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Search for an articleThe Coral Triangle & Climate Change
The world is currently facing the greatest challenge of all time. Rapid climate change is transforming
the conditions under which life has persisted for millions of years. These changes are threatening the
life-support systems upon which we depend.
New WWF report Borneo’s New World: Newly Discovered Species in the Heart of Borneo
A frog with no lungs, a “ninja” slug firing love darts at its mate, and the world’s longest insect are among new species discovered in the three years since the Heart of Borneo conservation plan was drawn up by the three governments with jurisdiction over the world’s third largest island.
Mitigating Climate Change through Peat Restoration in Central Kalimantan
Climate change is increasingly becoming a real threat to nature and communities. Mitigating climate change by reducing and eventually stabilizing levels of greenhouse gas emissions is key to the global fight against climate change. Peat or wetlands only form 3 percent of all land surfaces, yet emissions from burnt and drained peat makes up 10 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel.
Indonesia's Lombok Island and its first step to adapt to the impacts of Climate Change
The climate is changing rapidly and increasingly presents itself as a grave threat to communities, businesses and nature. Already, its effects are being felt and the need to reduce our vulnerability and to adapt to the dangerous impacts of climate change becomes more pressing than ever.
WWF Palm Oil Buyers' Scorecard 2009
This Scorecard is an assessment of the palm oil purchasing practices of major European companies that produce or sell everyday consumer products. The performance of each company in the Scorecard was assessed against a set of objective criteria relating to their commitments to, and actions on, responsible purchasing of palm oil.
Forest and Land Forest
Climate Change Impacts on the Management of Citarum Watershed
The Industrial Revolution that started in1840 began the use of fossil fuel, especially the consumption of coal; it is the major cause for the drastic increase of greenhouse effect gases volumes in the atmosphere. The main green-house gas produced by fossil fuel consumption is carbon dioxide (CO2). The greenhouse gas effect has significantly triggered the global temperature rise on earth year after year. This phenomenon is known as the global warming.
Climate Change Impacts on Orangutan Habitats
Orangutan is the only one out of the four taxo of large ape that lives in Asia whilst the other three i.e. gorilla, chimpanzee and bonobo lives in the African continent. There are two types of orangutans i.e. the Sumatera orangutan (Pongo abelii) with limited spreadings in the nothern part of Sumatera and the Borneo orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus), still founded in several central habitats in Sabah and Sarawak especially in the peat swamp and dipterocarp forests in southwestern low land part of Kapuas and Barito river (Province of West Kalimantan and Central Kalimantan), and in the eastern part of Mahakam that flows to the north (Province of East Kalimantan and Sabah).
Analysis of APP Response to WWF-Indonesia's Reports on the Company's Involvements in Illegal Logging
Recently WWF-Indonesia has published 2 reports:
- Legality of Timber Consumed by Asia Pulp and Paper's Mills in Indonesia, January-October 2003 (8 June 2004),and
- Monitoring of Illegal Logging Operations in Riau, Sumatra: Deliveries of Ilegally Cut Wood From Proposed Tesso Nilo National Park to APP's Indah Kiat Pulp and Paper Mill in August 2003 and April 2004 (16 June 2004)
A High Conservation Value Forest Analysis of the Giam Siak Kecil Landscape – Riau, Sumatra
High Conservation Value Forest (HCVF) is a concept defined in 1999 by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) for use in forest certification. It has been adopted for conservation and natural resource planning, policy, advocacy and improving purchasing policies for wood-based materials by private sector companies and NGOs. HCVF is a forest that contains one or more High Conservation Values (HCVs). An HCVF analysis is a framework that both captures standard conservation and spatial planning information and presents in a format consistent with FSC certification requirements.
