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Banning high-deforestation palm oil has limited impact on saving forests: Study

Loren Bell 3 Mar 2022

From Flores to Papua: Meet 10 of Indonesia’s mangrove guardians

Loren Bell 1 Jun 2021

Indonesia’s five most consequential environmental stories of 2020

Loren Bell 29 Dec 2020

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

Loren Bell 30 Nov 2020

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

Loren Bell 10 May 2020

Orangutan habitats being cleared in areas near palm oil mills, report finds

Loren Bell 17 Jul 2019

Most communities not seeing promised oil palm payoff in Borneo, study finds

Loren Bell 6 May 2019

Indonesia attack shines a light on controversial road project

Loren Bell 20 Dec 2018

Palm oil supplier to PepsiCo, Mars, and Hershey resumes deforesting in Indonesia

Loren Bell 15 Nov 2018

Study games out oil palm development scenarios in Borneo

Loren Bell 17 Sep 2018

Debate ensues over British supermarket chain’s decision to ban palm oil

Loren Bell 10 May 2018

How unhealthy is the haze from Indonesia’s annual peat fires?

Loren Bell 3 Nov 2017

139 scientists shoot down ‘misleading’ reports from Malaysia peat congress

Loren Bell 4 Oct 2016

Borneo orangutan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Bornean orangutan declared ‘critically endangered’ as forests shrink

Loren Bell 5 Jul 2016

Unclear if France will revisit ‘discriminatory’ palm oil tax

Loren Bell 6 Jun 2016

SE Asia’s damaged peat swamps could release 8.7 gigatons of CO2

Loren Bell 31 May 2016

Another tiger perishes at Indonesia’s ‘Death Zoo’

Loren Bell 20 Apr 2016

Perverse outcomes: Can conservation aid spur deforestation?

Loren Bell 9 Mar 2016

Study doubles the number of endangered Sumatran orangutans believed to exist

Loren Bell 4 Mar 2016

Peat forest cleared for pulp and paper in Riau, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

New tool seeks end to Indonesian paper giants’ secret links

Loren Bell 26 Feb 2016

Indonesia’s peat peninsula being drained into oblivion, study finds

Loren Bell 24 Feb 2016

Pulp and paper plantation on peatland in Riau. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

APP to work with 500 villages to combat deforestation

Loren Bell 13 Jan 2016

Loss of big animals reduces forests’ carbon-storing capacity

Loren Bell 19 Dec 2015

World’s fragmented forests are deteriorating

Loren Bell 24 Mar 2015

Indonesia’s indigenous people still suffer human rights violations, says report

Loren Bell 18 Mar 2015

River flooding to affect 40M people annually by 2030

Loren Bell 11 Mar 2015

East Kalimantan reaffirms moratorium on new mining, logging concessions

Loren Bell 6 Mar 2015

Cunning carnivorous plants catch more prey by letting some go

Loren Bell 25 Feb 2015

Sting operation nets tiger poachers

Loren Bell 24 Feb 2015

Indonesia dissolves agency charged with forestry reform

Loren Bell 11 Feb 2015

Communities create timber company to protect Sumatran forest

Loren Bell 4 Feb 2015

Sulawesi communities build big, unique houses by sustainably managing forests

Loren Bell 3 Feb 2015

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