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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

Is a Sunda clouded leopard a leopard? Candid Animal Cam heads to Southeast Asia

Romi Castagnino 4 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

Mongabay editor has now been detained 6 weeks in Indonesia

Mongabay.com 28 Jan 2020
Philip Jacobson.

Mongabay editor arrested in Indonesia

Mongabay.com 21 Jan 2020
Bamboo lemur in Madagascar. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Global consumer demands fuel the extinction crisis facing the world’s primates

Alejandro Estrada, Paul A. Garber 29 Dec 2019
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

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