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Indonesia to raise logging, mining fees in forest areas
2013-04-08 23:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Indonesia's Ministry of Forestry will soon raise fees on forest exploitation activities including logging, mining, and oil and gas exploration as part of an effort to increase income from resource use, reports The Jakarta Post. The new tax would be set at four million rupiah ($410) per hectare per year, a third higher than the current rate. The proposed revision still requires sign off from the Ministry of Finance. Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan told the The Jakarta Post that the measure...
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Shorter Winters Chip Away at a Logging Towns Future
2013-03-30 17:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: Scott Lizotte was hopeful as he pulled his iPhone out of the breast pocket of his flannel shirt. "It's going to be six degrees tonight," he said, studying the 10-day forecast. It's mid-March, and he's standing between a skidder and a log loader in a snowy clearing of a 12,000-acre private forest near Tupper Lake, a former lumber town in New York's Adirondack Mountains. The ground is deeply rutted from rain two days ago, but the return of cold has frozen it hard as blacktop. The forecast is good...
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Logging studies plagued by sampling problems
2013-03-18 14:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Although research into the impact of selective logging in tropical forests has been booming recently, much of it is undercut by basic research flaws, according to a new study in mongabay.com's open access journal Tropical Conservation Science. Selective logging means targeting certain species or only a particular number of trees per hectare, and as such is considered generally more environmentally-friendly than clearcutting, which strips entire forests. "Selective logging has been proposed as...
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Indonesia: Aceh claims deal to open 1.2M ha of protected forest to logging, mining is near
2013-03-14 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Indonesia's Ministry of Forestry is close to accepting a proposal to open 1.2 million hectares of forest in Aceh for mining, logging, and palm oil production, reports the Aceh Post. In an article posted Wednesday, Tgk. Anwar, the chairman of the Aceh Governments Spatial Planning Committee, claimed that the Ministry of Forestry has accepted "almost 100%" of the province's new spatial plan, which would zone large blocks of previously protected forest for mineral extraction, timber concessions,...
Selective logging changes character of tropical forest
2013-02-28 19:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Selective logging is usually considered less harmful than other forestry practices, such as clear cutting, but a new study in mongabay.com's open access journal Tropical Conservation Science has found that even selective logging has a major impact on tropical forests lasting decades. Comparing trees in two previously logged sites and two unlogged sites in northeast India, researchers found less tree diversity in selectively logged forests with trees dispersed by birds proved especially hard-hit....
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