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Asia governors endorse U.N. forest carbon scheme

Reuters Environmental Online Report 90 days ago

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Six provincial governors from Indonesia, Laos and the Philippines on Thursday backed an expanded U.N. scheme aimed at protecting and conserving forests in return for carbon credits. In a joint statement after a meeting on the sidelines of an ...

Deforestation threatens Indonesia's Papua region

AFP Global Edition 90 days ago

Logging and agribusiness is threatening environmental destruction in Indonesia's Papua region, one of the world's last vast wildernesses, local leaders said on Thursday. The governors of the two provinces in the region on the western end of New Guinea island told an ...

Indonesia's Papua in environmental peril: leaders

AFP Asian Edition 90 days ago

Logging and agribusiness is threatening environmental destruction in Indonesia's Papua region, one of the world's last vast wildernesses, local leaders said on Thursday. The governors of the two provinces in the region on the western end of New Guinea island told an ...

Malaysian police tear down Penan tribe's anti-logging blockades

AFP Global Edition 124 days ago

Malaysian police said Wednesday they had dismantled blockades constructed in the Borneo jungles by Penan tribespeople protesting against logging and plantations on their ancestral land. In a separate move police also arrested 17 people, including Penan and other indigenous groups, for mounting ...

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Las Vegas Sun 129 days ago

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Malaysia gov't report: Loggers raped Borneo girls

AP News 154 days ago

Malaysia government report says loggers raped Borneo tribal girls in remote jungle Indigenous tribal girls have been sexually abused by loggers in remote jungles on Borneo island, a Malaysian government report said, in the first official verification of rape accusations involving timber ...

Indonesian military plane crashes, killing 4

AP News 155 days ago

Indonesian military plane crashes on Borneo island, killing 4 A small Indonesian military plane crashed on Borneo on Monday with nine passengers and crew aboard, killing four, the national search and rescue agency said. The Nomad P837 light aircraft was on a ...

Air quality poorer in Malaysia's Borneo

AFP Global Edition 185 days ago

Air quality in Malaysia's Sarawak state on Borneo island edged towards "very unhealthy" levels of pollution Sunday as wildfires raged in forests and peat-growing land in the state. The Air Pollutant Index (API) recorded unhealthy levels of between 122 and 197 in ...

WWF urges action to protect Borneo rhino's habitat

AFP Global Edition 224 days ago

The future of one of the world's rarest animals, the Borneo rhino, depends on action taken to protect the forest reserves where it lives, conservation group WWF said Wednesday. Malaysian wildlife officials say that only 30 Borneo rhino remain in the wilderness ...

Indonesia, Malaysia seek to ease border tensions

AFP Asian Edition 225 days ago

Indonesia and Malaysia have agreed to ease military tensions over disputed oil-rich waters off northeastern Borneo, during talks between the countries' defence ministers in Jakarta. Indonesian Defence Minister Juwono Sudarsono met his Malaysian counterpart, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, in a bid to defuse ...

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