The Sarawak state government's announcement in February that it will no longer grant provisional leases to palm oil companies is hugely significant for Indigenous peoples and their forests. Previously ...
The Sarawak state government’s announcement in February that it will no longer grant provisional leases to palm oil companies is hugely significant for Indigenous peoples and their forests. Previously ...
KUALA LUMPUR: No industrial timber plantations (ITP) have been implemented at this juncture, says Datuk Seri Johari Abdul Ghani. The Plantations and Commodities Minister said this is because Malaysia ...
The Mentawai peoples, who live on Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands, off the western coast of Sumatra, have faced numerous attempts to develop their traditional lands. In 2014, the Mentawai communities ...
The jaguarundi, an elusive wild cat from the Americas, was detected by camera traps in some of the timber plantations within the Panama Canal Watershed. In the fight to mitigate climate change and ...
Ecologists have discovered that timber plantations in Hawaii use more than twice the amount of water to grow as native forests use. Especially for island ecosystems, these findings suggest that land ...
Q: We have some concerns about plantation grown wood, especially regarding color and stability. Is there a difference between “wild forest wood” and plantation wood? A. Today we are seeing a lot more ...
Jason Alexandra received research funding from the Rural Industries Research and Development to research farm forestry and plantation policies in the late 1990's and has maintained an interest in ...