KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo is studying a proposal to provide land to China to grow large amounts of palm for
oil production in the vast central African country, a government minister told Reuters on Thursday.

http://af.reuters.com/article/investingNews/idAFJOE66F01920100716

Jeremy Hance
mongabay.com
June 06, 2010

The government of Indonesia has named four forests which could serve as pilot projects for its conservation deal with Norway, according to the Jakarta Post. The deal, including a billion US dollar donation from Norway, is meant to help Indonesia stem rampant deforestation throughout the nation, which has pushed Indonesia to become the world's third highest greenhouse gas emitter.

http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0606-hance_pilot_forests.html

mongabay.com
June 03, 2010

Indonesia's chief economic minister said on Wednesday that the government will not revoke existing forestry licenses to develop natural forests under a billion dollar conservation deal signed last week with Norway.

"We want to keep to our targets of 40 million tons of crude palm oil," Chief Economic Minister Hatta Rajasa told Reuters. "We will not take away the existing licenses."

http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0603-indonesia_moratorium_confusion.html

In a remarkable victory for two nonprofits, the caring consumer and endangered orangutans, Nestle announced recently that it will no longer buy palm oil from companies that contribute to the destruction of rainforests. The nonprofit Forest Trust confirmed that it will work with Nestle to help the corporation rid its products of unsustainably-produced palm oil, paper and lumber products by vetting and monitoring the corporate giant's supply chain of vendors. The agreement comes after a gruesome but effective public education campaign by Greenpeace caused public outcry and pressure on Nestle.

http://theideahive.com/2010/06/good-copbad-cop-ngos-ride-herd-and-keep-corporations-honest/

mongabay.com
May 31, 2010

Indonesia will revoke existing forestry licenses to cut down natural forests under the billion dollar deal climate deal signed with Norway last week, reports Reuters.

Agus Purnomo, head of the secretariat of Indonesia's National Climate Change Council, told Sunanda Creagh of Reuters that part of the billion dollars pledged by Norway would be used to compensate palm oil developers and timber companies that would lose forest concessions under the emissions mitigation program. Compensation would come in the form of cash and land swaps in other areas.

http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0531-indonesia_forest_deal.html

Film Ratapan Sunyi di Semenanjung Kampar born from the crisis of acute peat forest destruction in Semenanjung Kampar caused by the opening of oil palm plantation and spend as Industrial Timber Plantations in Riau.

Semenanjung Kampar region includes the Siak and Pelalawan districts. peat swamp forests Semenanjung Kampar, covers 682 511 hectares spread in Siak and Pelalawan Regency.

Documentary film Ratapan Sunyi di Semenanjung Kampar a duration of 23 minutes 45 seconds, a portrait of society who are helpless in the midst of the hustle and bustle of the modern world into their lives. Film plots Nanang Sujana (Gekko Studio Bogor), this implicitly shows the macro issues in forest management in Indonesia, which requires a lot of improvement here and there.

http://www.sungaikuantan.com/2010/05/ratapan-sunyi-di-semenanjung-kampar.html