Indonesian government makes bold decision to extend the forestry moratorium. Despite fierce industry pressure, President SBY has extended the moratorium on new concessions for a further 2 years. In 2011 the Indonesian government decreed a moratorium, or pause, on new logging and plantation concessions in 65 million hectares of primary forest and peatland areas. There […]
CONTINUE READINGWe often take news and resources from the Amazon region and other areas, simply because so many of the issues are shared between tropical forest areas. Here we present a series of 5 films about how people in the Amazon use fire as part of their agricultural process. This technique is called swidden agriculture, but […]
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