Kalimantan - Sumatran rainforest named a global priority for the Tigers and the home unique orangutan rescue project focuses on clearcutting one of the world's largest paper suppliers.
The investigation found that since 2004, companies affiliated with Asia Pulp & Paper / Sinar Mas Group is required, selective logging concession, dense natural forest Bukit Tigapuluh ainavu.Uzņēmumi received state permits to switch the state of forests in industrial timber plantation concessions, sometimes with legally questionable circumstances. This allows clearcutting and planting of commercial plantations, making homeless local forest dwelling tribes and endangered species. This is contrary to the company, it is not clear, high-quality wood.
"Our investigation revealed that the last six years, this landscape as the company contributed to the loss of about 60,000 hectares of forest without appropriate professional assessments or stakeholder consultation," said Susanto Kurniawan eyes of the forest.
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The investigation found that since 2004, companies affiliated with Asia Pulp & Paper / Sinar Mas Group is required, selective logging concession, dense natural forest Bukit Tigapuluh ainavu.Uzņēmumi received state permits to switch the state of forests in industrial timber plantation concessions, sometimes with legally questionable circumstances. This allows clearcutting and planting of commercial plantations, making homeless local forest dwelling tribes and endangered species. This is contrary to the company, it is not clear, high-quality wood.
"Our investigation revealed that the last six years, this landscape as the company contributed to the loss of about 60,000 hectares of forest without appropriate professional assessments or stakeholder consultation," said Susanto Kurniawan eyes of the forest.
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A troubling fact that our attention: monocrops tree most large scale received Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification in the world.
In recent plantings due to "green" seal of approval of Shell's fields in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay, as Sappi, Mondi is and SAFCOL is in South Africa, is KLAB -V & M Florestal was in Brazil, Fletcher Challenge PERUM PERHUTANI is in Indonesia, New Zealand / Aotearoa and many others. If this trend continues, more tree monocultures are also guaranteed "sustainable" by the FSC, an organization which enjoys substantial credibility to the public. Read full article
Three Hot Spots Detected in West Kalimantan
On 14 May 2011
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- Archive Singaporean NOAA 18 (National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration) satellite has revealed three hot spots of West
Kalimantan province, which stated:
Home of West Kalimantan - the Environmental Protection Agency, Pontianak, Madison, said here on Friday, and was located in the first place hot on the Maya Pulau semi-district, North Kayong area, and the second Matan Hilir sub-district, Ketapang District, the third Nanga Serawa sub-district, Sintang the province.
In the past, on Tuesday (March 1), showed the control that only one hot spot to Martinus Benua sub-district, Kapuas region Hollow, four hot spots Wednesday in three places in hot Ketapang and snapper, and Cobo the banner of the province, a hot spot.
"The air pollution standard index (PSI) and the surrounding areas in Pontianak is still normal," he said.
Earlier, the Meteorological and Geophysics Agency meteorologists in a staff member, Pontianak, Sri Ningsih, estimated that the cause of the smoke that emerged in the past few days by small combustion
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Home of West Kalimantan - the Environmental Protection Agency, Pontianak, Madison, said here on Friday, and was located in the first place hot on the Maya Pulau semi-district, North Kayong area, and the second Matan Hilir sub-district, Ketapang District, the third Nanga Serawa sub-district, Sintang the province.
In the past, on Tuesday (March 1), showed the control that only one hot spot to Martinus Benua sub-district, Kapuas region Hollow, four hot spots Wednesday in three places in hot Ketapang and snapper, and Cobo the banner of the province, a hot spot.
"The air pollution standard index (PSI) and the surrounding areas in Pontianak is still normal," he said.
Earlier, the Meteorological and Geophysics Agency meteorologists in a staff member, Pontianak, Sri Ningsih, estimated that the cause of the smoke that emerged in the past few days by small combustion
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