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Study games out oil palm development scenarios in Borneo

Loren Bell 17 Sep 2018

Indonesian government appeals ruling on tighter peat fire regulations

Basten Gokkon 30 Aug 2018

Meet the Bornean village chief dealing with the fallout from a corrupt plantation deal

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 1 Aug 2018

Orangutan found shot, hacked at palm plantation with history of deaths

Budi Baskoro 5 Jul 2018

Mariyady, the priest investigating the corporate takeover of indigenous peoples’ forests in Borneo

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 11 Jun 2018

Failed rice fields may get new lease of life under Indonesian peat restoration project

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 May 2018

Ghosts in the machine: the land deals behind the downfall of Indonesia’s top judge

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 18 Apr 2018

How a family of local elites is still pitching to control a district in Borneo

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 11 Apr 2018

How loopholes in Indonesia’s corruption law let environmental crime persist

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 9 Apr 2018

How the farmers of Seruyan rose up a against a palm oil fiefdom

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 5 Apr 2018

How a series of shady deals turned a chunk of Borneo into a sea of oil palm

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 27 Mar 2018

How Indonesia’s Seruyan district became an epicenter of fires and haze

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 26 Mar 2018

How the son of a tailor rose to power in Indonesia’s palm oil heartland

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 22 Mar 2018

Arkani, the Dayak known as Jenggot Naga — Dragon Beard

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 8 Mar 2018

Budiardi, labeled a ‘provocateur’ and jailed in a dispute with a palm oil company

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 6 Mar 2018

Indonesian rubber farmers charged in gruesome killing of Bornean orangutan

Basten Gokkon 2 Feb 2018

Decapitated orangutan found near palm plantations shot 17 times, autopsy finds

Basten Gokkon 19 Jan 2018

Orangutan found tortured and decapitated prompts Indonesia probe

Mongabay.com 16 Jan 2018

‘Extreme concern’: Report gives glimpse into scale of Kalimantan bird trade

Basten Gokkon 30 Nov 2017

The Palm Oil Fiefdom

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 10 Oct 2017

Indonesia for Sale: in-depth series on corruption, palm oil and rainforests launches

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 10 Oct 2017

Indonesia blocks major artery in haze-causing Mega Rice canal network

Hans Nicholas Jong, Indra Nugraha 9 Jul 2017

Borneo’s ‘biocultural holocaust’: an interview with author Alex Shoumatoff

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Jun 2017

‘Communities should be involved from the beginning’: Kalimantan villagers demand development plans respect their needs

Indra Nugraha 14 Jun 2017

Governor halts work on coal railway being built without permits in Indonesian Borneo

Indra Nugraha, Lusia Arumingtyas, R. Sahala, Sapariah Saturi 30 May 2017

Scientists mull risks of freeing rare albino orangutan in Borneo

Indra Nugraha 5 May 2017

A Bornean village conserves a forest the government listed for cutting

Indra Nugraha 2 Mar 2017

Was Borneo once a land of tigers?

Taufik Wijaya 7 Nov 2016

Hectare by hectare, an indigenous man reforested a jungle in Indonesia’s burned-out heartland

Indra Nugraha 26 Oct 2016
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Indonesian police arrest hundreds in connection to burning land

Mongabay Haze Beat 26 Aug 2016

Smoke from Indonesia’s fires begins to drift into Malaysia

Mongabay Haze Beat 17 Aug 2016
A family of Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) in Tanjung Puting National Park, Borneo. The mother was rescued from a palm oil development and re-released as a juvenile here, but unable to survive in the wild because she lacked the careful upbringing required to find food throughout the year. Photo by Matthew Luskin / NGS.

10 orangutans released into the wild in Borneo

Indra Nugraha 15 Aug 2016

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