Indonesia's forests threatened by logging, palm oil
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It's one of the few countries that still has vast swathes of tropical rainforests left.
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By MICHAEL CASEY  CHEME, Thailand - For much of his life, Viroj Dedsongprak paid little attention to the mangrove forests that surrounded his Thai village. He thought nothing of it when neighbors chopped down trees for firewood or plowed them under for shrimp ponds.
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To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS  Contact: Tom Lalley of the World Wildlife Fund, +1-202-778-9544, tom.lalley@wwfus.org   BALI, Indonesia, Feb.
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A Kyoto-Protocol project is providing the garbage-strewn areas of the so-called island paradise with clean energy. But Indonesia needs more projects like this
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SIDIKALANG, Indonesia  - For Nusamba Wurintara, the most prized arabica coffee beans on his plantation are not those growing on bushes but the ones he finds among the undergrowth, wedged in the excrement of wild palm civets.
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A U.N. meeting on endangered species could help secure the survival one of humanity's closest living relatives, the orangutan, by saving its forest home from loggers, a leading expert said on Tuesday.
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Large parts of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore are covered by thick smog from Indonesian bush fires.
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Malaysia urges Indonesia to sign up to regional plans for fighting pollution from forest-clearance fires.
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The threat to orangutans from illegal logging may be greater than has previously been predicted.
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NUSA DUA, Bali, Indonesia , Dec 13 (IPS) - Green groups hoping that the social and  environmental cost of biofuels would get an airing at the United  Nations climate change conference here are a disappointed lot.
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The prime minister pledged Sunday that thousands of acres of forests destroyed by wildfires across Greece in recent days would be replanted, including sections in a national park.Since Wednesday, fires have destroyed more than 15,000 acres of forests left tinder-dry by a weeklong heat wave. The fires have been blamed for several deaths, including that of a 26-year-old volunteer firefighter. Arsonists seeking to clear land for development are suspected in some blazes.'I stress most emphatically that all burnt forests are automatically scheduled for reforestation,' Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis said. 'Wherever forests stood, there will be forests once again.' Read more
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Within decades, the vast majority of the orangutans' Southeast Asian rain forest home will disappear unless action is taken now to curb rampant illegal logging, the UN says.
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Volunteers in the Philippines are getting shorn to save the shore. The cast-off clippings of human hair are going to be used to help mop up oil from a disastrous spill that has fouled beaches, coral reefs and mangrove swamps.
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For decades, a flood of aid and an army of conservationists couldn't save Indonesia's rain forests from illegal loggers, land-hungry peasants and the spread of giant plantations. Now the world is looking at a simpler approach: up-front cash.
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Science & environment: Scientists hope evidence will save other areas of land given over to timber and oil-palm plantations.
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Land clearances in Indonesia to cultivate palm oil threaten a "climate bomb", Greenpeace warns.
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Travel: Audio slideshow: Gwladys Fouche and Truls Brekke follow the endangered species from rescue to rehabilitation in the rainforest of northern Sumatra