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2012-05-20 07:45 |
By David Hill, The Guardian, 16 May 2012 | An environmental consultancy working for an oil company withheld evidence of an "uncontacted tribe" where the company is operating in Peru's Amazon, a leaked report obtained by the Guardian reveals. The leak is acutely embarrassing for Perenco, based in London and Paris, because it has consistently claimed there is no evidence for indigenous people living without contact with the outside world near its operations and cites research by the consultancy,...
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2012-05-20 07:43 |
By Erin Hale, The Guardian, 17 May 2012 | Ford, GM and BMW are sourcing material from Brazil that is driving illegal logging and slave labour, according to campaigners at Greenpeace. Brazil is a major exporter of pig iron, a primary ingredient of steel and cast iron, that is produced using massive quantities of charcoal. Reports over the past decade from the Brazilian government, the International Labour Organisation (ILO), and the US Department of Labour have indicated that charcoal used by...
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2012-05-20 07:18 |
mongabay.com, 19 May 2012 | Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is lower in 2012 relative to the same period last year according to satellite-based data released by Imazon, an NGO. Imazon's Deforestation Alert System (SAD) detected 830 square kilometers of clearing between August 2011 to April 2012, down about 35 percent from the 1268 square kilometers recorded at this time last year. Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon last year was the lowest since annual record keeping began in the late...
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2012-05-20 07:17 |
mongabay.com, 19 May 2012 | A mother orangutan and its baby were rescued from an area of forest that was being bulldozed for an oil palm plantation in Sumatra, reports the Orangutan Information Centre (OIC), which participated in the translocation of the red apes. The rescue was conducted by the OIC’s Human Orangutan Conflict Response Unit (HOCRU) with the assistance of the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SCOP), the Leuser Ecosystem Management Authority (BPKEL), and the Natural...
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2012-05-20 07:13 |
By Jeremy Hance, mongabay.com, 17 May 2012 | Last month, three Guarani communities, the local Argentine government of Misiones, and the UK-based NGO World Land Trust forged an agreement to create a nature reserve connecting three protected areas in the fractured, and almost extinct, Atlantic Forest. Dubbed the Emerald Green Corridor, the reserve protects 3,764 hectares (9,301 acres) in Argentina; although relatively small, the land connects three protected other protected areas creating a...
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2012-05-20 07:10 |
By Jeremy Hance, mongabay.com, 15 May 2012 | Compiled by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), and the Global Footprint Network, the Living Planet Report is a biannual look at how humans consume the world's natural resources. This year's report - even bleaker than the last - comes just months before the UN Summit on Sustainable Development in Brazil. Known as Rio+20, the summit is marking twenty years since the landmark Rio Summit in 1992. "Since the...
2012-05-19 17:50 |
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2012-05-19 17:18 |
By Aaron Nelsen, New York Times, 15 May 2012 | Along the murky waters of the Ene River, in a remote jungle valley on the verdant eastern slopes of the Andes, the rhythmic humming of an outboard motor draws the stares of curious Ashaninka children. With encroachment from settlers and speculators, and after a devastating war against Shining Path rebels a decade ago, the indigenous Ashaninkas’ hold is precarious. And they are now facing a new peril, the proposed 2,200-megawatt Pakitzapango...
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2012-05-19 17:16 |
Kompas, 18 May 2012 | The case of land use in Tripa Peat Swamp of Aceh’s Nagan Raya District is a small example of chaos in the Indonesian forest management. The government is urged to review the 4.8 million ha of forest excluded from the forestry moratorium map during the first revision. ”This case of Tripa, even that the area in dispute only of 1,605 ha, has uncover the truth about how chaotic the management of moratorium data astually is,” said Elfian Effendi, Executive Director of...
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2012-05-19 16:43 |
REDD - VietNam, May 2012 | REDD+ is a complexity mechanism implemented under the requirements of environmental and social issues, of which biodiversity conservation, poverty alleviation, indigenous right and transparency must be considered as “co-benefit” in REDD+ implementation. To achieve the multi-objectives of REDD+ activities and pilot projects, building capacity and sharing experiences in REDD+ implementation have become a crucial aspect to enhance the effectiveness of REDD+ activities at...
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2012-05-19 16:09 |
Tropical Forestry and Timberland News, 18 May 2012 | International attention is focused on finding ways to reduce emissions from deforestation because of the emerging concerns over climate change. However the causes of deforestation are rooted in current economic and development paradigms. The causes of deforestation also vary across different geographical regions and have implications for the forest transition. Attempts to reach an international agreement on curbing deforestation have achieved...
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2012-05-19 16:08 |
RECOFTC, 16 May 2012 | Over the past two years, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and RECOFTC – The Center for People and Forests have brought together regional experts to reflect on the outcomes of the 15th and 16th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The resulting booklets Forests and Climate Change After Copenhagen: An Asia-Pacific Perspective and Forests and Climate Change After Cancun: An...
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2012-05-19 15:49 |
RECOFTC, 16 May 2012 | This training manual for national and sub-national level facilitators is a timely step forward in this direction. It aims to create a well-trained human resource base in the country, which can help raising awareness and build capacity among forestry sector grassroots stakeholders. Since the concept and idea of REDD+ is new and still evolving, it is expected that this manual will undergo further revisions over time.
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2012-05-19 15:47 |
Herald Sun, 18 May 2012 | PT Henrison Inti Persada bought land and timber from the Moi clans at extremely low prices, the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency said. Documents showed Henrison paid tribesmen $US923 ($934.16) for 14.2 square kilometres of forest. "Papuans, some of the poorest citizens in Indonesia, are being utterly exploited in legally questionable oil palm land deals that provide huge financial opportunities for international investors at the expense of the people and...
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2012-05-19 15:44 |
Satgas REDD, YouTube, 14 May 2012 | REDD+ Taskforce Involvement in Indonesia Climate Change and Education Forum (ICCEFE) involving photo journalist shared their experience and knowledge about people, forest, and culture. Short workshop from Central Kalimantan teachers in creating non-timber forest product handcraft.
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2012-05-19 15:13 |
EcoLogic's Blog, 10 May 2012 | The money to pay them comes from a variety of sources such as international aid (sometimes ponying up aid money or agreeing to swap debt for nature initiatives) and markets like the one in California under its pioneering California Global Warming Solutions Act (AB-32). In the latter case, the dinero comes from a cap and trade compliance market, where companies reduce their smokestack (and other) emissions by becoming more efficient down to a certain point and then...
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2012-05-19 15:10 |
International Tree Foundation, 17 May 2012 | The problems described above are all borne from the tricky issue of trust. In order to overcome this hurdle, REDD needs to incorporate a mechanism that encourages all parties to do the right thing. One such mechanism that has been mooted recently is to develop an insurance-based version of REDD (known as iREDD). In this system an outside broker would establish a premium for the contract between the party wishing to buy carbon credits (the buyer) and...
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2012-05-19 15:09 |
By Johnny Langenheim, The Guardian, 17 May 2012 | Papua is one of the last great frontier wildernesses. Its vast rainforests and coral rich waters are home to more than 250 indigenous tribes, the most linguistically diverse population on Earth. But it is also the scene of a brutal and under-reported conflict. Indonesia took control of the western half of New Guinea – now the provinces of Papua and West Papua – in 1969. Its claim was ratified by the UN through the controversial Act of Free...
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2012-05-19 15:06 |
Survival International, 17 May 2012 | The extent of the peril facing the world’s ‘most threatened tribe’ was revealed today, as Brazilian authorities admitted that the Awá tribe are now outnumbered 10:1 inside just one of their reserves. Officials acknowledged the scale of the emergency after receiving over 20,000 messages of protest following the launch of Survival’s campaign to save the Awá tribe from imminent extinction. Survival International has learned that a government survey estimates...
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2012-05-19 15:02 |
International Institute for Environment and Development, 16 May 2012 | Income generated from REDD+ should be given to forest communities to invest in their future, recommends a new report by The Forests Dialogue (TFD). Investing locally in this way should be part of understanding REDD+ as integral to broader development among forest-dependent communities. The new report Giving REDD+ Life, examines the relationship between Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) and...
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