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Indonesian coal giant Adaro’s ‘sustainable’ smelter slammed as ‘greenwashing’

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Jun 2023

In Indonesia, companies defy government’s decision to revoke their permits

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Jun 2023
The creeks that loggers reportedly use to access the deeper sections of forest on Koh Kong Krao, Cambodia's largest island.

License to Log: Cambodian military facilitates logging on Koh Kong Krao and across the Cardamoms

Gerald Flynn 6 Jun 2023
Workers fertilizing on an oil palm plantation.

EU deforestation tracking regulation sparks division among groups, producers

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 May 2023
Jaguars still roam the Chaco, but they require large tracts of contiguous forest to survive and reproduce. As forest is destroyed, fewer of these intact landscapes exist. Photo by Eduardo Merille via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Report links financial giants to deforestation of Paraguay’s Gran Chaco

Aimee Gabay 13 Apr 2023
An oil palm plantation and natural forest in Jambi, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Conservationists decry palm oil giants’ exit from HCSA forest protection group

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Mar 2023
Wood chips piled in mounds more than 6 meters (20 feet) high cover the lot of the Enviva wood pellet plant in Ahoskie, North Carolina. Enviva says that it uses wood waste to produce pellets. The whistleblower and Mongabay’s on site investigation at a North Carolina clear-cut site and at the Ahoskie plant provided evidence to the contrary. Image by Justin Catanoso for Mongabay.

The Netherlands to stop paying subsidies to ‘untruthful’ biomass firms

Justin Catanoso 23 Dec 2022
Deforestation for oil palm in Malaysia.

Report calls on palm oil firms to make up for nearly 1m hectares of forest loss

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Nov 2022

Indonesia’s Supreme Court rules President Widodo not liable in 2015 fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Nov 2022

Report unveils ties between Indonesian conglomerate Sinar Mas and Canada’s Paper Excellence

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Nov 2022
Deramakot forest reserve is a FSC-certified logging concession in Sabah, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

With FSC rule change, deforesters once blocked from certification get a new shot

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Oct 2022

Sustainability pledges help Indonesia produce palm oil with less deforestation

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Oct 2022
Protestors with signs protesting EACOP, ReconAfrica projects. Image courtesy 350.org

‘Disclose the deal,’ East Africa pipeline opponents say (commentary)

Robert Tumwesigye Baganda 5 Oct 2022
Palm oil plantations in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Palm oil firms not acting fast enough on no-deforestation vows: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Sep 2022
Independent oil palm farmers from Talang Durian Cacar.

Indonesia amnesties 75 companies operating illegally inside forest areas

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Sep 2022
Greenpeace activists built a carbon bomb to protest Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage at a protest in Germany. Image courtesy of Karsten Smid / Greenpeace Media Library.

Big Oil’s capture of IPCC assessment for policymakers ‘shakes our faith’ (commentary)

Lindley Mease 25 Aug 2022
Misak women, men and children observe the contrast between the monoculture pine and eucalyptus plantation, on the right, and the natural forest in their territory, on the left, from a distance.

FSC-certified paper plantation faces farmer backlash in Colombia

Natalia Torres Garzón 15 Aug 2022

No permit? No problem for palm oil company still clearing forest in Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Aug 2022

Palm oil producer mired in legal troubles still razing Sumatran forest

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Jul 2022

Plantations threaten Indonesia’s orangutans, but they’re not oil palm

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Jul 2022
Earth seen from space. Image via Pexels.

Space: New frontier for climate change & commodification, or conservation? (commentary)

Evan Briscoe 11 Jul 2022
Fish killed by a mine tailings dam breach. Photo courtesy of Andrew Lees Trust.

On hazardous mine tailings dams, ‘safety first’ should be the rule (commentary)

Jan Morrill 6 Jul 2022
Fire in Indonesia forest

As dry season starts in Indonesia, risk of fires — and haze — looms

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Jul 2022
Illegal gold mining inside the Munduruku and Sai Cinza Indigenous Lands

Swiss pledge to stop illegal gold imports from Brazil Indigenous reserves

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 27 Jun 2022
Oil palm nursery and processing facility, Indonesia.

Indonesian palm oil audit a chance to clean up ‘very dirty’ industry

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Jun 2022

Indonesia’s Sangihe islanders score legal victory over mining company

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Jun 2022
Logging operation in Sweden. Image courtesy of Marcus Westberg.

How unsustainable is Sweden’s forestry? ‘Very.’ Q&A with Marcus Westberg and Staffan Widstrand

Erik Hoffner 17 Jun 2022

Second Indonesian province moves to retake forests from palm oil companies

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Jun 2022

Does citizen ownership of natural resources hold the key to realizing deforestation commitments? (commentary)

Han Overman 6 Jun 2022

Sumatra palm plantations the usual suspects as unusual burning razes peatlands

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Jun 2022

Mine pits expose the holes in Indonesia’s plan to relocate its capital

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Apr 2022

FSC-certified Moorim Paper linked to massive forest clearing in Indonesia’s Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Mar 2022

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