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Q&A with Abdon Nababan, outgoing head of Indonesia’s indigenous peoples alliance

Philip Jacobson 13 Mar 2017

Successful forest protection in DRC hinges on community participation

John Cannon 12 Mar 2017

Aceh governor-elect: ‘I myself will cancel’ controversial geothermal project in Sumatran rainforest

Junaidi Hanafiah 11 Mar 2017

Indonesian Supreme Court orders Jokowi administration to hand over palm oil permit data

Mongabay.com 10 Mar 2017
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Greenpeace to take Indonesian forestry ministry to Supreme Court over environmental data

Mongabay.com 9 Mar 2017

Industry-backed plantation museum opens in Indonesia

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 9 Mar 2017

An indigenous group reforests its corner of coastal New Guinea

Agapitus Batbual 7 Mar 2017

Where the forest grants went

Harriet Williams 6 Mar 2017
Oil palm plantation in Riau, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

HSBC to stop financing deforestation-linked palm oil firms

Alice Cuddy 3 Mar 2017

Forests provide a nutritional boon to some communities, research shows

Mongabay.com 2 Mar 2017

A Bornean village conserves a forest the government listed for cutting

Indra Nugraha 2 Mar 2017

Kalaodi, Tidore’s eco-village in Indonesia’s spice capital

M Rahmat Ulhaz 28 Feb 2017

The Republic of Congo: on the cusp of forest conservation

John Cannon 27 Feb 2017

Study finds more than 350k trees illegally felled in Madagascar’s protected areas in five-year span

Mike Gaworecki 23 Feb 2017
A necklace made from mpingo and another local hardwood. Mpingo’s dark, lustrous properties has made it one of the most valuable timbers in the world. Photo by Sophie Tremblay for Mongabay

In one Tanzanian village, survival is intimately linked to forest conservation

Sophie Tremblay, Willy Lowry 12 Feb 2017

Camera traps reveal undiscovered leopard population in Javan forest

Hariyawan A. Wahyudi 10 Feb 2017

Greenpeace slams paper giant over loophole in fire-prevention policy

Alice Cuddy 10 Feb 2017

Will there really be enough sustainable palm oil for the whole market?

Tara MacIsaac 7 Feb 2017

How ‘jobless men managing the sea’ restored a mangrove forest in Java

Donny Iqbal 3 Feb 2017

Forest protection funds flow to DRC despite ‘illegal’ logging permits

Mongabay.com 1 Feb 2017

The cousins from Indonesia who revived an ancient spring

Ebed de Rosary 1 Feb 2017
Rainforest timber on a barge in Gabon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

Logging in certified concessions drove intact forest landscape loss in Congo Basin

Mike Gaworecki 30 Jan 2017

‘Revolutionary’ new biodiversity maps reveal big gaps in conservation

John Cannon 27 Jan 2017

Politician’s son named a suspect over illegal land clearing in Leuser Ecosystem

Junaidi Hanafiah 26 Jan 2017

Want to be a responsible palm oil firm? Follow these reporting guidelines

Mongabay.com 25 Jan 2017
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Green groups want paper giant to stop using drained peat in Indonesia

Mongabay Haze Beat 23 Jan 2017

Private capital investments in conservation have taken off since 2013

Mike Gaworecki 18 Jan 2017

HSBC financing tied to deforestation, rights violations for palm oil in Indonesia

John Cannon 18 Jan 2017

Indonesian government challenges another green group over freedom of information request

Mongabay.com 17 Jan 2017

How local elites earn money from burning land in Indonesia

Alice Cuddy 16 Jan 2017

‘Last frontiers of wilderness’: Intact forest plummets globally

John Cannon 13 Jan 2017

Fragmentation boosts carbon storage along temperate forest edges

John Cannon 9 Jan 2017

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