The Forest Scribe

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[The Forest Scribe @theforestscribe]

The @yayasanmadani Foundation is welcoming the government’s success in lowering Indonesia’s deforestation rate by 75 percent in the 2019-2020 period

#Forest #Deforestation #Indonesia #Sustainable

https://t.co/QoakH7NCqu

[The Forest Scribe @theforestscribe]

AIDenvironment has named the Nusantara Fiber Group operating in Indonesia’s Kalimantan as being the group with industrial timber concessions which has conducted the most deforestation in Indonesia.

#Forest #Deforestation #Forestryindustry #Sustainable

https://t.co/dUHrXEcMlS

[The Forest Scribe @theforestscribe]

A number of forestry experts are questioning the government’s policy to use protected forest areas for the development of food estates.

#Forest #Deforestation #FoodEstate #Indonesia

https://t.co/uSgTlGOrlT

[The Forest Scribe @theforestscribe]

The Directorate General of Climate Change Control (DJPPI) of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MEF) of the Republic of Indonesia possesses forest monitoring system technologies.

#forest #forestmonitoringsystem #technology

https://t.co/XnS20HGqWM

[The Forest Scribe @theforestscribe]

A new analysis by WRI is showing that just seven agricultural commodities accounted for 26 percent of global tree cover loss from 2001 to 2015 with cattle taking the top position.

#Forest #Deforestation #Cattleindustry #WRI

https://t.co/j5AT9ETCLf

[The Forest Scribe @theforestscribe]

Mangrove forests are a type of forest that generally grow in brackish water and places where siltation and accumulation of organic matter occurs.

#Forest #MangroveForest #Sustainable

https://t.co/YC6JSqi9Pm

[The Forest Scribe @theforestscribe]

A group of farmers in Riau Province is actively sharing knowledge on how to conserve forests while cultivating crops of high economic values there or by harvesting their rich non-timber products.

#Forest #Forestryindustry #CultivatingCrops #Sustainable

https://t.co/7v11wUJFMf

[The Forest Scribe @theforestscribe]

Agroforestry is now increasingly cited as one of the solutions to deforestation and the conversion of natural forest into other purposes, including agriculture.

#Forest #Agroforestry #Forestryindustry #Sustainable

https://t.co/ObMoavtodj

[The Forest Scribe @theforestscribe]

President Joko Widodo has symbolically handed over 2,929 social forestry licenses covering an area totaling 3,442,000 hectares to be managed by 651,000 families across the country.

#Forest #Forestylicenses #SocialForest #Indonesia

https://t.co/tUqie2K7k7

[The Forest Scribe @theforestscribe]

“These elections are special. Apart from having to be held during a pandemic, these local elections would also produce the first elected candidates to implement the controversial omnibus law,”

#2020Elections #Forest #Environment #Sustainable

https://t.co/nIQzAMviNi

[The Forest Scribe @theforestscribe]

“The provision in Law on Job Creation is still too wide and open to multi-interpretation", said Grita Anindarini, a researcher with the Indonesian Center for Environmental Law (ICEL)

#OmnibusLaw #Environment #Sustainable

https://t.co/dGe6ARHprx

[The Forest Scribe @theforestscribe]

The West Bali National Park will become the first in the country to use AI technology to better monitor its forest and thus help it combat illegal logging, poaching and to provide a better protection of its ecosystem.

#Forest #ForestTechnology #Indonesia

https://t.co/WzzUuFTB47

[The Forest Scribe @theforestscribe]

The Sakai Kandis tribe which used to be a nomadic forest tribe that is indigenous to the Province of Riau, is now gaining a footstep into the modern world as eight of its members will further their study at universities.

#Sakaitribe #indigenous #Forest

https://t.co/E2wndNzSKg

[The Forest Scribe @theforestscribe]

Indonesia is now focusing heavily on prevention forest fires and early reaction to curb the calamity and is now trying out a round-the-clock, on-the-ground, internet-based fire detection system.

#Forestfire #Groundfire

https://t.co/HRGc3VHVUa

[The Forest Scribe @theforestscribe]

An environmental watchdog is proposing that the government provide incentives for communities near forests to enable them to develop their economy and thus help reduce forest destruction and the restoration of the local ecology.

https://t.co/uetUtbeOWS

[The Forest Scribe @theforestscribe]

Papuan environmental activists are voicing their call for the government to should intervene to protect forests in Papua, one of the last jungle-covered regions of Indonesia, and ensure their continuing existence.

https://t.co/Czniu9KJ0g

[The Forest Scribe @theforestscribe]

Indonesia has been plagued by devastating annual forest and ground fires. Number of experts are saying that to bring a halt to this, it was paramount that communities around forests are strengthened an empowered.

https://t.co/ECRWCNyVom

[The Palm Scribe @PalmScribe]

The Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries (CPOPC) is calling on the European Union to work together and improve sustainability standards, including for palm oil, through its recent Farm to Fork strategy.

https://t.co/oipUasFczS

[The Forest Scribe @theforestscribe]

The targeting of the government’s economic stimulus targets required careful handling as their impact would be a key determinant in a post-pandemic era, experts said Thursday (16/7).
#Economy #Environment #NewNormal #Pandemic

https://t.co/OsP9hT0lFR

[International Tropical Peatlands Center @tropeatlands]

#NowReading: Well-managed peatlands vital part of global food security https://t.co/kYDS995jO9 @DiannaKopansky @UNEP @GlobalLF @CIFOR @a_dohong @GQuijandriaA