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SCS Launches Indonesian Subsidiary to Serve Growing Timber Market
Friday, June 24, 2011 22:20:07
Scientific Certification Systems (SCS) has announced the establishment of a new subsidiary to be headquartered in Jakarta in response to growing demand for certification and verification services from the Indonesian forest products industry. The subsidiary, PT Scientific Certification Systems Indonesia (PT-SCS) now offers Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Forest Management and Chain of Custody Certification in Indonesia. (139 clicks)
| Biofuel Plantations Are Bad for the Climate and Biodiversity
Tuesday, December 02, 2008 13:55:56
Keeping tropical rain forests intact is a better way to combat climate change than replacing them with biofuel plantations, a study in the journal Conservation Biology finds. The study reveals that it would take at least 75 years for the carbon emissions saved through the use of biofuels to compensate for the carbon lost through forest conversion. (1840 clicks)
| WWF and Nokia Launch Web Based Forest Replantation Initiativ
Saturday, November 10, 2007 18:16:34
In an effort to mitigate the effects of global warming, WWF-Indonesia, in cooperation with Nokia and Equinox Publishing, has launched a tree planting campaign in Sebangau National Park in Central Kalimantan. This initiative, called NEWtrees, gives people an innovative way to help reforest this protected national park and monitor the growth of the trees through geotags (trees labeled with precise latitude and longitude coordinates) viewable via Google Earth and Yahoo Maps. (1736 clicks)
| U.S. Firms Urged to Stop Importing Indonesian Timber
Friday, February 25, 2005 21:11:03
BlueLinx, the largest wood distributor in the United States, is importing undocumented timber from Indonesia's critically endangered rainforests, environmentalists said Thursday.
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| Bangun Sarana Wreksa, First member to Nusa Hijau
Friday, January 28, 2005 06:34:45
P.T. Bangun Sarana Wreksa, a furniture factory in Malang (East-Java, Indonesia) has decided to try a new approach to fulfill the market demand by becoming the first company to join Nusa Hijau membership, which was marked by the signing of the MoU between the company and WWF-Indonesia. (1986 clicks)
| Investigate Malaysia for Smuggling Indonesian Timber!
Friday, March 19, 2004 23:05:44
Leading US environmental groups today formally petitioned for a US Government investigation into Malaysia's large scale smuggling of endangered timber illegally cut in Indonesia's national parks, much of which reaches the US where it is sold in main street retail outlets. (823 clicks)
| Corruption Fuel Epidemic of Illegal Logging in Indonesia
Wednesday, February 20, 2002 23:15:46
Corruption and lawlessness are fuelling an epidemic of illegal logging in Indonesia, resulting in a doubling of the country's deforestation rates in the late 1990s, according to a report released today. (677 clicks)
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