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Study shows rapid deforestation in Malaysia
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 1st, 2011
Washington Post: New satellite imagery shows Malaysia is destroying forests more than three times faster than all of Asia combined, and its carbon-rich peat soils of the Sarawak coast are being stripped even faster, according to a study released Tuesday.
The report commissioned by the Netherlands-based Wetlands International says Malaysia is uprooting an average 2 percent of the rain forest a year on Sarawak, its largest state on the island of Borneo, or nearly 10 percent over the last five years. Most of it is...
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Great drying unearths clues to big wet
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 1st, 2011
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Climate change The ancient dry lakes of central Australia could provide clues to modern climate fluctuations, and should recalibrate our thinking on major flood events, Australian scientists say.
In a paper published in the February edition of Geology , the researchers present a new timeline for the shorelines of Australia's "inland seas" over the past 100,000 years.
Their studies indicate that Lakes Frome, Callabonna, Blanche and Gregory in central Australia were joined in a mega-lake until...
Malaysia rapidly destroying forests for palm oil: group
Posted by Reuters: Niki Koswanage on February 1st, 2011
Reuters: Malaysia, the world's second largest palm oil producer, is destroying large areas of carbon-rich peatswamp forests to expand plantations, a leading conservation group said on Tuesday.
Wetlands International and Dutch remote sensing institute Sarvision said palm oil plantations are being expanded largely in the Malaysian state of Sarawak on Borneo island.
"Unless this trend is halted, none of these forests will be left at the end of this decade," said the report released on Tuesday.
It said...
Rainforest is destroyed for palm oil plantations on Malaysia’s island state of Sarawak
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 1st, 2011
Telegraph: Rainforest is destroyed for palm oil plantations on Malaysia's island state of Sarawak
New satellite imagery shows Malaysia is destroying forests on the island state of Sarawak, Borneo, more than three times faster than all of Asia combined. Its carbon-rich peat soils of the Sarawak coast are being stripped even faster and the effects on wildlife will be dire
Malaysian peatswamps obliterated for palm oil: study
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 1st, 2011
Physorg: A palm oil plantation is seen here in Malaysia. Peatswamp forests home to such species as the Borneo pygmy elephant are being obliterated in Malaysian Borneo to make way for palm oil plantations, according to a new study.
Peatswamp forests home to such species as the Borneo pygmy elephant are being obliterated in Malaysian Borneo to make way for palm oil plantations, according to a new study.
The Netherlands-based Wetlands International said that the ecologically important forests could disappear...
Study shows rapid deforestation in Malaysia
Posted by Associated Press: Arthur Max on February 1st, 2011
Associated Press: New satellite imagery shows Malaysia is destroying forests more than three times faster than all of Asia combined, and its carbon-rich peat soils of the Sarawak coast are being stripped even faster, according to a study released Tuesday.
The report commissioned by the Netherlands-based Wetlands International says Malaysia is uprooting an average 2 percent of the rain forest a year on Sarawak, its largest state on the island of Borneo, or nearly 10 percent over the last five years. Most of it is...
Satellite images show rapid destruction of Malaysian forests and peatlands
Posted by Associated Press: Arthur Max on February 1st, 2011
Associated Press: New satellite imagery shows Malaysia is destroying forests more than three times faster than all of Asia combined, and its carbon-rich peat soils of the Sarawak coast are being stripped even faster, according to a study released Tuesday.
The report commissioned by the Netherlands-based Wetlands International says Malaysia is uprooting an average 2 percent of the rain forest a year on Sarawak, its largest state on the island of Borneo, or nearly 10 percent over the last five years. Most of it is...
Illegal Logging Continues Unabated in Sumatra, Indonesia
Posted by Suite 101: None Given on February 1st, 2011
Suite 101: Annette currently operates a wild animal rescue center in West Java, Indonesia. The animals (belonging to endangered species and...
While conservation groups lobby to end illegal logging in two provinces in Sumatra, loggers find new and ingenious ways to beat the system.
Illegal logging remains an intractable problem in Sumatra, Indonesia, as discussed in two reports in The Jakarta Post on 28 January 2011. Vulnerable forests mentioned in these reports are the Merang production forest in Musi...
Study shows rapid deforestation in Malaysia
Posted by Straits Times: None Given on February 1st, 2011
Straits Times: NEW satellite imagery shows Malaysia is destroying forests more than three times faster than all of Asia combined, and its carbon-rich peat soils of the Sarawak coast are being stripped even faster, according to a study released on Tuesday.
The report commissioned by the Netherlands-based Wetlands International says Malaysia is uprooting an average 2 per cent of the rain forest a year on Sarawak, its largest state on the island of Borneo, or nearly 10 per cent over the last five years. Most of...
Planters threaten Selangor peat swamp
Posted by Star: TAN CHENG LI on February 1st, 2011
Star: One of the last tracts of peat swamp forest in Selangor now faces the axe.
IT IS a wasteland. Nothing grows on it save for a single tree species, mahang. Those were the reasons cited by Selangor State Agriculture Corporation to back its proposal to turn Kuala Langat South peat swamp forest into an oil palm plantation.
Many people have assumed the same of the tract of forest near Sepang, thanks to past press reports highlighting how it has been illegally logged, encroached upon by farmers and...