Meeting to discuss how Indonesia should prepare for the impact of climate change
Tropical Forests and Climate Change Adaptation Launch
Guest speaker – Emile Salim
Bogor, 29-30 May 2006.

BANGKOK, THAILAND (4 May 2006)—Stating that the ambitious global effort to radically reduce poverty will fail unless it focuses on the 1.6 billion people who rely on forests for their livelihoods.

Illegal logging in Indonesia, as elsewhere, is a major and complex problem. Dealing with the many forms of illegal logging is in itself a major hurdle to preventing the problem, as substantial controversy surrounds what is and is not legal. This is especially difficult given inconsistencies in the law and conflicts between formal and customary law particularly in the context of decentralization.

Jakarta, Indonesia and Washington, DC (24 March 2006) – A new report released today by a coalition of international and Chinese organizations shows that the United States, Japan and the European Union are the main markets for furniture and other products made in China, much of which is made from wood harvested in countries with poor track records in terms of illegal logging, associated corruption or human rights violations.

BOGOR, INDONESIA and BANGKOK, THAILAND (13 October 2005) — The massive flooding this week in Central America has prompted the press and well-intentioned advocacy groups to blame the flooding following heavy rain from Hurricane Stan on excessive runoff caused by “extensive deforestation.”

Experts urge attention to political, economic, and social issues that have made forests the flash point for many of the world’s recent wars.

Dorothy Stang, a 74 year-old missionary and supporter of peasant land rights, was shot to death in the State of Pará in the Amazon region on February 13th. According to media reports, the killing took place a few days after she accused loggers and ranchers of death-threats against rural workers. Within two or three days of the killing, three other people in the State of Pará were murdered in the area of Anapú, a rural village approximately 850 Km from Belém, Pará’s capital city.

Monday – Tuesday, 29 – 30 November 2004 Media Interviews 12:30 – 13:30, 29 November Bogor, November 24, 2004 — A meeting of some of the world’s leading forests experts in Bogor will examine the new and emerging trends shaping the future of the world’s forests including those of Indonesia. Forests are not static entities […]

21 Sept. 04 — One of Zimbabwe’s key forestry events for 2004 will be held on September 23 when the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) celebrates 10 years of forestry research in support of the forests, woodlands and people of Southern Africa. CIFOR’s research in Zimbabwe and other southern African countries is conducted in […]

Hyatt Regency Hotel, Yogyakarta, Indonesia