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Alue Dohong: Restoring peatlands, empowering communities
The Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) was established with a mission to accelerate the restoration of peatland hydrology and vegetation degraded…
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New interactive software will help measure carbon in Indonesia’s peatlands
BOGOR, Indonesia (22 November, 2012)_The governments of Indonesia and Germany have joined together to produce a set of guidelines and…
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East Kalimantan to trial new REDD+ safeguards system
BOGOR, Indonesia (14 September 2012)_ The Indonesian government plans to conduct a trial of a new system that will provide information on how…
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Indonesia Invites the Public to Give Input on REDD+ National Strategy Draft
BOGOR, Indonesia (25 August, 2011)_The Government of Indonesia, through the President’s Unit for Development Control and Monitoring (UKP4), has launched…
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Seeing REDD+ through the eyes of the Indonesian media
BOGOR, Indonesia (24 August 2011)_The concept of REDD+, a mechanism that gives incentives for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest…
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Creating alternative livelihoods: REDD+ pilot projects encourage locals to protect forests
PALANGKA RAYA, Indonesia (17 August 2011)_In a country where more than 60 percent of emissions come from deforestation, forest degradation…
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A new mangrove management strategy?
BALI, Indonesia (28 April, 2011)_Local communities on Nusa Penida and Lembongan in Bali are fighting back to save their wetlands…
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The challenges in communicating technical research
BALI, Indonesia (25 April, 2011)_Breaking down the complexities of scientific research into digestible chunks is a difficult job for researchers…
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Local Chief Elections and Deforestation
JAKARTA, Indonesia (March 17, 2011) _ Deforestation contributes almost a fifth of global greenhouse gases emissions and has been identified…
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