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Jokowi cuts U.S. trip short as Tuesday rain brings hope of haze respite

Mongabay Haze Beat 27 Oct 2015

PepsiCo’s palm oil pledge should not exempt Indofood, NGOs say

Mongabay.com 27 Oct 2015

Eaten to extinction? India’s purple frog faces another threat

Apoorva Joshi 26 Oct 2015

Under-fire Jokowi prepares biggest shift yet in Indonesian haze

Mongabay Haze Beat 26 Oct 2015

Broken Promises: Communities on Philippine island take on palm oil companies

Rod Harbinson 23 Oct 2015

Indonesia hesitates on emergency status for haze; Islamic council sees ‘warning from God’

Mongabay Haze Beat 23 Oct 2015
Juvenile syntype of the Golden-crowned langur (Presbytis johnaspinalli). Courtesy of Nardelli 2015.

Bird market photo yields an unknown monkey species in Indonesia

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Oct 2015

Indonesia’s massive haze problem is Jokowi’s big opportunity

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Oct 2015

Indonesia readies shelter ships as haze last resort after #EvacuateUs hits Twitter

Mongabay Haze Beat 22 Oct 2015

An indigenous declaration in Kalimantan looks to make history

Sapariah Saturi 22 Oct 2015

Jokowi hints at company crackdown as Kalimantan residents prepare haze class action suit

Mongabay Haze Beat 21 Oct 2015

New study uncovers why vultures don’t get sick from eating rotten carcasses

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Oct 2015

German man arrested in Jakarta with eight earless lizards

Mongabay.com 21 Oct 2015

New research sets doomsday for Indo-Pacific mangroves

Morgan Erickson-Davis 20 Oct 2015

Advances from oil palm interests leave Sulawesi village unmoved

Christopel Paino 20 Oct 2015

Kalimantan politicians wear facemasks inside parliament as Palangkaraya suffers in silence

Mongabay Haze Beat 20 Oct 2015

The maleo: a success story for Indonesia’s strange pit-digging bird

Jonathan C. Slaght 19 Oct 2015

Papua fires send haze to Micronesia; Indonesia elections commission hints at environment debate

Mongabay Haze Beat 19 Oct 2015

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

Taufik Wijaya 19 Oct 2015

Indonesian healthcare in focus as haze worsens; NASA data show Papua ablaze

Mongabay Haze Beat 16 Oct 2015

In the shadow of a metropolis, a community revives Java’s lost forests

Petrus Riski 16 Oct 2015

Environmentalists win ‘landmark’ case against biofuel project in Sri Lanka

Jeremy Hance 15 Oct 2015

Carbon emissions from Indonesia’s peat fires exceed emissions from entire U.S. economy

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Oct 2015

Aircraft fight Sumatran fires as Indonesian minister looks to counter no-deforestation pledges

Mongabay Haze Beat 15 Oct 2015

The village where a curse protects the forest

Indra Nugraha 15 Oct 2015

Indonesia hints at possible peatland license review as haze firefight continues

Mongabay Haze Beat 14 Oct 2015
Lowland rainforest in Riau, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

APRIL clearing forest in breach of sustainability policy: NGO

Mongabay.com 14 Oct 2015

Plantation companies challenged by haze-causing fires in Indonesia

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Oct 2015

A village in Borneo turns away from palm oil

Andi Fachrizal 14 Oct 2015

After the tsunami, a forest restored along a river in Aceh

Chik Rini 13 Oct 2015

Jokowi enforcer roasts APP supplier while Kalimantan orangutan charity reels from fires

Mongabay Haze Beat 13 Oct 2015
Two Global Forest Watch images showing near-term (left) and long-term (right) change in forest cover inside PT. Tualang Raya's concession.

Palm oil company caught destroying primary forest in endangered ecosystem

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Oct 2015

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