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Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Another Indonesian court convicts a company of causing fires

Mongabay Haze Beat 30 Aug 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
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesian parliament to investigate fire-linked firms in Riau

Mongabay Haze Beat 20 Aug 2016
Drainage canal dug through peat swamp in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Indonesia’s peat restoration chief calls for protection of all peat domes

Lusia Arumingtyas, Sapariah Saturi 18 Aug 2016
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Company ordered to pay record $76m over fires in Sumatra

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2016
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Hundreds sickened in Indonesia’s Aceh as peat fires burn

Junaidi Hanafiah 9 Aug 2016

IPOP’s demise undercuts palm oil industry progress [commentary]

Dave McLaughlin 8 Aug 2016

RSPO lifts suspension of Malaysian palm oil giant IOI

Mongabay.com 5 Aug 2016
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

15 fire-linked firms escape prosecution in Indonesia’s Riau

Mongabay Haze Beat 28 Jul 2016

Haze epicenter receives environmental award in Indonesia

Aria Danaparamita 23 Jul 2016
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Fires begin to appear en masse as Indonesia’s burning season gets going

Mongabay Haze Beat 8 Jul 2016

Bunge joins ranks of palm oil users to sanction Malaysia’s IOI

Mongabay.com 7 Jul 2016
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

What are South Sumatrans doing to prevent another haze crisis?

Taufik Wijaya 29 Jun 2016

Malaysian palm oil giant IOI under pressure after Cargill ultimatum

Mongabay.com 28 Jun 2016
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

No more fires in Indonesia?

Erik Meijaard 20 Jun 2016

Peat expert dies from cancer after fighting Indonesian fires

Indra Nugraha 12 Jun 2016
Illegal forest clearingfor oil palm in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

How is Indonesian president Jokowi doing on environmental issues?

Philip Jacobson 12 Jun 2016
Greenpeace protesting against a company's palm oil policy. Courtesy of Greenpeace

10 reasons to be optimistic for forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Jun 2016

SE Asia’s damaged peat swamps could release 8.7 gigatons of CO2

Loren Bell 31 May 2016

Singapore, Indonesia jostle over anti-haze measures

Mongabay Haze Beat 16 May 2016

Malaysian palm oil giant IOI sues RSPO over suspension

Mongabay.com 9 May 2016

How effective will Indonesia’s palm oil permit freeze really be?

Mongabay Haze Beat 4 May 2016

Haze returns to Kuala Lumpur – but not because of Indonesian fires

Mongabay Haze Beat 26 Apr 2016

Grim forecast for paper giant’s wood supply raises deforestation fears

Jonathan Vit 22 Apr 2016

Another pulp and paper supplier suspended for role in Indonesian haze crisis

Mongabay.com 15 Apr 2016

Companies asked to pitch in to Indonesia’s peat restoration drive as early fires flare in Sumatra

Mongabay Haze Beat 8 Apr 2016

Malaysian palm oil giant IOI suspended from RSPO

Mongabay.com 25 Mar 2016

Indonesia’s oil palm maps remain hidden from public view. Why?

Mongabay.com 23 Mar 2016

$1m for devising best way to map Indonesia’s peatlands

Sapariah Saturi 5 Mar 2016

Indonesia’s peat peninsula being drained into oblivion, study finds

Loren Bell 24 Feb 2016
Burning peat forest and oil palm in Riau, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Norway pledges $50m to fund Indonesia’s peat restoration

Mongabay Haze Beat 5 Feb 2016

Fires burned 26% of forestry giant’s South Sumatra plantations in 2015

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Feb 2016

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