The Forest Scribe

26/10/2021

12/03/2021

The Madani Berkelanjutan Foundation is welcoming the government’s success in lowering Indonesia’s deforestation rate by 75 percent in the 2019-2020 period as a good starting point for the country to build an economy without damaging forests and the environment, and also called for a better protection of the country’s secondary natural forests.

Madani is welcoming the government’s success in lowering Indonesia’s deforestation rate by 75 percent in the 2019-2020 period

02/03/2021

AIDenvironment, a non-profit consultancy on sustainability, has named the Nusantara Fiber Group operating in Indonesia’s Kalimantan as being the group with industrial timber concessions which has conducted the most deforestation in the country, clearing 26,000 hectares of tropical forest between 2016 and October 2020.

AIDenvironment has named the Nusantara Fiber Group operating in Indonesia’s Kalimantan as being the group with the most deforestation in the country

26/02/2021

A number of forestry experts are questioning the government’s policy to use protected forest areas for the development of food estates and said there was a need to revise the policy on these estates so as to ensure the preservation of protected forests.

Forestry experts are questioning the government's policy to use protected forest areas for the development of food estate.

22/02/2021

The Directorate General of Climate Change Control (DJPPI) of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MEF) of the Republic of Indonesia possesses forest monitoring system technologies.

The Ministry of Environment and Forestry possesses several forest monitoring system technologies that have been or will be built

19/02/2021

A new analysis World Resources Institute (WRI) is showing that just seven agricultural commodities accounted for 26 percent of global tree cover loss from 2001 to 2015 with cattle taking the top position, causing losses more than four times its closest rival, palm oil.

WRI analysis show that agricultural commodities accounted for 26 percent of global tree cover loss from 2001 to 2015 with cattle taking the top position

10/02/2021

Mangrove forests are a type of forest that generally grow in brackish water and places where siltation and accumulation of organic matter occurs, such as in bays that are protected from the onslaught of waves ,and river estuaries, which generally have a lot of silt and sediments.

Mangrove forests are a type of forest that generally grow in brackish water and places where siltation and accumulation of organic matter occurs

02/02/2021

A group of farmers in Riau Province’s Kuantan Singigi district is actively sharing knowledge on how to conserve forests while cultivating crops of high economic values there or by harvesting their rich non-timber products.

A group of farmers in Riau Province’s Kuantan Singigi district is actively sharing knowledge on how to conserve forests while cultivating crops of...

18/01/2021

Agroforestry is now increasingly cited as one of the solutions to deforestation and the conversion of natural forest into other purposes, including agriculture.

Agroforestry now increasingly cited as one of the solutions to deforestation and the conversion of natural forest into other purposes, including agriculture

08/01/2021

President Joko Widodo has symbolically handed over 2,929 social forestry licenses covering an area totaling 3,442,000 hectares to be managed by 651,000 families across the country.

President Jokowi has symbolically handed over 2,929 social forestry licenses covering an area totaling 3,442,000 hectares to be managed by 651,000 families

08/12/2020

“These elections are special. Apart from having to be held during a pandemic, these local elections would also produce the first elected candidates to implement the controversial omnibus law,” said Teguh Surya from Madani Berkelanjutan.

2020 elections will not only determine governance in the regions but also whether the environment would be managed in a sustainable way or not

11/11/2020

“The provision in Law on Job Creation is still too wide and open to multi-interpretation", said Grita Anindarini, a researcher with the Indonesian Center for Environmental Law (ICEL)

The Omnibus law was among other aimed at resolving the long-dragging problem of plantation concessions in forest areas but its provisions and...

03/11/2020

The West Bali National Park will become the first in the country to use artificial intelligence technology to better monitor its forest and thus help it combat illegal logging, poaching and to provide a better protection of its ecosystem.

The West Bali National Park will become the first in the country to use artificial intelligence technology to better monitor its forest and thus help it...

15/10/2020

The Sakai Kandis tribe which used to be a nomadic forest tribe that is indigenous to the Province of Riau, is now gaining a footstep into the modern world as eight of its members will further their study at universities.

The Sakai Kandis tribe which used to be a nomadic forest tribe that is indigenous to the Province of Riau, is now gaining a footstep into the modern..

13/10/2020

Long plagued by annual forest and ground fires that have contributed to the rapid deforestation of the country’s forest cover, Indonesia is now focusing heavily on prevention and early reaction to curb the calamity and is now trying out a round-the-clock, on-the-ground, internet-based fire detection system.

Annual forest and ground fires make Indonesia now focusing heavily on prevention is now trying internet-based fire detection system.

02/10/2020

As part of efforts to halt the shrinking of forests that continued to take place in Jambi, an environmental watchdog is proposing that the government provide incentives for communities near forests to enable them to develop their economy and thus help reduce forest destruction and the restoration of the local ecology.


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