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PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

2019: The year rainforests burned

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Dec 2019

In Indonesia’s provinces, ditching coal for renewables would cut carbon and costs: study

Della Syahni 24 Dec 2019

Plans for a new Indonesian capital put Borneo’s abandoned mines in the spotlight

Yovanda 20 Dec 2019

Time is running out for Southeast Asia

Jeremy Hance 9 Dec 2019

Illegal hunting a greater threat to wildlife than forest degradation

Nanditha Chandraprakash 9 Dec 2019

Follow the permits: How to identify corruption red flags in Indonesian land deals

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 4 Dec 2019

Their lawsuit against a coal firm in limbo, Bornean villagers take their fight online

Ian Morse 5 Nov 2019

Indonesia plans IVF for recently captured Sumatran rhino

Basten Gokkon 5 Nov 2019

New flowerpecker species discovered in imperiled lowland forests of Borneo

Mongabay.com 18 Oct 2019

Indonesian official at center of licensing scandal charged in new case

Indra Nugraha 18 Oct 2019

Malaysian attempt at Sumatran rhino IVF fails on low quality of sperm

Basten Gokkon 16 Oct 2019
Gold and sand mining near Mandor, West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The unrecognized cost of Indonesia’s fires (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Oct 2019

Bid to breed Sumatran rhino is handicapped by bureaucratic ‘quibbling’

Basten Gokkon 2 Oct 2019

Wildfires spread to planned site of new Indonesian capital

Yovanda 26 Sep 2019

Notes from the road: 5 revelations from traveling the Pan Borneo Highway

John Cannon 25 Sep 2019

Pan Borneo Highway development endangers the Heart of Borneo

John Cannon 18 Sep 2019

Diplomatic row heats up as haze from Indonesian fires threatens Malaysia

Mongabay.com 9 Sep 2019

The end of the road: The future of the Pan Borneo Highway

John Cannon 30 Aug 2019

A remote Indonesian district juggles road building with nature conservation

Basten Gokkon 29 Aug 2019

The Pan Borneo Highway on a collision course with elephants

John Cannon 28 Aug 2019

The Pan Borneo Highway could divide threatened wildlife populations

John Cannon 26 Aug 2019

Indonesia picks coal and oil heartland as site of new capital city

Basten Gokkon 26 Aug 2019

Aimed at linking communities, Malaysian highway may damage forests

John Cannon 23 Aug 2019

The Pan Borneo Highway brings wildlife threats to nat’l park doorstep

John Cannon 21 Aug 2019

Connecting an island: Traveling the Pan Borneo Highway

John Cannon 19 Aug 2019

Indonesia agrees to attempt Sumatran rhino IVF with eggs from Malaysia

Basten Gokkon 6 Aug 2019
Fresh helmeted hornbill head. Photo by Rangkong Indonesia / Yoki Hadiprakarsa

Hornbill heroes: A conversation with a top Indonesian bird conservation NGO

Mongabay.com 5 Aug 2019

Forest loss threatens territorial gibbons in southern Borneo

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2019
Traditional Iban tattoos on a Dayak leader's back. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Travelogue: Visiting an indigenous rainforest tribe in Borneo (Insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Jul 2019

When it comes to captive breeding, not all Sumatran rhinos are equal

Jeremy Hance 23 Jul 2019

Orangutan habitats being cleared in areas near palm oil mills, report finds

Loren Bell 17 Jul 2019
Oil palm plantation in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Can jurisdictional certification curb palm oil deforestation in Indonesia? (commentary)

John Watts; Dan Nepstad; and Silvia Irawan 10 Jul 2019

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