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Greenpeace reveals the maps of the moratorium
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 28th, 2011
Rainforest News: Bad news from Indonesia: Greenpeace got a copy of the draft moratorium, crunched the numbers and the news is not good. The data shows this proposed moratorium does little to protect areas that are not already off limits under Indonesia's existing laws. Unfortunately, if the plan moves forward as it is, the forests, peatlands and all the wildlife living within them will continue to suffer deforestation from the pulp, paper and palm oil industries.
This land is vital to the survival of rare tigers...
India’s wild tiger population up
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 28th, 2011
BBC: The number of tigers in India's wild has gone up by 20%, according to the latest tiger census, which has surveyed the whole of India for the first time.
The census puts the population of the big cat at 1,706. There were 1,411 tigers at the last count in 2007.
But officials have raised concerns about the amount of territory that tigers have to roam in.
India has more than 45,000 sq km (27,961 miles) of forest area in 39 designated tiger reserves.
But India's Environment Minister Jairam...
Philippines: Dolores learns to cope with climate change
Posted by Philippine Information Agency: Ninfa B Quirante on March 28th, 2011
Philippine Information Agency: Dolores local government is trying to cope with climate change through planting alternative crops other than rice.
The town is the biggest rice producing municipality in the province but due to too much rain and severe flooding, Dolores River overflows destroying homes and the rice farms.
Mayor Emeliana ‘Ewit’ Villacarillo visited Barangays Quiatan and Magsaysay; two barangays reachable by the Dolores River after an hour of rivercruise and gave a lecture on climate change and how it has brought...
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Comments Off on Philippines: Dolores learns to cope with climate changeSooty Himalayan snow ‘warms climate, alters monsoons’
Posted by SciDev.Net: Archita Bhatta on March 28th, 2011
SciDev.Net: Black carbon landing on snow may be accelerating the melting of Himalayan glaciers more than atmospheric soot or even greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2), according to a study.
The effects of this carbon, a key component of soot, could change the timing and intensity of the monsoons; increase the chances of downstream floods and reduce farmers' access to irrigation when they most need it, researchers say.
The Tibetan Plateau has warmed 1.8 degrees Celsius in the last 50 years and...
Ecuador, not Nigeria, grabs $4m UN-REDD fund
Posted by Daily Independent: None Given on March 28th, 2011
Daily Independent: * Xavier Mugumya (Uganda) (left), Clea Paz (UN-REDD Secretariat), Chief Peter Ikwem (Obudu Forest Community Leader, Cross River State, Nigeria), Yemi Katerere (Executive Secretary, UN-REDD Programme), Gebon Timothy Kataps (Commissioner for Environment & Urban Development, Taraba State, Nigeria), Odigha Odigha (Chairman, Cross River State Forestry Commission, Nigeria), Salisu Dahiru (National Coordinator, REDD Programme, Nigeria) and Alexander Muller (Assistant Director-General, Food & Agriculture...
UN approves $4 Million funding for forestry REDD in Ecuador
Posted by Climate Connect: None Given on March 28th, 2011
Climate Connect: The UN-REDD Programme has approved US$4 million in funding for Ecuador's National Programme for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+), bringing the total amount of approved funding for UN-REDD National Programmes to US$55.4 million.
These critical funds support the capacity of national governments to prepare and implement REDD+ strategies with the active involvement of all stakeholders, including Indigenous Peoples and other forest-dependent communities. The ultimate...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on UN approves $4 Million funding for forestry REDD in EcuadorAmaila Falls project should be halted until after the elections
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 28th, 2011
Stabroek News: On reading your news article, ‘Local workers to make up less than half of Amaila plant labour force,’ (March 24), and harking back to a related article, ‘Chinese workers for Amaila road building (SN, July 24, 2010), I am compelled to suggest that work on the Amaila Fall Hydroelectric Project (AFHEP) be immediately postponed until after the 2011 elections to give a potentially new government an opportunity to do a thorough and transparent appraisal of this bungling and very costly project before continuing....
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Amaila Falls project should be halted until after the electionsAmaila hydropower project
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 28th, 2011
Guyana Chronicle: A MAJOR step has been taken towards completing the process for financing the construction of the Amaila Hydropower project. Last week, Amaila Falls Hydro Inc., a member of the Sithe Global group, announced the posting on their website of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) update on the project. The 2,500 page ESIA has been posted on www.amailahydropower.com and on the website for the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) www.lcds.gov.gy.
Further, it is anticipated that the...
Borneo tribes: 30-year regime ‘has destroyed everything’
Posted by Survivalinternational: None Given on March 28th, 2011
Survivalinternational: Under Taib's rule the Penan have mounted countless blockades to stop their forest being destroyed.
Tribespeople in Sarawak, in the Malaysian part of Borneo, say the 30-year rule of Chief Minister Taib Mahmud has ‘raped’ their land, destroyed their rainforests and brought ‘hardship and suffering’.
This Saturday, March 26, will mark Taib Mahmud’s 30th anniversary as head of the rainforest state. Malaysia’s longest-serving Chief Minister, he has faced widespread and persistent allegations of corruption....
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Borneo tribes: 30-year regime ‘has destroyed everything’Warming brings unwelcome change to Alaska villages
Posted by Anchorage Daily News: Dan Joling on March 28th, 2011
Anchorage Daily News: Beavers have colonized the Wulik River, Kivalina's main source for water. Beaver feces carry a microscopic protozoa that can cause giardia, known to campers elsewhere in Alaska as "beaver fever." Diarrhea and vomiting are symptoms. Kivalina hunters using the Wulik as a corridor to inland caribou herds have been warned to boil water before drinking it.
Beavers are among the unwelcome changes associated with climate change, said Michael Brubaker, lead author of reports documenting how two northwest...