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Land rights and access to credit in Sulawesi community brings prosperity to land

Wahyu Chandra 9 Nov 2015
Oil palm in Sabah

With fires wreaking havoc across Indonesia, Malaysian state targets greener palm oil

Mongabay.com 8 Nov 2015

Leaked report reveals massive illegal logging in Laos

Ethan Harfenist 6 Nov 2015

Indian government cancels Greenpeace India’s registration

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Nov 2015

Refinery township golf course and boundary wall puts elephants at risk

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Nov 2015

Jokowi pushes universities to innovate to fight haze as respiratory diseases rise

Mongabay Haze Beat 6 Nov 2015
Manta Ray off Sipadan Island in the Coral Triangle. Photo by Greg Asner of DivePhoto.org

Not all escaped fishing slaves want to go home

Cory Rogers 6 Nov 2015
Picture courtesy of Greenpeace.

Photos confirm Indonesia being burned for palm oil

Mongabay Haze Beat 5 Nov 2015

Galapagos “gold rush” feeds global hunger for shark fins, sea cucumbers

Sean Mowbray 5 Nov 2015
APP fire-fighting crew in action.

APP pumps South Africa specialists to join haze fire fight

Mongabay Haze Beat 5 Nov 2015

Latin American illegal wildlife trade exploding in scope and scale

Laurel Neme 4 Nov 2015
Members of the local community help extinguish the fire of burning peatland in Kapuas district, Central Kalimantan province on Borneo island, Indonesia.

Privatized gain, socialized pain; Singapore foreign minister turns up heat on haze

Mongabay Haze Beat 4 Nov 2015

Indonesia breathes easier for now as haze recedes and rain falls

Mongabay Haze Beat 3 Nov 2015

A Borneo village maps its land to protect against encroachers

Christopel Paino 3 Nov 2015

The Black-faced Spoonbill: Asia’s beloved wading bird fights for space

Doug Meigs 2 Nov 2015

Police investigate new hotspot at govt office in Palangkaraya as ‘important’ documents go up in smoke

Mongabay Haze Beat 2 Nov 2015

Loggers destroying giant panda habitat, says Greenpeace

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Nov 2015
Members of the indigenous community live at the riverbanks in Kapuas river where the air is engulfed with thick haze at Sei Ahass village, Kapuas district, Central Kalimantan province on Borneo island, Indonesia. These fires are a threat to the health of millions. Smoke from landscape fires kills an estimated 110,000 people every year across Southeast Asia, mostly as a result of heart and lung problems, and weakening newborn babies.

Greenpeace releases dramatic haze photos as Indonesian fire emissions surpass 1.6B tons

Mongabay.com 1 Nov 2015

Jokowi pledges Indonesia peatland ‘revitalization’ to stop the burning

Mongabay Haze Beat 30 Oct 2015

Sung te giac ethics: New wealth brings new responsibilities (commentary)

Mic Smith 30 Oct 2015

Indonesian wildfire disaster threatens virgin forest in Borneo

Mongabay Haze Beat 29 Oct 2015

Bali’s mountain dwellers govern with ancient palm leaf treatises

Luh De Suriyani 29 Oct 2015

Raja Ampat fires destroy livelihoods; Sumatrans suffer from drought amid haze

Mongabay Haze Beat 28 Oct 2015
Sungai Utik elder Bandi in 2019. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The indigenous community whose forest is their supermarket

Andi Fachrizal 28 Oct 2015

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

Uncovered: How Hong Kong’s ‘legal’ ivory markets fuel elephant poaching

Shreya Dasgupta 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

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