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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

Rare video: young orangutan and gibbon play together in the Borneo jungle

Sophie Furnival 4 Feb 2016

With haze threatening return, Indonesian forestry giant pushes peatlands restoration model

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Feb 2016

How are NGOs innovating to reach palm oil financiers and companies?

Pek Shibao 4 Feb 2016
Human-wildlife conflicts could potentially be reduced with the introduction of fully certified palm oil for Sabah. Photo shows an elephant stranded in a smallholder’s farm. Photo and caption courtesy of LEAP.

Do poor environmental practices affect palm oil firms’ bottom lines on a scale meaningful for investors and financiers?

Pek Shibao 1 Feb 2016

What’s preventing palm oil investors from going green?

Pek Shibao 28 Jan 2016

Do palm oil financiers care about sustainability?

Pek Shibao 26 Jan 2016

Reproductive technology (and understanding of experimental psychology) needed to save a critically endangered rhino

John Payne 14 Jan 2016

Malaysia plans road expansion through dwindling elephant, orangutan habitat

John Cannon 14 Jan 2016
A Bornean tarsier. Photo by Russ Mittermeier.

Potential crisis in Sabah’s amazing Kinabatangan rainforest

Russell A. Mittermeier 13 Jan 2016
Wood fiber concession on recently cleared peatland in Riau Province, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesia appoints conservationist to save country’s declining peatlands

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Jan 2016

Deforestation increasing cases of ‘monkey malaria’ in humans, study says

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Jan 2016

Palm oil co suspends forest conversion to comply with Wilmar’s zero deforestation policy

Mongabay.com 13 Jan 2016
Image taken September 24 from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite shows the "haze" as its peak. Red outlines indicate hot spots where the sensor detected unusually warm surface temperatures associated with fires. Thick gray smoke hovers over both islands and has triggered air quality alerts and health warnings in Indonesia and neighboring countries. Visibility has plummeted. NASA image by Adam Voiland (NASA Earth Observatory) and Jeff Schmaltz (LANCE MODIS Rapid Response). Caption by Adam Voiland.

50+ companies being investigated or punished for Indonesia’s haze crisis

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2015

The year in rainforests: 2015

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2015
Young orangutan in Sabah, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Christmas gift to the planet: massive rainforest reserve created in Borneo

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Dec 2015

Palm oil company revs up deforestation in Malaysia

Ethan Harfenist 19 Nov 2015

Singapore calls end of haze this year as Indonesia continues to push peat plans

Mongabay Haze Beat 16 Nov 2015
Picture courtesy of Greenpeace.

Jokowi turning over a new leaf for Indonesia on haze but details still foggy

Mongabay Haze Beat 13 Nov 2015

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