Tag: deforestation
Indonesia’s deforestation worsens for third year as development expands
The group attributes the destruction to government-backed development projects and the expansion of key industries
VIDEO: How faith and Indigenous wisdom safeguarded the only sustainable water...
Once devastated by logging, the restored forests now provide abundant, clean water, sustaining 120 households even during dry seasons.
SPOTLIGHT: Water over Troubled Forests
With climate change threatening their lands, the Indigenous Pulangiyen people are rebuilding Bendum's forests and restoring life-giving water to their ancestral home.
How does Indonesia’s palm oil industry fuel the climate crisis?
Environmentalists fear surging demand for the versatile product may drive mass deforestation in Indonesia... exacerbate climate crisis
Deforestation drives increasingly deadly heat in Indonesia, says study
Deforestation and global warming in one Indonesian province caused temperatures to rise nearly a whole degree Celsius in 16 years
Indonesia walks back zero-deforestation pledge at COP26
Indonesian officials said the deal did not call for a total end to deforestation and it could not halt President Widodo's development goals
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