A move to blend culture with maps to save vanishing forests
13 Oct 2013With machetes slung over their shoulders and cooking pots tied to their packs, a team of seven surveyors set off from this sleepy hill town recently to complete a mapping project they hope will bring their village into existence for…
Norway blacklists 2 Malaysian logging companies for 'severe environmental damage' in Borneo
14 Oct 2013Norway's $760 billion pension fund has divested from two Malaysian forestry companies due to 'severe environmental damage', mongabay.com reported.
Natural resource licensing and Indonesia's economic resilience
10 Jul 2013The world is shrinking, to the extent that it is now compressed into a mere global village. Conversely the world's population is growing. We passed seven billion in 2012, a figure that still continues to expand and is estimated to…