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Aerial photo of the environmental conditions caused by an illegal crude oil well exploding in Pasir Putih village, East Aceh Regency, on 26 Apr., 2018.

Sumatran province brings hammer down on illegal oil wells after fatal blasts

Taufik Wijaya 15 Aug 2024

Indonesians uprooted by mining industry call for a fairer future amid presidential vote

Petrus Riski, Taufik Wijaya 4 Mar 2024

Indonesians, too reliant on palm oil, should go back to their roots (commentary)

Taufik Wijaya 7 Apr 2022

Illegal mining fuels social conflict in Indonesian tin hub of Bangka-Belitung

Nopri Ismi, Taufik Wijaya 24 Feb 2022

For forest communities in Sumatra, loss of nature means loss of culture

Taufik Wijaya 9 Nov 2021

Deforestation in Indonesian Borneo in 2019. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Local leaders in Indonesia make forest and peatland protection pledge

Taufik Wijaya 15 Jul 2021

Tin mines close in on an Indonesian hamlet still clinging to nature

Taufik Wijaya 16 Jun 2021

On an island scarred by tin mining, mangrove planting preserves shrimp tradition

Taufik Wijaya 13 May 2021

11 workers killed in landslide at illegal coal mining site in Indonesia

Taufik Wijaya 3 Nov 2020

Sumatran bridge project in elephant habitat may exacerbate degradation

Taufik Wijaya 7 Oct 2020

Paper giant APP’s Sumatran road project cuts through elephant habitat

Taufik Wijaya 21 Sep 2020

Habitat loss drives deadly conflict in Indonesia’s tiger country

Taufik Wijaya 30 Dec 2019

As wildfires roil Sumatra, some villages have abandoned the burning

Taufik Wijaya 3 Oct 2019

Sumatran elephant sanctuary under threat from bridge, port projects

Taufik Wijaya 26 Aug 2019

Indonesia’s Teater Potlot takes on the plight of the Sumatran tiger

Taufik Wijaya 19 Sep 2018

Forest fires threaten Asian Games as hotspots flare up in Sumatra

Hans Nicholas Jong, Taufik Wijaya 10 Aug 2018

Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

The destruction of nature in S. Sumatra has given rise to a criminal generation (commentary)

Taufik Wijaya 16 May 2018

Poachers blamed as body of Sumatran elephant, missing tusks, found in protected forest

Taufik Wijaya 11 Jan 2018

Lawsuits test local governments’ ability to clean up Indonesia’s coal mining sector

Taufik Wijaya 27 Sep 2017

Indonesian coal firms shut down for violations fight back in court, with mixed results

Taufik Wijaya 15 Aug 2017

Indonesian coal mining firm gets its license reinstated despite a history of violations

Taufik Wijaya 19 Jun 2017

A Sumatran king’s 1,400-year-old vision for sustainable landscape planning

Taufik Wijaya 27 Mar 2017

Was Borneo once a land of tigers?

Taufik Wijaya 7 Nov 2016

Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

What are South Sumatrans doing to prevent another haze crisis?

Taufik Wijaya 29 Jun 2016

Punk rocker likes what he sees in Sumatra’s resin forest

Taufik Wijaya 19 Oct 2015

Could canned fish soup stop government-community conflict in Sumatra?

Taufik Wijaya 9 Oct 2015

As haze chokes Sumatra, farmers ask Jokowi for greater land rights

Sapariah Saturi, Taufik Wijaya 28 Sep 2015

Oil palm firm in hot water after Jokowi drops in on forest fires

Taufik Wijaya 10 Sep 2015

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Mining activities threaten honey production in the Caatinga biome

African penguins are now an Endangered species and listed as in need of urgent conservation action. Image by Petro Kotze.

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