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Indonesia: Aceh Governor Wants to Allow More Logging in Protected Forests: Report

2013-02-13 08:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Jakarta Post: Spatial zoning proposals for Aceh indicate that the provinces governor is seeking to open up more than 52,000 hectares of protected forest there to logging, a conservation group warns. In a report published on Tuesday, the group Greenomics Indonesia found that the spatial plans proposed by Governor Zaini Abdullah would change the status of vast tracts of protected forest to production forest. The report reveals that there are five large blocks of [protected] forest each more than 2,000 hectares...

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Activists blast World Bank on continued support of industrial rainforest logging

2013-02-11 21:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Two environmental activist groups blasted the World Bank over its reported decision to block a probe into its support of industrial-scale rainforest logging. Greenpeace and Global Witness issued a statement condemning last Friday's decision by The World Bank Board of Directors not to pursue a review of its lending to industrial logging companies. The review was recommended by an independent audit committee that has been conducting an evaluation of the effectiveness of a decade's worth of World...

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Emerging Trends in Data Logging - A Look at RFID Technology

2013-02-11 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today

Product-Tracking Technology Revolutionizes Data Collection CHESTERLAND OH - Every day, CAS DataLoggers offers customers our temperature monitoring and alarming solutions for use in a wide range of industries. With this in mind, let's take a look at Radio Frequency Identification (also known as RFID, smart labels, or smart tags) and its increasing use in tracking inventory, equipment and even biometrics. We'll analyze this emerging data acquisition trend and how it's already challenging more ...This story is related to the following:Automatic IDRF Tags | Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Systems | Radio Frequency (RF) Testing Services | Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Label Applicators | RF Barcode Scanners

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The Orangutans Road: Illegal Logging and Mining in Indonesia

2013-02-10 05:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Brookings: Like in a desolate Edward Hopper landscape, the orangutan was clinging to the one last tree that stood next to the river in Kutai National Park in eastern Kalimantan. The joy of seeing this magnificent primate was spoiled by his destroyed habitat -- under normal circumstances, the orangutan would never venture so far out of trees. But here he was in a beyond-degraded and marginal habitat, probably looking for food he could no longer find inside the forest. Although once a jewel of biodiversity...

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