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Dorjee Sun, Ulu Masen and The Burning Season

Posted on 8 March 201330 January 2020

At a presentation at the 2012 meeting of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, Dorjee Sun talked briefly about his involvement in forest protection and carbon trading. “We made front page of Time magazine with our project in Indonesia”.

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Indigenous leader speaks out on Ulu Masen: “We’ve never seen anything from REDD. It’s like the wind. We can’t see it, can’t touch it”

Posted on 1 March 20131 May 2017

On 6 February 2008, Ulu Masen became the first REDD project to be validated under the Climate Community and Biodiversity Standards. Last month, five years later, it became the first REDD project to lose its CCB validation status.

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“If companies are stealing the timber, why should I be a bystander?” Notes from a visit to Ulu Masen, Aceh

Posted on 22 February 20131 May 2017

Dusun Guhanaga is a village in Aceh in an area called Gunung Hujan (Rain Mountain). The road to the village is an ex-logging road built by PT Aceh Inti Timber. When the company was awarded the HPH (Hak Pengusahaan Hutan) Forest Concession, it immediately started logging the forest outside the concession area.

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Indonesia: Governor of Aceh puts forests under threat

Posted on 13 February 201331 January 2016

In January 2013, chairman of the Aceh parliament’s spatial planning committee, told Australian journalist Michael Bachelard that a proposed new spatial plan for Aceh would reduce the total forest cover in the province from about 68% to 45%.

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“The story of REDD is just a lie,” says Ulu Masen villager

Posted on 12 June 201210 April 2015

In 2007, Dorjee Sun was going to save the rainforests, stop climate change and make some money. Five years later, even the most panglossian REDD proponent would have to admit that Sun’s plans are not going too well.

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