Global News January 2010

*Asian ministers pledge to increase wild tiger numbers, January 31 Wikinews, January 31, 2010 Ministers from thirteen countries in Asia pledged on Friday to doubling the wild tiger population on the continent by 2022, to seven thousand. topic
	UK partners with Indonesia to fight climate change, 29 January dfid.gov.uk, 29 January 2010 The UK joins forces with the Indonesian government to tackle deforestation and prepare Indonesians for the impacts of climate change topic, place
*Global Climate Network launches drive for low-carbon economy in South Africa, 27 January ippr, 27 January 2010 topic
* NASA makes it official: 2000s were the hottest decade on record, 2009 tied for second warmest year, January 23, 2010 Climate Progress, January 23, 2010 topic
*Hungary: The Invisible Marsh, January 26th, 2010 Global Voices Online, January 26th, 2010 Marietta Le reports on the story of one of Hungary's most successful citizen campaigns, whose goal is to save an endangered marsh by preventing an allegedly illegal expansion of a shopping center.
* 20,000 tree seedlings planted in the Kiptunga area of the Mau Forest Complex, Kenya, 15 January United Nations Environment Programme, 15 January 2010 Mau, the largest indigenous forest in East Africa and Kenya's most vital water tower, covers some 270,000 hectares. After Mau, restoration will also take place in Mt. Kenya, Aberdares, Mt. Elgon and the rest of Kenya's forests and water catchment areas with the aim of increasing the forest cover from the current 1.7 percent to 10 percent by the year 2020. topic
*Mozambique: Demise of a massive biofuels project, January 6 Global Voices, January 6th, 2010 
*Blogger Cristiana Soares, in collaboration with net-citizens, launched Projeto Enchentes [Project Floods, pt], a platform for tracking — and gathering information about – floods in Brazil. The project counts with a collaborative map created by Henrique Brandão. January 4 globalvoicesonline.org January 4, 2010 
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