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Saturday, November 21, 2009 1:19 AM

Deforestation

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 9 hours ago - 8 Documents (in Environment)
Funding scheme to reduce rainforest destruction
Efforts to reduce the destruction of tropical rainforests have received a boost following the creation of a five-year emergency funding scheme backed by 35 governments around the world.The plan was announced by the Prince of Wales at a meeting in St James ... [Computing.co.uk - 9 hours ago]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 6 Documents (in Environment)
Jakarta halts deforestation in Sumatra's Kampar Peninsula
Trees on the Kampar Peninsula in Riau province. Environmentalists have claimed a small victory after Indonesia ordered one of the country's biggest pulp and paper companies to halt forest clearing activities in the Kampar Peninsular.Greenpeace activists ... [France24 - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 4 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Environment)
Split Carbon Costs of Deforestation Between Producers & Consumers to Slow Felling Forests
It's probably no great secret to TreeHugger readers at this point that part of the reason are rapidly rising is partially because manufacturing of goods for export to the developed world. In fact in China at least and about 50% of emissions growth in ... [Treehugger - 4 hours ago]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 10 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Environment)
Indonesia suspends licence to destroy rainforest
to prevent the company destroying the forest and peatland in the area in order to grow acacia plantations for the international pulp and paper market. Containing 2 billion tonnes of carbon, the endangered Kampar Peninsula is one of the planets largest ... [Greenpeace International - 10 hours ago]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents (in Environment)
China's Forest Coverage Rate Reaches 20.36%
China's forest coverage reached 20.36 percent by the end of last year, two years ahead of schedule in its goal to lift forest coverage to 20 percent by 2010, the State Forestry Administration (SFA) announced Tuesday.China's forested area reached 195 million ... [China Development Gateway - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents (in Environment)
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Indonesia deports Indian, Italian journalists covering Greenpeace forest protest
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia has deported two foreign journalists covering a Greenpeace demonstration against forest destruction on the western island of Sumatra - bringing to 15 the number of people kicked out of the country over the protest. ... [Canoe Money - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Environment)
A climate threat, rising from the soil
The lopsided struggle is part of a battle against one of the biggest, and most overlooked, causes of global climate change: a vast and often smoldering layer of coal-black peat that has made Indonesia the world's third-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases ... [Washington Post - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Environment)
U.S. pledges $275 mln for tropical forests in 2010
LONDON (Reuters) - The United States pledged $275 million to rainforest protection on Thursday, at an event hosted by Britain's heir to the throne, Prince Charles, in London. ... [Reuters: Environment - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents (in Environment)
Deforestation rate slows in Southeast Asia
SOUTHEAST ASIA'S average deforestation rate is likely to drop by 2.3 million hectare a year from 2000, an environmental activist said yesterday.And environmental group Greenpeace is urging governments to help bring the rate down to zero level by 2020, ... [Brunei Times - 11/20/2009]
First Reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 Documents (in Environment)
Defense chief pushes Manila Bay mangrove reforestation
Philippine Daily InquirerFiled Under: Politics, Environmental IssuesMANILA, Philippines—Next to the communist insurgents, the Manila Bay is getting extra attention from acting Defense Secretary Norberto Gonzales.Gonzales has ordered the Philippine Navy ... [Philippine Daily Inquirer - 10 hours ago]
First Reported 6 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 1 Documents (in Environment)
A Grounded Faith
Deforestation takes on new meaning when you're standing in Loma de Ardilla, a cluster of homes perched on a dusty 6,000-foot ridge overlooking an endless sea of Oaxacan mountains. The Mexican village's name means "Squirrel Hill." But its residents haven't ... [Christianity Today - 6 hours ago]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Environment)
World's carbon footprint continues to grow
As the world prepares for next month's UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, the latest annual global carbon report has been released in London.It shows carbon emissions hitting record highs in 2008, mainly driven by the burning of coal but thanks ... [ABC Radio Australia - 11/19/2009]

Quotes

"People said we were crazy for planting trees," said Castellanos. "We do much with little. As when Jesus fed the 5,000, God multiplies out of nothing."
A Grounded Faith [Christianity Today - 6 hours ago]
"While it took us seven years to plant the first 500,000 trees, we now plant that many every year" Sabin said...
Trees Of Life [Christianity Today - 6 hours ago]

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Organised crime mushrooms in fungi trade [Times Online - 2 hours ago]
Google To Aid Tropical Rainforests [OfficialWire - 4 hours ago]
How forests can ‘outlive’ logging [Philippine Daily Inquirer - 5 hours ago]
Of Naxals and rich land of the poor [rediff.com - 5 hours ago]
A growing forest [Louisville Courier-Journal - 5 hours ago]
A Grounded Faith [Christianity Today - 6 hours ago]
Trees Of Life [Christianity Today - 6 hours ago]
Climate goal needs "more than technology&q... [Reuters - 6 hours ago]
U.S. pledges $275M to rainforest conservation [Mongabay.com - 8 hours ago]
Impact of forest fragmentation on biodiversity [Bangladesh Daily Star - 8 hours ago]
Clamping down on logging in Brazil moves it to ... [The Ecologist - 9 hours ago]
Funding scheme to reduce rainforest destruction [Computing.co.uk - 9 hours ago]
Defense chief pushes Manila Bay mangrove refore... [Philippine Daily Inquirer - 10 hours ago]
Indonesia suspends licence to destroy rainforest [Greenpeace International - 10 hours ago]
World Bank arm offers $200m in loans to refores... [Computing.co.uk - 12 hours ago]
Cautious conservation: How to ensure that slowi... [Science Centric - 16 hours ago]
Will Google spywear save rainforests? [Times Online - 16 hours ago]
22bn fund to cut the rate of deforestation [Times Online - 16 hours ago]
Guyana and Norway Sign $250 Million Forest-Clim... [Environment News Service - 17 hours ago]
Tree nursery plays a role in greening campaign [Naenara - 19 hours ago]
Investment In Ecosystems Will Reap Rewards: UNEP [Planet Ark - 22 hours ago]
Palm oil plantations devastate the forests in P... [Tropical Forest Trust - 23 hours ago]
Deforestation emissions should be shared betwee... [Mongabay.com - 23 hours ago]
Deforestation rate slows in Southeast Asia [Brunei Times - 11/20/2009]
ENVIRONMENT: Wildfires Spreading as Temperature... [Inter Press Service - 11/19/2009]
Climate Talks Could Save Some Species At Expens... [MedIndia - 11/19/2009]
Efforts to save rainforests boosted [Virgin Media - 11/19/2009]
Armchair spooks to Google rainforests [Times Online - 11/19/2009]
Bellamy backs new forest visitor scheme [Forestry Commission GB - 11/19/2009]
'Stern review' of biodiversity calls for more e... [Environmental Finance - 11/19/2009]
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Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Carlos Minc, José Achache, [more]
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Walt Disney Company, Google Inc, NIKE Inc, [more]
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Greenpeace, United Nations, World Wide Fund For Nature, [more]
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Deforestation, Global Warming/Climate Change, Carbon, [more]
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Copenhagen, London, Barcelona, [more]
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Brazil, Indonesia, Kenya, [more]
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Enviromental science, Climate Change, Enviromental exploitation, [more]
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Agriculture, Energy, Paper & Packaging, [more]
The Hindu, Treehugger, Xinhua News Agency, [more]
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Blogs

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Trudie Styler: Do We Want To Be The Generation ... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 4 hours ago]
The following post was originally delivered at the UN General Assembly's meeting on climate change on Thursday, November 19th. It has been 20 years ...
Split Carbon Costs of Deforestation Between Pro... [Treehugger - 4 hours ago]
It's probably no great secret to TreeHugger readers at this point that part of the reason are rapidly rising is partially because manufacturing of goods for export ...
Split Carbon Costs of Deforestation Between Pro... [Treehugger - 4 hours ago]
It's probably no great secret to TreeHugger readers at this point that part of the reason carbon emissions in developing nations are rapidly rising is partially ...
Tensie Whelan: Expecting More from Copenhagen [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 8 hours ago]
Expectations for a climate treaty had been in a dramatic downward spiral until President Obama's meeting with Hu Jintao in Beijing this week, where they ...
6 Ways Agriculture Impacts Global Warming [Treehugger - 11/19/2009]
Carbon sequestration in soilsWe've said it before and we'll say it again: Organic agriculture can remove from the air and sequester 7,000 pounds of carbon dioxide ...
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Audio/Video

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Kenya's forest dwellers evicted [Reuters Video: Top News - 8 hours ago]
Ghost forest in central London [CNN International - YouTube - 11/18/2009]
Ghost forest in central London [CNN.com - Video - 11/18/2009]
Brazil's battle with deforestation [France 24 English - YouTube - 11/17/2009]
London's ghost forest [News On ABC - YouTube - 11/17/2009]
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