Articles tagged with "Environment"
We have found 439 articles tagged with "Environment".
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2008-02-19 21:55:13
Already, one-third of China's land mass is desert and it is losing 1500 square acres more a year to overgrazing, deforestation, urban sprawl and draught. Looking out the window of my plane from Beijing to Kunming, for the first half-hour I thought I was
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2008-02-19 21:55:13
Already, one-third of China's land mass is desert and it is losing 1500 square acres more a year to overgrazing, deforestation, urban sprawl and draught. Looking out the window of my plane from Beijing to Kunming, for the first half-hour I thought I w
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-23 19:25:13
Tens of environmental activists staged a peaceful rally here on Tuesday to protest against the Indonesian government`s plan to seek more money from developed nations ...
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-23 19:18:44
Amid reports of the environmentally costly exploitation of forest resources across the country, good news comes from a handful of villages in Java. Farmers in ...
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-22 20:41:14
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 ...
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-21 18:25:16
Most environmentalists would agree that Al Gore and the IPCC's winning the Nobel Peace Prize was also a triumph for environmental advocates working to put ...
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-21 18:22:03
If longtime orangutan expert and animal behaviorist Francine Neago gets her wish, Bali is set to become a world leader in orangutan and endangered species ...
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-21 18:11:09
The burden of forest preservation should be shared by all those that benefit from it, including the industrialized countries. Global warming has been a major ...
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-20 02:13:41
Global warming talks in Bali in December need to make a breakthrough or international efforts to limit greenhouse gases could be in "deep trouble," the ...
Posted on: Indonesia Logue | 2007-10-18 20:31:44
A group of Americans have filed a petition imploring Bali's authorities to keep the island's idyllic beaches and landscapes from deteriorating, amid concerns authorities are ...
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-18 19:23:48
The government has established fishery courts in Jakarta, North Sumatra, West Kalimantan, North Sulawesi and Maluku. The five fishery courts will make use of a ...
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-18 19:19:27
The government has expressed fears that Indonesia might not be able to tap into the financial benefits from carbon trading in forestry projects, saying the ...
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-17 22:02:40
Private investment company Bali Biofuel will cultivate castor oil plants (Jatropha curcas) in cooperation with farmers in 10 villages in Gerokgak district, in the north ...
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-17 02:22:51
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is scheduled to send off 15 cyclists on a 20-day trip from Jakarta to Bali ahead of a major conference on ...
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-16 02:42:26
Climate related disasters, seen as forced marriages between weather/climate hazards and vulnerabilities, need responses. Disaster risk mainstreaming, getting to deal with disasters as development issues, ...
Posted on: Indonesia Logue | 2007-10-15 20:53:00
Bali Safari and Marine Park, to be officially opened in Cucukan, will be Taman Safari's best park to date, marketing manager Esther Manansang said. And ...
Posted on: Indonesia Logue | 2007-10-14 20:30:30
A new recreational site - Kertalangu Cultural Village - is being developed in Kesiman Kertalangu, Padang Galak, East Denpasar, by hundreds of local farmers under ...
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-12 23:06:35
Silpa and her five-month-old baby girl Anna have been sitting at Sentani's bus terminal corridor from 5 a.m., waiting for people to the buy six ...
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-12 22:55:37
Don't know where to go on weekends other than the shopping mall? You could perhaps pay a visit to Indonesia's first farmers' market, officially launched ...
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-11 02:47:04
Indonesia needs to focus on reigning in the destruction of peatland along with illegal logging if it wants to tackle climate change, says Greenpeace International. ...
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-11 02:36:45
The Bantul administration in Yogyakarta said it was encouraging farmers to use compost rather than chemical fertilizers but many farmers have said they prefer to ...
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-09 19:40:28
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 ...
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-09 19:38:10
Seven Indonesian women`s organizations are planning to plant 10 million trees across the country on December 1, 2007 in anticipation of global warming and climate ...
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-09 19:35:49
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, ...
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-09 19:20:15
Extending from Tanggamus and West Lampung regencies in Lampung province to Kaur regency in Bengkulu, the 356,000-hectare Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park (BBSNP) is home ...
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-09 02:17:34
Indonesia wants to be paid $US5-$US20 per hectare not to destroy its remaining forests, the environment minister said for the first time giving an actual ...
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-08 20:55:13
A study predicts that global warming will further decimate the orangutan population in Sebangau National Park in Central Kalimantan, home to Indonesia's largest orangutan habitat. ...
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-08 20:50:58
Last month was the release of six Javanese lutung (black or gray long-tailed monkey) or Trachipitecus auratus to their natural habitat. The conservation NGO ProFauna ...
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-07 18:21:37
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 ...
Posted on: Indonesia Logue | 2007-10-05 20:09:33
Extending from Tanggamus and West Lampung regencies in Lampung province to Kaur regency in Bengkulu, the 356,000-hectare Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park (BBSNP) is home ...
