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JAKARTA, Indonesia, Feb. 28 / CSRwire / - The Tropical Landscapes Finance Facility (TLFF) today announced its inaugural transaction, a landmark US$ 95 million Sustainability Bond to help finance a sustainable natural rubber plantation on heavily degraded land in two provinces in Indonesia.

The main Indian immigration came during the nineteenth century, when indentured Indian laborers came to work on the rubber plantations, and now the population of Singapore is about six and a half percent Indian.

Instead of maple syrup, i poured in hill honey sourced from my neighbour's rubber plantation in Kerala; the bananas were grown on our farm and the brown sugar was replaced with powdered jaggery (unrefined cane sugar)... i added some orange rind and left out the cinnamon...

Mono - cropping exposes the soil surface allowing faster transpiration rate and reducing moisture, in the context of rubber plantations the rubber tappers suffered most since there is a significant reduction of moisture there is a dramatic decrease in sap supply of rubber trees.»

There is a general sense that cocoa production is not profitable enough hence the decision by chiefs to rather turn the lands over to rubber plantation companies.

His body was found at a rubber plantation in Okurekpo community after he was abducted by suspected gunmen sometime in march.

GREL in a statement also dispelled reports that it has destroyed some cocoa farms in those regions to make way for rubber plantations.

«At one time, Henry Ford was investing in rubber plantations in South America,» he says.

The plantation experiment set in motion by the British was intended to help make the best use of the colony of Malaya's (as Malaysia was known under British rule) timber resources and was also instructive in the development of rubber plantations that were spreading across the region to fuel the booming new automobile industry.

As a result, Fox says that Chinese investors have been able to move in and secure sometimes questionable deals that allow them to develop rubber plantations on lands once populated by leopards, monkeys and tigers.

In Indonesia and Malaysia, where some 85 % of the world's palm oil is produced, more than 16 million hectares of land — rainforest, peat bogs and old rubber plantations — have been taken over by oil palm, and there is no sign of the industry slowing down.

Fordlandia, a 2.5 million - acre rubber plantation in the Amazon.

For example, at one of their sites in Malaysia, a forest was being cleared to establish a rubber plantation, and progress of the clearing and the resulting land changes could be mapped quickly and updated routinely.

In 1914, new rubber plantations in Asia and Africa supplanted Amazonian rubber.

During the late 20th century their numbers were devastated by hunting and the loss of their forest habitat for logging and rubber plantations.

Mostly Bs: The purist An aversion to toxins in your body, fear for rubber plantations in South - East Asia and a belief that sperm - have - rights - too is all well and good but it doesn't leave many options open to stopping babies.

Vietnam, 1953: Linh (Kate Nhung), a poor, orphaned woman, finds employment as a housemaid in a crumbling rubber plantation presided over by the emotionally fragile French officer Sebastien Laurent (Jean - Michel Richaud).

That's the job of the three leads in this deliciously humid love triangle, as rubber plantation manager Clark Gable is caught between randy hooker Jean Harlow (of course) and buttoned - up, married Mary Astor just as the rains begin to fall.

Red Dust (Warner Archive), the 1932 jungle melodrama starring Clark Gable as a rubber plantation foreman in East Asia and Jean Harlow as the street smart showgirl who takes a powder from «Say - gone» (as they call the future Vietnamese city of Saigon) and lands upriver in his primitive plantation manor, is as sexy, frank, and grown - up as pre-code cinema gets.

Kate Nhung stars as Linh, and she works at a crumbling rubber plantation run by a French officer.

During the 1920s, Henry Ford bought land in Brazil's Amazon River basin, hoping to turn it into a rubber plantation that would supply his car business and create an idyllic community.

During the 1920s, Ford bought land in Brazil's Amazon River basin, hoping to turn it into a rubber plantation that would supply his car...

With this fund, investors can gain exposure to the some of the very conservative and strong Malaysian banks, rubber plantation companies and Genting, one of the top Malaysian companies with interests in casino operations among others.

You may opt to horseback ride through a rubber plantation, explore San Felipe fort, take the morning monkey kayak tour, relax in the thermal springs, or hike through the jungle - strewn trails in the Chocón - Machacas Natural Reserve area.

Opt to visit the coastal town of Livingston by boat, go for a swim in a natural hot waterfall, take a sunrise kayak to visit groups of noisy howler monkeys, or take a horseback ride through the rubber plantations combined with a visit to the Shaman Tower.

Two hundred miles east of this giddying street, near the Cambodian border, lies the small island of Koh Kood, home to rainforest, coconut and rubber plantations, sleepy fishing villages, and fewer than 2,000 people.

Then jump in tricycle tuk - tuks to explore local communities and rural industries, including a rubber plantation.

Take your seat on a tricycle tuk - tuk to be whisked through villages, rice fields, and rubber plantations.

Later we see palmtrees, banana trees, rubber plantations and many fresh - green paddies with now and then bright white herons.

The vegetation change from tropical profusion to gentle sprawling rubber plantations, fragrant spice gardens, to cool emerald hills carpeted with the world famous Ceylon Tea.

Visit a rubber plantation & plantation house.

The surrounding countryside is a tropical paradise of rice paddies, rubber plantations and coconut groves.

Trail: You can park your car or motorbike in the rubber plantation near the waterfall and take a 15 - minute walk.

It looks promising at first, a tarmac road through coconut groves and rubber plantations leads all the way to the small parking area.

Take the abandoned road and then turn off after a clearing where you'll probably see a hand written sign and dirt track through a rubber plantation.

If you're heading out of Phuket by car you may want to spend several days exploring the region, with its rubber plantations and bizarre landscapes.

Iquitos provided a gateway to the rainforest where rubber barons who owned rubber plantations could base themselves and orchestrate the harvest and distribution of natural rubber.

A little further south, «Sai Khao Inn» which is tucked away down a narrow lane opposite BanPu Resort, also has good value, quiet AC bungalows and rooms up against a hillside rubber plantation.

on the back of a gentle, majestic Asian Elephant, through the jungle across palm and rubber plantations, and up Naga Mountain, offering panoramic vistas

Inkaterra Hacienda Concepcion is located on what was once a cocoa and rubber plantation.

It features the premiere of a new film Fordlandia (2014), shot in an abandoned city and rubber plantation built in the Amazon in the 1920s by Henry Ford.

A formative experience for Fragoso was the six years he spent developing a rubber plantation in the state of Bahia.

Shooshie Sulaiman is researching and creating a symbolic gesture of a rubber plantation through nine rubber trees.

While consumer awareness and sustainability programs for palm oil have come to the attention of the public, rubber plantations have been coasting under the radar.

«Protected areas have already been lost to rubber plantations.

«There may be ways to integrate biodiversity into rubber plantation landscapes that should be researched and put into practice, and at the very least, companies that convert legally protected forests and protected species habitats to rubber should face restrictions to market access through a sustainability certification,» says Warren - Thomas.

Some of the last Sumatran elephants roam the forest of Sepintun — a habitat that is being trashed for oil palm, pulp and rubber plantations.

And Marc Ona, the 2009 recipient from Gabon, is facing the possibility of prison for publicly speaking out on the linkage between environmental destruction and governmental corruption, particularly in land giveaways for oil palm and rubber plantations.

A new $ 95 million sustainability bond has been announced to help finance a natural rubber plantation in Indonesia.

Apparently, the case focused upon Mr. Ona having spoken publicly about the Gabon government's role in providing industry with land for palm oil and rubber plantations.