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28 Aug 2008
New hope for Sumatra’s elephants and tigers as Indonesia doubles size of key national park
Jakarta, Indonesia: The government of Indonesia today declared its commitment to enlarging the most suitable block of forest for Sumatran elephants, expanding the vital Tesso Nilo National Park on Sumatra island to 86,000 hectares.
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20 Aug 2008
Caucasus countries need to cooperate on Georgia forest fires
WWF called on all parties capable of helping put out forest fires in central Georgia to work together to extinguish them.
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20 Aug 2008
United Nations Climate Change Talks in Accra, Ghana, 21 – 27 August 2008
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From 21 to 27 August, governments gather in the Ghanaian capital Accra to continue critical negotiations about a new global climate treaty. After too little progress at recent talks in Bonn in June and a stalemate between developed and developing countries at the G8 summit in July, the political process has suffered major delays and is far from where it should be at this stage. Accra marks an opportunity to gain ground on the road to Copenhagen and speed up negotiations on crucial building blocks of the new global treaty, such as emission reductions, mitigation mechanisms, finance flows or technology transfer.
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15 Aug 2008
Ani's new kitchen
The 70 kW Ghatte Micro hydro Project is benefiting 108 households from six villages in the Everest region. Ani, a restaurant cum lodge owner has made the energy switch from fuel wood and kerosene to electricity generated from the project, inspiring others in the area.
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13 Aug 2008
Towards a biofuel standard to sort the green from the ungreen
A global panel of experts have today lent their support to a draft standard for the use of sustainable biofuels that will inject some rigour into the murky debate about the embracing of biofuels that may cause more emissions than they save.
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07 Aug 2008
Saving Sumatra’s Endangered Peoples
The Orang Rimba people have inhabited the jungles of Sumatra for centuries, traveling in tight-knit family groups in the Indonesian forests, hunting, fishing and collecting non-timber forest products on their traditional lands. Members of this indigenous tribe occasionally trade goods with villages on the edge of the forest, but prefer to keep to themselves. Now, as Sumatra’s forests disappear under the relentless onslaught of chainsaws and bulldozers, even keeping to themselves is becoming impossible.
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31 Jul 2008
Congo Basin passes 1 million ha milestone in swing to sustainable forestry
Yaoundé, Cameroon - WWF today announced that more than one million hectares of Congo Basin forests have achieved certification under the world’s leading sustainable forestry scheme.
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22 Jul 2008
Too much illegal wood in EU markets - WWF
Brussels, Belgium: Almost one-fifth of wood imported into the European Union in 2006 came from illegal or suspected illegal sources, with Russia, Indonesia and China being the main sources, says a new WWF report. The global conservation organisation calls for strong European legislation to prevent illegal wood entering the EU markets.
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14 Jul 2008
Wal-Mart joins WWF in fight against illegal logging
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., the world’s largest retailer, has strengthened its relationship with WWF by pledging to help save the world’s most valuable and threatened forests.
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09 Jun 2008
Stop the madness of wasteful paper consumption – make a ‘SHRINK’ pledge
More than 50 European environmental NGOs today launches “Shrink”, a joint project addressing the madness of over-consumption of paper. Individuals, corporate and institutional paper users are invited to pledge to cut their paper consumption on the new website www.shrinkpaper.org, which also offers useful paper reduction tips. » Read more
