<![CDATA[asia news from mongabay.com]]> http://www.mongabay.com en-us Copyright 2006 mongabay.com Sun, 15 Oct 2008 12:58:39 -0800 <![CDATA[Palm oil producers in Indonesia reject moratorium on forest destruction]]> Jakarta Post.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0828-palm_oil.html Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0828-palm_oil.html <![CDATA[Two large populations of endangered monkeys discovered in Cambodian]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0828-wcs_monkeys.html Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0828-wcs_monkeys.html <![CDATA[Komodo dragon conservation efforts prove controversial in Indonesia]]> Wall Street Journal.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0825-komodo_dragons.html Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0825-komodo_dragons.html <![CDATA[The extinction of the baiji a 'wake-up call' to conserve vaquita and other cetaceans]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0825-hance_barlow_interview.html Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0825-hance_barlow_interview.html <![CDATA[Malaysian logging scandal may delay trade negotiations with the E.U.]]> Tribun Pontianak. An environmental group is using the scandal as the basis for a request for the E.U. to delay timber trade talks with Malaysia.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0825-sarawak.html Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0825-sarawak.html <![CDATA[Malaysia's rainforest logging plan may proceed despite risk to water supplies]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0822-kedah.html Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0822-kedah.html <![CDATA[Markets could save rainforests: an interview with Andrew Mitchell]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0818-mitchell_interview_gcp.html Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0818-mitchell_interview_gcp.html <![CDATA[Indonesia's Riau bans destruction of rainforests and peatlands for palm oil]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0815-riau.html Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0815-riau.html <![CDATA[High mineral prices drive rainforest destruction]]> New Scientist.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0813-mining.html Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0813-mining.html <![CDATA[Investors seek profit from conserving rainforest biodiversity]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0813-malua_new_forests.html Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0813-malua_new_forests.html <![CDATA["Turtle carbon" could help protect rainforests and save endangered sea turtles]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0811-turtle_carbon.html Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0811-turtle_carbon.html <![CDATA[Shift from poverty-driven to industry-driven deforestation may help conservation]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0805-tree_pr.html Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0805-tree_pr.html <![CDATA[Private equity firm to sell biodiversity offsets from rainforest conservation]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0806-malua_new_forests.html Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0806-malua_new_forests.html <![CDATA[48% of primates threatened with extinction]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0805-primates.html Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0805-primates.html <![CDATA[Corporations become prime driver of deforestation, providing clear target for environmentalists]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0806-hance_tree_deforestation.html Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0806-hance_tree_deforestation.html <![CDATA[Often overlooked, small wild cats are important and in trouble]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0805-sanderson_interview.html Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0805-sanderson_interview.html <![CDATA[Loggers, palm oil firms eye remote rainforests of Papua for development]]> Wall Street Journal.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0726-wsj_papua.html Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0726-wsj_papua.html <![CDATA[Rainforest conservation could offset 500m tons of CO2 emissions at $2/ton]]> Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0724-redd.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0724-redd.html <![CDATA[New plan would pay tropical countries for saving forests, regardless of level of threat]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0724-forest_carbon.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0724-forest_carbon.html <![CDATA[14 countries win REDD funding to protect tropical forests]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0724-fcpf.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0724-fcpf.html <![CDATA[How to replant a mangrove forest: local, low-cost initiatives prove most successful]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0723-mangroves_hance.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0723-mangroves_hance.html <![CDATA[Secret power plan would devastate Sarawak's rainforest with 12 new hydropower plants]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0723-sarawak.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0723-sarawak.html <![CDATA[Half of the Philippines' endemic wildlife is with extinction]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0722-philippines.html Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0722-philippines.html <![CDATA[Orangutans persist in islands amid a sea of oil palm plantations]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0717-orangs_oil_palm.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0717-orangs_oil_palm.html <![CDATA[Researchers fit Bornean elephants with satellite collars to track social behvaior]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0714-hutan_elephants.html Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0714-hutan_elephants.html <![CDATA[Environmentalists protest proposed logging of Malaysian forest reserve]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0710-kedah_logging.html Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0710-kedah_logging.html <![CDATA[Orangutan populations drop due to logging, expansion for palm oil]]> Oryx.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0705-orangs.html Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0705-orangs.html <![CDATA[Nepal's tiger population plummets due to poaching]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0702-tigers_nepal.html Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0702-tigers_nepal.html <![CDATA[Chinese prefer tigers in the wild over tigers on their plates]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0702-tigers.html Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0702-tigers.html <![CDATA[Rainforest destruction becomes industry-driven, concentrated geographically]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0629-deforestation.html Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0629-deforestation.html <![CDATA[Sarawak to continue logging forests for oil palm plantations]]> New Straits Times.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0630-palm_oil_sarawak.html Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0630-palm_oil_sarawak.html <![CDATA[Sarawak to continue logging forests for oil palm plantations]]> New Straits Times.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0630-palm_oil.html Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0630-palm_oil.html <![CDATA[Malaysian government says no more forest clearing for oil palm plantations]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0626-palm_oil.html Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0626-palm_oil.html <![CDATA[China's log imports fall in Q1 2008]]> Tropical Timber Market Report]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0618-china_timber.html Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0618-china_timber.html <![CDATA[China's CO2 emissions 14% higher than America's in 2007]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0614-co2_emissions.html Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0614-co2_emissions.html <![CDATA[Hunting, deforestation wipe out 6 of 7 hornbill species in Borneo park]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0614-harrison.html Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0614-harrison.html <![CDATA[China's economic growth may be helping panda habitat recovery]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0611-pandas.html Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0611-pandas.html <![CDATA[Tropical dry evergreen forests in India protected by religious and cultural beliefs]]> Tropical conservation Science by N. Parthasarathy and colleagues, looks at tropical dry evergreen forest on the Coromandel coast of India where the ecosystem occurs both in patches and as sacred groves or temple forests protected by the local people on religious grounds. ]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0609-parthasarathy_tcs.html Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0609-parthasarathy_tcs.html <![CDATA[Papua New Guinea's rainforests disappearing faster than thought]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0602-png.html Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0602-png.html <![CDATA[China's plastic bag ban goes into effect June 1]]> Scientific American.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0529-china.html Thu, 29 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0529-china.html <![CDATA[From "kampung boy" to conservation force in the rainforest of Borneo]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0527-poh_sinum.html Tue, 27 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0527-poh_sinum.html <![CDATA[Will consumers pay 10% premium for sustainable palm oil?]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0521-palm_oil.html Wed, 21 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0521-palm_oil.html <![CDATA[Geriatric turtle sex only hope for world's rarest reptile]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0521-wcs_turtle.html Wed, 21 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0521-wcs_turtle.html <![CDATA[Half of oil palm expansion in Malaysia, Indonesia occurs at expense of forests]]> conservation Letters. Analyzing data from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Lian Pin Koh and David S. Wilcove of Princeton University found that 55-59 percent of oil palm expansion in Malaysia and at least 56 percent of that in Indonesia occurred at the expense of forests. Given that oil palm plantations are biologically impoverished relative to primary and secondary forests, the researchers recommend restricting future expansion to pre-existing cropland and degraded habitats.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0520-palm_oil.html Tue, 20 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0520-palm_oil.html <![CDATA[Tropical deforestation is 'one of the worst crises since we came out of our caves']]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0515-hance_myers.html Thu, 15 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0515-hance_myers.html <![CDATA[Will earthquake slow dam-building spree in China?]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0514-china.html Wed, 14 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0514-china.html <![CDATA[Indonesian palm oil firms pledge to stop clearing rainforests]]> The Jakarta Post. The move is a response to growing criticism that oil palm expansion is destroying biologically-rich rainforests and contributing to global warming.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0513-palm_oil.html Tue, 13 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0513-palm_oil.html <![CDATA[China to push for overseas acquisition of farmland to improve food security]]> Financial Times. Under a proposal by the Ministry of Agriculture, Chinese companies will be encouraged to acquire farmland overseas. The initiative would make foreign land acquisition by Chinese agricultural firms a central government policy.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0513-china.html Tue, 13 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0513-china.html <![CDATA[Massive deforestation of mangroves may have worsened scale of disaster in Burma]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0513-hance_mangroves.html Tue, 13 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0513-hance_mangroves.html <![CDATA[Unilever calls for ban on rainforest destruction for palm oil]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0501-unilever.html Thu, 01 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0501-unilever.html