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					<title>Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps become increasingly vulnerable to landslides</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/bangladeshs-rohingya-refugee-camps-become-increasingly-vulnerable-to-landslides/</link>
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					<pubDate>25 Sep 2026 12:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Sadiqur Rahman]]>
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						<![CDATA[Abu Siddique]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Bangladesh, and South Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Disasters, Environment, Extreme Weather, Governance, Human Rights, Landslides, and Law]]>
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							<![CDATA[According to a report by the Bangladeshi government, released on Sept. 16, more than 150,000 Rohingya people fleeing persecution in Myanmar have entered the country’s 33 Rohingya camps in Teknaf and Ukhiya areas of Cox’s Bazar in the last few months. The camps, spread across roughly 24 square kilometers (9.2 square miles), officially host 1,170,978 [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[According to a report by the Bangladeshi government, released on Sept. 16, more than 150,000 Rohingya people fleeing persecution in Myanmar have entered the country’s 33 Rohingya camps in Teknaf and Ukhiya areas of Cox’s Bazar in the last few months. The camps, spread across roughly 24 square kilometers (9.2 square miles), officially host 1,170,978 dwellers — more than (more than 124,300 people per square mile) — making the densely packed settlements increasingly congested and vulnerable to collapse as new arrivals continue to enter the limited space, according to the report by the Office of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner (RRRC). Several studies show that the camps, built on sandy hill slopes after large areas of reserved forest were cleared, are also highly vulnerable to natural disasters. Every year, heavy monsoon downpours trigger landslides in Rohingya camps. This year, between July 4 and 19, more than 200 landslides occurred in the Rohingya camps, killing at least 15 people, including five adolescent girls. Rohingya refugee camp in Ukhiya, Cox&#8217;s Bazar. Amid recurring landslides, growing numbers of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are being forced to adapt to increasingly limited camp space. Image by Md shameem ul islam via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0). Mohammed Mizanur Rahman, the refugee relief and repatriation commissioner, told Mongabay on Sept. 8, “The refugee community demands camp expansion with continued influx from Myanmar. But any expansion means destruction of new forests and hills, and Bangladesh cannot afford it anymore.” The Rohingya influx in 2017 initially caused&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/bangladeshs-rohingya-refugee-camps-become-increasingly-vulnerable-to-landslides/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-330815</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Tapanuli orangutans face mining, landslides, and fire threats — with no recovery plan</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/tapanuli-orangutans-face-mining-landslides-and-fire-threats-with-no-recovery-plan/</link>
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					<pubDate>18 Sep 2026 04:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, North Sumatra, Southeast Asia, and Sumatra]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Apes, Biodiversity, Business, Conservation, Corporations, Critically Endangered Species, Deforestation, Disasters, Drivers Of Deforestation, Endangered Species, Extreme Weather, Gold Mining, Governance, Great Apes, Landslides, Mammals, Mining, Natural Resources, Orangutans, Primates, Tropical Deforestation, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Nearly a year after what scientists describe as one of the most severe ecological shocks ever documented for the world’s rarest great ape species, there is still no coordinated recovery strategy for Tapanuli orangutans, even as mining resumes, future development plans remain active, and a strong El Niño introduces a new threat. That [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Nearly a year after what scientists describe as one of the most severe ecological shocks ever documented for the world’s rarest great ape species, there is still no coordinated recovery strategy for Tapanuli orangutans, even as mining resumes, future development plans remain active, and a strong El Niño introduces a new threat. That broader concern over the survival of the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis) has been sharpened by recent satellite imagery showing fresh ground disturbances inside the concession for Indonesia&#8217;s Martabe gold mine, which overlaps with the ape’s habitat. Disputed disturbances The disturbances appeared as swaths of treeless and disturbed earth between June 13 and June 23 on steep rainforest hills around the Ramba Joring pit in Batang Toru, North Sumatra province, according to Planet satellite imagery reviewed by Mongabay. The area is part of an ecosystem that supports the largest known population of the Tapanuli orangutan. Researchers estimate that 716 Tapanuli orangutans remain in Batang Toru, with the population split across three increasingly fragmented subpopulations, leaving the species with little demographic margin for additional losses. A high-resolution AirBus image of the ground disturbance in Martabe gold mine in June 2026. Image courtesy of Mighty Earth. Mighty Earth, a U.S.-based environmental organization, describes the features as landslides associated with mine development. Agincourt Resources, which operates the Martabe mine, disputes that characterization, saying the June disturbance resulted from material movement following blasting carried out within its planned operational area. The blasting, the company said, was planned with&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/tapanuli-orangutans-face-mining-landslides-and-fire-threats-with-no-recovery-plan/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-330177</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Climate-fueled landslides killed an estimated 58 Tapanuli orangutans, study finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/climate-fueled-landslides-killed-an-estimated-58-tapanuli-orangutans-study-finds/</link>
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					<pubDate>16 Jun 2026 06:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Global, Indonesia, North Sumatra, Southeast Asia, and Sumatra]]>
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							<![CDATA[Apes, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Business, Climate Change, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Endangered Species, forest degradation, Forest Destruction, Forest Fragmentation, Forest Loss, Forests, Global Environmental Crisis, Great Apes, Habitat, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Landslides, Mammals, Orangutans, Primary Forests, Primates, Rainforests, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Climate change has become a direct threat to the survival of the world&#8217;s rarest great ape, according to scientists, after landslides triggered by an unusually intense storm killed an estimated 58 critically endangered Tapanuli orangutans (Pongo tapanuliensis) in Indonesia’s Batang Toru ecosystem. The estimate comes from a new study published in Current Biology, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Climate change has become a direct threat to the survival of the world&#8217;s rarest great ape, according to scientists, after landslides triggered by an unusually intense storm killed an estimated 58 critically endangered Tapanuli orangutans (Pongo tapanuliensis) in Indonesia’s Batang Toru ecosystem. The estimate comes from a new study published in Current Biology, whose authors say the findings may represent one of the first examples of climate change immediately threatening the survival of an entire species. The researchers found that landslides triggered by extreme rainfall associated with Cyclone Senyar in November 2025 likely killed about 7% of the estimated global population of Tapanuli orangutans, which number fewer than 800 individuals and are concentrated in the Batang Toru landscape in North Sumatra. After analyzing satellite imagery, the researchers identified more than 50,000 individual landslide scars and estimated that about 8,300 hectares (20,500 acres) of forest in the western block of Batang Toru were affected by the disaster. The western block is considered the species&#8217; most important stronghold, hosting more than 500 orangutans and one of the three known population clusters within the Batang Toru landscape. The researchers believe most orangutans caught in the landslides died rather than being displaced because of the violence and speed of the event. While the landslides were relatively shallow, they moved extremely rapidly and transformed into channelized debris flows. With little or no warning, orangutans and other wildlife likely had little chance of escaping and may have been buried, drowned or fatally injured by&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/climate-fueled-landslides-killed-an-estimated-58-tapanuli-orangutans-study-finds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>How science links extreme weather disasters to climate change: Interview with WWA’s Clair Barnes</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/how-science-links-extreme-weather-disasters/</link>
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					<pubDate>25 Aug 2025 11:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Kristine Sabillo]]>
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						<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate, Climate Change, Climate Science, Earth Science, Environment, Environmental Law, Extreme Weather, Flooding, Governance, Green, Heatwave, Landslides, Oceans, Politics, Research, Science, Storms, Weather, and Women In Science]]>
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							<![CDATA[Human activities have been the major driver of climate change since the advent of the Industrial Revolution in the mid-1800s. As greenhouse gas levels, primarily carbon dioxide due to the burning of fossil fuels, have increased in the atmosphere, Earth’s air and oceans have warmed in response — and scientists have warned this warming is [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Human activities have been the major driver of climate change since the advent of the Industrial Revolution in the mid-1800s. As greenhouse gas levels, primarily carbon dioxide due to the burning of fossil fuels, have increased in the atmosphere, Earth’s air and oceans have warmed in response — and scientists have warned this warming is shifting weather patterns and can make extreme weather like heat, drought and floods worse. But scientifically attributing extreme weather events to climate change versus other natural processes or human activities has been tricky. Since 2014, the World Weather Attribution, an initiative of researchers from around the world, has pioneered methods that allow them to understand if human-induced climate change had a role to play in current extreme weather events. Mongabay has reported on several such WWA rapid attribution studies, from the deadly 2025 rainfall in the U.S. to the 2023 Amazon drought. Recently, Mongabay’s Kristine Sabillo sat down with WWA researcher and environmental statistician Clair Barnes, from Imperial College London’s Grantham Institute–Climate Change and the Environment, to learn more about the WWA’s rapid analyses. The following interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity. Mongabay: Can you explain how WWA started and what kind of extreme weather events trigger a rapid attribution study? Clair Barnes: Attribution studies have been done for a long time, but they would typically go through the peer-review process, which takes a very long time. So by the time the studies would come out, everyone had forgotten about the event.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/how-science-links-extreme-weather-disasters/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-304875</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Uphill fight to shut disaster-amplifying gold mines in Indonesian park</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/02/indonesia-flood-landslide-illegal-gold-mining-halimun/</link>
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					<pubDate>12 Feb 2020 07:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, Java, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Disasters, Environment, Flooding, Forests, Gold Mining, Illegal Mining, Landslides, Mining, Protected Areas, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — The Indonesian government has shut down 26 mining pits on the hilly outskirts of Jakarta, following floods and landslides last month exacerbated by environmental degradation in the area. Flooding and landslides in early January affected some 17,200 people in the districts of Lebak and Bogor, just outside Jakarta, with officials blaming illegal mining [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — The Indonesian government has shut down 26 mining pits on the hilly outskirts of Jakarta, following floods and landslides last month exacerbated by environmental degradation in the area. Flooding and landslides in early January affected some 17,200 people in the districts of Lebak and Bogor, just outside Jakarta, with officials blaming illegal mining and plantation expansion inside Gunung Halimun National Park. President Joko Widodo visited the disaster-hit areas and instructed local officials to put an end to the forest encroachment and illegal mining, which he said benefited a handful of individuals at the expense of the safety and welfare of thousands of others. Local authorities responded by shutting down 26 mining pits, all of them already abandoned, out of the at least 391 that the environment ministry previously identified inside the park. They also charged four people in connection with processing the illegal gold, but have yet to find them. The environment ministry’s director-general of conservation, Wiratno, called for a zero-tolerance approach to tackle the illegal mining in the national park, which began in the mid-1970s. But Andika Hazrumy, the deputy governor of Banten province, where Lebak district is located, said shutting down the mining operations wouldn’t be easy because the industry was highly lucrative and would continue to draw in more people. He pointed out that an illegal miner could typically extract up to 2 million rupiah ($147) worth of gold per day — about 80% of the monthly minimum wage in Lebak. Victims of landslides and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/02/indonesia-flood-landslide-illegal-gold-mining-halimun/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-226918</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Jakarta floods spark renewed calls for stronger environmental protection</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/01/jakarta-floods-environmental-protection/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 Jan 2020 08:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
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						<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Java, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Degraded Lands, Disasters, Ecosystems, Environment, Flooding, Freshwater, Land Use Change, Landslides, Restoration, and Rivers]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — The recent deadly flooding in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta and nearby cities has renewed calls from activists for the government to strengthen environmental protection and boost efforts to adapt to the impacts of climate change. Record-breaking rainfall across Southeast Asia’s largest metropolitan area on New Year’s Day caused massive flooding and landslides in much [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — The recent deadly flooding in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta and nearby cities has renewed calls from activists for the government to strengthen environmental protection and boost efforts to adapt to the impacts of climate change. Record-breaking rainfall across Southeast Asia’s largest metropolitan area on New Year’s Day caused massive flooding and landslides in much of Jakarta and its satellite cities. Authorities attributed the disaster to the volume of the water and years of environmental degradation that have silted up rivers and reduced their capacity to absorb runoff. While flooding is an annual event in the region around this time of year, this year’s is one of the deadliest in recent years, with nearly 70 people killed, 35,000 forced to leave their homes, and more than half a million more affected. Most of the evacuees have returned to their homes as of Jan. 7. More than 35,000 people across the Greater Jakarta area were displaced after heavy flooding on New Year’s Day. Image courtesy of the Indonesian National Disaster Mitigation Agency. Environmental activists say the disaster should be a strong wake-up call for the Indonesian government to strengthen regulations that protect the ecosystem and beef up efforts to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate crisis. “The awareness [of climate crisis] must be translated into correcting the fundamental paradigm and goals of our economic policies which have failed us [and helped] create ecological disaster with massive losses,” Khalisah Khalid, the policy coordinator at the Indonesian Forum for the Environment&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/01/jakarta-floods-environmental-protection/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Environmental damage exacerbates Jakarta flooding amid record rainfall</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/01/environmental-damage-exacerbates-jakarta-flooding-amid-record-rainfall/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Jan 2020 02:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
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						<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Java, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Degraded Lands, Disasters, Ecosystems, Environment, Flooding, Freshwater, Land Use Change, Landslides, Restoration, and Rivers]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Flash floods triggered by the heaviest rains ever recorded in Jakarta wreaked havoc across the Indonesian capital and its satellite cities on the first day of the new year. Authorities have attributed much of the damage from the disaster, in which at least 19 people have died, to years of environmental degradation. The [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Flash floods triggered by the heaviest rains ever recorded in Jakarta wreaked havoc across the Indonesian capital and its satellite cities on the first day of the new year. Authorities have attributed much of the damage from the disaster, in which at least 19 people have died, to years of environmental degradation. The downpour began on the night of Dec. 31 and continued into the following morning, causing rivers to spill over and cause widespread flooding across Greater Jakarta. The flooding has displaced more than 30,000 people, cut off electricity and piped water, severed a number of roads, and shut down one of the city’s two airports. The National Disaster Mitigation Agency, known as the BNPB, says 19 people have died in the disaster as of Jan. 2, although the minister of social affairs has reportedly put the death toll at 21. Some of the reported deaths were caused by drowning, landslides, electrocution and hypothermia. Authorities have dispatched rescue teams to locations where floodwaters were reported as high as 2 meters (6 feet). Residents in Bekasi, on Jakarta’s eastern fringe, leave their flooded homes. Image by Tirza Meggy/Mongabay Indonesia. Speaking to reporters in Jakarta on Jan. 2, President Joko Widodo blamed a combination of environmental damage and waste dumping in rivers for the disaster. On his Twitter account, the president also cited delays in flood control infrastructure projects, noting that some of the projects had been held up since 2017 due to land acquisition issues. The BNPB said environmental&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/01/environmental-damage-exacerbates-jakarta-flooding-amid-record-rainfall/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>&#8216;Nothing was left&#8217;: Flash floods, landslides hit Indonesia&#8217;s Papua region</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/03/nothing-was-left-flash-floods-landslides-hit-indonesias-papua-region/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Mar 2019 11:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Asrida ElisabethDella SyahniLusia Arumingtyas]]>
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						<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Deforestation, Degraded Lands, Disasters, Ecosystems, Encroachment, Environment, Flooding, Freshwater, Illegal Logging, Infrastructure, Land Use Change, Landslides, Logging, Restoration, and Rivers]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAYAPURA/JAKARTA — Rain-triggered flash floods and landslides that struck Indonesia’s easternmost province this past weekend have killed nearly 90 people and driven thousands from their homes. The country’s disaster mitigation agency has cited human-caused deforestation as having exacerbated the scale of the damage. The flooding and mudslides destroyed buildings and roads in several areas of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAYAPURA/JAKARTA — Rain-triggered flash floods and landslides that struck Indonesia’s easternmost province this past weekend have killed nearly 90 people and driven thousands from their homes. The country’s disaster mitigation agency has cited human-caused deforestation as having exacerbated the scale of the damage. The flooding and mudslides destroyed buildings and roads in several areas of Jayapura district, in Papua province, on March 17. The district, in the foothills of the Cyclops Mountains, was reportedly drenched in heavy rain for seven hours non-stop. The rain caused Papua’s biggest lake, Sentani, to overflow, causing flooding in at least nine administrative villages in its vicinity. Map of Indonesia’s Papua province in green.Image by Bwmodular via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). Homes on stilts on Lake Sentani near Jayapura and the Cyclops Mountains. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay. By March 19, the death toll from the disaster was reported as 89. Rescuers evacuated more than 6,800 people to temporary shelters, and more than 600 houses and buildings were damaged and submerged, according to official data. As the floodwaters subside, some people have begun returning to their homes to collect what little remains. Kindena Kogoya lost three of her children and her grandmother when a landslide struck her home on the night of March 17. Two other members of her family are still missing. She described to Mongabay how logs and rocks washed down the slopes by mud “felt like they were flying” toward her house. “All of it went into the house and destroyed everything,” she&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/03/nothing-was-left-flash-floods-landslides-hit-indonesias-papua-region/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Environmental degradation exacerbates Indonesia flooding, landslides</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/01/environmental-degradation-exacerbates-indonesia-flooding-landslides/</link>
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					<pubDate>30 Jan 2019 09:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Wahyu Chandra]]>
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						<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, South Sulawesi, Southeast Asia, and Sulawesi]]>
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							<![CDATA[Degraded Lands, Disasters, Ecosystems, Environment, Flooding, Freshwater, Land Use Change, Landslides, Restoration, and Rivers]]>
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							<![CDATA[MAKASSAR, Indonesia — Days of torrential rain in an eastern Indonesian province last week unleashed flash floods and landslides that killed dozens of people. In the wake of the emergency, local authorities and environmental activists identified land degradation as a result of farming and mining as a key factor intensifying the impact of the disaster. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[MAKASSAR, Indonesia — Days of torrential rain in an eastern Indonesian province last week unleashed flash floods and landslides that killed dozens of people. In the wake of the emergency, local authorities and environmental activists identified land degradation as a result of farming and mining as a key factor intensifying the impact of the disaster. Heavy downpours were reported across scores of villages across South Sulawesi province between Jan. 22 and 24, including the provincial capital, Makassar. The country’s disaster mitigation agency, or BNPB, reported inundation of up to 2 meters (6 feet) in some areas, with parts of the Trans-Sulawesi Highway cut off. The agency said some of the villages were also hit by landslides. At least 68 people are confirmed dead as a result of the flooding and landslides, according to BNPB reports as of Jan. 27. Nearly 50 people were injured and more than 3,300 displaced from their homes. A map of Indonesia with South Sulawesi province in red. Image by of TUBS via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). Days of torrential rain inundated thousands of houses in South Sulawesi province. Image courtesy of the Indonesian National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB). South Sulawesi Governor Nurdin Abdullah said one of the main causes of the flooding was the heavy silting in the Bili-Bili River from upstream deforestation, rendering the river prone to spilling over during heavy rains. He said the Jeneberang watershed, of which the Bili-Bili is a part, “is in the super-critical category because of the exploitation&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/01/environmental-degradation-exacerbates-indonesia-flooding-landslides/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>New leaf-nosed bat uncovered amidst burning habitat in Venezuela</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/04/new-leaf-nosed-bat-uncovered-amidst-burning-habitat-in-venezuela/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Apr 2017 18:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Bats, Biology, Drinking Water, Ecosystem Services, Environment, Fires, Forests, Genetics, Landslides, Mammals, Montane Forests, Mountains, Rainforests, Research, Slash-and-burn, Species Discovery, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Scientists have uncovered a new species of bat in the mountains of Venezuela and Colombia. But its forest habitat is under big threat from slash-and-burn agriculture, and its discoverers are urging more conservation attention be paid to the region. Recognized by their short faces, bumpy lips, and peculiar nose-flaps, leaf-nosed bats are common throughout much of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Scientists have uncovered a new species of bat in the mountains of Venezuela and Colombia. But its forest habitat is under big threat from slash-and-burn agriculture, and its discoverers are urging more conservation attention be paid to the region. Recognized by their short faces, bumpy lips, and peculiar nose-flaps, leaf-nosed bats are common throughout much of Central and South America. But while they&#8217;re all members of the same family (Phyllostomidae), leaf-nosed bat species don&#8217;t follow one path when it comes to how and what they eat. Most are insectivorous, while others eat frogs, birds, and even other bats. One species, the famed vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus), lives entirely off the blood of larger animals, lapping from small cuts it makes while its victim sleeps. Still other leaf-nosed bats pursue a vegetarian lifestyle, dining on fruit, nectar, and pollen. One of these fruit-eating – or &#8220;frugivorous&#8221; – groups is the Sturnia genus, which holds the record for the most species. Sturnia, commonly called yellow-shouldered bats, received yet another species recently, after researchers from institutions in Venezuela and Ecuador looked more closely at the genetics and bones of bats in northern Colombia and Venezuela. The researchers discovered that two groups of bats that had been classified as a certain species were in fact members of another species unknown to science. They describe this new species, which they named Sturnia adrianae, in a study published recently in the journal Zootaxa. The species had previously been lumped into Sturnia ludovici. Sturnira adrianae adrianae, the larger&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/04/new-leaf-nosed-bat-uncovered-amidst-burning-habitat-in-venezuela/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Illegal logging, mining worsened impact of Philippines&#8217; killer typhoon</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/12/illegal-logging-mining-worsened-impact-of-philippines-killer-typhoon/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Dec 2012 16:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Philippines, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Climate Science, Deforestation, Disasters, Environment, Extreme Weather, Governance, Green, Illegal Logging, Illegal Mining, Impact Of Climate Change, Islands, Landslides, Logging, Mining, Politics, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Storms, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Typhoon Bopha as seen by satellite on December 1st. Photo by: NASA MODIS Rapid Response System. According to Filipino officials, rampant illegal logging and mining were likely a part of the cause for the high casualty count from Category 5 Typhoon Bopha (Pablo), especially in the Compostela Valley where government officials had warned people to [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Typhoon Bopha as seen by satellite on December 1st. Photo by: NASA MODIS Rapid Response System. According to Filipino officials, rampant illegal logging and mining were likely a part of the cause for the high casualty count from Category 5 Typhoon Bopha (Pablo), especially in the Compostela Valley where government officials had warned people to stop the illegal activities. So far, 370 people have been found dead on the island of Mindanao with another 400 missing. Waters rose so high even emergency shelters were inundated. &#8220;If you abuse nature, nature will get back at us,&#8221; Benito Ramos, executive director of National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), said. &#8220;This is due to decades of mining and logging. Our forests are already deluded and there are tunnels left by small-time miners.&#8221; Illegal logging and mining has stripped many hillsides bare in Mindanao, which has forest cover of only 10 percent. Deforestation means flash floods flow unimpeded, leading to cataclysmic land and mud slides that can bury whole towns. &#8220;The water was as high as a coconut tree,&#8221; a local farmer, Joseph Requinto, told the Associated Press. &#8220;All the bamboo trees, even the big ones, were all mowed down.&#8221; Unfortunately these tragic environmental disasters are becoming a recurring theme in the Philippines, less than a year Typhoon Sendong killed over 1,200 people on the same island. The extensive destruction wrought by this storm&#8212;which impacted over 300,000 people&#8212;was also blamed at least partly on illegal logging. Logging has banned throughout the Philippines&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/12/illegal-logging-mining-worsened-impact-of-philippines-killer-typhoon/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Philippines disaster may have been worsened by climate change, deforestation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/12/philippines-disaster-may-have-been-worsened-by-climate-change-deforestation/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Dec 2011 17:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Climate Science, Deforestation, Disasters, Environment, Extreme Weather, Flooding, Forests, Governance, Green, Illegal Logging, Impact Of Climate Change, Landslides, Logging, Precipitation, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Storms, Tropical Forests, and Weather]]>
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							<![CDATA[As the Philippines begins to bury more than a 1,000 disaster victims in mass graves, Philippine President Benigno Aquino has ordered an investigation into last weekend&#8217;s flash flood and landslide, including looking at the role of illegal logging. Officials have pointed to both climate change and vast deforestation as likely exacerbating the disaster. &#8220;We have [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[As the Philippines begins to bury more than a 1,000 disaster victims in mass graves, Philippine President Benigno Aquino has ordered an investigation into last weekend&#8217;s flash flood and landslide, including looking at the role of illegal logging. Officials have pointed to both climate change and vast deforestation as likely exacerbating the disaster. &#8220;We have no desire to engage in finger-pointing or to assign blame at a time like this. Yet, we have an obligation to find out exactly what has happened,&#8221; Aquino said, according to the Christian Science Monitor. On Friday, Typhoon Sendong brought 12 hours of continuous rain to Mindanao Island; reports say rivers flooded and villagers were crushed by logs or drowned. The Philippines has declared a national disaster with the storm affecting 338,000 people in 13 provinces. The storm is now the deadliest of 2011. President Aquino stated that he was concerned a logging ban was violated, worsening the disaster. In February, following flooding that killed around 40 people, Aquino banned logging across the Philippines arguing that deforestation had made much of the country dangerously prone to landslide and flooding. Tropical cyclone Sendong as seen by NASA&#8217;s Terra satellite. Photo by: NASA. However, a priest who worked in the area, Sean McDonagh, told The Universe Catholic Weekly that decades of deforestation was to blame for the scale of the disaster. Much of the region was converted from rainforest into pineapple plantations. &#8220;The deforestation was literally criminal,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If the rainforest in the area had been&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/12/philippines-disaster-may-have-been-worsened-by-climate-change-deforestation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-31553</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Reforestation program in China preventing future disasters</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/05/reforestation-program-in-china-preventing-future-disasters/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 May 2011 04:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[China]]>
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							<![CDATA[Disasters, Ecosystem Services, Environment, Environmental Services, Erosion, Flooding, Forests, Governance, Green, Landslides, Payments For Ecosystem Services, Reforestation, and Trees]]>
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							<![CDATA[China&#8217;s response to large-scale erosion with reforestation is paying off according to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). The 10-year program, known as Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP), is working to turn some 37 million acres back into forest or grasslands after farming on steep slopes in the Yangtze [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[China&#8217;s response to large-scale erosion with reforestation is paying off according to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). The 10-year program, known as Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP), is working to turn some 37 million acres back into forest or grasslands after farming on steep slopes in the Yangtze and Yellow River basins had made them perilously susceptible to erosion and flooding. &#8220;It&#8217;s a tremendously innovative program designed to address two critical problems – securing the environment and providing economic opportunities for people in rural, desperately poor areas,&#8221; said co-author Gretchen Daily, a senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and co-director of the Natural Capital Project at Stanford, in a press release. SLCP was implemented by the Chinese government after horrific mudslides and floods in 1998 killed nearly 4,000 people and displaced some 18 million people. The extent of the disasters were in part attributed to clearcutting for agriculture on mountainous slopes. The study, which describes the program as &#8216;exceptional&#8217;, found that SLCP had largely succeeded on its environmental goals, decreasing soil erosion by up to 68% in some places. The over $40 billion reforestation program has also had important economic impacts in a poor region by paying for environmental services. Families who participate in the program received a subsidy of money and rice for foregoing farming and finding other jobs. Subsidies are received for 8 years. On average the study found that families receiving the subsidy made more than those&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/05/reforestation-program-in-china-preventing-future-disasters/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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