The island’s hunter-gatherers are losing their home to the unquenchable global demand for timber and palm oil By Alex Shoumatoff; Photographs by Varial SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE MARCH 2016 There’s a magic moment in the tropics, 15 minutes before sunset, when the horizontal shafts of the sinking sun filter through the surface vapor. The foliage turns iridescent blue […]
Chanyaporn Chanjaroen Yudith Ho yudithho November 23, 2015 — 4:50 PM WIB Indonesia’s financial regulator will introduce rules to restrict banks’ lending to environmentally-damaging projects by 2018, which may eventually help the nation curb the forest fires that choke parts of Southeast Asia with thick haze for months each year. The Financial Services Authority, known locally […]
11 November, 2015 ***Press Information for Immediate Release: 11th November 2015*** Human Rights groups call for palm oil moratorium in Palawan, Philippines: End land grabs and forest destruction now! Puerto Princesa: 11th November 2015 A recent fact-finding mission by regional human rights groups in the south-western island of Palawan, the last ecological frontier of the […]
The Palawan Statement (Palawan Statement as adopted by plenary) 9 November, 2015 A regional network of Asian human rights commissions and supportive NGOs has issued a strong statement supporting calls for a moratorium on palm oil expansion in the Philippines southern island of Palawan. The call came at the conclusion of a week of fact-finding […]
9 November, 2015 A regional network of Asian human rights commissions and supportive NGOs has issued a strong statement supporting calls for a moratorium on palm oil expansion in the Philippines southern island of Palawan. The call came at the conclusion of a week of fact-finding trips and discussions of the 5th South East Asian […]
Over the past 4 years, Forest Peoples Programme and various national NGO partners have been collaborating with the (the South East Asia National Forum) which brings together the national human rights commissions in South East Asia to hold a series of regional conferences on Human Rights and Agribusiness. These meetings have the aim of ensuring […]
Jakarta, 30th October 2015 Number : 01/DE-TuK/X/2015 Subject : Grave Concerns with Financing of Companies Link to Forest, Peat and Land Fires in Indonesia Attn.: Chairperson, Financial Services Authority, Indonesia Chairperson, Financial Services Authority, Members of the European Union Chairperson, Financial Services Authority, Members of the OECD At respective offices Dear Sirs/Madams, Tuk INDONESIA expresses […]
CONGREGATION OF CLANS TOWARDS THE STRENGTHENING OF THE ECONOMIC LIVELIHOODS TERRITORY OF CUSTOMARY LAW COMMUNITIES Muting, 09-10 September 2015 Compiled today, Thursday 10th September 2015, at the Muting Church, after listening to, discussing and analysing the issue of Customary Land Rights in the Subur Sub-District of the Boven Digoel District, and the Ulilin and Muting […]
CONGREGATION OF CLANS TOWARDS THE STRENGTHENING OF THE ECONOMIC LIVELIHOODS TERRITORY OF CUSTOMARY LAW COMMUNITIES Muting, 09-10 September 2015 Compiled today, Thursday 10th September 2015, at the Muting Church. After listening to, discussing and analysing the issue of Customary Land Rights in the Subur Sub-District of the Boven Digoel District, and the Ulilin and Muting […]
54,135 people in Riau suffer from haze-related illnesses thejakartapost.com, Jakarta | Archipelago | Sat, October 03 2015, 8:47 PM Up to 54,135 people in Riau have experienced haze-related health issues, according to the Riau Health Agency, as ash from the province’s land and forest fires kept the Air Pollution Standard Index (ISPU) at an “unhealthy […]