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• August 2006

  From August to October 2006, South East Asia was blanketed by a pall of thick, smoky haze. The pollution...

• October 2006

  On October 30, respected economist Sir Nicholas Stern delivered his 700-page report, ‘The Stern Review...

• November 2006

  As fires raged in Kalimantan, orangutan conservationist Lone Droscher Nielsen and her team worked around...

• December 2006

  In suburban Sydney, CEO of Carbon Conservation Dorjee Sun was tracking the situation in Indonesia, spark...

• January 2007

  In January 2007, a report on peatlands by Marcel Silvius of Wetlands International gained international ...

• February 2007

  “The Last Stand of the Orangutan - State of Emergency: illegal logging, fire and palm oil in Indonesia...

• February 2007

  By February, awareness of Indonesian deforestation and its impact on climate change began to snowball, a...

• February 2007

  In Jambi, Sumatra, Achmadi the farmer completed the initial stages of his harvest of the fruit from his ...

• February 2007

  In Sydney, Dorjee Sun has an important meeting with an atmospheric scientist called Professor Ron Prinn, ...

• March 2007

  On the 23rd of March Sir Nicholas Stern arrived in Jakarta, where he addressed government ministers and ...

• March 2007

  At the time of Stern’s visit, Dorjee also visited Jakarta, where he met Patrick Anderson, a strategic ...

• March 2007

  Lone’s rehabilitation centre in Kalimantan became increasingly overcrowded and she was facing a crisis...

• April 2007

  In Bali, Dorjee Sun obtained the support of three provincial governors, who subsequently signed an agre...

• April 2007

  Dorjee’s proposal was of particular interest to Aceh’s Governor Irwandi, a proud Acehnese citizen wi...

• April 2007

  In Jambi, Achmadi completed the purchase of his new land and cut down the saleable timber in preparation...

• May 2007

  In May, Dorjee followed up his meeting with the governors by travelling to Papua for further discussions...

• July 2007

  Achmadi’s brother-in-law, Hari, came into contact with WALHI through his own work with a social justic...

• July 2007

  In Jambi City, Patrick Anderson, (strategic advisor to WALHI), visited Zulkifli Nurdin, governor of Jambi...

• July 2007

  The staff at the Jambi branch of WALHI were working closely with indigenous communities living in the for...

• July 2007

  After studying the leaflet brought to him by Hari, Achmadi visited the Jambi City branch of WALHI to tal...

• July 2007

  At Nyaru Menteng, the center is suffering from financial difficulties as Lone struggles to rehabilitate ...

• August 2007

  After letting it dry for a few months, Achmadi was ready to burn the forest remnants on his new plot of ...

• September 2007

  In September, Aceh’s Governor Irwandi embarked on a five-city tour of the United States, where he conne...

• September 2007

  In the USA, Dorjee joined his ally, Irwandi, on the investment roadshow. They met with Starbucks in Seat...

• September 2007

  When Patrick Anderson from WALHI met Jambi’s Governor Zul, he mentioned the plight of thesmall-scale f...

• October 2007

  In Sydney, Dorjee Sun had dinner with atmospheric scientist Professor Ron Prinn, from the Massachusetts I...

• October 2007

  In Kalimantan, logging is underway on a massive scale. The plantations’ grasp is spreading further int...

• November 2007

  At home in Sydney, Dorjee was sleep-deprived, stressed and exhausted from his months of travelling and p...

• November 2007

  When the orangutans have been successfully rehabilitated, Lone releases them into protected forest areas...

• November 2007

  Outside Jambi, Achmadi eagerly awaited the delivery of his new seedlings from Governor Zul’s trial sus...

• December 2007

  From December 3 to 14 in Nusa Dua, Bali, the United Nations held their Framework Convention on Climate ...

• December 2007

  The hot topic at the convention was REDD: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation in Developing countries....

• December 2007

  At the Green Governors’ Gala, Dorjee brought together his Indonesian allies – Governors Irwandi and B...

• December 2007

  In another coup for the forests, Governor Irwandi and Dorjee launched Aceh Green, which will monitor Aceh...

• December 2007

  After presenting his secretly filmed evidence of injured and displaced orangutans at COP:13, Hardi obtai...

• December 2007

  For signing the Kyoto Protocol as his first act as Prime Minister, the new Australia leader Kevin Rudd r...

• December 2007

  In the closing hours of COP:13, the representatives reached an impasse, with the USA obstructing progres...

• December 2007

  With the Bali Roadmap approved with such drama, the vote for REDD was almost an anti-climax, and accepte...

• April 2008

  Only six months after their initial meeting in London, Dorjee Sun met Abyd Karmali, Merrill Lynch Global...

• July 2008

  The Garnaut Climate Change Review released its draft report on Friday, 4 July 2008. The Garnaut Climate ...

• September 2008

  Following the sub-prime mortgage crisis in the United States, stock markets in several major markets (inc...

• November 2008

  The Governors' Global Climate Summit, hosted by none other than the Governor to end all Governors: Arnol...

• April 2009

  A newly discovered species of chameleon from Tanzania was named after Dorjee Sun, CEO of Carbon Conservat...

• April 2009

  The New York Times reported that the United States Environmental Protection Agency had formally declared ...