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Calls for accountability after coal-slurry spill in Indonesian river

Della Syahni, Sapariah Saturi 19 Feb 2021

In Malaysian Borneo’s rainforests, powerful state governments set their own rules

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 18 Feb 2021
Two babirusa fighting in Indonesia. Image by Meldy Tamenge, edited by Cart, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Southeast Asian wild pigs confront deadly African swine fever epidemic

John Cannon 12 Feb 2021
A Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus). Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

Timber organization’s backing ‘one step’ toward ‘peace park’ in Borneo

John Cannon 26 Jan 2021
Deforestation for cattle ranching in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

California-sized area of forest lost in just 14 years

Mongabay.com 13 Jan 2021
Blackwater oxbow lake, rainforest, and a whitewater river in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

How the pandemic impacted rainforests in 2020: a year in review

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Dec 2020

Being realistic about coal mine rehabilitation in Indonesia: An ecological perspective

David Woodbury and Arbainsyah 23 Dec 2020

Dolphins face growing pressure as development eats into Borneo’s interior

Carolyn Cowan 2 Dec 2020

‘Certified’ palm oil linked to worse social, ecological outcomes for Indonesian villagers

Loren Bell 30 Nov 2020
Construction on the Pan Borneo Highway in northern Sabah. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

Activists in Malaysia call on road planners to learn the lessons of history

John Cannon 13 Nov 2020

Conservationists replant legal palm oil plantation with forest in Borneo

Jeremy Hance 9 Nov 2020
Apay Janggut, also known as 'Bandi', and Kudi in the rumah betang or longhouse at Sungai Utik. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

New Indonesian law may make it harder to punish firms for haze-causing fires

Philip Jacobson 9 Oct 2020

On World Rhino Day, ‘real work’ is still needed to save Sumatran rhinos

Basten Gokkon 22 Sep 2020

‘We are losing’: Q&A with The Orangutan Project’s Leif Cocks on saving the great ape

Malavika Vyawahare 19 Aug 2020

Sumatran rhino planned for capture is another female, Indonesian officials say

Yovanda 22 Jul 2020

Logging concession in Malaysian Borneo lacks consent of Indigenous communities (commentary)

Fiona McAlpine 13 Jul 2020

Indonesia identifies rhino to capture for breeding, but will have to wait until next year

Basten Gokkon 9 Jul 2020

For two rhino species on brink of extinction, it’s collaboration vs. stonewalling

Lauren Evans 6 Jul 2020

COVID-19 halts matchmaking attempt for female Sumatran rhino in Borneo

Yovanda 1 Jul 2020

‘Saving sun bears’: Q&A with book author Sarah Pye

John Cannon 29 Jun 2020
Flowering rainforest tree in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

World Rainforest Day: The world’s great rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jun 2020
Deforestation in Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

How much rainforest is being destroyed?

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Jun 2020

Bornean farmers and fishers brace as a new port opens in their midst

Aseanty Pahlevi 2 Jun 2020
Yohanes Terang in his beloved forest. © Titayanto Pieter

Indonesian environmental poet and Dayak leader Yohanes Terang, 1956-2020

Erik Meijaard 11 May 2020

Indonesia’s new capital in the Bornean jungle on hold amid COVID-19 crisis

Basten Gokkon 15 Apr 2020

Rescuing orangutans ‘doesn’t work’ for apes or forests, studies find

James Fair 15 Apr 2020

Reproductive woes spell need for more viable females in Sumatran rhino program

Basten Gokkon 10 Apr 2020

Where the logging ends in Indonesian Borneo, the forest clearing begins

Shreya Dasgupta 4 Mar 2020

Companies leave communities to grapple with mining’s persistent legacy

John Cannon 28 Feb 2020

Burning and bullets: Forest fires push Bornean orangutans into harm’s way

Aseanty Pahlevi 18 Feb 2020
Attorney Parlin Hutabarat and Philip Jacobson at Palangkaraya's Tjilik Riwut Airport on January 31, 2019.

American journalist Philip Jacobson freed after prolonged detention in Indonesia

Mongabay.com 31 Jan 2020

Borneo locals win a court battle to bar a coal miner from their land

Lusia Arumingtyas 30 Jan 2020

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