Photo album tells story of wildlife decline in Sumatra

NEW YORK (August 30, 2010) – With a simple click of the camera, scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society and Zoological Society of London have developed a new way to accurately monitor long-term trends in rare and vanishing species over large landscapes. Called the “Wildlife Picture Index,” (WPI) the methodology collects images from remote “camera […]

Massive coral bleaching in Indonesia

  A dramatic rise in the surface temperature of Indonesian waters has resulted in a large-scale bleaching event that has devastated local coral populations. Following a report of a bleaching incident in May, WCS-Indonesia dispatched a “Rapid Response Unit” of marine biologists to investigate. Their initial survey revealed that over 60 percent of corals have […]

Indonesia reaches ‘super-extreme level of weather’

By Nurfika OsmanAugust 19, 2010 Jakarta. Indonesia has been experiencing its most extreme weather conditions in recorded history, meteorologists warned on Wednesday as torrential rains continued to pound the capital. All regions across the archipelago have been experiencing abnormal and often catastrophic weather, an official from the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) said. “We […]

Indonesia zoo kills hundreds of animals

By Sapa-AFPAug 16, 2010 12:47 PM Neglect and infighting between the management of Indonesia’s largest zoo cost the lives of hundreds of animals, including a rare Sumatran tiger over the weekend, an official says. “The deaths of the animals were a result of neglect in the zoo as the officials were busy fighting over who […]

Tropical glaciers in Indonesia may disappear by the end of the decade

By Douglas Fischer and The Daily Climate    August 16, 2010 Glaciers in one of the world’s last tropical ice caps will be gone within a matter of years, rather than the decades thought previously, according to an Ohio State University researcher who has spent his career probing the world’s ice fields. When they go, a […]

Corals bleached and dying in overheated South Asian waters

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, August 16, 2010 (ENS) – The rapidly rising temperature of south Asia’s Andaman Sea has triggered coral bleaching and die-off that scientists working in Indonesia are calling one of the most rapid and severe coral mortality events ever recorded. The coral die-off was indentified though monitoring by marine ecologists from the Wildlife […]

Poaching causes orangutan populations to collapse in pristine forest areas

By Rhett A. Butler, www.mongabay.comAugust 12, 2010 Orangutan encounter rates have fallen six-fold in Borneo over the past 150 years, report researchers writing in the journal PLoS One. Erik Meijaard, an ecologist with People and Nature Consulting International, and colleagues compared present-day encounter rates with collection rates from naturalists working in the mid-19th Century. They […]

Palm oil giant accused of rainforest destruction caught ‘red-handed’

Indonesia’s largest palm oil and pulp group, Sinar Mas, is continuing to destroy rainforests and peatland despite promises to end the practice Ecologist29th July, 2010 A major supplier of palm oil and pulp (paper) to multinationals, including food giant Cargill, has been caught clearing orang-utan habitats and carbon-rich peatlands. The Sinar Mas group, which has […]

Illegal logging declining worldwide, but still ‘major problem’

A new report by the Chatham House finds that illegal logging in tropical forest nations is primarily on the decline, providing evidence that new laws and international efforts on the issue are having a positive impact. According to the report, the total global production of illegal timber has fallen by 22 percent since 2002. Yet […]

Kidnapped activist: Violence a part of the illegal Indonesia timber trade

By Jeremy Hance, www.mongabay.comJuly 07, 2010 An interview with Faith Doherty. The European parliament made a historical move today when it voted overwhelmingly to ban illegal timber from its markets. For activists worldwide the ban on illegal timber in the EU is a reason to celebrate, but for one activist, Faith Doherty of the Environmental […]

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