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Borneo orangutan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Bornean orangutan declared ‘critically endangered’ as forests shrink

Loren Bell 5 Jul 2016

Malaysian palm oil giant IOI under pressure after Cargill ultimatum

Mongabay.com 28 Jun 2016

Malaysian land rights activist Bill Kayong murdered in broad daylight

Mike Gaworecki 24 Jun 2016

Saving Borneo’s wild cats and small carnivores

Mike Gaworecki 24 Jun 2016
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

No more fires in Indonesia?

Erik Meijaard 20 Jun 2016

Malaysia gets its largest marine park

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Jun 2016
Rainforest emergent tree in Borneo.

Tropics’ tallest tree found in Malaysia

Mongabay.com 12 Jun 2016

Orangutan reintroductions could risk population survival, study warns

Claire Salisbury 8 Jun 2016
Greenpeace protesting against a company's palm oil policy. Courtesy of Greenpeace

10 reasons to be optimistic for forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Jun 2016

The Borneo rainbow toad has been missing for 87 years — until now

Mike Gaworecki 25 May 2016

Indigenous Dayak tribe pitted against palm oil giant in new film

Mongabay.com 18 May 2016

Conservation today, the old-fashioned way

Jeremy Hance 10 May 2016

Malaysian palm oil giant IOI sues RSPO over suspension

Mongabay.com 9 May 2016

Has big conservation gone astray?

Jeremy Hance 26 Apr 2016

NGOs and oil-palm growers team up to help orangutans, but progress is slow

Melati Kaye 21 Apr 2016

Designing the ideal wildlife corridor for Malaysia’s orangutans

Becca Cudmore 18 Apr 2016

Jokowi bans new oil palm and mining concessions

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 16 Apr 2016

Making sense of a rare rhino’s death in Indonesian Borneo (commentary)

Erik Meijaard 14 Apr 2016

Malaysian palm oil giant loses 7 more customers over RSPO suspension

Mongabay.com 11 Apr 2016

Companies asked to pitch in to Indonesia’s peat restoration drive as early fires flare in Sumatra

Mongabay Haze Beat 8 Apr 2016

Could a rare rhino’s tragic death in Borneo have been prevented?

Basten Gokkon 8 Apr 2016

One of the last Bornean rhinos dies in Kalimantan

Rahmadi Rahmad 6 Apr 2016

New study finds insufficient degraded land for further strong oil palm expansion in Kalimantan

Azarja Harmanny 5 Apr 2016

Malaysian palm oil giant IOI suspended from RSPO

Mongabay.com 25 Mar 2016

Emergency declared as fires reappear in Sumatra

Mongabay Haze Beat 15 Mar 2016

15 Bornean rhinos discovered in Kalimantan?

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 14 Mar 2016

Oil palm plantations need to protect orangutans (commentary)

Erik Meijaard 22 Feb 2016

77 inspiring rainforest pictures

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Feb 2016

Is this Malaysian palm oil firm still destroying forest in Borneo — and selling to Wilmar?

Jonathan Vit 9 Feb 2016

How can banks spur the palm oil industry toward sustainability?

Pek Shibao 8 Feb 2016

Study finds logging helps black rats invade tropical rainforests, push native species out

Mike Gaworecki 5 Feb 2016
Burning peat forest and oil palm in Riau, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Norway pledges $50m to fund Indonesia’s peat restoration

Mongabay Haze Beat 5 Feb 2016

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