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• Kompas online - 11 June 2009
  Title : Mengupayakan Kebangkitan untuk Perajin

  Keberadaan APKJ mungkin dalam waktu dekat belum dapat membantu perajin keluar untuk membuka pasar atau yang lainnya. Namun, APKJ dapat membantu perajin memperbaiki diri, menuju perajin yang profesional.

  Untuk itu, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) akan mendampingi perajin kecil hingga lima tahun mendatang. Pemimpin proyek CIFOR Herry Purnomo mengatakan, APKJ diharapkan dapat membantu perajin meningkatkan kualitas, membuka jaringan pemasaran, sertifikasi produk, hingga ekspor secara mandiri.

• Kompas - 9 June 2009
  Title: Perajin kecil sulit peroleh sertifikasi ekolabel

  Perajin mebel skala kecil masih sulit memperoleh sertifikasi ekolabel karena biayanya mahal. Padahal sertifikasi semakin dibutuhkan seiring permintaan pasar akan produk mebel yang ramah lingkungan dan melalui proses yang benar. Pemimpin proyek dari CIFOR Herry Purnomo juga mengakui perajin kecil sulit menyertifikasi produknya. Adanya Asosiasi Perajin Kecil Jepara diharapkan para perajin kecil dapat berkumpul dalam satu wadah. Dengan demikian, sertifikasi dapat dilakukan secara berkelompok.

• Bisnis Indonesia - 9 June 2009
  Title : Perajin kecil Jepara deklarasikan APKJ

  Sejumlah perajin kecil dari tujuh kecamatan di Jepara, pusat industri mebel berbasis kayu di Jawa Tengah, mendeklarasikan pembentukan Asosiasi Perajin Kecil Jepara (APKJ). Pemda Jepara juga memberikan dukungan terhadap APKJ dengan menyumbangkan ruangan kantor di gedung Jepara Trade and Tourism Center. "APKJ memegang peranan penting dalam menampung aspirasi ribuan perajin kecil di Jepara. Pada masa yang akan datang, mereka dapat memiliki kekuatan untuk membentuk kualitas dan harga yang terstandardisasi bagi bahan baku dan produk mebel," kata Hendro Martojo, Bupati Jepara yang menandatangani surat perjanjian bersama Center for International Forestry Research (Cifor) pada 2008. Cifor adalah lembaga penelitian kehutanan internasional yang berbasis di Bogor, memulai program 5 tahun di Jepara yang bertema Penelitian kaji-tindak mebel mahoni dan jati untuk meningkatkan efisiensi rantai nilai dan meningkatkan penghidupan, pada pertengahan tahun lalu.

• Jakarta Post - 7 June 2009
  Title: Good governance ‘key to effective REDD’

  The study, jointly conducted by researchers at IIED, Bogor-based Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the World Resource Institute (WRI), took place in forest nations including Indonesia, Vietnam, Brazil and Mexico. Funded by the Norwegian government, the study was published as delegates from about 190 countries meet in Bonn for an international conference that will last until June 12, 2009, to hammer out a new regime of emission reduction to address the climate change.

• Jakarta Post - 5 June 2009
  Title: Carbon payments in forest could preserve endanger habitat: Study

  Investing in the conservation of tropical forests in order to gain billions from carbon credits could also protect orangutans, pygmy elephants and other wildlife at risk of extinction, a report says. The study, jointly conducted by researchers from the Bogor-based Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), the University of Queensland, The Nature Conservancy and the Great Ape Trust of Iowa, was published in the peer-reviewed journal Conservation Letters.

• Jakarta Post - 5 June 2009
  Title: RI against binding emissions cuts for developing nations

  With much-awaited talks on emissions cuts underway, Indonesia has insisted any binding targets for reductions should be imposed only on developed countries, saying they are to blame for the adverse fallout from man-made climate change. The seminar was jointly organized by the French Embassy in Indonesia and, among others, WWF Indonesia, the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and Danone Aqua.

• Associated Press (AP) - 4 June 2009
  Title: Study finds potential profits in conservation

  Still, Frances Seymour, director general of the Center for International Forestry Research in Indonesia which also took part in the study, said the new data should help make the case that forest have to be part of the solution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions."Ultimately, our goal is to help fashion an agreement that will allow tropical forests to become a part of a more comprehensive climate agreement — one that will reduce emissions, as well as produce co-benefits," she said in a statement.

  Similar article appeared in Midwest Michigan, Sulekha and LA Times.

• Science Daily - 4 June 2009
  Title: Carbon Payments Help Protect Threatened Tropical Mammals

  CIFOR Director General Frances Seymour said REDD offered important win-win opportunities for climate and biodiversity protection. “Ultimately, our goal is to help fashion an agreement in Copenhagen that will allow tropical forests to become a part of a more comprehensive climate agreement – one that will reduce emissions as well as produce co-benefits,” Mr Seymour said. “There is already a good case to be made for ending the exclusion of existing forests in the next climate pact. This new evidence shows just one of the many benefits that a REDD accord could have.”

• Jakarta Globe - 4 June 2009
  Title: REDD Scheme Not Enough To Protect Forests: Telapak

  At the 8th Meeting of the Asia Forest Partnership in Bali on May 28 and 29, Puspa said that in more than 50 percent of illegal logging cases, or 326 cases, filed from 2005 to 2008, courts only handed out prison sentences of 1 to 12 months to guilty parties. Only two cases saw jail sentences of three to four years. “We still have insufficient exchange of information, facilities and technologies to combat illegal logging. So far, law enforcers have only successfully apprehended those working at the lowest level,” she said.

• Strait Times, Singapore - 2 June 2009
  Title: Forest plan controversial

  While some countries, including the United States, are pushing for a market-driven REDD, concerns over its effectiveness mean nations will likely opt for a scheme that only gradually introduces it into the market when they meet in Copenhagen in December to decide Kyoto's successor, he said. But there are catches. CIFOR (Centre for International Forestry Research) estimates it would cost 20 billion to 30 billion dollars a year to cut global deforestation by half.

• Agence France Presse - 2 June 2009
  Title: Alarm raised over forest plan to fight climate change

  However, dire predictions of systemic failure are "extremely pessimistic," said Markku Kanninen, an expert from the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) who was a member of the Nobel prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

  Similar article appeared in SpaceDaily,com, Yahoo! News, Zao Bao, Economic Times India and France 24

• Jakarta Globe - 31 May 2009
  Title: Climate Change Scientist Says Forests Have Broader Role Than REDD in Addressing Climate Change

  Talks on the role of forests in climate change should not be limited to the reduction of emissions from deforestation and degradation, a program also known as REDD, an environmental expert said on Friday. “We have a new term, REDD Plus, which is not just about reducing emissions but also relates to the roles of conservation, sustainable forest management and the enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries,” Daniel Murdiyarso, a climate change scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research (Cifor), said at the 8th Asia Forest Partnerships conference. The AFP dialogue, “REDD and Combating Illegal Logging” ended in Bali on Friday.

• Jakarta Globe - 31 May 2009
  Title: ‘Elaborate’ on Carbon Policy

  However, Teras called over the weekend for a more detailed explanation of how funds acquired from the trading scheme would be distributed. “The one thing that is very important here is to consider simple regulations, including funding issues,” Teras said, speaking at the 8th Meeting of the Asia Forest Partnership and AFP Dialogue: Redd and Combatting Illegal Logging held in Bali. “[The regulation] also needs to elaborate on the rights and obligations of the communities living in or near the forests.”

• LKBN Antara - 30 May 2009
  Title: New Focus: RI playing important role in holding peat carbon sinks

  Indonesia plays an important role in holding billions of tons peat carbon sinks which, if released, could aggravate global warming and endanger life on earth.

  Indonesia is host to 34 billion tons of peat carbon sinks, most of which are to be found in Riau province and Kalimantan. In Kalimantan, which is the world`s third largest island, there are 5,769,246 hectares of peat forests with 10.183 billion tons of carbon sinks, Daniel Murdiyarso of the Center for International Forest Research (CIFOR), said in Denpasar, Bali, on Friday.

• Jakarta Post - 30 May 2009
  Title: Big fish in illegal logging still at large

  Law enforcers have been unable to catch the big fish in illegal logging despite a decline in the number of cases, raising fears among officials of an international backlash that may threaten ongoing talks on carbon trading in the forestry sector. Of 597 people convicted of illegal logging in the past two years, 326 were sentenced to less than a year in jail and 128 to less than two years. Forest experts gathered in Bali on Friday to discuss the link between tackling illegal logging and implementing carbon reduction programs from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD). The annual forest conference organized by the Asia Forest Partnership (AFP) has focused on illegal logging issues since 2002.

• LKBN Antara - 30 May 2009
  Title: Indonesia host tp 34 billion tons of peat carbon sinks

  Indonesia is host to 34 billion tons of peat carbon sinks, most of which are to be found in Riau province and Kalimantan, a senior researcher said. In Kalimantan, which is the world`s third largest island, there are 5,769,246 hectares of peat forests with 10.183 billion tons of carbon sinks, Daniel Murdiyarso of the Center for International Forest Research (CIFOR), said here on Friday.

• Jakarta Post - 30 May 2009
  Title; `REDD plus' to give RI double benefits

  Originally REDD schemes offered incentives to companies in an attempt to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation of forest areas. "It is very likely the REDD-plus will be agreed upon at the Copenhagen meeting," Daniel Murdiyarso, a climate expert from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), told a conference in Bali on Friday. "There is a general consensus that REDD activities are to be broadened."

• Jakarta Post - 29 May 2009
  Title: REDD scheme should be simple, conference proposes

  Any carbon trading scheme developed to incorporate forests should be simple to encourage countries to protect these threatened areas and help cut emissions, an international forest conference said Thursday. Forestry Minister M.S. Kaban said any scheme aimed at reducing emissions created by deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) should avoid the failures of the Kyoto Protocol. The two-day conference was organized by the Asia Forestry Partnership (AFP) and Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) to explore the REDD opportunities for reducing illegal logging.

• Jakarta Post - 29 May 2009
  Title: RI could harvest $15 billion financial incentives annually from REDD : expert

  Indonesia could harvest about US$15 billion (Rp 150 trillion) of financial incentives per year from carbon trading through avoiding forest emissions, a climate expert said. Climate researcher from the Center for International Forestry Research (Cifor) Daniel Murdiyarso said that the implementation of reducing emission from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) scheme would give double benefits to Indonesia of financial incentives and curbing long standing illegal logging.

• Jakarta Globe - 29 May 2009
  Title: Scientist Says REDD Is Doomed By Illegal Logging

  Illegal logging will undermine any government efforts to reduce emissions from forest degradation and deforestation, an initiative known as REDD, a senior scientist says. Daniel Murdiyarso, a climate change scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research (Cifor), said on Thursday that the success or failure of REDD was tied to illegal logging. “In REDD, both legal and illegal logging must be considered in calculating the effectiveness of emissions reductions,” he said. “So, discussions on both issues are very strategic.” An open forum, titled “REDD and Combating Illegal Logging,” will be the main discussion platform at the 8th Meeting of the Asia Forest Partnerships, to be held in Bali on May 28 and 29.

• Kompas Online - 29 May 2009
  Title: Cadangan Gambut Indonesia Capai 34 Gigaton

  Indonesia memiliki cadangan karbon gambut nasional sebanyak 34 gigaton dan terbanyak di Provinsi Riau dan Pulau Kalimantan. Demikian dikatakan Peneliti Senior Pusat Penelitian Kehutanan Internasional (CIFOR), Daniel Murdiyarso. "Sebut saja cadangan, bagian dari cadangan yang terlepas menjadi emisi gas rumah kaca dengan laju sekitar 2,4 gigaton per tahun. Bisa dibayangkan peran besar hutan gambut tropis Indonesia," katanya di Nusa Dua, Bali, Jumat (29/5). Murdiyarso berada di Bali sebagai salah satu pembicara dalam Kemitraan Kehutanan Asia (AFP) Kedelapan, di Bali.

• Reuters - 29 May 2009
  Title: Forest-CO2 scheme will draw organized crime: Interpol

  Organized crime syndicates are eyeing the nascent forest carbon credit industry as a potentially lucrative new opportunity for fraud, an Interpol environmental crime official said on Friday. "If you are going to trade any commodity on the open market, you are creating a profit and loss situation. There will be fraudulent trading of carbon credits," he told Reuters in an interview at a forestry conference in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian island of Bali.

• Jakarta Post - 28 May 2009
  Title : Kaban calls for workable mechanism of REDD

  "I hope that REDD would in the end come differently as a successful mechanism, and help show that forest offers solution to the climate change, rather than being source of problem," he told international forest meeting on illegal logging and REDD in Bali on Thursday.

• Jakarta Post - 28 May 2009
  Title : Illegal logging sharply declines in Indonesia : Minister

  Indonesian Minister of Forestry MS Kaban claims that illegal logging cases have continued to decline across the archipelago in the last four years because of the decrease in large-scale illegal logging thanks to intensive law enforcement. "Our data shows a decline of illegal logging cases, especially those of larger scale," Kaban told a forest conference in Bali on Thursday.

• Jakarta Post - 27 May 2009
  Title : Forest experts to discuss illegal logging and REDD

  "This conference is very important because we will be discussing the intersection of two issues: The need to fight forest crimes and the need to find workable mechanisms for REDD," Frances Seymour, Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), told The Jakarta Post on Wednesday. The conference was organized jointly by the Asia Forest Partnership (AFP) and CIFOR.

• LKBN Antara - 26 May 2009
  Title : AFP BAHAS PENGURANGAN GRK DAN PENEBANGAN LIAR

  Pertemuan Kemitraan Kehutanan Asia (AFP) yang akan dihadiri lebih dari 270 peserta dari 50 negara di Nusa Dua, Bali akan membahas penebangan hutan secara ilegal dan upaya lebih nyata dari pemberantasan penebangan itu untuk mengurangi emisi gas rumah kaca (GRK). Menurut Koordinator Komunikasi Regional CIFOR, Yani Saloh, di Nusa Dua, Bali, Selasa petang, pertemuan Kemitraan Kehutanan Asia itu akan dilaksanakan pada 27 hingga 29 Mei mendatang dengan menghadirkan banyak pembicara kunci, di antaranya Menteri Kehutanan Indonesia, MS Kaban, dan ahli senior CIFOR, Daniel Murdiyanto.

• LKBN Antara - 26 May 2009
  Title : CIFOR: Penyebab Deforestasi Justru dari Luar Kehutanan

  Direktur Pusat Riset Internasional Kehutanan (CIFOR), Frances Seymour, menyatakan, penyebab perusakan hutan di seluruh dunia kebanyakan justru berasal dari pihak di luar kehutanan. Dalam surat elektronikanya kepada ANTARA, di Nusa Dua, Bali, Selasa, Seymour menyatakan, hal itu disampaikan setelah dia berbicara soal perusakan hutan di seluruh dunia di depan Sidang Komite Kehutanan FAO beberapa waktu lalu.

• Romandie News - 22 April 2009
  Title : Réchauffement climatique: conférence à Copenhague sur les forêts du monde

  Cette conférence, "Forest Day 3", aura lieu le 13 décembre, en marge du sommet mondial sur le climat qui s'ouvre le même jour dans la capitale danoise. Cette conférence sera organisée conjointement avec le Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), une organisation scientifique mondiale, et d'autres organisations internationales.

• VOA News - 7 April 2009
  Title : Zambia Abuzz With Plans for Increasing Honey Production

  Authorities say current forestry policy is supposed to make resources available for bee keeping and honey making. But they say the policy is outdated and the Department of Forestry is working with the Center for International Forestry Research, or CIFOR, to come up with new guidelines. Dr. Crispen Marunda is CIFOR's regional coordinator for Eastern and Southern Africa. He says the present day beekeeping industry is loosely organized and that there are no legal or legislative structures to monitor or control it.

• Alagoas em temporeal - 4 April 2009
  Title : Carbono de florestas esbarra em caos fundiário

  O trabalho foi coordenado pelo pesquisador Sven Wunder, do Centro Internacional de Pesquisa Florestal (Cifor), com sede na Indonésia. À Folha, ele disse que, apesar dos esforços governamentais, a situação fundiária amazônica ainda é "bastante caótica".

  The story also release in Folha

• Bistandsaktuelt - 3 April 2009
  Title : De siste skogvoktere. Norske skogmilliarder skal sikre regnskogen i konfliktfylte Amazonas

  Indianernes tradisjonelle levesett påvirker miljøet minimalt sammenlignet med de hvite bosetternes fremferd. Forsker Sven Wunder i Senter for internasjonale skogstudier (CIFOR) peker på at de to kulturene innebærer ulike tenkesett, der det for nybyggere gjelder å rydde jord og plassere ut kyr så fort som mulig for å vise at jorda er deres. Han mener at den viktigste drivkraften bak avskogingen i Pará er de mange kvegbøndene. Tømmerhuggerne er bare fortroppen som lager de første veiene i de jomfruelige områdene, og slik åpner skogområdene for at de store ranchene kan flytte etter. Brasil er nå verdens største kjøtteksportør, samtidig som det lokale kjøttinntaket har gått kraftig opp. Presset på skogene bare øker.

• AgroIndonesia - 1 April 2009
  Title : Skema REDD di Simpang Jalan

  Hal senada juga dinyatakan oleh pakar perubahan iklim dari Pusat Penelitian Kehutanan Internasional (Cifor) Daniel Mudyarso. Menurut dia, skema REDD jangan hanya ditujukan untuk mengurangi emisi dari deforestasi dan degradasi hutan saja. Melainkan juga secara komprehensif harus diarahkan untuk mencapai tujuan yang lebih hakiki yaitu pengelolaan hutan lestari dan peningkatan kesejahteraan masyarakat. “REDD harus memiliki maksud yang lebih mendasar dalam kaitannya dengan tata kelola kehutanan yang baik,” kata dia.

• Mongabay.com - 1 April 2009
  Title : Revolutionary new theory overturns modern meteorology with claim that forests move rain

  According to the Murdiyarso and Sheil's paper, conventional theories not only don't explain the connection between forests and rainfall, they have yet to explain fully the actual production of rain across regions. In fact, current understanding "offers no clear explanation for how flat lowlands in continental interiors maintain wet climates," write Murdiyarso and Sheil, for example the Amazonian interior or the Congo. If one employs only conventional theories that "precipitation should decrease exponentially with distance from the oceans," all the continents would look like diminishing green spirals from space, with the landscape turning browner and drier closer to the center.

• New Scientist - 1 April 2009
  Title : Rainforests may pump winds worldwide

  Doug Sheil and his co-author Daniel Murdiyarso underline the importance of the idea. "Conventional models typically predict a 20 to 30 per cent decline in rainfall after deforestation," Sheil says. "Makarieva and Gorshkov suggest even localised clearing might ultimately switch entire continental climates from wet to arid, with rainfall declining by more than 95 per cent."

• CNBC - 1 April 2009
  Title : WWF Announces Global Partnership for Measuring, Monitoring, Managing Carbon "Carbon Benefits Project" Will Help Ensure Poor, Vulnerable Countries Reap Rewards of Carbon Sequestration

  World Wildlife Fund today announced a partnership with Michigan State University, the World Agroforestry Center, and the Center of International Forestry Research to develop an innovative system for measuring, monitoring, and managing carbon in a diverse range of landscapes. The partnership, part of the Global Environment Facility and United Nations Environment Programme's Carbon Benefits Project, will help enable some of the world's poorest people in the most vulnerable places to obtain the benefits of carbon sequestration.

  The Carbon Benefits Project (CBP) is an innovative solution to a persistent problem: how to measure terrestrial carbon, particularly on complex landscapes.

• Die Presse - 22 March 2009
  Title : Afrikas neue Lehensherren

  Oft verlieren gerade die Kleinbauern ihre Rechte, warnt die IFAD. „In Indonesien hat der Streit über Landbesitz zu Konflikten, Einschüchterung, Verhaftungen, Folter und Todesopfern geführt“, klagt ein Bericht des Center for International Forestry Research.

• Salva le Foreste - 16 March 2009
  Title : La ricetta della Fao: moltiplicare le piantagioni. Ai danni delle foreste naturali?

  Il Centro Internazionale per la Ricerca Forestale (CIFOR) conferma: "ci sono ben poche prove circa la capacità delle piantagioni di legno nell'alleviare in qualche modo la pressione sulle foreste naturali". In realtà avviene il contrario: le piantagioni sono uno dei motori della deforestazione, come nel caso di Brasile e Indonesia. La stessa Fao ammette che la distruzione delle foreste procede al ritmo allarmante di 13 milioni di ettari l'anno, ossia non accenna a calare. E questo avviene anche a causa dell'espansione delle piantagioni.

• Wissenschaft aktuell Nachrichtendienst - 12 March 2009
  Title : Rettungsschirm für Regenwälder?

  "Ohne REDD ist die [2007 von der EU] anvisierte Begrenzung der Erwärmung um zwei Grad nicht einzuhalten", sagt Frances Seymour vom Internationalen Waldforschungszentrum CIFOR in Bogor, Indonesien. Sie leitete die gut besuchte REDD-Tagung auf der Kopenhagener Konferenz. Verlust und Schädigung von Regenwaldflächen führen nach Schätzungen des Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change zu etwa 20 Prozent der globalen Treibhausgasemissionen.

  The story also released in Extreme News

• Jakarta Post - 11 March 2009
  Title: Farmers allowed to tap pine trees in park

  The management of the Gunung Halimun Salak National Park in Bogor will allow local farmers to tap pine trees as a way to minimize destruction in the conservation park. "We have also involved CIFOR *Center for International Forestry Research* to monitor the activities for six months and to research the tapping spots," Bambang told The Jakarta Post.

• Le Mali en ligne - 11 March 2009
  Title : Forest trees getting bigger, absorbing more carbon

  An international team of scientists, including researchers from the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), has discovered that rain forest trees are getting bigger, storing more carbon from the atmosphere and slowing climate change. According to the findings, tropical trees in undisturbed forests around the world are absorbing nearly a fifth of the carbon-dioxide (C02) released by burning fossil fuels. That is significantly more than the greenhouse gas emissio ns produced by the world’s transport sector.

  Similar article appeared in UG Pulse

• Nhân Dân - 5 March 2009
  Title : Đặt con người làm trung tâm để bảo tồn rừng

  Hoi th=o dien ra ba ngày, do C0c Lâm nghiep, Bo Nông nghiep và Phát trien nông thôn, To ch^c nghiên c^u Nông lâm thê giIi (ICRAF), Trung tâm nghiên c^u Lâm nghiep quôc tê (CIFOR) và .ôi tác ho trU ngành lâm

  nghiep (FSSP) to ch^c, hoi t0 nh\ng nhà qu=n l., chuyên gia trong nưIc và thê giIi vê lĩnh vSc b=o tôn và phát trien rDng nham trao ñoi kinh nghiem vê nh\ng phương th^c tiêp can mIi.

• ThienNhien.Net (Man and Nature) – 4 March 2009
  Title : Hội thảo Quốc gia “Gắn kết bảo tồn rừng, phát triển kinh tế và xóa đói giảm nghèo

  Hoi th_o là mot phân c_a d_ án “B_o Tôn và Phát Trien t_i lưu v_c sông Mekong” c_a CIFOR và d_ án “ðên ñáp, s_d_ng và chia s ñâu tư trong Chi tr_ các d_ch v_ môi trư_ng vì ngư_i nghèo – RUPES II” c_a
  ICRAF.

• Le Courrier du Vietnam - 5 March 2009
  Title : Lier protection des forêts et lutte contre la pauvreté

  Les liens entre la lutte contre la pauvreté et la protection des forêts sont si importants que le Vietnam compte reboiser 43% de sa superficie d'ici 2010, a souligné Hua Duc Nhi, vice-ministre de l'Agriculture et du Développement rural lors d'un colloque national de 3 jours à Hanoi qui prend fin aujourd'hui. M. Nhi a estimé qu'il était évident que la conservation et le développement des forêts contribueraient à atténuer les effets négatifs du changement climatique et de la dégradation de l'environnement. D'après lui, 85% des réserves naturelles du pays se trouvent dans des régions pauvres. Placé sous le thème "Lier protection des forêts, développement économique et réduction de la pauvreté - défis et méthodes", ce colloque est organisé par le Centre international de recherche en agroforesterie (ICRAF), le Centre international de recherche sur les forêts (CIFOR) et le Programme de soutien au secteur forestier (FSSP).

• Jakarta Globe - 28 February 2009
  Title : Four Tigers Killed in Riau This Month

  Krystof Obidzinski of the Center for International Forestry Research said a lot of Indonesians got into the black market timber business during the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis. “Significant numbers of people are being put out of work already, so we will have to wait and see what impact that will have for illegal logging,” he said.

• Australian Associated Press (AAP) - 26 February 2009
  Title : Tigers killing loggers, but losing battle for survival

  Krystof Obidzinski, policy scientist with the Centre for International Forestry Research, says a lot of Indonesians got into the business when the Asian financial crisis hit in the 1990s. "Significant numbers of people are being put out of work already, so we will have to wait and see what impact that will have for illegal logging," he said. When President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono took office, the Indonesian government stepped up the fight against illegal logging. But Obidzinski says there have been very few convictions and very little money or timber recovered. "If we look at those indicators, it's a bit iffy, a bit so so, not very impressive." And Sumatran tigers have to contend with more than destruction of their habitat.

• The story also released in Live News

  Mother Jones Magazine, USA - 26 February 2009
  Title : Slash and burn : how biofuels could destroy the planet even faster than petroleum

  My last stop in Indonesia is the Center for International Forestry Research, a serene, wooded compound where more than 100 top scientists are working out ways to protect the world's forests and their peoples. Researcher Herry Purnomo is part of an international team that has devised a plan to pay developing countries to leave the trees standing. Known as the Reducing Emissions From Deforestation and Degradation initiative, the program is projected to cost a mere $12 billion annually worldwide—not bad considering that the US government has spent $126 billion on post-Katrina reconstruction. But international agencies and Western governments have promised only $1 billion so far—"nowhere near what there needs to be," Purnomo says with frustration.

• Jakarta Post - 25 February 2009
  Title : Carbon absorbing tropical forests a potential gold mine

  Indonesia could reap huge financial benefits from carbon sales after international scientists discovered that trees in tropical forests can absorb greater levels of carbon than those in the other parts of the world. A member of the research team, Terry Sunderland from the Bogor-based Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), said that carbon up-take studies were particularly important for Indonesia ahead of the implementation of the emission reduction from deforestation and degradation (REDD) scheme, adopted at the Bali climate change meeting in December 2007.

• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - 24 February 2009
  Title : Sonst kommen wir auf keinen grünen Zweig

  "Zurzeit laufen hier in Indonesien Verhandlungen über erste REDD-Projekte an Demonstrationsstandorten. Das Interesse an REDD ist in den tropischen Ländern allgemein sehr groß", berichtet Maria Brockhaus vom Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) im indonesischen Bogor. Politisch bietet der Mechanismus erheblichen Zündstoff: Wer ist bereit, welche Summen zu bezahlen? Wie kann das Rodungsverbot vor

  Ort überhaupt durchgesetzt werden, und kommt das Geld am Ende wirklich bei denen an, die aufs Bäumefällen verzichten? Aber auch methodisch wird die Umsetzung auf keinen Fall trivial. "Grundsätzlich gibt es zwei Möglichkeiten, den Kohlenstoffbestand eines Waldes auszuweisen und zu überwachen: zum einen die Differenz des Kohlenstoffgehalts zu zwei verschiedenen Zeitpunkten, zum anderen die Bilanz des aufgenommenen und des abgegebenen Kohlenstoffs", sagt Brockhaus.

• Jakarta Post - 9 February 2009
  Title : Muhamad Walidad: Pondering the fate of black orchid

  In 2007, Uju Saharman first found the orchids that grow near the Selimbau royal cemetery complex. He knew about orchids after getting information about the plant from the NGO Riak Bumi and also from an orchid researcher at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).

• Jakarta Post - 7 February 2009
  Title : Forests ‘remain in bad shape’

  A seminar Friday concluded that forest decentralization, which granted authority to local administrations to manage their own resources, had continued to destroy forests and heighten conflict among local communities, instead of improving the forests’ condition. CIFOR expert Godwin Limber, who was also editor of the book, said that decentralization had not succeeded in promoting sustainable forest management and improve people’s welfare. “There is little improvement in terms of income of the people living around the forest. Certain groups get more than others and this causes conflicts,” he said. The book was based on the group’s 10-year field study of forest decentralization in Malinau regency, East Kalimantan.

• Media Indonesia - 27 January 2009
  Title : Tandon Air itu Mulai Bocor

  Danau Sentarum memiliki fungsi hidrologis yang vital karena berfungsi layaknya tandon (resevoir) bagi Kapuas. “Saat musim penghujan, ia menyimpan kelebihan air dari sungai dan mengalirkannya kembali pada saat kemarau,” kata peneliti dari Pusat Penelitian Kehutanan Internasional (Cifor) Yayan Indriatmoko.

• Jakarta Post - 13 January 2009
  Title : Rare Black Orchids

  The Lake Sentarum park hosts 135 wild orchid species, including the famous black orchid (Coeloyne pandurata). Uju said they learned to identify the different types after getting information about rare plants from an environmental NGO, Riak Bumi, and from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).

• Jakarta Post - 13 January 2009
  Title : Precious Kalimantan wetland losing ground

  Lake Sentarum National Park, frequently called the heart of Borneo, is the largest wetland ecosystem in Asia, covering 132,000 hectares of swamp and marsh. The park's existence is so vital that the zone has held a place on the Ramsar List of Wetlands of International Importance since 1994. An ecologist from CIFOR, Elizabeth Linda Yuliani, who has been conducting research in the park for four years, said physical changes on the park's perimeter -- its contours, topography and spatial plan -- could alter Lake Sentarum's role in the water cycle.

  She warned such changes might reduce the rate of water flow, causing more mud to accumulate, and in turn lead to declines in the fish population.

• Yahoo! News - 10 January 2008
  Title: Amazon Deforestation: Earth's Heart and Lungs Dismembered

  Splintered, charred wood litters the outskirts of an expansive ranch that lies on recently cleared land in the Brazilian Amazon.Such scenes are becoming increasingly common as large swaths of the Brazilian Amazon are being bulldozed and burned to accommodate expanding cattle ranches. Deforestation, which is dismembering the Earth's functional heart and lungs, is largely resulting from cattle ranching driven by economic incentives and demand for Brazilian beef, according to the Center for International Forestry Research.

• Jakarta Post - 5 January 2009
  Title : Disaster looms for rich Wallacea

  Long before climate change had become the hot issue it is today, British biogeographer Alfred Russel Wallace had foreseen the correlation between deforestation and environmental disaster. Daniel Murdiyarso, senior scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) based in Bogor, West Java, said that in addition to deforestation, Sulawesi had experienced changes in its land use with parts of the forest turned into oil palm plantations. Daniel said that the change in land use would affect the region faster than climate change would.

• Mongabay.com - 4 January 2009
  Title : How to save the Amazon rainforest

  Preliminary research suggests that once a framework for develops, pure economics alone may boost REDD. In areas where infrastructure is poor and carbon stores are high, REDD may offer attractive economic returns relative to conventional logging and agricultural use of forest land, especially for rural communities, which are often bypassed by industrial development of rainforests. For example, a study by CIFOR and the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) showed that Indonesia currently is seeing benefits of $0.34 per ton of CO2—mostly from agriculture. By comparison,EU carbon prices are presently more than $20 per ton.

• Asian News International (ANI) - 3 January 2009
  Title : Tropical rain forests can fight climate change better than biofuel plantations

  A new study has determined that keeping tropical rain forests intact is a better way to combat climate change than replacing them with biofuel plantations. “Conserving the existing forests is not only good for the climate as the emissions of greenhouse gases are reduced, but also generates additional benefits, such as biodiversity protection,” said Dr. Daniel Murdiyarso of the Indonesia-based Centre for International Forestry (CIFOR).