Forest
- General News
Tra Vinh province plants forests to protect coasts, improve environment
News General News Vietnam Water Portal Saturday, 25 June 2022 Authorities plant mangrove forests in Tra Vinh province’s Cau Ngang district. (Photo: VNA) Ngày 24/6/2022, theo VietnamPlus. Trà Vinh – một tỉnh thuộc Đồng bằng sông Cửu Long đang trồng thêm rừng và tăng cường bảo tồn những khu rừng hiện…
- Indonesia
Precautions against forest fires
News General News Indonesia Water Portal Monday, 15 June 2020 Indonesian authorities are deploying thousands of extra personnel to prevent a repeat of the 2015 fires, which were the worst for two decades and choked the region in haze for weeks. (AFP/Abdul Qodir) Source: The Jakarta PostDate: 15 June 2020…
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Mangrove forests to hereafter not be converted into ponds: Minister
Aerial photo of the mangrove forest cover in the buffer zone of Sumatra’s East Coast Mangrove Forest Nature Reserve, which has been partially converted into an oil palm plantation area in Mendahara, Tanjungjabung Timur, Jambi, Friday (10/07/2020). (ANTARA PHOTO/Wahdi Septiawan/wsj) Source: ANTARA News Date: 16 July 2020 Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister,…
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Ministry Sets Target to Rehabilitate 200 ha of Mangrove Forests
Featured Ministry Sets Target to Rehabilitate 200 ha of Mangrove Forests Source: Tempo.co Date: 26 July 2020 The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) has set a target to rehabilitate 200 ha of mangrove forests in several coastal regions across Indonesia this year. KKP planned to improve the condition of…
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ASEAN loses a third of mangroves in last 40 years
An aerial view of the mangrove forest zone in Teluk Bintuni regency, West Papua in this undated file photo.The ASEAN region lost about 33 per cent of its mangrove forests between 1980 and 2020, a decrease of more than 63,000sq km, said the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB). (JP/Jerry Adiguna)…
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Helping the poor can protect forests too, Indonesian welfare program shows
Featured A group of farmers going into a rice field in Central Java. (Photo: Dika Soul Seva/Flickr) Source: Mongabay Date: 4 August 2020 A study has found that a poverty-alleviation program in Indonesia was just as successful as dedicated conservation programs in reducing deforestation. The researchers attribute this to the program…
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Replanting alone won’t stop mangrove degradation: Activists
A man teaches a child how to plant mangroves in Pekan Bada, Aceh, on Aug. 4. (Photo by Chaideer Mahyuddin / AFP) Source: The Jakarta Post Date: 20 October 2020 When 53-year-old Azizi is not tending to his crab farm, he would be nursing the 456-hectare mangrove forest near his home…
