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Recent news on Indonesian forest crimes, and related developments on NGO activities, company and government actions, changes to environmental rules, lawsuits and acquittals. Also features press releases and blog posts.
/ EoF News

Perambahan picu karhutla Tesso Nilo --Berita dan galeri foto
/ EoF Press Release

Restorasi gambut tak menentu, peraturan baru menguntungkan siapa?

03 Aug 2009 / EoF News

EoF releases Investigative Report on APRIL

Sumatra, Carbon stock, Biodiversity loss,

PEKANBARU (EoF News)—Eyes on the Forest coalition today is releasing an Investigative Report conducted in May and June 2009 in Kerumutan block forest where EoF found PT...

28 Jul 2009 / EoF Press Release

Fires in APP/Sinar Mas concessions add to region’s haze woes, threaten new UN biosphere reserve

Sumatra, Carbon stock, Biodiversity loss,

Satellite data for the first six months of 2009 show that Riau Province had the largest number of fire “hotspots” in Indonesia: 4,782. And nearly one-quarter of the...

28 Jul 2009 / EoF Press Release

Kebakaran di konsesi APP/Sinar Mas memperparah" "kabut asap regional dan mengancam cagar biosfir" "PBB yang baru"

Sumatra, Carbon stock, Biodiversity loss,

Data satelit selama enam bulan perama di tahun 2009 menunjukkan bahwa Provinsi Riau memiliki jumlah titik api kebakaran terbanyak di Indonesia, yakni 4.782.

24 Jul 2009 / EoF News

Two Sumatran tiger poachers tried

Sumatra, Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper,

PEKANBARU (EoF News)— Two Sumatran tiger poachers were tried in Tembilahan District Court, Riau, for allegedly slaughtering three Sumatran tigers in Pelangiran...

22 Jul 2009 / EoF News

Environmentalists Blast APP For Road Project in Jambi

Sumatra, Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper,

(TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta, 15 July, 2009)--Environment activists in Jakarta protested against a project to build transport access in a forest in Tebo Regency, in Jambi...

15 Jul 2009 / EoF News

Pulpwood companies contribute to hazy Riau

Sumatra, Carbon stock, Biodiversity loss,

PEKANBARU (EoF News)-- Firefighters desperately struggled to extinguish forest and land fires in Riau Province as residents suffered upper respiratory problems due to...

02 Jul 2009 / EoF News

APP logging road threatens Orang Rimba

Sumatra, Tenurial rights, Biodiversity loss,

Husin, a head family of Orang Rimba who inhabits in Suo-suo village of southern Bukit Tigapuluh, in Jambi, complained over 45-km logging road that constructed by PT Wira...

02 Jul 2009 / EoF News

What's the true cost of photocopy paper?

Sumatra, Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper,

They say the pen is mightier than the sword, but is it mightier than the chainsaw? Plans are being finalized this summer for a massive controversial logging operation on...

19 Jun 2009 / EoF News

HTI, HPH concessions contribute to hotspots

Sumatra, Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper,

PEKANBARU (EoF News)—At least 229 hotspots were detected by satellite in Riau province during 1-15 June 2009 where pulpwood plantation concessions (HTI) had 79...

19 Jun 2009 / EoF News

Open letter to APP published by AOP

Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper,

PEKANBARU (EoF News)-- On May 7, the Australian Orangutan Project, Humane Society International, Zoos South Australia, Dreamworld, Auckland Zoo and Australia Zoo,...