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In only a few years, logging and agribusiness have cut Indonesia’s vast rainforest by half. The government has renewed a moratorium on deforestation but it may already be too late for the endangered animals and for the people whose lives lie in ruin…
Read Full Article, Guardian UK
Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park, WWF
Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park, located on the tip of the south-west region of Sumatra, contains some of Sumatra’s last protected lowland forests. It is extremely rich in biodiversity and is home to three of the world’s most endangered species: the Sumatran elephant (fewer than 2000 survive today), the Sumatran rhino (total global population: 300 animals and declining rapidly), and the Sumatran tiger (total global population around 400 animals)…
Haiti’s Unnatural Floods
The nearly complete deforestation of Haiti has caused countless problems for the country, the people, and its biodiversity…
Tribal Farmers Fall Back on Ancient Wisdom, IPS
While tens of thousands of Indian farmers succumb to the pressures of debt, hunger and poverty, members of the Bhumia tribe are simply falling back on a 3,000-year-old agricultural system, utilizing sustainable farming practices to counter the impacts of deforestation and climate change…
Greening Havana, IPS
According to international studies, a key action for mitigating the effects of global warming is to increase forest cover in each country. The Cuban government’s National Forestry Programme has set a target of increasing forest cover to over 29 percent by 2015…
Climate Change and Deforestation: Pre-Human Effect On Biodiversity, Science Daily
A recent study, by an international research group led by Lounès Chickhi, group leader at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Portugal) and CNRS researcher (in Toulouse, France), questions the prevailing account that degradation of tropical ecosystems is essentially a product of human activity…
