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Signoff on rhino sperm transfer between Indonesia, Malaysia expected mid-May: Official

Basten Gokkon 26 Apr 2018
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Study puts a figure to hidden cost of community-company conflict in palm oil industry

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Apr 2018

Bornean bantengs feeling the heat in logged forests, study finds

Mongabay.com 20 Apr 2018

New species of ‘exploding ant’ discovered in Borneo

Morgan Erickson-Davis 19 Apr 2018

It’s time to confront the collusion between the palm oil industry and politicians that is driving Indonesia’s deforestation crisis (commentary)

Tom Johnson 18 Apr 2018

Ghosts in the machine: the land deals behind the downfall of Indonesia’s top judge

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 18 Apr 2018

Coal company fined 2 billion rupiah for illegal waste dumping in Borneo

Tommy Apriando 12 Apr 2018

How a family of local elites is still pitching to control a district in Borneo

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 11 Apr 2018

Indonesian billionaire using ‘shadow companies’ to clear forest for palm oil, report alleges

Daniel Pye 11 Apr 2018

How loopholes in Indonesia’s corruption law let environmental crime persist

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 9 Apr 2018

How the farmers of Seruyan rose up a against a palm oil fiefdom

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 5 Apr 2018

Deadly oil spill in eastern Borneo spreads to the open sea

Basten Gokkon 5 Apr 2018

Indonesia investigates deadly oil spill in eastern Borneo

Basten Gokkon 3 Apr 2018

In a land untouched by mines, indigenous holdouts fight a coal invasion

Ian Morse 28 Mar 2018

How a series of shady deals turned a chunk of Borneo into a sea of oil palm

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 27 Mar 2018

How Indonesia’s Seruyan district became an epicenter of fires and haze

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 26 Mar 2018

How the son of a tailor rose to power in Indonesia’s palm oil heartland

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 22 Mar 2018

How one of Indonesia’s biggest companies cut a secret deal to plant oil palm in Borneo

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 20 Mar 2018

Sarawak’s Penan now have detailed maps of their ancestral homeland

John Cannon 20 Mar 2018

Oil palm plantations’ dearth of biodiversity rubs off on nearby forests, study shows

Mongabay.com 19 Mar 2018

Sarawak makes 80% forest preservation commitment, but some have doubts

Morgan Erickson-Davis 12 Mar 2018
Rainforest in Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Tropical deforestation: the need for a strategy adjustment (commentary)

Dan Nepstad 8 Mar 2018

Arkani, the Dayak known as Jenggot Naga — Dragon Beard

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 8 Mar 2018

Bornean bearded pigs seen adapting to oil palm habitats, study finds

Basten Gokkon 6 Mar 2018

Budiardi, labeled a ‘provocateur’ and jailed in a dispute with a palm oil company

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 6 Mar 2018

Scientists aim to give engineers the tools for ecologically sensitive development

John Cannon 26 Feb 2018

Orangutan culture in focus in ‘Person of the Forest’: Q&A with researchers Cheryl Knott and Robert Rodriguez Suro

John Cannon 23 Feb 2018

What is happening to the orangutans of Borneo?

Basten Gokkon 15 Feb 2018

Indonesian rubber farmers charged in gruesome killing of Bornean orangutan

Basten Gokkon 2 Feb 2018

New study suggests Borneo’s had elephants for thousands of years

John Cannon 31 Jan 2018

Decapitated orangutan found near palm plantations shot 17 times, autopsy finds

Basten Gokkon 19 Jan 2018

Orangutan found tortured and decapitated prompts Indonesia probe

Mongabay.com 16 Jan 2018

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