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Sudden sale may doom carbon-rich rainforest in Borneo

John Cannon 2 Jan 2017

Top 10 HAPPY environmental stories of 2016

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Dec 2016

Video: Two rescued pet orangutans return to the wild

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Dec 2016

Lessons from the $2 billion coal mining lawsuit against Indonesia

Isabel Esterman 20 Dec 2016

Study maps 187 land conflicts as palm oil expands in Kalimantan

Rachel Diaz-Bastin 20 Dec 2016
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Green groups raise red flags over Jokowi’s widely acclaimed haze law

Mongabay Haze Beat 9 Dec 2016

Reports that wild Sumatran rhinos may survive in Malaysia prompt hope, skepticism

Isabel Esterman 8 Dec 2016

How citizen science is transforming river management in Malaysian Borneo (commentary)

Ken Wilson 29 Nov 2016

Conservation in oil palm is possible (commentary)

Erik Meijaard 25 Nov 2016

From Ohio to Indonesia: captive-bred Sumatran rhinos may be the species’ only hope for a future

Linda Lombardi 8 Nov 2016

Massive hydroelectricity project planned for Indonesian Borneo

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 7 Nov 2016

Was Borneo once a land of tigers?

Taufik Wijaya 7 Nov 2016

Logged but not out: Altered landscapes important for conservation

John Cannon 26 Oct 2016

Hectare by hectare, an indigenous man reforested a jungle in Indonesia’s burned-out heartland

Indra Nugraha 26 Oct 2016

Company poised to destroy critical orangutan habitat in breach of Indonesia’s moratorium

Erik Meijaard 24 Oct 2016

Fires ravaged forests in Indonesian palm oil giant Astra’s land in 2015

Mongabay.com 7 Oct 2016

Indonesia’s oil palm plantations are rife with spitting cobras

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 6 Oct 2016

139 scientists shoot down ‘misleading’ reports from Malaysia peat congress

Loren Bell 4 Oct 2016

‘A major concern’: plantation-driven deforestation ramps up in Borneo

Morgan Erickson-Davis 10 Sep 2016

The good, the bad, and the ugly in palm oil (commentary)

Erik Meijaard, Douglas Sheil 9 Sep 2016

No fire, no food: tribe clings to slash-and-burn amid haze crackdown

Cory Rogers 1 Sep 2016
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Another Indonesian court convicts a company of causing fires

Mongabay Haze Beat 30 Aug 2016
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Indonesian police arrest hundreds in connection to burning land

Mongabay Haze Beat 26 Aug 2016

Indonesia must do more to protect whale sharks, conservationists say

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 23 Aug 2016
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesian parliament to investigate fire-linked firms in Riau

Mongabay Haze Beat 20 Aug 2016

Sarawak establishes 2.2M acres of protected areas, may add 1.1M more

Mike Gaworecki 19 Aug 2016

Smoke from Indonesia’s fires begins to drift into Malaysia

Mongabay Haze Beat 17 Aug 2016

PHOTOS: ‘A Visual Celebration of Borneo’s Wildlife’

Mike Gaworecki 15 Aug 2016
A family of Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) in Tanjung Puting National Park, Borneo. The mother was rescued from a palm oil development and re-released as a juvenile here, but unable to survive in the wild because she lacked the careful upbringing required to find food throughout the year. Photo by Matthew Luskin / NGS.

10 orangutans released into the wild in Borneo

Indra Nugraha 15 Aug 2016

Indonesia mulls revision of orangutan conservation plan

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 11 Aug 2016

Borneo conservationists and top oil palm firm work to help orangutans

Deirdre Leowinata 9 Aug 2016

RSPO lifts suspension of Malaysian palm oil giant IOI

Mongabay.com 5 Aug 2016

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