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Indonesia's Riau bans destruction of rainforests and peatlands for palm oil mongabay.com August 15, 2008
Riau Governor Wan Abu Bakar announced the temporary ban — which will remain in place until signed into law — at a ceremony in the provincial capital Pekanbaru. "The moratorium is an important first step and an opportunity for the local government, forest communities and other stakeholders to improve forest governance," said Arief Wicaksono, Greenpeace Southeast Asia's Political Advisor. Riau is seeking to cash in on the proposed REDD mechanism, a scheme that would pay countries for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation. Other Indonesian provinces — including Papua and Aceh — are already moving forward with initiatives to avoid emissions of greenhouse gases by conserving forests. Due to forest clearing and destruction, Indonesia is the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases after the United States and China.
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Related articles Orangutans persist in islands amid a sea of oil palm plantations (7/17/2008) Orangutan are surviving in forest islands in a sea of oil palm plantations in Malaysia, reports a new survey by a government-backed conservation initiative. The finding underscores the need to protect critical forest areas for the endangered primates as forest continues to fall in southeast Asia at a rate that is the highest of any of the world's tropical forest regions. Indonesian palm oil firms pledge to stop clearing rainforests (5/13/2008) Palm oil companies operating in Indonesia pledged to stop clearing forests for new plantations reports The Jakarta Post. The move is a response to growing criticism that oil palm expansion is destroying biologically-rich rainforests and contributing to global warming. Half of oil palm expansion in Malaysia, Indonesia occurs at expense of forests (5/20/2008) More than half of the oil palm expansion between 1990 and 2005 Malaysia and Indonesia occurred at expense of forests, reports a new analysis published in the journal conservation Letters. Analyzing data from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Lian Pin Koh and David S. Wilcove of Princeton University found that 55-59 percent of oil palm expansion in Malaysia and at least 56 percent of that in Indonesia occurred at the expense of forests. Given that oil palm plantations are biologically impoverished relative to primary and secondary forests, the researchers recommend restricting future expansion to pre-existing cropland and degraded habitats.
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