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Sustainability pledges help Indonesia produce palm oil with less deforestation

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Oct 2022
Coral reef in Indonesia.

Shallow-water mining isn’t the eco alternative to deep-sea mining, study says

Cassie Freund 17 Oct 2022
Mirnawati in front of the ancient Semokan Ruak mosque

Indonesian beauty queen founds Indigenous coffee brand in her native Lombok

Fathul Rakhman 13 Oct 2022
Men processing abacá fiber.

Clothes sourced from plants could expand deforestation – or abate it

Ian Morse 12 Oct 2022
A Javan hawk-eagle on a branch

Indonesia foresters hope Garuda poachers turn gamekeepers

L. Darmawan 11 Oct 2022

Mangroves and wildlife in Bornean bay at risk from Indonesia’s new capital

Basten Gokkon, Richaldo Hariandja 7 Oct 2022

As Indonesia paints rosy picture for orangutans, scientists ask: Where’s the data?

Philip Jacobson 3 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
A truck carrying acacia logs in Indonesia

Emissions and deforestation set to spike under Indonesia’s biomass transition

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Sep 2022
Amazon rainforest in Brazil

Could Brazil’s election decide the fate of the Amazon?

Mike DiGirolamo 20 Sep 2022

Big data monitoring tool aims to catch up to Indonesia’s booming online bird trade

Basten Gokkon 16 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

Pioneer agroforester Ermi, 73, rolls back the years in Indonesia’s Gorontalo

Sarjan Lahay 15 Sep 2022
Ledan holding ironwood saplings

After 20 years and thousands of trees planted, Kalimantan’s veteran forester persists

Budi Baskoro, Lusia Arumingtyas 14 Sep 2022

Indonesia and Norway give REDD+ deal another go after earlier breakup

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Sep 2022

Education can change local perception of bats, help conserve species, study says

Sean Mowbray 12 Sep 2022

Trial of palm oil tycoon Surya Darmadi begins in Jakarta

Mongabay Haze Beat 8 Sep 2022
Fadly has created an avocado nursery.

An Indonesian rock star shines his light on mangroves, urban farming and more

Wahyu Chandra 8 Sep 2022
Sumatran elephants play in water.

With less than 10 years to save Sumatran elephants, what’s being done?

Mike DiGirolamo 6 Sep 2022

In revising its criminal code, Indonesia risks unraveling environmental laws

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Sep 2022
Lowland tropical rainforest

Protecting global forests with a limited budget? New study shows where and when to start

Liz Kimbrough 31 Aug 2022

‘More responsible forest management is needed’: Q&A with FSC’s Kim Carstensen

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 Aug 2022
Residents paddle a boat down a flooded street in Bojongasih village.

Java communities rally as clock ticks on cleanup of ‘world’s dirtiest river’

Donny Iqbal 31 Aug 2022
A truck carrying acacia logs in Indonesia

Biomass cofiring loopholes put coal on open-ended life support in Asia

Annelise Giseburt 29 Aug 2022

Sumatran conservationist Rahmad Saleh Simbolon dies at 47

Elviza Diana, Lili Rambe 29 Aug 2022

‘Cursed’ dam project in orangutan habitat claims 16th life in less than 2 years

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Aug 2022
Hutan Keramat Penyabungan

Encircled by plantations, a Sumatran Indigenous community abides changing times

Suryadi 22 Aug 2022

Nearness to roads and palm oil mills a key factor in peatland clearing by smallholders

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Aug 2022
Aziil Anwar.

Aziil Anwar, Indonesian coral-based mangrove grower, dies at 64

Agus Mawan 16 Aug 2022
Fishermen haul their catch from the boat.

In Sumatra, rising seas and sinking land spell hard times for fishers

Tonggo Simangunsong 16 Aug 2022
Yasmin trails her son Junaidi on their farm.

Photos: Meet the Indonesians on the front lines of human-elephant conflict in Sumatra

Fieni Aprilia 11 Aug 2022
A herd of elephants in Cot Girek.

‘Chased from every side’: Sumatran elephants pinned down by forest loss

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 10 Aug 2022

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