo win 'landmark' court ruling over land rights
Source: Mongabay.com

15 January 2010 - First UN ‘State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples’ report alarming
Source: Mother Earth Journal

13 January 2010 - REDD must address corruption to save rainforests in Indonesia, says
Source: Mongabay.com
New report documents billions of dollars in losses from Indonesia's reforestation fund between 1989 and 2009.

12 January 2010 - Dams a 'monument of corruption': Baru Bian, new leader of Sarawak's People's Justice Party.
Article by: Jeremy Hance
Source: Mongabay.com

6 January 2010 - Local Battles to Save the Brazilian Amazon Pit Residents against Loggers and Government
Article by: Brenda Baletti, Gilson Rego, and Antonio Sena
Source: Americas Program

January 2010 - Peru: Resistance to the Romero oil palm group
Source: World Rainforest Movement

23 December 2009 - Brazil establishes 20,000 sq mi of new indigenous reserves in the Amazon
Source: Mongabay.com

20 December 2009 - Dead REDD? Not quite, but plan to protect forests suffers set back in Copenhagen.
Article by: Rhett A. Butler
Source: Mongabay.com

6 December 2009 - ‘Time is Running Out’ for Sumatra’s Rainforest as Demand for Palm Oil Soars
Article by: Arwa Damon
Source: Jakarta Globe

7 October 2009 - Give forests back to local people to save them
Article by: Fred Pearce
Source: New Scientist

29 September 2009 - Environment: Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilisation?
Source: IPS

27 September 2009 - Policy proposals: Statement released by the International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change
Source: Forest Peoples

23 September 2009 - European Biofuel Use Driving Disaster in Indonesia
Source: Friends of the Earth Europe
Borneo's forests, wildlife and people at increasing risk

23 September 2009 - Malaysia: Arrested Penan: ‘Water from the dam will flood our lands’
Source: Survival International

22 September 2009 - Indonesia: emissions to rise 50% by 2030, 3rd largest GHG emitter
Source: Mongabay.com

18 September 2009 - Press Release: Lack of political will to uphold rights of indigenous peoples
Source: National Express Malaysia

13 September 2009 - Carbon-trading market hit as UN suspends clean-energy auditor
Article by: Danny Fortson
Source: The Times

9 September 2009 - Press Release: IFC agrees to suspend funding for palm oil sector in response to NGO critique
Source: Forest Peoples

8 September 2009 - REDD will fail with the current definition of “forest”
Article by: Chris Lang
Source: REDD-Monitor

6 September 2009 - Philippines: Will tribes gain from climate change talks?
Article by: Purple S. Romero
Source: ABS-CBN News

7 September 2009 - Anglo-French oil company threatened with eviction by Amazon tribes
Source: Survival International

2 September 2009 - 'No oil drilling without tribes' consent', UN tells Peru
Source: Survival International

25 August 2009 - Plantations as sinks: the carbon fraud at its worst
Article by: Chris Lang
Source: REDD-Monitor

15 August 2009 - Oil giants destroy rainforests to make palm oil diesel for motorists
Article by: Ben Webster
Source: The Times

12 August 2009 - Issues around palm oil development prove complex, controversial
Source: Mongabay.com

9 August 2009 - Malaysian Indigenous Peoples want moratorium on plantations, other extractive projects
Article by: Indigenous Peoples Organisations
Source: Rengah Sarawak
NEWS RELEASE: WE, the Indigenous Peoples Organisations, are calling on our respective State governments to stop large-scale plantations and other extractive activities on our customary lands until effective measures to safeguard our rights and the environment are in place.

9 August 2009 - Wish you weren't here: The devastating effects of the new colonialists
Article by: Paul Vallely
Source: The Independent
A new breed of colonialism is rampaging across the world, with rich nations buying up the natural resources of developing countries that can ill afford to sell. Some staggering deals have already been done, says Paul Vallely, but angry locals are now trying to stop the landgrabs

8 August 2009 - Carbon Footprint of Indonesian Palm Oil Production: a Pilot Study
Source: World Agroforestry Centre
The impacts and opportunities of oil palm in Southeast Asia: What do we know and what do we need to know?

8 August 2009 - Indonesia: Sinar Resmi Declaration on Climate Change
Source: Forest Peoples

6 August 2009 - Limit palm oil development to lands that store less than 40 tons of carbon/ha - study
Article by: Rhett A. Butler
Source: Mongabay.com

28 July 2009 - Burning by Asia Pulp & Paper Contributes To Haze In Indonesia, Malaysia
Article by: Mongabay
Source: http://news.mongabay.com/

27 July 2009 - Thai Provinces Blanketed In Thick Smoke Due To Indonesia's Forest Fires
Article by: Channel News Asia
Thanks to INCL (Indonesia Nature Conservation newsLetter) 12-29a

27 July 2009 - Fires in APP/Sinar Mas Concessions Add to Region's Haze Woes
Article by: Eyes on the Forest
Source: Eyes on the Forest

24 July 2009 - An Amazon Culture Withers as Food Dries Up
Article by: ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
Source: New York Times

15 July 2009 - Environmentalists Blast Asia Pulp and Paper For Road Project In Jambi
Article by: TEMPO DIANING SARI
Source: Tempo Interactive

13 July 2009 - Indonesia releases revenue sharing rules for REDD forest carbon projects
Article by: mongabay.com
Source: http://news.mongabay.com/2009/0713-redd_indon

10 July 2009 - Two more indigenous leaders seek asylum
Article by: Survival International
Source: Survival International

9 July 2009 - Peatland Forest Fires Rage Out of Control in Riau
Article by: Budi Otmansyah
Source: Jakarta Globe

7 July 2009 - Swiss banks continue to fund rainforest destruction in South-East Asia
Article by: Bruno Manse Fund
Source: Bruno Manse Fund

2 July 2009 - REDD readiness plans for Panama, Guyana approved but rejected for Indonesia
Article by: mongabay.com
Source: mongabay.com

1 July 2009 - Study asks Indonesia to adopt green economy
Article by: Adianto P. Simamora
Source: Jakarta Post

30 June 2009 - -Business as usual': Peru approves massive oil project just days after -Amazon's Tiananmen'
Article by: Survival International
Source: Survival International

20 May 2009 - Global warming estimates double in severity according to new MIT modeling
Article by: Jeremy Hance
Source: mongabay.com

26th May 2009 - In Ecuador, an Unusual Carbon-Credit Plan to Leave Oil Untapped
Article by: Joshua Partlow
Source: Washington Post Foreign Service

19th May 2009 - Palm oil firms taking away locals income
Source: The Jakarta Post , Jakarta

18th May 2009 - Peru army moves into Amazon after tribes blockade rivers and roads
Source: Guardian.co.uk
Ecology and culture at stake say environmentalists, as government plans to exploit rainforest for oi

13th May 2009 - Near-record flooding in the Amazon
Source: Mongabay.com

24 April 2009 - The Anchorage Declaration

5th May 2009 - Federal Court Affirms Broad Definition of Native Customary Rights
Article by: Tony Thien
Source: borneoproject.org

4th MAY 2009 - Hailed as a Miracle Biofuel, Jatropha Falls Short of Hype
Article by: by Jon R. Luoma
Source: e360
Will jatropha cultivation displace badly-needed food crops in the developing world.

22nd April 2009 - Climate solutions and indigenous peoples
Article by: mongabay.com
Source: mongabay.com
Indigenous people serve as guardians of forest carbon, must be involved in climate solutions

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