Valuable Peatlands Being Destroyed

April 7th, 2008 | By Barrie | No Comments »

Peatland forests in Indonesia are continuously destructed by palm oil industry, although the government has stopped issuing new permits for new plantations at peatland ecosystem, a Greenpeace campaigner said. Hapsoro... [Read this entry]

REDD Offered Alternative by Greepeace

November 13th, 2007 | By Barrie | No Comments »

Environmental group Greenpeace proposed an alternative plan to the government’s emissions reduction scheme, calling for the voluntary financing of deforestation efforts in lieu of a carbon trading system. The group’s... [Read this entry]

Greenpeace Urges Halt to Forest Destruction

November 9th, 2007 | By Barrie | No Comments »

Stop Deforestation Before Seeking Forestry Funds

October 22nd, 2007 | By Barrie | No Comments »

Environmental campaigners have praised the government’s anti-deforestation scheme, which aims to lure international funding by protecting forests and helping reduce carbon emissions. However, they called on the government to take... [Read this entry]

Greenpeace Opens Defenders Camp: Riau, Sumatra

October 9th, 2007 | By Barrie | No Comments »

Greenpeace opened the Forest Defenders Camp (FDC) in Riau Province, Sumatra, Indonesia, as part of its international effort to protect the world’s remaining forests and the global climate prior to... [Read this entry]

Stop the Destruction of Rainforests in Indonesia

October 9th, 2007 | By Barrie | No Comments »

Indonesia had the fastest pace of deforestation in the world between 2000-2005, destroying an area of forest the size of 300 soccer pitches every hour, according to the environment group... [Read this entry]

Global Warming and the Papuan Rainforests

October 7th, 2007 | By Barrie | No Comments »

Papua is the size of California and is almost entirely covered by vast stretches of virgin rain forest spread over 41.5 million hectares — or 23 percent of Indonesia’s total... [Read this entry]

Forests at Risk: Jayapura, Papua

August 22nd, 2007 | By Barrie | No Comments »

Papua is home to 10 percent of the world’s remaining Intact Forest Landscape, but 2 percent of that is at risk of forest conversion, according to an NGO.
“Unfortunately, Papua’s... [Read this entry]

Indonesian Forest Fires a Global Menace

July 16th, 2007 | By Barrie | No Comments »

Greenpeace challenged the Indonesian government to immediately declare a moratorium on the conversion and destruction of peat land forests to put a stop to the country`s annual cycle of forest... [Read this entry]

Draft Bylaw on Forest Fire Control: Riau, Sumatra

July 14th, 2007 | By Barrie | No Comments »

Greenpeace has urged the central government not to endorse a draft bylaw on the control of forest fires in Riau province, saying articles in the draft could increase slash-and-burn practices... [Read this entry]