Indonesia – Company commissioner named suspect in Maluku illegal logging case
A Muh. Ibnu Aqil The Jakarta Post Thu, March 19, 2020 An investigator with the Environment and Forestry Ministry’s law enforcement division stands on a cut-down tree in a […]
Disinfecting Jakarta
BY :YUDHA BASKORO JAKARTA GLOBE WED, MARCH 18, 2020 Indonesian Red Cross personnel wearing protective gear march to the Sarinah department store in Central Jakarta to disinfect it on Tuesday. […]
NGO to sue Cambodia ‘land grab’ officer
Soth Koemsoeun The Phnom Penh Post Thu, March 19, 2020 Some 100 villagers protested at Phnom Oral wildlife Sanctuary. Photo supplied TRAPAING COMMUNE, Cambodia – National Resource and Wildlife Preservation […]
Asia’s Rapid Urbanization and Deforestation Linked to Wuhan Virus
CTN News Chiang Rai Times Fri, March 13, 2020 Asia’s rapid pace urbanization and deforestation, are major factors in the spread of infectious diseases across Asia. Including the Wuhan virus, […]
Indonesia indigenous peoples see Jokowi’s omnibus bill as threat to their land
The Jakarta Post Fri, March 13, 2020 Indigenous Sabuai people block heavy equipment from doing what they consider to be illegal logging on their customary land and forest on Seram […]
Environmental Activist Faces Arrest in Myanmar’s Karen State, Rights Groups Object
By Lawi Weng the Irrawaddy Tue, March 10, 2020 Saw Tha Phoe, a Karen environmentalist. / Save the Salween Network / Facebook HPA-AN TOWNSHIP, Myanmar – Right groups have asked […]
In eyeing Kuala Langat development, conservationists say Selangor government risks floods and destruction
BY SYED JAYMAL ZAHIID Malay Mail Monday, March 9, 2020 Local Temuan tribes said it could mount a legal challenge against what they saw was encroachment on their ancestral land. […]
Another Volcano Threatening to Erupt on Java Island
BY :ANTARA PHOTO JAKARTA GLOBE THU, MARCH 5, 2020 LUMAJANG, Indonesia – Mount Semeru in Lumajang, East Java, has shown increasing volcanic activities in the past week, eight times spewing out incandescent […]
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