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The latest press release from our friends at the Borneo Resources Institute (BRIMAS) in Malaysia. ***   27 June 2011 PRESS STATEMENT Residents of Rumah Bansan accused coal fire power plant as the caused of severe land erosion that damaged their crops and properties MUKAH – The Iban residents of the 13 door Rumah Bansan…

Last week I wrote about deforestACTION, a reality TV show and 3D movie project that will take 10 young people into Western Kalimantan to rehabilitate a rainforest, protect an existing forest, and rehabilitate orangutans. As I wrote last week, it sound exciting; more people need to be aware of tropical deforestation issues, and reality TV…

Carbon Trade Watch, the Indigenous Environmental Network, and the Global Justice Ecology Project, have teamed up and produced a great new fact sheet calling out some of the fundamental flaws with REDD+.  Carbon trade watch has also produced a great factsheet on the main players in REDD plus. Here’s the coverage of both from REDD…

The latest news from our friends at Survival International. **** SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE June 15, 2011 Penan hunter-gatherers to be dumped in vast oil palm plantation More than 1,000 Penan hunter-gatherers will be taken from their rainforest home and dumped in a vast oil palm plantation – to make way for the controversial Murum dam. The Penan…

Is DeforestACTION– a reality movie and TV series about saving the forests of Borneo– really a path to global conservation, or is it possible that they are falling into one of the most common traps in conservation– ignoring the rights of the indigenous people who live on the land? Over the last few months, the…

Indonesian communities kept in the dark regarding the impending REDD pilot program. You can read the article by clicking here, or the full text is below: Local communities oblivious to govt’s plans for their forests Adianto P. Simamora, The Jakarta Post, Palangkaraya | Thu, 05/12/2011 7:00 AM   Mitigating forest fires: Visitors observe a sluice…