Archive for the Asia & SE Asia Tree News Category

• Asia: Dr. Richard Corlett covers Tropical E. Asia Ecology - June 2nd, 2009
• India: Last Rainforest in Sri Lanka needs more protection - May 9th, 2009
• Vietnam: Illegal logging in North & Central Provinces - May 9th, 2009
• Nepal: Farmers slash-burning last forests in National Parks - April 1st, 2009
• Vietnam: Forests fall to yet another gold rush in northern province of Thai Nguyen - March 31st, 2009
• Borneo: Large unknown population of Orangutans found in East Kalimantan - March 31st, 2009
• India: Despite Ban on Felling green trees they keep falling in Himachal state - March 31st, 2009
• Kashmir: Illegal deforestation in Jammu and Kashmir happening at an alarming rate - March 29th, 2009
• Nepal: Water sources in Dadeldhura district are drying up due to deforestation - March 28th, 2009
• Malaysia: Wealthiest people in the nation are the ones funding illegal logging in Kedah - March 28th, 2009
• Philippines: Haribon Foundation’s million signature campaign to restore forests, end logging & mining - March 23rd, 2009
• Malaysia: Forest Research Institute & its 80-year-old ‘man-made’ forest - March 22nd, 2009
• Japan: Imports made forest growth abundant, yet debt on planted forests outrageously high - March 21st, 2009
• Vietnam: Dac Nong Province underestimates destroyed areas & feeds protection rumors that encourages cutting frenzy - March 18th, 2009
• India: Vandana Shiva on Women’s right to water, fertile soil & the forests that produce water - March 17th, 2009
• Vietnam: Yet to be stopped is llegal logging of a rare waterfall park in Khanh Hoa province - March 15th, 2009
• China: Leading world in treeplanting means leading world in greenwashing biodiversity’s decline - March 15th, 2009
• Philippines: Raids in Infanta, Quezon, Tanay & Rizal nets lots of illegal logs and chainsaws - March 15th, 2009
• India: Uttarakhand forest officers get military equipment to stop poaching of flora and fauna - March 15th, 2009
• Malaysia: Asking for the rights of Orang Asli (aborigines) to be returned to them - March 13th, 2009
• Japan: Industry claims job growth? Training record number of poor people for poor-paying logging jobs - March 9th, 2009
• Sarawak: Gov that failed to stop illegal logging caused flooding says conscience is clear - March 8th, 2009
• Malaysia: Another 250 hectares of Sungai Jelok forest reserve lost to previous government dealmaking - March 7th, 2009
• 476 – SE Asia & Asia Tree News - March 6th, 2009
• China: Landslides following Earthquakes have massive carbon footprint - March 5th, 2009
• India: High court declares privately owned Mangroves as protected forests - March 4th, 2009
• Malaysia: Nationwide campaign to stop logging plan for Ulu Muda forest reserve - March 2nd, 2009
• Japan: Woodland Preservation buys another 296,070 sq. meters in Nagano outside Kurohime - March 2nd, 2009
• Taiwan: Despite treesit by green party leader, the last giant Songshan Camphor is cut - March 2nd, 2009
• India: Aravali forest officer transferred moments before presenting corruption evidence to high court - March 2nd, 2009
• India: K M Chinappa has been a Karnataka forest defender for 30 years - February 27th, 2009
• Kashmir: Gov promises to go after illegal loggers - February 27th, 2009
• Russia: Corrupt Primorskii Gov sells 400 logging plots in nut harvest / wildlife reserves - February 27th, 2009