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Ecuador, not Nigeria, grabs $4m UN-REDD fund
Posted by Daily Independent: None Given on March 28th, 2011
Daily Independent: * Xavier Mugumya (Uganda) (left), Clea Paz (UN-REDD Secretariat), Chief Peter Ikwem (Obudu Forest Community Leader, Cross River State, Nigeria), Yemi Katerere (Executive Secretary, UN-REDD Programme), Gebon Timothy Kataps (Commissioner for Environment & Urban Development, Taraba State, Nigeria), Odigha Odigha (Chairman, Cross River State Forestry Commission, Nigeria), Salisu Dahiru (National Coordinator, REDD Programme, Nigeria) and Alexander Muller (Assistant Director-General, Food & Agriculture...
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UN approves $4 Million funding for forestry REDD in Ecuador
Posted by Climate Connect: None Given on March 28th, 2011
Climate Connect: The UN-REDD Programme has approved US$4 million in funding for Ecuador's National Programme for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+), bringing the total amount of approved funding for UN-REDD National Programmes to US$55.4 million.
These critical funds support the capacity of national governments to prepare and implement REDD+ strategies with the active involvement of all stakeholders, including Indigenous Peoples and other forest-dependent communities. The ultimate...
Amaila Falls project should be halted until after the elections
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 28th, 2011
Stabroek News: On reading your news article, ‘Local workers to make up less than half of Amaila plant labour force,’ (March 24), and harking back to a related article, ‘Chinese workers for Amaila road building (SN, July 24, 2010), I am compelled to suggest that work on the Amaila Fall Hydroelectric Project (AFHEP) be immediately postponed until after the 2011 elections to give a potentially new government an opportunity to do a thorough and transparent appraisal of this bungling and very costly project before continuing....
Amaila hydropower project
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 28th, 2011
Guyana Chronicle: A MAJOR step has been taken towards completing the process for financing the construction of the Amaila Hydropower project. Last week, Amaila Falls Hydro Inc., a member of the Sithe Global group, announced the posting on their website of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) update on the project. The 2,500 page ESIA has been posted on www.amailahydropower.com and on the website for the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) www.lcds.gov.gy.
Further, it is anticipated that the...
Borneo tribes: 30-year regime ‘has destroyed everything’
Posted by Survivalinternational: None Given on March 28th, 2011
Survivalinternational: Under Taib's rule the Penan have mounted countless blockades to stop their forest being destroyed.
Tribespeople in Sarawak, in the Malaysian part of Borneo, say the 30-year rule of Chief Minister Taib Mahmud has ‘raped’ their land, destroyed their rainforests and brought ‘hardship and suffering’.
This Saturday, March 26, will mark Taib Mahmud’s 30th anniversary as head of the rainforest state. Malaysia’s longest-serving Chief Minister, he has faced widespread and persistent allegations of corruption....
Warming brings unwelcome change to Alaska villages
Posted by Anchorage Daily News: Dan Joling on March 28th, 2011
Anchorage Daily News: Beavers have colonized the Wulik River, Kivalina's main source for water. Beaver feces carry a microscopic protozoa that can cause giardia, known to campers elsewhere in Alaska as "beaver fever." Diarrhea and vomiting are symptoms. Kivalina hunters using the Wulik as a corridor to inland caribou herds have been warned to boil water before drinking it.
Beavers are among the unwelcome changes associated with climate change, said Michael Brubaker, lead author of reports documenting how two northwest...