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Indonesia names Sinar Mas, APRIL, among eight firms behind Singapore haze
Posted by Eco-Business: Jessica Cheam on June 24th, 2013
Eco-Business: Indonesia has blamed eight companies, including Singapore-based Sinar Mas and Asia Pacific Resources International (APRIL) for the fires raging across its land of Sumatra that has blanketed parts of Malaysia and parts of Singapore in its most severe haze in history.
Senior presidential aide Kuntoro Mangkusubroto was reported by news wires on Friday saying: "The majority of hotspots in Riau (province) are inside APRIL and Sinar Mas concessions,"
The environment minister said not all eight companies...
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Comments Off on Indonesia names Sinar Mas, APRIL, among eight firms behind Singapore hazeHotspots expose gaps in Indonesia’s forest moratorium
Posted by Eco-Business: None Given on June 24th, 2013
Eco-Business: Half the fire hotspots that are causing the severe haze in Singapore and Malaysia are in areas that should be protected by Indonesia`s forest moratorium, said Greenpeace International on Thursday.
The environmental NGO said in a statement that half the hotspots detected between June 11 to 18 are in areas meant to be protected.
This information comes after Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono extended the country`s forest moratorium last month, which aims to prevent new clearing of...
Straightening Out Accounts on Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 24th, 2013
Inter Press Service: - The bold strategy implemented by the Brazilian government has achieved an 84 percent reduction in deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the last eight years. But when the natural resources and pesticides used in agricultural production are taken into account, the environmental progress made is not so impressive.
The achievement was announced this month by leftwing Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and her environment minister, Izabella Teixeira, in the tone of "mission almost accomplished,"...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Straightening Out Accounts on Deforestation in the Brazilian AmazonALERT! HSBC Bank Must Stop Funding Old-Growth Rainforest Logging
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on June 24th, 2013
By Ecological Internet's Rainforest Portal
TAKE ACTION!
HSBC Bank continues to fund logging companies [search] pillaging old-growth rainforests and causing human rights abuses in Sarawak, Malaysia, and expanding globally. After ravaging all but 5% of Sarawaks once pristine tropical rainforests, HSBCs Sarawak clients described in Papua New Guinea as the Malaysian timber mafia now dominate the global, ecocidal old-growth timber industry. Anyone participating in the industrial destruction of Earths last old-growth forests be they banks, governments, corporations, or NGOs are legitimate protest targets, if we are to maintain local well-being and a habitable Earth for all. Please demand that HSBC end all involvement with old-growth rainforest logging.
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