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Java’s mangroves pay a high price for stopping plastic flowing out to sea

Julia John 5 Apr 2021

In Sumatra, a vulnerable, ‘mythical’ wild goat lives an unknown life

Ian Morse 31 Mar 2021

African swine fever rips through parts of southern Indonesia

Ebed de Rosary 29 Mar 2021

Study calls for a marine reserve in a $500m fishing hotspot in Indonesia

Cassie Freund 23 Mar 2021

Thailand’s Indigenous Peoples fight for ‘land of our heart’ (commentary)

Pirawan Wongnithisathaporn, Thomas Worsdell 15 Mar 2021

Getting hands-on with pollination can boost cocoa yields, study shows

Sarah Derouin 8 Mar 2021

Only 1 of 52 pilot whales survives mass stranding in Indonesia

Mongabay.com 24 Feb 2021

Indonesia remembers ‘irreplaceable’ Gunawan Wiradi, gentle giant of the countryside

Indra Nugraha 26 Jan 2021

Whale shark stranding points to silting of Indonesia’s Kendari Bay

Ian Morse 13 Jan 2021

‘Turning fear into strength’: One woman’s struggle for justice and land rights in Sulawesi

Febriana Firdaus 1 Dec 2020

‘Certified’ palm oil linked to worse social, ecological outcomes for Indonesian villagers

Loren Bell 30 Nov 2020

Inside the weaving protests of West Timor

Febriana Firdaus 20 Nov 2020

The women of Kendeng set their feet in cement to stop a mine in their lands. This is their story.

Febriana Firdaus 13 Nov 2020

Breaking: Deaths of 2 more Indonesian crew uncovered on board Chinese tuna fleet

Basten Gokkon, Philip Jacobson 29 Oct 2020

Indonesia balances war on illegal fishing with international obligations (commentary)

Aristyo Rizka Darmawan 28 Oct 2020

‘Potentially lethal’ police assault on Indigenous Papuan man was caught on camera

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 27 Oct 2020

Vietnam conservation regulations improving, but much work remains

Michael Tatarski 7 Oct 2020

Indonesia’s new intelligence hub wields data in the war on illegal fishing

Julia John 29 Sep 2020
Aerial view of a mine in Australia. Image by Stuart Rankin/Flickr.

With its mining boom past, Australia deals with the job of cleaning up

Manuela Callari 20 Aug 2020

Analysis: Vietnam’s leadership flex shows how to drive electricity reform

David Brown 6 Aug 2020

Business risk and COVID-19 are pushing Asian financiers away from coal

Nithin Coca 3 Aug 2020

Study values women’s long-overlooked contribution to fisheries at $5.6b per year

Cassie Freund 23 Jul 2020

Photos: In southern Papua, navigating an alien world built on palm oil

Albertus Vembrianto 22 Jul 2020

‘Injustice’ for West Papuans whose land was sold out from under them

Mongabay.com 16 Jul 2020

‘In the plantations there is hunger and loneliness’: The cultural dimensions of food insecurity in Papua (commentary)

Sophie Chao 14 Jul 2020

The sponge with the secret recipe: A cancer-fighting chemical

Julia John 8 Jul 2020

Myanmar ponders what to do with its out-of-work elephants

Curtis Segarra 5 Jul 2020

How we calculated Korindo’s revenues from clearing Papuan rainforest

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 29 Jun 2020

The Consultant: Why did a palm oil conglomerate pay $22m to an unnamed ‘expert’ in Papua?

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 25 Jun 2020

How coffee growers can adapt to a precipitous industry: Q&A with Dean’s Beans founder Dean Cycon

Justin Catanoso 1 Jun 2020

Indonesian miners eyeing EV nickel boom seek to dump waste into the sea

Ian Morse 18 May 2020

New bill could legalize ‘land banking’ by Indonesian plantation firms

Loren Bell 10 May 2020

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