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In landmark ruling, Indonesia's indigenous people win right to millions of hectares of forest Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com May 17, 2013 print Court ruling invalidates Indonesian govt's claim to customary forest areas In a landmark ruling, Indonesia's Constitutional Court has invalida...
Indigenous association to sue to shut down Panama's REDD+ program mongabay.com May 17, 2013 print Panama's largest association of indigenous people will sue the Panamanian government to shut down the country's Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) program. The ...
Researchers develop highest-resolution global forest cover dataset to date mongabay.com May 17, 2013 print Researchers at the University of Maryland have developed a 30-meter resolution forest cover data set that could boost efforts to track deforestation and forest degradation. The d...
Jaguars, tapirs, oh my!: Amazon explorer films shocking wildlife bonanza in threatened forest (02/19/2013) Watching a new video by Amazon explorer, Paul Rosolie, one feels transported into a hidden world of stalking jaguars, heavyweight tapirs, and daylight-wandering giant armadillos....
Citizen group finds 30 toxic chemicals in air following tar sands oil spill in Arkansas (04/30/2013) Independent air samples by locals have yielded "a soup of toxic chemicals" in Mayflower, Arkansas where an Exxon Mobil pipeline burst on March 29th spilling some 5,000 barrels of tar s...
Roads could help protect the environment rather than destroy it, argues Nature paper (03/22/2013) Rapidly expanding road networks are causing large-scale damage to forests but proper infrastructure planning and implementation could actually turn them into a net positive for the enviro...
Pacific islanders are the 'victims of industrial countries unable to control their carbon dioxide emissions' (05/15/2013) With islands and atolls scattered across the ocean, the small Pacific island states are among those most exposed to the effects of global warming: increasing acidi...
Forestry official: Indonesia should extend moratorium on new forest concessions (01/15/2013) Despite opposition from the powerful palm oil industry, Indonesia should extend its two-year moratorium on new logging and agricultural concessions in carbon-dense peatlands and forests, said ...
