21 News & Press Releases found
Wetlands International News
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New trial ensures successful planting of seedlings to restore areas in Pantanal degraded by fires
The pilot project uses the transplantation of seedlings due to a shortage in production of native seeds, necessary to restore forests around the Cuiabá River, Pantanal, that have recently been degraded by fires in the region. The actions are ...
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Technical Guideline - Building Sustainable Aquaculture through Coastal Field Schools
Meaningful participation of local stakeholders, especially local communities, is key to successfully Implementing and optimising any Building with Nature solution. In line with this principle and based on analysis of the biophysical as well as ...
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Building capacity for and with sustainable palm oil growers
With the UNFCCC COP21 going on in Paris, on the other side of the world in Bogor, Indonesia, Wetlands International and the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) are taking action to decrease greenhouse gas emissions by ...
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Indonesian Civil Society presents a Roadmap towards sustainable peatland management for pulpwood plantations
Civil society in Indonesia today presents a Roadmap towards sustainable peatland management for the Indonesian pulpwood plantation industry. The roadmap aims to stop further expansion and new developments of plantations in peatlands and promote ...
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Indonesian haze: no oil palms on peat! Revoke PT PEAK’s license NOW
Fires continue to ravage Indonesia’s peatlands, yet the government is permitting PT PEAK, a palm oil company, to destroy a valuable peat dome currently under restoration. Tell the Indonesian government to revoke PT PEAK’s license and ...
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APP struggles to meet commitment on peat-friendly pulpwood
Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), the biggest pulp and paper company in Indonesia, celebrates its 2-year anniversary of it Forest Conservation Plan today. APP has eliminated the use of natural forest fiber in its entire supply chain and ...
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Leading Manufacturers and Retailers Announce support for Palm Oil Innovation Group
Five of the world’s leading consumer goods manufacturers and retailers today announce their support to drive the transformation of their sector towards responsible palm oil production and sourcing. Ferrero, REWE Group, EDEKA, Boulder Brands ...
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Next steps for peatlands at the 12th Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil
What are the next steps for RSPO and its members in relation to palm oil and peatlands? 2013 was an important year with new Principles & Criteria (P&C ) adopted to address ‘peatsoil subsidence’ and ‘greenhouse gases’, ...
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The Netherlands doesn’t succeed in reaching target for responsable soy
The Dutch Soy Coalition (formed by eight development and environmental organisations*) finds that in 2013, only a quarter of the 2.4 metric tons of soy used in the Netherlands is responsibly produced. The social or environmental consequences of the ...
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All for forests, forests for all!
An unprecedented large group of governments, companies, NGOs and indigenous peoples groups called for action to protect and restore the world’s forests. In a declaration launched at this week’s UN climate talks in New York, targets are ...
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Indonesia steps up audits of operations in peatlands and forests
Wetlands International welcomes new commitments by the Indonesia government to strengthen law enforcement of the moratorium on new permits to develop peatlands and primary forests. Indonesia`s REDD+ agency is auditing 18 companies to check for ...
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Mobilizing Knowledge on the Soy Story at the Round Table on Responsible Soy
With the theme ‘Thinking Outside the Box’, the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Round Table (RT9) on Responsible Soy (RTRS) in Brazil from 7-8 May, aimed to capture ideas on how to introduce innovation to the world of responsible soy. ...
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Conservation Groups Launch Global Freshwater Fish BioBlitz, Inviting Citizen Scientists to Help Monitor Fish Species
The Global Freshwater Fish BioBlitz kicked off on World Wetlands Day to engage nature lovers in freshwater fish conservation. The Freshwater Fish Specialist Group (FFSG), of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Wetlands ...
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Flood Forests are the ‘banks’ storing the wealth of Mali’s Inner Niger Delta
The 38 floodplain forests of Mali’s Inner Niger Delta are very important to the economy and livelihoods of the 1.5 million people who live there. They contain much of the natural wealth of the delta and are therefore referred to locally as ...
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Tropical palm oil is much more polluting than IPCC technical committee suggests
A controversial report from a technical committee of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is under-estimating the amount of greenhouse gas emitted by palm oil grown on tropical peatlands by nearly 50%, according to NGOs. The low ...
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Towards sustainable development of palm oil
Oil palm growers, the food, cosmetics and oil industry, governments, scientists and environmental and social groups from all over the world participate this week in the 11th Annual Roundtable Meeting on Sustainable Palm Oil (RT11 RSPO). The main ...
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How to stop the sand in the Inner Niger Delta
Sobé and other villages in the Mali Inner Niger Delta are threatened by the desert`s sand. Communities are forced to rebuild their homes every two years to avoid burial by sand dunes, which are moving as a result of degradation of the ...
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Sumatran fires: hype about the symptoms, insufficient action on the disease
Sumatra, Indonesia. The health and climate impacts of large peatland and forest fires in Sumatra provide yet another harrowing reminder of the unsustainability of palm oil and pulp wood plantations on peat. Massive fires raging on the Indonesian ...
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European Parliament strengthens accounting rules for agricultural emissions
Wetlands International welcomes the European Parliament’s vote on rules for accounting for greenhouse gas emissions and removals resulting from agriculture and forestry. Emissions and removals from cropland and grazing land management will ...
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Redlines hinder REDD+ progress
The first week of COP18 is over, and so is the SBSTA – the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice. After a relatively slow start, REDD+ negotiators really started feeling the time pressure, as the closure of the week drew ...