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Indonesia's forest fires threaten Sumatra's few remaining Orang Rimba
2016-06-07 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Our main goal is to preserve the forest according to the customary traditions of our people. If theres no forest, theres no Orang Rimba and the other way round, says Bepak Pengusai, head of customs in a rombong, or group area, belonging to the Orang Rimba, an aboriginal people in Sumatra. Indonesias devastating forest fires pose a serious threat to the Orang Rimba habitat. From July to late last year, the fires killed a dozen people and caused respiratory tract infections in half a million...
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Why you should care about Sumatra's rainforest
2013-09-13 11:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Traveling just below the equator, deep in the Sumatran jungle of Indonesia for CNN's new "Expedition: Sumatra" series, my team and I were on assignment to capture the story of a region at a critical crossroads, where rainforests that provide habitat to some of the most rare and endangered species in the world are being destroyed at an alarming rate by pulp and paper and palm oil industries as well as wildlife poachers. As our time in Sumatra drew to a close, I knew our biggest challenge still...
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As massive deforestation continues in Sumatras Tesso Nilo, Indonesian lawmakers pin blame on 'foreign' NGOs
2013-03-25 22:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Indonesian lawmakers criticized the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) for its inability to stop deforestation in Sumatra, accusing the group of trying to destroy Indonesias reputation abroad and hurting the countrys economy. Foreign NGOs like the WWF are like thieves visiting our homes to steal our treasures without us realizing it, said lawmaker Firman Subagyo, as quoted by the Jakarta Globe on March 17. The NGOs arrogance has impacted our weakened industrial competitiveness overseas, which...
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Large blocks of Sumatra's endangered rainforest may be put up for mining, logging
2013-01-28 02:37:55| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The Indonesian province of Aceh on the western tip of the island of Sumatra may be preparing to lift the protected status of key areas of lowland rainforest potentially ending its bid to earn carbon credits from forest conservation and putting several endangered species at increased risk, according to reports. Under a draft plan developed by the Aceh parliament's spatial planning committee, some 71,857 hectares of protected areas will lose their protected status and be turned over for logging,...
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