Source: ANTARADate: June 22, 2021 Jakarta (ANTARA) - Environment and Forestry (LHK) Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar held a bilateral meeting with Czech Minister of the Environment Richard Brabec in pursuit of bolstering cooperation in protecting biodiversity and the environment. The meeting was marked b...
Indonesia leads the world on reducing deforestation
Source: The Jakarta Post Date: 3 April 2021 No doubt 2021 will be a pivotal year in global efforts to combat climate change. President Joe Biden has invited the 17 members of the major economies forum, including Indonesia, to a virtual summit on April 22-23 to urge much greater ambition as these cri...
Replanting alone won’t stop mangrove degradation: Activists
Source: The Jakarta Post Date: 20 October 2020 When 53-year-old Azizi is not tending to his crab farm, he would be nursing the 456-hectare mangrove forest near his home in the village of Gambus in North Sumatra's Batu Bara regency. The former fisherman said recently that fewer than ...
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Helping the poor can protect forests too, Indonesian welfare program shows
Source: Mongabay Date: 4 August 2020 A study has found that a poverty-alleviation program in Indonesia was just as successful as dedicated conservation programs in reducing deforestation.The researchers attribute this to the program serving as a sort of insurance against harvest failures, by gu...
ASEAN loses a third of mangroves in last 40 years
Source: The Jakarta Post Date: 29 July 2020 The ASEAN region lost about 33 per cent of its mangrove forests between 1980 and 2020, a decrease of more than 63,000sq km, said the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB). Nations that comprise ASEAN have just around 43,000sq km of mangrove forest...
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Ministry Sets Target to Rehabilitate 200 ha of Mangrove Forests
Source: Tempo.co Date: 26 July 2020 The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) has set a target to rehabilitate 200 ha of mangrove forests in several coastal regions across Indonesia this year. KKP planned to improve the condition of mangrove ecosystem by planting mangrove trees in 20...
Mangrove forests to hereafter not be converted into ponds: Minister
Source: ANTARA News Date: 16 July 2020 Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister, Eddhy Prabowo has made assurance that mangrove forests would henceforth not be converted into ponds, and the ministry, in its place, plans to plant more mangrove trees. "I guarantee that there will be no more d...
Precautions against forest fires
Source: The Jakarta PostDate: 15 June 2020 Beleaguered and overwhelmed by the COVID-19 pandemic that has caused public-health and economic crises, the government and plantation businesses seem relaxed about or unaware of being on the cusp of the annual bout of forest and peatland fires during the cu...
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...