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WRI, NewPage Launch Partnership to Protect Indonesian Forests

February 5, 2009
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C. and MIAMISBURG, OHIO

The World Resources Institute (WRI) and NewPage Corporation today announce a partnership to protect forests in Indonesia. NewPage will substantially fund WRI’s “Project POTICO” (Palm Oil, Timber, Carbon Offsets), an initiative to combat illegal logging and preserve virgin rainforests in Indonesia by diverting new oil palm plantations to degraded lands.

Project POTICO: Sustainable Palm Oil on Low Carbon Degraded Land

Supporting sustainable palm oil production on low-carbon degraded land and improved forest management in Indonesia.

Degraded land in West Kalimantan. Credit: Sekala

Painting the Global Picture of Tree Cover Change: Tree Cover Loss in the Humid Tropics

Stephen Adam, Susan Minnemeyer, Matthew Hansen (SDSU), Peter Potapov (SDSU), Kyle Pittman (SDSU)

May, 2007

This is the first in a series of WRI posters on tree cover change across the globe focuses on tropical hot spots in Brazil, Cambodia, Central Africa, and Indonesia.

Making the Links Between Biofuels and Forests

By Fred Stolle on April 30, 2007

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The State of the Forest: Indonesia

Charles Victor Barber, Emily Matthews, David Brown, Timothy H. Brown, Lisa Curran, Catherine Plume

February, 2002

A comprehensive, map-based analysis of the scale and pace of change affecting Indonesia’s forests and the forces and actors that are driving deforestation – turning Indonesia from a forest-rich country to a forest-poor country.

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