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CIFOR Media Coverage 2007
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- Cameroon Tribune - 13 Mar 2007
Title: Agroforesterie : La recherche, base du développement
Le ministre de la Recherche scientifique et de l’Innovation, Madeleine Tchuinté, a reçu hier en son cabinet, les directeurs généraux du Centre international pour la recherche en agroforesterie (ICRAF), Dennis Garrity, et du Centre international de recherche sur les forêts (CIFOR), Frances Seymour, tous deux arrivés au Cameroun en fin de semaine dernière. La rencontre annoncée comme une simple audience, s’est très vite transformée en séance de travail. Les trois parties ayant été littéralement emportées par l’importance du sujet. L’exploitation judicieuse des ressources forestières, autant pour la conservation de l’équilibre écologique du monde que pour le développement des peuples. C’est à ce défi, contradictoire pour certains, que la coopération entre le Cameroun, à travers les instituts de recherche du MINRESI, l’ICRAF et le CIFOR s’attellent depuis de nombreuses années déjà. Au cours de la rencontre d’hier, le tour de la question sur les orientations de cette vision commune de la gestion des forêts a été fait.
- Cameroon Tribune - 13 Mar 2007
Title: Akom II Population Schooled on Forest Management
The little locality played host to the CIFOR Director General, Frances Seymour, over the weekend. It was with pomp and pageantry that the people of Efoulan II, Nko’ongop in Akom II sub division of the South province, received the Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Frances Seymour, who travelled all the way from Indonesia to make a bird’s eye assessment of the implementation of the Model Forest concept in the Campo Ma’an forest reserve area.
- The Jakarta Post - 12 Mar 2007
Title: Your letter: On the greenhouse effect
C.G. Moghe is well justified in calling for a careful discussion of Indonesia's biofuel drive (The Jakarta Post, March 6), but some scientific clarification is required in the interests of informed debate. In particular, his concern about additional waste heat from burning biofuels, thus adding significantly to the greenhouse effect, is based on a misunderstanding and is therefore misleading. Waste heat is notbad as the greenhouse gases" emitted from burning fossil fuels.
- Stabroek News, Guyana - 11 Mar 2007
Title: Guyana and the Wider World: Poverty and the forestry sector Part 6
This column will conclude the discussion on the failure of the forestry sector to alleviate poverty, and introduce the subject of next week's column which will follow the supply chain to the principal destinations for Guyana's prime hardwood logs. In 2004, David Kaimowitz, then the Director General of CIFOR (Center for International Forestry Research) evocatively described the boom in imports of wood fibre into China, consequent on its 1998 partial ban on logging in natural forest and the rapid expansion of wood-using industries, mostly geared to export markets, as "the giant sucking sound of Chinese forestry imports."
- Le Quotidien Mutations - 7 Mar 2007
Title: La directrice du Cifor à Yaoundé
C'est loin du cadre luxuriant de Nkolbisson, où se trouve le siège au Cameroun du Centre international pour la recherche forestière internationale (Cifor), que sa directrice s'est entretenue avec la presse nationale. En effet, lundi 5 mars dernier autour de la piscine de l'Hôtel Djeuga de Yaoundé, Frances Seymour a indiqué que sa visite au Cameroun est la première du genre dans les bureaux régionaux d'Afrique, depuis sa nomination à la tête du Cifor en septembre 2006.
- Kompas - 30 Jan 2007
Title: Hutan, Banjir, dan Nasib Si Miskin
Hutan adalah sumber daya yang diperebutkan banyak pihak karena memiliki nilai ekonomis, ekologis, sosial dan cultural. Tidak heran jika situasi ini memicu lahirnya konflik sosial antara masyarakat lokal dan pemerintah, masyarakat dan pengusaha, serta antar masyarakat. Penelitian CIFOR menyebutkan selama tahun 1997-2003 terjadi 359 konflik di sektor kehutanan di Indonesia (Wulan dkk, 2004).
- Stabroek News, Guyana - 27 Jan 2007
Title: Letter to editor: The Forestry Commission has had an effective log tracking system for seven years
The letter gives one definition of illegal logging, but readers should know that many highly recognized international institutions such as the World Bank, the Centre for International Research in Forestry (CIFOR), the World Wide Fund for Nature and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), all have definitions of illegal logging
- Van Zorge Report - 23 Jan 2007
Title: Hazy Days
Another, even more significant, indicator of the damage caused by last year’s fires is that they gave Indonesia the dubious status as the world’s third largest emitter of CO2 behind only the United States and China. Frances Seymour, the director general of the Bogor-based Center for International Forest Research, (CIFOR), told the Report that such levels of CO2 would basically
wipeout any gains being made from the Kyoto Protocol.
- The Jakarta Post - 23 Jan 2007
Title: Signs of growing justice in forest business
You will hear similar stories across rural Indonesia. Most date from the Soeharto era, and nowadays the authorities seldom adopt such a heavy-handed approach to law enforcement. However, forest laws still discriminate against the poor, in Indonesia and many other countries. This is one of the key findings of a report published by the Bogor-based Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).
- LKBN Antara - 19 Jan 2007
Hutan Produksi Pasca Panen Lindungi Satwa Liar
Bila dikelola dengan prinsip konservasi yang baik dan terarah, hutan produksi pasca pemanenan sebenarnya dapat melindungi satwa liar, demikian sebuah studi yang dibukukan dengan judul "Hutan Pasca Pemanenan: Melindungi Satwa Liar Dalam Kegiatan Produksi di Kalimantan".
Buku yang ditulis Erich Meijaard, seorang pakar ekologi senior dari "The Nature Conservancy" dan beberapa pakar konservasi lainnya itu, kemarin, dibedah dalam diskusi yang dipandu Kapuslitbang Hutan dan Konservasi Alam Dephut, Anwar Purwotodi di Pusat Litbang Hutan dan Konservasi Alam Departemen Kehutanan Jl Gunung Batu, Kota Bogor, Jawa Barat (Jabar).
The same article appeared in Republika daily
- The Point, Indonesia - 15 Jan 2007
Preserving wildlife with sustainable forest management
When trees in a forest area are cut down, the assumption is that wildlife will be affected leading to a decrease in population. In reality that’s not always the case, though in many cases it’s true. This book presents comprehensive reviews about logging activities and their impact on wildlife based on years of research (since 1993) in Malinau district, East Kalimantan.
- Radio One - 12 January 2007
Climate change: protecting forest resources
In many parts of Africa, farming communities are already experiencing the impacts of climate change on their crop production, through longer and more frequent dry spells during the rainy season, and also trekking long distances to fetch freshwater for drinking, since streams are drying up. But climate change is also having an impact on forest resources. In West Africa, as in other parts of the continent, forests play a very important role. In Burkina Faso, for example, 80 per cent of fuel used in the home - among both urban and rural families - is firewood. Medicinal plants gathered from forests are also an essential resource in the treatment of illness, particularly among the poor. But climate change is putting the future of these resources at risk, and already people's livelihoods are being affected.So what can be done to protect forest resources against the impacts of climate change? Currently, the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) is identifying which resources are most vulnerable, and working with forest users to protect them. Johnson Nkem and Monica Idinoba are both working on the project. On a recent visit to Burkina Faso, Susanna Thorp met them, and began by asking Monica whether forest users in West Africa are aware of the impacts that climate change is having on their resources.
- Van Zorge Report - 23 January 2007
Hazy Days
Another, even more significant, indicator of the damage caused by last year’s fires is that they gave Indonesia the dubious status as the world’s third largest emitter of CO2 behind only the United States and China. Frances Seymour, the director general of the Bogor-based Center for International Forest Research, (CIFOR), told the Report that such levels of CO2 would basically wipeout any gains being made from the Kyoto Protocol. “From a political perspective it is important for them to be seen taking this problem seriously. This is a great opportunity for Indonesia to say we have the right policy framework in place but we need the funding forimplementation,” Seymour said. While she thinks that it won’t be possible to have a whole new regime in place by December, she maintains that Indonesia can make some concrete moves in the near term to show that it is determined to tackle the problem.
- Jakarta Post -- 23 January 2007
Opinion News, Signs of growing justice in forest business
Most date from the Soeharto era, and nowadays the authorities seldom adopt such a heavy-handed approach to law enforcement. However, forest laws still discriminate against the poor, in Indonesia and many other countries. This is one of the key findings of a report published by the Bogor-based Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). A series of agreements have recently begun to redefine the way governments tackle illegal logging, and most promote better law enforcement. In principle, suggests Marcus Colchester, co-author of Justice in the Forest, this makes sense: Illegal logging accounts for over half the timber harvest in Amazonia, and even more in Indonesia. Illegal logging is leading to massive losses of biodiversity and it deprives governments of billions of dollar of revenue. It also destroys the resources the rural poor need for their survival.
- LKBN Antara - 19 January 2007
Hutan Produksi Pasca Panen Lindungi Satwa Liar
Bila dikelola dengan prinsip konservasi yang baik dan terarah, hutan produksi pasca pemanenan sebenarnya dapat melindungi satwa liar, demikian sebuah studi yang dibukukan dengan judul "Hutan Pasca Pemanenan: Melindungi Satwa Liar Dalam Kegiatan Produksi di Kalimantan". Dalam ringkasan eksekutif penelitian itu disebutkan bahwa deforestasi, degradasi hutan, dan perburuan memberikan dampak yang semakin meningkat dan mengancam berbagai spesies satwa liar di Kalimantan. Pemerintah Indonesia, telah berupaya sekuat mungkin untuk mengendalikan permasalahan dimaksud. Upaya itu, diwujudkan dalam serangkaian peraturan dan perundangan serta kesepakatan internasional mengenai hidupan liar. Namun, meskipun tindakan yang nyata dirasakan sangat mendesak, pencapaian tujuan konservasi masih menghadapi berbagai tantangan.
- The Point -- 15 Jan 2007
Book Review - Preserving Wildlife with Sustainable Forest Management
When trees in a forest area are cut down, the assumption is that wildlife will be affected leading to a decrease in population. In reality that's not always the case, though in many cases it's true. This book presents comprehensive reviews about logging activities and their impact on wildlife based on years of research (since 1993) in Malinau district, East Kalimantan
- Kompas - January 13, 2007
Hutan Dihancurkan, Bencana Didapat
Pada awal pemerintahannya, Yudhoyono dan Departemen Kehutanan (Dephut) menempatkan pemberantasan pembalakan hutan sebagai salah satu prioritas utama kebijakan di bidang kehutanan. Sayang, komitmen Yudhoyono itu tidak didukung oleh aparat penegak hukum. Sehingga, yang terjadi laju deforestasi justru terus mengalami peningkatan, mencapai 2,8 juta hektar per tahun, tercepat di dunia. Ini lebih parah dari era Soeharto yang hanya 1,7 juta hektar per tahun. Kalangan kalangan LSM sendiri yakin, angkanya jauh lebih besar dari 2,8 juta hektar. Penebangan liar bukan hanya terjadi di lokasi bekas areal tebangan hak pengusahaan hutan (HPH), tetapi sudah menjarah ke hampir semua kawasan konservasi yang ada di Indonesia. Menurut Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), epidemi pembalakan hutan juga sulit diberantas karena didukung penyokong dana (cukong) yang beroperasi seperti institusi kejahatan terorganisasi dan sindikat internasional yang tak jarang didukung institusi pemerintahan sejumlah negara.
- Jakarta Post -- 12 Jan 2007
Life after logging: Reconcilling wildlife conservation and production forestry in Indonesian Borneo
Environmental groups The Nature Conservancy Indonesia and CIFOR launch on Dec.21 a book title "Life after logging: Reconcilling wildlife conservation and production forestry in Indonesian Borneo. Two of the book's authors, Douglas Sheil of CIFOR and Erik Meijaard of TNC led a discussion on the book at ak.'sa.ra bookstore in Kemang, South Jakarta.
- Harian Terbit -- 10 Jan 2007
Hutan dikikis, fungsi hayati pun menghilang
BANYAK hutan ditebang. Yang menjadi korban bukan saja ekosistem di sekitar hutan, tapi juga manusia yang tinggal tak jauh dari hutan itu. Tak ada yang berubah, meski kegiatan penebangan hutan dan dampaknya begitu marak diberitakan. Begitulah nasib 'hutan pasca pemanenan'. Hutan hujan tropis merupakan ekosistem daratan yang paling kaya akan keragaman jenisnya di bumi. Namun dengan adanya kegiatan penebangan kayu, pertanian dan pemanfaatan hutan lainnya, luas hutan tropis ini menjadi berkurang dengan laju sekitar 12 juta ha (sama dengan luas Yunani) dalam setahunnya.
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