In an exclusive investigation, the Ecologist Film Unit reveals the impact of Indonesia's plans to privatise its entire 90,000 km coastline
… Selling Indonesia's coast for cheap prawns and profit … Natural World Prawn Shrimp Mangroves Erosion Indonesia harvesting.jpg In an exclusive … the Ecologist Film Unit reveals the impact of Indonesia's plans to privatise its entire …
The paper giant has been accused by Greenpeace of destructive logging and green-washing. But campaigners are mistaken, says APP boss Aida Greenbury - the company is supporting REDD projects and putting sustainability at the centre of operations
… operations The recent partnership between Indonesia and Norway , designed to reduce … of the first stage of the Norway-Indonesia partnership: a two-year suspension … . The press release from the Norwegian and Indonesian governments stated: 'By 2014, the …
The Dayak Benua community of Muara Tae, Indonesia, are fighting to protect their ancestral forests from a mining company. The London-based Environmental Investigation Agency has now launched a campaign to assist
… TAKE ACTION to save Indonesia's indigenous peoples in the … And Economics Coal Power Indigenous People Indonesia Carbon 8singko dan … Benuaq indigenous community in Kalimantan, Indonesia looking at the coal mining area that …
A little-reported legal battle in Italy between paper company Pigna and eco-activists from Terra! is leading to fears that it may open the way for big companies to muzzle legitimate environmental protests. Mandy Haggith reports
… Revealed: paper giant 'linked to Indonesian forest trashing' targeted activists … March 2011 News Deforestation APP Activism Indonesian Forests APP Logging Investigations … Pigna sells paper made from rainforests in Indonesia, and in particular that they source …
In an exclusive investigation, the Ecologist Film Unit reveals the impact of Indonesia's plans to privatise its entire 90,000 km coastline
… Selling The Sea – revealing Indonesia’s little-known plans to privatise … Natural World Prawn Shrimp Mangroves Erosion Indonesia Ecologist Film Unit Video … the Ecologist Film Unit reveals the impact of Indonesia's plans to privatise its entire …
The World Bank has released a report encouraging the Indonesian government to create vast timber plantations that would damage local ecosystems and livelihood, in order to encourage economic growth.
… Deforestation World Bank Friends Of The Earth Indonesia Deforestation World Bank World Bank … Bank has released a report encouraging the Indonesian government to create vast timber … in order to encourage economic growth. Indonesia's tropical forest reserves are the …
Two NGOs have accused the Indonesian Ecolabel Institute (LEI) of greenwash by handing ‘sustainable forest management certificates’ to companies converting natural forest or peatlands into timber plantations.
… Indonesian EcoLabel Greenwash, according to NGOs 3rd April 2009 News Indonesia LEI NGO Forest Watch Indonesia Campaigns Deregulation Politics And …
Campaign groups call for a suspension on lending to palm oil plantation developers after critical internal audit
… News Food And Farming Natural World Palm Oil Indonesia Politics And Economics palmoil.jpg The palm oil industry in Indonesia has been linked to illegal … largest producers of palm oil and based in Indonesia. Loans that should have been …
Plant fuels can never meet our current and growing energy needs and, as Robin Maynard reports, adopting a ‘carbohydrate economy’ may prove disastrous for our farmers, our food supply and our future
… of the maximum economic gain. Malaysia and Indonesia have cleared huge swathes of … human costs of the global biofuel market: ‘Indonesia has one of the highest rates of … rife. The island of Borneo, divided between Indonesia and Malaysia, has lost half its …
A major investor in a gas exploration project which has set off a toxic mud-flow has washed its hands of responsibility for the damage caused to homes of thousands of Indonesian people.
… toxic mud-flow 21st June 2007 News Lapindo Indonesia Mud Mud-flow Toxic Mud Hot Mud … the damage caused to homes of thousands of Indonesian people. Drilling by mining company Lapindo Brantas Inc in Sidoarjo, Indonesia, triggered the unquenchable …
Rebecca is an ordinary woman with extraordinary ambitions, inspiring people all over the world and making 'Shift Happen' through her charity that creates free educational films
… natural disasters, palm oil plantations in Indonesia, the rights of street, stateless and … in Peru, access to water in India and Indonesia, and sexual slavery in India, … a thousand students in Canada, the USA, and Indonesia, and with the free release of our …
Investigative films on key environmental and climate change issues from the Ecologist Film Unit
… in Paraguay; and the planned privatisation of Indonesia’s coastline that would see the … Government Selling The Sea – revealing Indonesia’s little-known plans to privatise …
Following the landmark decision by the Indian government to prevent Vedanta from mining on tribal land, the Ecologist reports on the other tribes - including the Penan in Sarawak and the Guarani in Brazil - facing similar threats but being ignored by the media
… the biggest shareholders in the controversial Indonesian logging and palm oil group Sinar … the mine, Vedanta Resources plc INVESTIGATION Indonesia wages war against tribe Armed and financed by Western corporations, Indonesia is waging a brutal war against a …
Ploughshares actions started in 1980 in the US. They have taken place in many different countries, with weapons as diverse as rifles, warships, missiles, submarines and aircraft being dismantled or damaged.
… plane was prevented from being exported to Indonesia, where it might have been used in …
We all want our green wings, and the notion of purchasing them via carbon offsetting is powerfully seductive. as Jules Peck reveals, however, buying your way into eco heaven can be fraught with problems
… a wind turbine in India or planting a tree in Indonesia. Offsetting is a divisive issue that …
Global brands, including Coca-Cola, Unilever and Vodafone offer African township residents a ‘lick of paint’ in exchange for turning their homes into advertisements
… giants target Africa in 'land grab' following Indonesia deforestation ban Indonesia's move to bring in a two-year …
Undercover filming by the Environmental Investigation Agency has unearthed shocking evidence of military involvement in the illegal timber trade, all to feed western demand for stylish wood products, according to Faith Doherty
Brazil is hailed as a biofuels success story - producing and using ethanol from high yielding crops within the country. But those indigenous families who have been displaced by sugar cane cultivation see things differently
… environmental impact? INVESTIGATION Selling Indonesia's coast for cheap prawns and profit … the Ecologist Film Unit reveals the impact of Indonesia's plans to privatise its entire …
What can we expect of December’s meeting of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Poznan, Poland? The main question will be how to follow the Kyoto Protocol’s first ‘commitment period’, which ends in 2012.
… developing countries, notably China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa. A … in the USA, using Swiss technology, burning Indonesian coal, producing goods for export to …
With a bigger spotlight than ever on the role of banks in funding fossil fuel projects we report on unethical and environmentally damaging investments by Barclays, HSBC and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS)
… its partners Sterlite and Hindustan Zinc. In Indonesia, the Grasberg mine, operated by … operating the Toka Tindung gold mine in Indonesia. Tailings contamination from the six …
A new U.N. led scheme called "Reduced Emissions from Deforestation" (RED) is due to be announced later this year that aims to make it rewarding for countries to preserve their forests rather than cut them down.
… at a climate change meeting in Bali, Indonesia, in December 2007. This article …
Copper underwires the modern world, running through everything from the gas guzzler to the wind turbine. Any country that finds substantial reserves of the metal ought to consider itself to have struck gold. That is, until you let the World Bank decide how your mines should be run…
… metric tons - Peru (1,049), China (844), Indonesia (816), Russia (675) and Zambia …
The Government has backtracked on radical plans for personal carbon trading schemes, reports Jamie Andrews – taking accountability for what we emit is the only way to go.
… goods (such as asparagus shipped from Indonesia in May) being more expensive to the …