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• 40% of lowland forests in Sumatra and Indonesian Borneo cleared in 15 years

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 136
  Forty percent of lowland forests in Sumatra and Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) were cleared from 1990 to 2005, reports a new high resolution assessment of land cover change in Indonesia.
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• Orangutan Rescued From Oil Palm Plantation

  
  Orangutan Foundation — Authority: 410
  Last Sunday the Orangutan Foundation responded to reports of a young female orangutan isolated in a tree in an oil palm plantation.     The young  female orangutan climbed the Banyan tree when we arrived in the oil palm plantation area at Pandu senjaya village, Pangkalan Lada.      Uduk ...
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• World’s Most Elusive and Endangered Cat Caught on Film

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 162
  Researchers in Malaysian Borneo have captured the world’s most elusive and endangered cat on film. The beautiful Bornean bay cat, Catopuma badia , is so rare; a live cat was not even photographed until 1998! Read more of this story »
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• World’s Most Elusive and Endangered Cat Caught on Film

  
  EcoWorldly — Authority: 603
  Researchers in Malaysian Borneo have captured the world’s most elusive and endangered cat on film. The beautiful Bornean bay cat, Catopuma badia , is so rare; a live cat was not even photographed until 1998! Read more of this story »
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• Bhagvad Gita used to smuggle cocaine in Trinidad

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  By Paras RamoutarPort-of-Spain, Nov 6 (IANS) The Trinidad and Tobago police have found pages of the Hindu holy book Bhagvad Gita soaked in millions of dollars worth of liquid cocaine in a laboratory in Couva, Central Trinidad.A Venezuelan national and four citizens of Trinidad and Tobago - two men and two women - were ...
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• Important safeguards to protect rainforests lacking in REDD negotiating text

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 136
  Important safeguards to protect natural forests are still lacking in negotiating text on REDD, a proposed mechanism for mitigating climate change by paying developing countries to keep trees standing, reports an alliance of activist groups.
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• No to Copenhagen ‘Carbon Logging’ — YES to Orangutans

  
  World Zoo Today — Authority: 443
  GOOD REDD Fully Protects and Restores Old Forests as a Global Climatic Imperative By ClimateArk Climate Change Portal – a project of Ecological Internet http://www.climateark.org/ November 5, 2009 Copenhagen climate talks must not provide ‘Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation’ (REDD) carbon ...
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• Non-Malaysian and Indonesian palm oil producers pledge not to develop peatlands for plantations

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 136
  Palm oil producers outside of Malaysia and Indonesia pledged to stop developing new plantations on peatlands, circumventing an impasse that developed between palm oil producers and environmental groups meeting this week at the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil in Kuala Lumpur. The factions deadlocked over plans to ...
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• Pining for Pineapples

  
  O'Ceallaigh & The Quill — Authority: 126
  OK, out there, hands up? How many of you hear “Hawai‘i” and think “pineapples”? Think again. For the best part of a century, pineapples and sugar cane were the cash crops of the Hawai‘ian Islands. At one point, the entire island of Lana‘i was one large pineapple plantation. Many (most?) of the ...
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• Impasse over palm oil emissions at RSPO meeting

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 136
  Environmentalists and palm oil producers meeting at the annual Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) were locked in an impasse over how to account for emissions from converting forests and peatlands to oil palm plantations, report conference attendees.
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• Gucci drops APP in pledge to save rainforests

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 136
  One of the worlds largest and most prestigious fashion brands has stated it will stop sourcing paper from Indonesian forests and will drop Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) as a supplier, which has become notorious for tropical deforestation. The move comes after pressure from the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) on the ...
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• Without reinstatement of key provision, REDD could subsidize large-scale forest destruction

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 136
  The elimination of a key provision from the negotiating text for the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation in developing countries (REDD) mechanism could turn the proposed climate change mitigation scheme into a subsidy for large-scale conversion of natural forests to industrial plantations, warned ...
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• On journey to India, searching for roots

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  By Shubha SinghNew Delhi, Nov 1 (IANS) Five people of Indian origin are on a journey to India to visit the villages that their ancestors left over a hundred years ago to work on sugar plantations in Caribbean colonies.Budhan Devi, an insurance consultant from New York, said: “It has always been a burning desire to ...
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• Halloween and Haunted Ships

  
  Old Salt Blog - a virtual port of call for all those who love the sea — Authority: 535
  While there are numerous old ships that are reported to be haunted (see our previous post about the SS Great Britain , “the most haunted ship in Britain”)  quite a few ships seem to become haunted just in time for Halloween.   In Duluth, MN, the Great  Lakes bulk carrier  William A Irvin is transformed ...
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• Zoo offers action-packed Orangutan Caring Week

  
  World Zoo Today — Authority: 443
  A special birthday party for four-year-old orangutan Madju and the launching of a nationwide ‘Don’t Palm Us Off’ campaign on Saturday 7 November (10am – 3pm) will mark the start of Orangutan Caring Week (7 – 14 November) at Auckland Zoo. Party-goers can enjoy free face painting, check out orangutan-related ...
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• "Money is not a problem," palm oil CEO tells conservationists during speech defending the industry

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 136
  Earlier this month at a colloquium to implement wildlife corridors for orangutans in the Malaysian state of Sabah, Dr. Yusof Basiron, the CEO of Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC), told conservationists and primate experts that the palm oil industry was ready to fund reforestation efforts in the corridors. "We can ...
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• Orangutans struggle as palm oil booms

  
  World Zoo Today — Authority: 443
  by Louise Boronyak, Cosmos Online Source: http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/features/online/3086/oil-or-orangutans Illegal logging and palm oil plantations are destroying forest habitat and food sources for the orangutans of Borneo and Sumatra. We all have a part to play in resolving the issue. There is something ...
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• Logged forests support biodiversity after 15 years of rehabilitation, but not if turned into plantations

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 136
  With the world facing global warming and a biodiversity crisis, a new study shows that within 15 years logged forests—considered by many to be degraded—can be managed in order to successfully fight both climate change and extinction.
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• Emotional call for palm oil industry to address environmental problems

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 136
  During what was at times an emotional speech, Sabahs Minister of Tourism, Culture, and Environment, Datuk Masidi Manjun, called on the palm oil industry to stop polluting rivers and work with NGOs to save orangutans and other wildlife. He delivered the speech on the first day of an Orangutan Conservation Colloquium ...
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• Mulberry Tea, jam to make waves Kashmir Valley

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Srinagar, Oct 21 (ANI): The Sher-E-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology is taking steps to introduce the world famous Mulberry Tea.Mulberry leaves, which were earlier used to produce world’s famous silk in Kashmir, will soon find a place in teapots.Mulberry Tea has been in use in various parts ...
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