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					<title>Decline of migratory birds spurs calls for coordinated conservation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/decline-of-migratory-birds-spurs-calls-for-coordinated-conservation/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Sep 2026 14:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Wilson Odhiambo]]>
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						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Asia, Europe, and Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Birds, Coastal Ecosystems, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Habitat, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Transmigration, Wildlife, and Wildlife Corridors]]>
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							<![CDATA[NAIROBI — The decline of many migratory bird populations is a red flag that ecosystems around the world are under increasing pressure, conservation experts warn, adding it’s time for governments to come together and coordinate conservation efforts across national borders. Representatives from governments, conservation agencies, NGOs, financial institutions, and donors gathered in Nairobi from Sept. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[NAIROBI — The decline of many migratory bird populations is a red flag that ecosystems around the world are under increasing pressure, conservation experts warn, adding it’s time for governments to come together and coordinate conservation efforts across national borders. Representatives from governments, conservation agencies, NGOs, financial institutions, and donors gathered in Nairobi from Sept. 8-11 for the Global Flyways Summit, hosted by BirdLife International in collaboration with Nature Kenya to address the growing threats facing migratory birds and the habitats they depend on. BirdLife presented the latest edition of its quadrennial “State of the World’s Birds” report, which reported that 45% of migratory bird species are declining, while about one in nine faces the threat of extinction. Shorebirds and seabirds were identified as among the groups experiencing particularly severe declines. A great snipe (Gallinago media) in Nigde, Türkiye. These near threatened snipes breed in Scandinavia and western Russia, and spend their winters at sites across West, Central, and East Africa. According to the IUCN, this species’ numbers are declining rapidly due to habitat loss and hunting pressure. Image © Koray Öğreten via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0). The Red List Index of species survival for migratory birds, with examples of species uplisted and downlisted and the main factors driving these changes. Image courtesy of BirdLife International, 2026. The conservation organization said the main pressures include loss of habitat, agriculture, hunting, pollution, and climate change. Stuart Butchart, BirdLife International’s chief scientist, said these threats cannot be addressed effectively in individual countries&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/decline-of-migratory-birds-spurs-calls-for-coordinated-conservation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-329611</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Green groups call for scrapping of $300m loan offer for Borneo road project</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/green-groups-call-for-scrapping-of-300m-loan-offer-for-borneo-road-project/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Oct 2021 04:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
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						<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, Kalimantan, North Kalimantan, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Business, Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Deforestation, Development, Ecology, Ecosystems, Environment, Environmental Policy, Forest Fragmentation, Forest Loss, Forests, Governance, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Infrastructure, Land Rights, Logging, Natural Resources, Palm Oil, Plantations, Primary Forests, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Roads, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, Sun Bears, Threats To Rainforests, Traditional People, Transmigration, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Conservation groups are calling on the Asian Development Bank to tighten its scrutiny of a road project it plans to fund in Indonesian Borneo that may pose risks to Indigenous communities and the environment. The project, not yet approved but for which the ADB could offer a $300 million loan, aims to rehabilitate [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Conservation groups are calling on the Asian Development Bank to tighten its scrutiny of a road project it plans to fund in Indonesian Borneo that may pose risks to Indigenous communities and the environment. The project, not yet approved but for which the ADB could offer a $300 million loan, aims to rehabilitate and upgrade 280 kilometers (170 miles) of roads in the provinces of North and East Kalimantan. The Indonesian government touts the project as an effort to boost economic growth in this border region with Malaysia and further the integration of the two countries’ palm oil industries. But the plan faces mounting criticism from environmentalists from around the world, as independent research and Mongabay’s own reporting have highlighted the potential for environmental damage and social disruption to the Indigenous communities in the region. “There are thousands of hectares of unrealized [oil palm] concessions straddling the proposed roads,” Angus MacInnes, project officer at the nonprofit Forest Peoples Programme, said in a statement published Oct. 15. The planned ADB road project’s reach in Mahakam Ulu district. Image courtesy of Forest Peoples Programme. Oil palm concessions in Mahakam Ulu district. Image courtesy of Forest Peoples Programme. Industrial-scale forest clearing in recent decades — for mining, logging, and oil palm cultivation — has threatened the well-being and lives of both human and animal inhabitants throughout Indonesian Borneo. The extensive draining of the island’s peat forests to make way for agriculture has also rendered the carbon-rich soil highly susceptible to fires.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/green-groups-call-for-scrapping-of-300m-loan-offer-for-borneo-road-project/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-248314</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Fate of Malaysian forests stripped of protection points to conservation stakes</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/fate-of-malaysian-forests-stripped-of-protection-points-to-conservation-stakes/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Oct 2021 19:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Sheryl Lee Tian Tong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Sheryl Lee Tian Tong]]>
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							<![CDATA[Forest Trackers]]>
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							<![CDATA[Malaysia and Peninsular Malaysia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Animals, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Business, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Deforestation, Development, Ecology, Ecosystems, Elephants, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Policy, Forest Fragmentation, Forest Loss, Forests, Gold Mining, Governance, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Human-wildlife Conflict, Logging, Mammals, Mining, Natural Resources, Palm Oil, Plantations, Primary Forests, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Roads, Satellite Imagery, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, Sun Bears, Threats To Rainforests, Tigers, Transmigration, Tropical Forests, Wildlife, and Wildlife Corridors]]>
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							<![CDATA[Before the clearing and excavators and bulldozers, before plans to build a gold mine and oil palm plantations, the Jemaluang and Tenggaroh forest reserves in Johor, Malaysia, were wildlife-rich jungles by the sea. Elephants, tigers and sun bears roamed the rainforests’ dimly lit interiors. Critically endangered tropical trees flourished by the seashore. But in 2014, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Before the clearing and excavators and bulldozers, before plans to build a gold mine and oil palm plantations, the Jemaluang and Tenggaroh forest reserves in Johor, Malaysia, were wildlife-rich jungles by the sea. Elephants, tigers and sun bears roamed the rainforests’ dimly lit interiors. Critically endangered tropical trees flourished by the seashore. But in 2014, both reserves were struck from Johor’s list of permanent forest reserves, with parts of the land taken into private ownership. Seven years later, a fifth of the more than 17,000 excised hectares (42,000 acres) has been cleared, Malaysian environmental news site Macaranga reported. Vast tracts of rainforest are being razed to the ground by extractive companies, which are reportedly profiting off timber sales while preparing to grow lucrative oil palm. All of this is happening on land owned by the sultan of Johor, the head of the state, according to Macaranga, which has raised questions about the effectiveness of a nationwide conservation initiative the two reserves had been part of. Malayan tigers (Panthera tigris), which are critically endangered with less than 300 individuals left in the wild, roam the Jemaluang and Tenggaroh forests. Photo by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay A largely toothless plan Before they were degazetted, the Jemaluang and Tenggaroh reserves had been part of the Central Forest Spine (CFS) Master Plan, a federal government-driven project aimed at forming an unbroken link of forests across Peninsular Malaysia. First unveiled a decade ago, the CFS plan is now under review. An additional Improving Connectivity in the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/fate-of-malaysian-forests-stripped-of-protection-points-to-conservation-stakes/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Borneo’s bearded pigs and traditional hunters adapted to oil palms. Then came swine fever</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/borneos-bearded-pigs-and-traditional-hunters-adapted-to-oil-palms-then-came-swine-fever/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Sep 2021 13:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Sheryl Lee Tian Tong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Sheryl Lee Tian Tong]]>
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							<![CDATA[Atlantic Forest, Borneo, Malaysia, and Sabah]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Animals, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Business, Cities, Conservation, Culture, Deforestation, Development, Diseases, Ecology, Ecosystems, Environment, Environmental Policy, Forest Fragmentation, Forest Loss, Forests, Governance, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Hunting, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Mammals, Palm Oil, Pandemics, Plantations, Primary Forests, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, Threats To Rainforests, Traditional People, Transmigration, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[It’s easier to spot the bristly, gray-brown hide of a Bornean bearded pig (Sus barbatus) ambling through orderly rows of oil palm trees, than amid a dense tropical forest. But modern-day pig hunting in plantations brings its own challenges. The animals are more skittish. They are sensitive to the sound of gunshots and the smell [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[It’s easier to spot the bristly, gray-brown hide of a Bornean bearded pig (Sus barbatus) ambling through orderly rows of oil palm trees, than amid a dense tropical forest. But modern-day pig hunting in plantations brings its own challenges. The animals are more skittish. They are sensitive to the sound of gunshots and the smell of gunpowder. Once aware of a human presence, they bolt. It wasn’t always this way. Indigenous Kadazandusun-Murut (KDM) hunters, who have for centuries tracked wild pigs through the forests of Sabah, Malaysia, reported that their prey never used to be so fearful of humans. In the past, pigs that encountered hunters “wouldn’t run,” but “only looked.” Today’s pigs, however, are smarter: quicker to flee and harder to catch. “Now the pig has got a high school certificate,” hunters told researchers, in a new study published August in People and Nature. The study, which investigates how KDM bearded pig hunting practices have changed in recent decades with oil palm expansion and urbanization, found it wasn’t just the pigs’ behavior that was different: hunting patterns had adapted in response, too. A bearded pig peering through the forest. Photo by Jessica Suarez. Previously, hunters mainly headed to forests or mangroves to hunt pigs in traditional ways: with dogs and a spear, on foot with a gun, or using snares. But as industrial and smallholder oil palm plantations steadily replace forests, pigs and hunters are increasingly altering their behavior and practices to fit this new landscape. According to hunters,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/borneos-bearded-pigs-and-traditional-hunters-adapted-to-oil-palms-then-came-swine-fever/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-246901</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Highway cutting through Heart of Borneo poised to be ‘very, very bad’</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/highway-cutting-through-heart-of-borneo-poised-to-be-very-very-bad/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/highway-cutting-through-heart-of-borneo-poised-to-be-very-very-bad/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>23 Aug 2021 13:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sheryl Lee Tian Tong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Sheryl Lee Tian Tong]]>
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							<![CDATA[Borneo, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, Kalimantan, Malaysia, North Kalimantan, Sabah, and Sarawak]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Agriculture, Animals, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Business, Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Culture, Deforestation, Development, Ecology, Ecosystems, Elephants, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Policy, Forest Fragmentation, Forest Loss, Forests, Governance, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Infrastructure, Land Rights, Logging, Mammals, Natural Resources, Orangutans, Palm Oil, Plantations, Primary Forests, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Roads, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, Sun Bears, Threats To Rainforests, Traditional People, Transmigration, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Every few years, stretches of Borneo’s towering dipterocarp trees fruit in a synchronized pulse. In those months, the air is rich with brown, winged fruit, which fall and spin to the forest floor. These are sites where life gathers to feast in momentary abundance: bearded pigs (Sus barbatus), sun bears (Helarctos malayanus), orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Every few years, stretches of Borneo’s towering dipterocarp trees fruit in a synchronized pulse. In those months, the air is rich with brown, winged fruit, which fall and spin to the forest floor. These are sites where life gathers to feast in momentary abundance: bearded pigs (Sus barbatus), sun bears (Helarctos malayanus), orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) and more. To get to these fruiting sites, some species trek for hundreds of kilometers. Their migration is critical to Borneo’s ecosystems, which are some of the richest in the world. They cross forests but also national borders: Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei all own parts of Borneo, making it one of the largest transboundary rainforests on the planet. A pair of sun bears (Helarctos malayanus) in a tree. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay. An orangutan in Sabah, Borneo. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay. In 2007, the three countries signed a voluntary pact to conserve one-third of its land: a mostly intact, 22-million-hectare (54-million-acre) stretch named the Heart of Borneo. Now, this agreement is breaking up as they pursue a new collective ambition: the Pan Borneo Highway, a 5,324-kilometer (3,308-mile) road network that will link Sabah and Sarawak in Malaysia to Kalimantan in Indonesia, and Brunei. While the new highway could spur economic development in remote villages, it also carves into protected areas in the Heart of Borneo, opening them up for resource extraction. In particular, the roads could fast-track development of a new “oil palm belt,” with disastrous consequences for both wildlife and Indigenous people&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/highway-cutting-through-heart-of-borneo-poised-to-be-very-very-bad/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-246247</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Most communities not seeing promised oil palm payoff in Borneo, study finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/05/most-communities-not-seeing-promised-oil-palm-payoff-in-borneo-study-finds/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 May 2019 08:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Loren Bell]]>
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						<![CDATA[Mongabay Editor]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Indonesia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Community Development, Culture, Economics, Environment, Forestry, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Land Rights, Land Use Change, Migration, Palm Oil, Plantations, Rainforests, Transmigration, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[The promise of jobs and prosperity often helps palm oil companies convince skeptical local stakeholders to accept development on their lands. However, there has been little objective evidence showing whether a village is better or worse off after allowing a plantation to move in to its backyard — until now. A new study analyzing standards [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The promise of jobs and prosperity often helps palm oil companies convince skeptical local stakeholders to accept development on their lands. However, there has been little objective evidence showing whether a village is better or worse off after allowing a plantation to move in to its backyard — until now. A new study analyzing standards of living over a 14-year period across more than 5,000 villages in Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo, finds that oil palm development can have both positive and negative impacts on various aspects of a village&#8217;s well-being. The key difference: how intact their forest was to begin with. Researchers from the University of Queensland and Borneo Futures found that villages that had already transitioned to a market economy — which typically correlates with higher level of previous forest degradation — saw more benefit from plantation development than communities that still relied on subsistence economies. &#8220;Subsistence livelihood villages tend to have large communities with indigenous backgrounds,&#8221; lead author Truly Santika told Mongabay, &#8220;which means that these communities have stronger ties to ancestral land and livelihoods, and they are also dependent more on forest and environmental income.&#8221; Although oil palm plantations may increase employment and economic opportunities in the area, these communities are less adapted to benefit from those changes, and the balance of jobs tends to go to migrants who inevitably follow in the wake of new development, eventually displacing the traditional communities. &#8220;Market-based villages, on the other hand, are generally more culturally diverse, and the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/05/most-communities-not-seeing-promised-oil-palm-payoff-in-borneo-study-finds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-218364</doi>				</item>
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					<title>In eastern Indonesia, a forest tribe pushes back against miners and loggers</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/03/in-eastern-indonesia-a-forest-tribe-pushes-back-against-miners-and-loggers/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Mar 2018 10:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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							<![CDATA[HALMAHERA, Indonesia — Deep in the lush rainforests of Halmahera Island, in the far-flung eastern reaches of Indonesia, lives an indigenous tribe whose way of life is so intricately tied to the environment that it calls itself simply O’Hangana Manyawa — the people who live in the forest. Known to outsiders as the Forest Tobelo [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[HALMAHERA, Indonesia — Deep in the lush rainforests of Halmahera Island, in the far-flung eastern reaches of Indonesia, lives an indigenous tribe whose way of life is so intricately tied to the environment that it calls itself simply O’Hangana Manyawa — the people who live in the forest. Known to outsiders as the Forest Tobelo people, the tribe believes the forests are home to its ancestors, and must therefore never be destroyed. This is reflected in their semi-nomadic lifestyle, in which they follow the seasons and the animals, hunting and gathering in one area before moving on. They live in an area that measures just 265 square kilometers (102 square miles), according to the Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN), the main advocacy group for Indonesia’s indigenous tribes, but that area is fast dwindling. In the 1980s, parts of their forest were earmarked for the government’s transmigration program, under which people from densely populated islands, particularly Java, were moved to less populous areas of the country, including North Maluku province, of which Halmahera is a part. “Our community forests are being cut down for the transmigration program,” says Madiki, the leader of the Forest Tobelo. “When the government wanted to launch the transmigration program here, they never consulted with us.” The Forest Tobelo were displaced from their areas, and with no legal recognition of their claims to the land, those who remained have had to face various threats, including illegal logging in their ancestral forest areas. In one particular&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/03/in-eastern-indonesia-a-forest-tribe-pushes-back-against-miners-and-loggers/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Papuan clan leader laments influx of migrants to sacred Cyclops Mountains</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/06/papuan-clan-leader-laments-influx-of-migrants-to-sacred-cyclops-mountains/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Jun 2017 03:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Christopel Paino]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAYAPURA, Indonesia — When Amos Ondikeleuw became a clan leader, he vowed to never give up his community’s land at the foot of the Cyclops Mountains to the migrants flooding in from elsewhere in Papua, whom he saw as callous toward the environment. Migration has long been an issue in the archipelago country’s easternmost province. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAYAPURA, Indonesia — When Amos Ondikeleuw became a clan leader, he vowed to never give up his community’s land at the foot of the Cyclops Mountains to the migrants flooding in from elsewhere in Papua, whom he saw as callous toward the environment. Migration has long been an issue in the archipelago country’s easternmost province. As part of its now-defunct transmigration program, the government for decades moved landless people from crowded islands such as Java — home to 145 million people — to less inhabited ones on the nation’s periphery. Indonesia’s portion of New Guinea — divided into Papua and West Papua provinces &#8212; was a top destination, to the extent that outsiders are now thought to compose about half of its population of 2.7 million, according to the International Working Group for Indigenous Affairs. Indonesia&#8217;s easternmost Papua province. Image by Bwmodular via Wikimedia Commons. The program fueled social conflict, and President Joko Widodo ended it in 2015. But while migration to Papua from outside has subsided, rapid growth in the province’s urban centers — from its capital of Jayapura to university towns Weana and Abepura — has attracted highlanders from a neighboring mountain range seeking financial improvement. The city of Jayapura, for instance, reported in 2015 alone that 132,687 individuals, or about 47 percent of its population, were permanent migrants from elsewhere in Papua, according the Central Bureau of Statistics.   For Ondikeleuw, the internal migration is the biggest threat facing the Cyclops Mountains, a coastal range designated as&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/06/papuan-clan-leader-laments-influx-of-migrants-to-sacred-cyclops-mountains/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Palm oil a mixed blessing in Indonesia&#8217;s peat peninsula</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/08/palm-oil-a-mixed-blessing-in-indonesias-peat-peninsula/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Aug 2015 21:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Zamzami]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indonesia's Forest Guardians]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indonesia, Riau, and Sumatra]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Climate Change, Community Forests, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Heroes, Forestry, Forests, Governance, Green, Impact Of Climate Change, Palm Oil, Peatlands, Plantations, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Transmigration, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Indonesian village of Dosan sits on the edge of the Kampar Peninsula, an enormous swath of peat in Riau province on the island of Sumatra. The peninsula is one of the last strongholds for the critically endangered Sumatran tiger and constitutes one of the world’s largest carbon stores. It is also fast disappearing. Over [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Indonesian village of Dosan sits on the edge of the Kampar Peninsula, an enormous swath of peat in Riau province on the island of Sumatra. The peninsula is one of the last strongholds for the critically endangered Sumatran tiger and constitutes one of the world’s largest carbon stores. It is also fast disappearing. Over the past decade, oil-palm and rubber plantations have reduced the size of the 700,000-hectare peatland by nearly half. Of the 400,000 hectares that remain, 300,000 have been handed as concessions to pulp-and-paper giants APRIL and Asia Pulp and Paper, which plan to establish rubber estates. A modest amount of land has also been zoned for oil palm. The present era of forest loss here dates back to 2003, when the district government freed 3,500 hectares for conversion. With Dosan among the seven villages covered by the regulation, residents were granted permission to plant oil palm on 723 hectares of forestland. They did so with gusto. Though the nascent industry generated much-needed cash, forests had to be cleared to make way for the plantations, causing unforeseen environmental effects, said Firdaus, chief of Dosan. “At first we weren’t too worried about the negative effects of the oil-palm expansion. But then, for long periods of time, the heat just wouldn’t lift. It was much different from just a decade ago,” Firdaus said. “In the dry season, meanwhile, wildfires are everywhere, and the haze disturbs the villagers.&#8221; Those developments gave rise to a grassroots effort to save 400 hectares&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2015/08/palm-oil-a-mixed-blessing-in-indonesias-peat-peninsula/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-64884</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Reservations about Indonesian &#8216;land reform&#8217; as details unclear</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/04/reservations-about-indonesian-land-reform-as-details-unclear/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Apr 2015 11:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Sapariah Saturi]]>
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							<![CDATA[Rice paddies in Bali. Photo: Rhett Butler Indonesian civil society groups and experts welcome President Joko &#8220;Jokowi&#8221; Widodo&#8217;s campaign promise to redistribute nine million hectares of land to farmers – in principle. But they remain wary of what the program, whose details have yet to be made clear, might look like in practice. These reservations [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Rice paddies in Bali. Photo: Rhett Butler Indonesian civil society groups and experts welcome President Joko &#8220;Jokowi&#8221; Widodo&#8217;s campaign promise to redistribute nine million hectares of land to farmers – in principle. But they remain wary of what the program, whose details have yet to be made clear, might look like in practice. These reservations were expressed at a discussion on the redistribution plan held in Jakarta on April 1. &#8220;What&#8217;s the concept?&#8221; said Dwi Astuti, director of Bina Desa, an NGO. &#8220;Who will receive the land, where will it come from?&#8221; These questions have not been fully answered. Officials have spoken only in general terms about the president&#8217;s &#8220;agrarian reform&#8221; agenda. In February, Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya said Jokowi was exploring the possibility of increasing the average farmer&#8217;s holding from 0.8 hectares to two hectares. At the discussion, activists and experts who theoretically backed the idea reminded the government to be careful executing it and voiced worries about how it might play out. One fear was that the program would benefit businesspeople more than peasants. &#8220;Will the land go to landless people?&#8221; Dwi asked. &#8220;If the criteria for the subjects of land reform is unclear, the land could go to plantations rather than farmers.&#8221; Real agrarian reform, the participants contended, meant revamping the entire system, not just doling out some surplus land. &#8220;If you only distribute land, that&#8217;s not land reform,&#8221; said Iwan Nurdin, secretary general of the Consortium for Agrarian Reform (KPA). Agricultural expert Gunawan Wiradi&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2015/04/reservations-about-indonesian-land-reform-as-details-unclear/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-23907</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Community&#8217;s push to clear forest for plantation challenges efforts to conserve in Indonesia</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/03/communitys-push-to-clear-forest-for-plantation-challenges-efforts-to-conserve-in-indonesia/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Mar 2014 05:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[This is part of a series of articles on market transformation in the pulp and paper and palm oil sectors in Indonesia. Drainage canal that forms the boundary between the remaining peat forest and the area cleared for the group led by Caliph Hasan Basri. Photo by Ridzki R. Sigit In the swampy peatlands of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[This is part of a series of articles on market transformation in the pulp and paper and palm oil sectors in Indonesia. Drainage canal that forms the boundary between the remaining peat forest and the area cleared for the group led by Caliph Hasan Basri. Photo by Ridzki R. Sigit In the swampy peatlands of Basilam Baru in Sumatra&#8217;s Riau Province a conflict between a community and a woodpulp company is illustrating some of the intractable challenges of conserving forests and addressing deforestation in Indonesia. On first glance the story seems depressingly familiar. One actor wants to preserve the forest, which serves as critical habitat for endangered Sumatran tigers and clouded leopards. The other wants to clear it for a plantation. But in this case, the roles are reversed: the forestry company is pushing to protect the forest under Asia Pulp &amp; Paper&#8217;s new forest conservation policy, while the local community aims to chop it down to plant rubber trees. The conflict revolves around the status of 700 hectares of peat forest that lies with in a 35,000 hectare concession managed by APP supplier PT. Suntara Gajapati (SGP). Like many concessions in remote parts of Indonesia, GSP&#8217;s license was granted with little thought for local inhabitants and has since been widely encroached. By 2009 nearly a third of the concession area was claimed by communities, according to an audit by Ekologika, an Indonesian consultancy. One of the claimants is a community group led by a charismatic young caliph named Hasan&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/03/communitys-push-to-clear-forest-for-plantation-challenges-efforts-to-conserve-in-indonesia/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-25513</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Heart of Borneo conservation initiative at risk from Indonesian development plan</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2009/02/heart-of-borneo-conservation-initiative-at-risk-from-indonesian-development-plan/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Feb 2009 15:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indonesia&#8217;s Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono is pushing a proposal to develop economic zones along the border between Malaysia and Kalimantan &#8220;as soon as possible&#8221; for national security reasons, reports the Jakarta Globe. The plan &#8212; which Juwono claims is to protect Indonesia&#8217;s sovereignty &#8212; would undermine the historic Heart of Borneo conservation initiative signed in [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indonesia&#8217;s Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono is pushing a proposal to develop economic zones along the border between Malaysia and Kalimantan &#8220;as soon as possible&#8221; for national security reasons, reports the Jakarta Globe. The plan &#8212; which Juwono claims is to protect Indonesia&#8217;s sovereignty &#8212; would undermine the historic Heart of Borneo conservation initiative signed in 2007 by spurring massive expansion of logging, plantation development, and road construction in the biologically-rich region. &#8220;We have to carry it out as soon as possible, but need other ministries to cooperate with us,&#8221; Juwono was quoted as saying by the Jakarta Globe. He added that economic development would act as &#8220;a nonmilitary deterrent to any encroachment on Indonesian territory&#8221; &#8212; presumably by Malaysia or the tiny sultanate of Brunei. The last battle on the Malay-Indonesian border in Borneo was in 1966 when Indonesia was emerging as a nation. Juwono has already drawn up a draft of the plan, which calls for plantations, new roads, and &#8220;economic zones&#8221; along the border, and is now looking for support from other government departments. Click to enlarge. Courtesy of WWF Theo L. Sambuaga, the chairman of House Defense Commission I, which oversees defense, said the plan could be funded by reallocation of state funds from the ministries of people&#8217;s welfare and public works. “The government has allotted money for the Ministry of Education to build new schools. If it merged with the border establishment program, the school could be built there,&#8221; he was quoted as saying by the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2009/02/heart-of-borneo-conservation-initiative-at-risk-from-indonesian-development-plan/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Kalimantan at the Crossroads: Dipterocarp Forests and the Future of Indonesian Borneo</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2005/04/kalimantan-at-the-crossroads-dipterocarp-forests-and-the-future-of-indonesian-borneo/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 Apr 2005 15:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Tina Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: Borneo, the third largest island in the world, was once covered with dense rainforests. With swampy coastal areas fringed with mangrove forests and a mountainous interior, much of the terrain was virtually impassable and unexplored. Headhunters ruled the remote parts of the island until a century ago. In the 1980s and 1990s Borneo [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: Borneo, the third largest island in the world, was once covered with dense rainforests. With swampy coastal areas fringed with mangrove forests and a mountainous interior, much of the terrain was virtually impassable and unexplored. Headhunters ruled the remote parts of the island until a century ago. In the 1980s and 1990s Borneo underwent a remarkable transition. Its forests were leveled at a rate unparalleled in human history. Borneo&#8217;s rainforests went to industrialized countries like Japan and the United States in the form of garden furniture, paper pulp and chopsticks. Initially most of the timber was taken from the Malaysian part of the island in the northern states of Sabah and Sarawak. Later forests in the southern part of Borneo, an area belonging to Indonesia and known as Kalimantan, became the primary source for tropical timber. Today the forests of Borneo are but a shadow of those of legend. The southern half of Borneo contains some of the richest and most unique ecosystems on the planet. Indonesian Borneo, known as Kalimantan, is also one of the most environmentally threatened places on Earth. While many scientists have come to study this region, opportunities for observation are becoming increasingly scarce with the current perils facing the forests of Kalimantan. Photos from Borneo. Full size slideshow | More pictures (You can pause the slideshow using the pause control that appears as you scroll over the images.) For updates on Borneo, please visit the Borneo news page. Dr. Lisa Curran has spent&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2005/04/kalimantan-at-the-crossroads-dipterocarp-forests-and-the-future-of-indonesian-borneo/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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