Indonesia slashes 2021 mangrove restoration target, vows to make up in 2022

Source: MongabayDate: November 17, 2021. Indonesia has scaled back its target for mangrove restoration this year, but says its longer-term goal of rehabilitating 630,000 hectares (1.55 million acres) by 2024 remains unchanged. It blames "technical hurdles," including the diversion of funding for the...

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Indonesia Water Journal - JULY 2021

Dear readers, Welcome to Indonesia Water Journal July 2021 Edition! We have highlighted some articles and infographics related to water, mangrove, and peatland conservation as we celebrate World Nature Conservation Day this month. Feel free to share this Journal with your colleagues as we aim to pro...

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Conservation: how to do it right

Save water. That's a very common phrase we often see all over the media. Although it may sound cliché, actually the short phrase has a really deep meaning. To put it into numbers, 71% of the Earth is covered in water, but only 3% of them is freshwater. With such a small percentage and the growing po...

Deforestation decreases globally but remains alarming: Report

Source: The Jakarta PostDate: 3 June 2020 Shrinking forest cover over the last 30 years presents a clear and present danger to biodiversity, a recent review of the state of the world's forests has found, even though the rate of deforestation has slowed in the past five years. The State of the World'...

The State of the World’s Forests 2020

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations As the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity 2011–2020 comes to a close and countries prepare to adopt a post-2020 global biodiversity framework, this edition of The State of the World's Forests (SOFO) examines the contributions of...