Blogposts tagged 'Riau'

Fire at our Climate Defenders Camp in Indonesia

Posted by jamie - 12 April 2010 at 3:36pm - 0 Comments

A guest post from Laura at our international office in Amsterdam which was first posted on the Climate Rescue blog

Early on Sunday a fire destroyed part of the Climate Defenders Camp in Indonesia on Riau’s Kampar Peninsula. The flames were spotted by villagers across the Kampar river in Teluk Meranti in the early hours of the morning. Luckily the camp's caretaker was not there at the time and no one was injured.

Article tagged as: climate defenders camp, forests, indonesia, kampar, riau, sumatra

From forests to ashes: fires in Indonesia

Posted by jamie - 24 February 2009 at 9:57am - 4 Comments

Some rather grim images were sent out from our picture desk yesterday. Taken on Sunday by Ardiles Rante, they show the devastation caused by fire in the peatland forests outside Pekanbaru, the capital of Riau province in Sumatra. So that's another few thousand tonnes of carbon dioxide sent up into the atmosphere, and seeing photos like these make me realise our ongoing campaign to protect these forests from the ever-expanding palm oil industry is even more essential.

Fire burns through peatland forest in Sumatra, Indonesia

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Slash and burn in the forests of Sumatra

Posted by jamie - 5 November 2008 at 3:09pm - 0 Comments

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It's been a little while since I've updated here about the Esperanza's Forests for Climate tour of Indonesia, but continue it most certainly does. For our exploits crossing from one end of the country to the other and our stop in Jakarta, catch up on the Forests for Climate blog.

But we've arrived in Sungai Pakning, a small port on the coast of Riau in Sumatra, and the Esperanza is anchored in a wide, silty channel running between the mainland and two islands, Pulau Bengkalis and Pulau Padang. The soupy water flowing gently past the ship will be down to the Siak river, the mouth of which is just a few miles south.

Article tagged as: climate change, deforestation, esperanza, forests, indonesia, palm oil, riau, sumatra

Some good news for Indonesia's rainforests

Posted by saunvedan - 19 August 2008 at 9:33am - 3 Comments

AmazonThe Governor of the province of Riau on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia has pledged to halt deforestation, which could help protect Riau's vast peatlands and forests that store 14.6 billion tonnes of carbon. Just to give you an estimate of what that figure means, it's the equivalent of an entire year's greenhouse gas emissions for the entire planet. Moreover, aside from being an important carbon store, this area is also important for biodiversity and critical for the people that depend upon these forests for their survival.

Article tagged as: deforestation, indonesia, moratorium, palm oil, peatlands, riau, rspo, sumatra
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