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First round of UN negotiations to regulate high seas fishing concludes

Alexandra Ossola 8 Apr 2016

Breakthrough: Indonesia’s highest court orders release of mining data

Yustinus S. Hardjanto 30 Mar 2016

Baby orangutan poachers get 2.5 years in Sumatra

Rahmadi Rahmad 25 Mar 2016

Released: 1,000-page encyclopedia on land conflicts affecting indigenous tribes

Mongabay.com 17 Mar 2016

New life for Indonesia’s long-delayed indigenous rights bill?

Cory Rogers 17 Mar 2016

Indonesia’s antigraft agency strives to rein in the mining sector

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 27 Feb 2016
Peatlands cleared for a plantation in Riau Province in 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Team of 6: the leadership of Indonesia’s peatlands restoration agency is now in place

Sapariah Saturi 23 Feb 2016

Indonesia could collaborate with RSPO, official study finds

Jonathan Vit 19 Feb 2016

Review finds EU plan to curb illegal logging has had little success

Morgan Erickson-Davis 18 Feb 2016
Illegal encroachment for palm oil production in Riau, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesian palm oil giant joins no-deforestation pledge amid criticism from politicians

Mongabay.com 18 Feb 2016

Jakarta governor proposes lighter environmental permitting

Melati Kaye 15 Feb 2016

Jokowi asked to push indigenous rights through reluctant parliament

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 29 Jan 2016

Aceh citizens sue government to save Leuser Ecosystem

Cory Rogers 22 Jan 2016

Peru terminates head of forest watchdog agency

Ruxandra Guidi 15 Jan 2016
Wood fiber concession on recently cleared peatland in Riau Province, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesia appoints conservationist to save country’s declining peatlands

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Jan 2016

Indonesia seeks re-do on court decision absolving company for haze-causing fire

Indra Nugraha 12 Jan 2016
Burning peat forest and oil palm in Riau, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesia loses flagship case against company accused of burning

Mongabay.com 8 Jan 2016

What’s ahead for rainforests in 2016? 10 things to watch

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jan 2016
Image taken September 24 from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite shows the "haze" as its peak. Red outlines indicate hot spots where the sensor detected unusually warm surface temperatures associated with fires. Thick gray smoke hovers over both islands and has triggered air quality alerts and health warnings in Indonesia and neighboring countries. Visibility has plummeted. NASA image by Adam Voiland (NASA Earth Observatory) and Jeff Schmaltz (LANCE MODIS Rapid Response). Caption by Adam Voiland.

50+ companies being investigated or punished for Indonesia’s haze crisis

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2015

Indigenous leaders at COP21: 20 percent of tropical forest carbon is sitting on Indigenous land

Mike Gaworecki 2 Dec 2015

VP Kalla fans flames in Manila as Indonesia presses on with water bombing

Mongabay Haze Beat 18 Nov 2015
Sumatran tiger

Aceh’s priceless Leuser Ecosystem still shrinking as oil palm spreads

Cory Rogers 17 Nov 2015
Young orangutan orphaned by the palm oil industry when its mother was killed in a plantation in Central Kalimantan. This orangutan was one of the lucky ones -- it ended up in a rehabilitation center rather than dying of starvation or being sold into the pet trade.

Greenwashing? RSPO audits rife with ‘mistakes and fraud,’ report finds

Jonathan Vit 16 Nov 2015

Singapore court: illicit timber trafficking through our ports not our problem

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Nov 2015
Members of the indigenous community live at the riverbanks in Kapuas river where the air is engulfed with thick haze at Sei Ahass village, Kapuas district, Central Kalimantan province on Borneo island, Indonesia. These fires are a threat to the health of millions. Smoke from landscape fires kills an estimated 110,000 people every year across Southeast Asia, mostly as a result of heart and lung problems, and weakening newborn babies.

Indonesia bans peatlands destruction

Mongabay.com 10 Nov 2015

US judge accepts plea deal from Lumber Liquidators over Lacey Act violations

Mike Gaworecki 22 Oct 2015

Lumber Liquidators pays $13.2M to end illegal logging probe

Mongabay.com 8 Oct 2015

California takes step toward banning elephant ivory, rhino horn trades

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Sep 2015

Sick of light verdicts, Indonesia to school judges on wildlife crime

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 25 Aug 2015

Amazon paradox: drop in large-scale deforestation makes enforcement more difficult

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Aug 2015

High pressure: is U.S. policy deterring illegal wood imports?

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 19 May 2015

Employing shame for environmental change

Jeremy Hance 3 Mar 2015

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