Posts Tagged ‘biodiversity’

Indonesia’s biodiversity at a glance

Posted in Earth on January 12th, 2010 by iip – 14 Comments

The rich of biodiversity in Indonesia is known as largest in the world along with Brazilian’s tropical forests. Both of countries are facing deforestation effects as the agriculture lands expand rapidly. Deforestation become the most dangereous threaten to Indonesia’s biodiversity.

Indonesia’s biodiversity will be gone in 30 years, says GPF in a 2002 report. Below, GPF describes the Indonesia’s biodiversity:

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In search of suitable environmental protection: PES and REDD

Posted in Forest on June 8th, 2009 by iip – 7 Comments

There’re always ways to achieve better life and we need to struggle to achieve it

Now I’m highlighting how people are trying to develop better mechanism to address environmental issues, especially forest protection. I refer to recent hot issues on payment environmental services (PES) and reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD).  Both of them are built to address environmental issues that currently not handled by mainstream development in many countries.

What actually the prospect of these mechanism? What’s it current status? Do they really benefits to forests and its livelihood of local indigenous people? read more »

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