Sentences with phrase «natural rubber plantation»
A new $ 95 million sustainability bond has been announced to help finance a natural rubber plantation in Indonesia.
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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.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
Located on the beautiful island of Koh Mak, Bamboo Hideaway is a cosy, boutique style resort built in an aging rubber tree plantation using natural materials.
Lead researcher Eleanor Warren - Thomas, from UEA's School of Environmental Sciences, explains that the tire industry consumes 70 percent of all natural rubber grown, and rising demand for tires is behind the plantation boom and subsequent threat to forests.
The Sleep On Latex toppers are made with 100 % natural latex, sourced from rubber tree plantations in Sri Lanka, which is then processed into latex foam using the Dunlop process.
The report says that despite the widespread perception of slash - and - burn being «a destructive system that leads to forest loss and degradation,» policies that support conversion to rubber plantations (which gets counted as reforestation, even though a plantation forest is hardly the same thing as natural forest) don't have a great environmental benefit.