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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Tiger Balm Tigers and elephants applaud expansion of Sumatra park		28 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 1:26 PM on 28 Aug 2008 Sumatra's Tesso Nilo National Park will be doubled in size in an effort to help out the endangered elephants and tigers that live there. Riau province, which contains the park, houses some 210 elephants (down from 1,250 just a quarter-century ago) and 192 tigers (down from 650 in that same time period). Sixty to 80 elephants and some 50 tigers are believed to reside in Tesso Nilo. The park also ha ...
Topics: deforestation, endangered species, habitat protection, Indonesia, national parks, news, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Riau wow Indonesian province puts moratorium on rainforest destruction	Glenn Hurowitz	18 Aug 2008	Gristmill
I just started as Greenpeace's media director, in part because I wanted to help Greenpeace save the world's rainforests, a topic I've written a lot about at Grist and elsewhere. Within a week of starting the job, I knew I'd made a good decision when I got this news release from our Southeast Asian office: Indonesian province of Riau has pledged to halt the destruction of its forests and peatlands; a move that will prevent billions of tonnes of carbon from enterin ...
Topics: climate, deforestation, food, Indonesia, wildlife (all these topics)

Primate Fear Orangutans heading toward extinction		07 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 5:09 PM on 07 Jul 2008 Orangutans are on their way toward extinction, says a new study that points out worrying declines in fuzzy-orange-ape populations. Orangutans only live in the wild on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo; the Sumatra orangutan population has dropped nearly 14 percent since 2004, while the Borneo population has fallen 10 percent. "Unless extraordinary efforts are made soon, it could become the first great ape sp ...
Topics: deforestation, endangered species, Indonesia, logging, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Humor fails Saddening video report on Indonesian palm oil plantations	JMG	05 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Here is a short, painful four-minute news report about palm oil plantations -- watch it and weep:
Topics: agriculture, biofuels, deforestation, energy, Indonesia, rainforests (all these topics)

The tropical global warming solution Bali conference could end deforestation overnight	Glenn Hurowitz	03 Dec 2007	Gristmill
This post was co-written with Dorjee Sun, the head of Carbon Conservation, a company that works to protect forests in Indonesia from destruction. ----- Photo: www.viajar24h.com Bali, Indonesia, is the perfect backdrop for this week's climate summit. No country better embodies the immense peril of inaction -- and the immense opportunity this meeting has to make massive and immediate progress in stemming the climate crisis. Indonesia is the wo ...
Topics: agriculture, air pollution, Bali 07, climate, climate change mitigation, deforestation, greenhouse-gas emissions, Indonesia (all these topics)

Palm Leader? Palm oil may be certified sustainable, some greens skeptical		26 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 2:22 PM on 26 Nov 2007 Hoping to quell criticism from biofuel bashers, palm-oil producers have drawn up criteria for certifying their product as sustainable. It's a nice idea, but green group Friends of the Earth has threatened to withdraw its support of the standards, saying that Malaysia and Indonesia -- which together produce nearly 85 percent of the world's palm oil -- are using the voluntary initiative as a ...
Topics: biofuels, deforestation, energy, Friends of the Earth, Indonesia, Malaysia, news (all these topics)

Once You Lop, You Just Can't Stop Food companies damaging climate through deforestation, says new report		08 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 9:12 AM on 08 Nov 2007 The makers of such familiar products as Pringles, KitKat, and Philadelphia cream cheese are contributing to deforestation and climate change, says a new report from Greenpeace. Companies like Unilever, Kraft, and Nestle use palm oil from Indonesia in their products. And guess what happens in Indonesia when the palm-oil peddlers come calling? Virgin forests ar ...
Topics: agriculture, business, climate, deforestation, food, greenhouse-gas emissions, Indonesia (all these topics)

Bali burning Amazing helicopter footage of Greenpeace in the Indonesian peat bogs	Glenn Hurowitz	31 Oct 2007	Gristmill
In the lead-up to the international Bali Climate summit, Greenpeace has launched a major direct action in Sumatra, Indonesia, to stop the nefarious PT Duta Palma corporation from destroying a pristine tropical forest (and the habitat for highly endangered Sumatran rhinos, tigers, and oh-so-cute orangutans) and replacing it with a palm oil plantation. Click on the picture to the right to watch the extraordinary video of their action, including amazing helicopter footag ...
Topics: agriculture, biofuels, deforestation, grassroots activism, Greenpeace, Indonesia, politics (all these topics)

That's It, No More Toothpaste For Us Growing palm-oil plantations put orangutans in peril		31 May 2007	Daily Grist
That's It, No More Toothpaste For Us Growing palm-oil plantations put orangutans in peril Thank your lucky stars you evolved, because it's not a great time to be an ape. In Indonesia and Malaysia, forests are being converted lickety-split into lucrative palm-oil plantations, and orangutans that leave their rapidly diminishing habitat to sneak in for a palmy snack are often tortured or killed. As if habita ...
Topics: biofuels, deforestation, energy, Indonesia, news (all these topics)

Go for Choke Deliberate forest fires cause choking haze in Southeast Asia		23 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Go for Choke Deliberate forest fires cause choking haze in Southeast Asia Southeast Asia has been suffering through hellish smog over the last few weeks thanks to Indonesian farmers and owners of timber and palm-oil plantations who have set massive fires to clear land. Slash-and-burn practices are illegal in Indonesia, but nonetheless take place every year and rarely result in punishment. This year, th ...
Topics: air pollution, Asia, deforestation, Indonesia, news (all these topics)

Orangutangle Orangutans Face Possible Extinction in 20 Years, WWF Says		13 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Orangutangle Orangutans Face Possible Extinction in 20 Years, WWF Says Orangutans may have just two decades left if current trends continue, the World Wildlife Fund warned yesterday. One of the four great ape species, orangutans are rapidly disappearing from their only remaining native habitat on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei. Populations ...
Topics: deforestation, Indonesia, logging, wilderness, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Caffeine Buzz Kill		29 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Caffeine Buzz Kill Wild tigers, orangutans, and other megafauna in Sumatra, Indonesia, are being pushed out of their native habitat as lowland forests are clear-cut to make room for coffee plantations. The cheap robusta beans grown in this region end up in instant coffee. From 1996 to 2001, land cleared for coffee production in the Lampung region of Sumatra jumped by 28 percent, according to a new study published in the journal Sci ...
Topics: deforestation, Indonesia (all these topics)

Not Seeing the Forest for the Trees On Bjorn Lomborg and deforestation	Emily Matthews	12 Dec 2001	Arts and Minds
In The Skeptical Environmentalist, Bjorn Lomborg writes that "basically, the world's forests are not under threat." A charitable reader could attribute this flawed conclusion to errors of omission and ignorance; perhaps the author simply doesn't know the sources well enough to interpret them properly. Less charitably, one might reasonably conclude that Lomborg intentionally selects his ...
Topics: books, deforestation, Indonesia (all these topics)

Tree? No Thanks, I'm Trying to Cut Back		05 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Tree? No Thanks, I'm Trying to Cut Back Indonesia said this week that it would tighten its forestry laws to rein in illegal logging. Under the new rules, companies will lose their licenses to log in 2003 unless they can prove they are managing forests sustainably. Enviros cheered the change, though it remains to be seen just how the theory will tr ...
Topics: deforestation, Indonesia, international government agencies, logging, rainforests, wilderness, World Bank (all these topics)

Landslide Brought Them Down		03 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Landslide Brought Them Down Floods and landslides have rushed down the sides of mountains earlier this week on the Indonesian island of Nias, destroying villages and causing at least 60 deaths. Deforestation may have caused the floods. Indonesia's largest environmental group, Walhi, found in a study this year that flash floods have occurred exactly where deforestation was ...
Topics: Asia, deforestation, Indonesia, land degradation, logging, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

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