Basten Gokkon

Basten Gokkon

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Basten is a Jakarta-based staff writer for Mongabay with interests in wildlife conservation, renewable energy, and Indigenous communities. Follow him on Twitter to see his latest thoughts via @bgokkon.

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China sends first pandas to Indonesia under captive-breeding agreement

Basten Gokkon 29 Sep 2017

Camera trap records nearly extinct cuckoo in Sumatra

Basten Gokkon 27 Sep 2017

Fossil discovery in Indonesia reveals ‘lost world’ of beasts

Basten Gokkon 19 Sep 2017

Palm oil giant FGV will ‘endeavor to rehabilitate’ peatlands it trashed in Borneo

Basten Gokkon 13 Sep 2017

‘Ecological disaster’: controversial bridge puts East Kalimantan’s green commitment to the test

Basten Gokkon 30 Aug 2017

Indonesia’s decision to share vessel tracking data ‘ill-advised,’ some say

Basten Gokkon 21 Aug 2017

Inflated quotas for captive-bred wildlife in Indonesia may aid traffickers: report

Basten Gokkon 18 Jul 2017

Shipping companies face criminal charges after coal barges damage reef in Indonesian marine park

Basten Gokkon 12 Jul 2017

Indonesia is running out of places to put rescued animals

Ayat S. Karokaro, Basten Gokkon, Luh De Suriyani 3 Jul 2017

Restoration of shattered coral reef at Raja Ampat on hold

Basten Gokkon 22 Jun 2017
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesia’s plantation lobby challenges environmental law

Basten Gokkon, Lusia Arumingtyas 7 Jun 2017

New genus created for arboreal toads in Indonesia

Basten Gokkon 13 Apr 2017

Damage to Raja Ampat 12 times higher than previously thought

Basten Gokkon 25 Mar 2017

Alarms raised as timber firm said to pierce one of Indonesia’s last orangutan strongholds

Basten Gokkon 14 Mar 2017

Cruise ship wrecks one of Indonesia’s best coral reefs at Raja Ampat

Basten Gokkon 9 Mar 2017

Indonesia’s forestry ministry takes Greenpeace to court over freedom of information request

Basten Gokkon 19 Dec 2016

Could a rare rhino’s tragic death in Borneo have been prevented?

Basten Gokkon 8 Apr 2016

First-of-its-kind mapping platform could help protect land held by Indigenous communities

Basten Gokkon, Shreya Dasgupta 13 Nov 2015

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