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... a peaceful gathering to highlight civil society concerns about the World Oceans Conference (WOC), and the Coral Triangle Initiative ... crisis. 1 The groups are also concerned about a proposed scheme to link carbon markets to the oceans, which is being ...

Story - carolyn - 12/06/2010 - 14:57 - 0 attachments

... was too late. The timber and plantation bosses too, went about their business as usual, clearing the land in the cheapest way they knew ... to deal with a deepening currency crisis and went about its more mundane political business. The efforts that were made to ...

Story - Anonymous - 12/20/2011 - 15:24 - 0 attachments

... by Congress delegates at the end of a week of discussions about issues facing indigenous peoples. Down to ... by Congress delegates at the end of a week of discussions about issues facing indigenous peoples. Long before Indonesia became a ...

Story - Anonymous - 12/20/2011 - 15:22 - 0 attachments

... all members of TIAP, were so fulsome in their assertions about BP's reception in Bintuni Bay. Reverend Herman Saud, the panel's only Papuan member, talked about jealousies amongst the local people, the risk of those feelings being ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:10 - 0 attachments

... credits for trade on international markets. Decisions about these developments will very probably be made over the heads of the ... untouched 3 . The latest schemes being talked about for Papua are a major expansion in oil palm plantations and setting aside ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:10 - 0 attachments

... on their people): under regional autonomy, decision-making about oil and gas remains firmly under central government control. ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:20 - 0 attachments

... logging, forest fires and water quality. He has talked about an idea to establish an alliance which mobilises people to reject ... has been shorter than most. Faced with open protests about the US bombing in Afghanistan from Muslim groups and members of her own ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:18 - 0 attachments

... secret that Bank staff have been concerned for some time about the authorities' failure to prevent deforestation within the park. An ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:17 - 0 attachments

... sap from a banana tree. The Perhutani guards did not know about this traditional method of camouflaging birding nets. They could, of ... painfully limped home, battered, bruised and bleeding. About one month later, Pasir died. 13 November 2002:  Widji, a ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:15 - 0 attachments

... - including many Papuans - felt sufficiently worried about the impacts of the project that they wrote to BP's chief executive, Lord ... said that BP and TIAP were not being open and honest about the true context of the Tangguh project. Former vice-president of BP ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:13 - 0 attachments