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21/11/2008
While arguments against the development of hydropower dams on the Mekong River and its tributaries have from time to time emerged in Vietnam’s state-controlled press, rarely have government officials been as open with their criticism as they have ...
20/11/2008
The Brazilian government has said it will employ heat-seeking radar in a last-ditch attempt to save the country's remaining groups of isolated Indians. The body-heat sensors will be mounted on a Brazilian air force jet normally used to monitor ...
19/11/2008
South Korea's Daewoo has signed a 99-year lease for half of Madagascar's arable land, reports the Financial Times.
The agreement covers 1.3 million hectares (3.2 million acres) -- an area half the size of Belgium. Daewoo says it plans to ...
19/11/2008
California has joined the battle to fight global warming through rainforest conservation.
In an agreement signed yesterday at a climate change conference in Beverly Hills, California, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger pledged financial ...
19/11/2008
But proposed legal changes may sound more like a development model for oil palm expansion rather than an affirmation of indigenous rights to some.
Malaysia's government will for the first time grant ownership rights of land farmed by ...
19/11/2008
Earth observation scientists have made a last-minute plea to Gordon Brown to put the UK's weight behind Europe's environmental monitoring project, GMES.
The 2bn-euro venture will build a full picture of the state of the planet from ...
19/11/2008
Four square metres of rainforest are destroyed for every gram of cocaine snorted in the UK, a conference of senior police officers as told yesterday.
Francisco Santos Calderón, the vice-president of Colombia, appealed to British users of ...
19/11/2008
Centuries-old European explorers' tales of lost cities in the Amazon have long been dismissed by scholars, in part because the region is too infertile to feed a sprawling civilization.
But new discoveries support the idea of an ancient ...
19/11/2008
An indigenous rights' group has sounded the alarm over a new threat to an uncontacted tribe in Paraguay.
Survival International, a London-based NGO that campaigns on behalf of indigenous people, has sent an emergency submission to the ...
19/11/2008
Brazil will use a plane equipped with body-heat sensing technology to locate tribes in the Amazon rainforest, reports the Associated Press.
The effort will enable FUNAI, Brazil's Indian affairs agency, to push for the establishment of ...
19/11/2008
Scientists have rediscovered a long-lost species of primate on a remote island in Indonesia.
Conducting a survey of Mount Rore Katimbo in Lore Lindu National Park on the island of Sulawesi, a team led by Sharon Gursky-Doyen of Texas A&M ...
19/11/2008
Millions of people in Nigeria could be displaced by rising sea levels in the next half century, as ocean surges swamp some of Africa's most expensive real estate and its poorest slums, scientists say.
Africa's most populous nation, ...
19/11/2008
Indonesia, the world’s largest palm oil producer and emitter of greenhouse gases through deforestation, on Tuesday dealt a blow to hopes it would step up efforts to combat climate change.
Anton Apriyantono, the agriculture minister, told ...
19/11/2008
Indonesia, which has been losing forests at a rapid pace in recent years, plans to plant 100 million trees across the country this year in an effort to limit deforestation, a forestry official said Wednesday.
Indonesia has lost an ...
19/11/2008
The Brazilian government is set to employ heat-seeking sensors in a last-ditch attempt to save the country's remaining groups of isolated Indians.
The instruments will be mounted on a Brazilian air force jet normally used to monitor ...
19/11/2008
The states of California, Illinois, and Wisconsin and six states in Brazil and Indonesia agreed today to work together on new programmes for protecting and restoring tropical forests as an essential but so far untapped strategy to combat climate ...
19/11/2008
California and two other U.S. states signed a pact late on Tuesday with Indonesia's Aceh province that could see forest carbon credits from Aceh accepted into U.S. emissions trading schemes.
The pact, the first of its kind, marks a major ...
18/11/2008
Colombian officials have re-iterated their claim that cocaine use in rich countries is driving deforestation in Colombia, reports The Guardian.
Speaking to a conference of police officers in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Colombian Vice ...
18/11/2008
Rainforest nations will lobby the United Nations to set up a single body to coordinate the use of carbon credit trading to stop deforestation at a conference next month in Poland, an official from the countries said on Tuesday.
"A new ...
18/11/2008
Jean-Marie Serundori wakes up every morning with gorillas on his mind.
“I wash my face, I stare at the mountains and I think of them,” he said. “They are like our cousins.”
But Mr. Serundori, a Congolese wildlife ranger ...
18/11/2008
Africa's largest-ever investigation of wildlife crime has unearthed a ton of illegal African elephant ivory, several animal pelts, and hippopotamus teeth, the Kenya Wildlife Service and INTERPOL announced this week.
The undercover ...
18/11/2008
The Coalition for Rainforest Nations -- a group of 40 tropical countries seeking compensation in the form of carbon credits for protecting their forest cover -- will ask the United Nations at next month's climate conference in Poland to establish ...
18/11/2008
Three key services provided by coral reefs and mangroves in Belize are worth an estimated US$395 million to US$559 million per year, according to a report released in this Carribean nation this week.
The report, Coastal Capital: Belize, ...
18/11/2008
A new global standard launched today will put in place a robust assessment scheme for ensuring agriculture and forestry protection projects are environmentally sustainable and credible providers of carbon offsets.
Projects to tackle ...
18/11/2008
A new carbon accounting standard will bolster efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions resulting from deforestation, thereby creating a financial incentive for saving rainforests, say backers of the initiative, known as the Voluntary Carbon ...