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Will REDD+ help save Indonesia’s forest, or create ‘carbon cowboys’ instead?

Simon Pollock 20 Aug 2015

Sumatran rhino extinct in the Malaysian wild

Mongabay.com 20 Aug 2015

Norway’s wealth fund expels POSCO, Daewoo Int’l over palm oil holdings

Philip Jacobson 18 Aug 2015

Haze chokehold spurring efforts to save Indonesia’s forests

Simon Pollock 18 Aug 2015

Promised task force on indigenous rights in Indonesia hits snag

Cory Rogers 15 Aug 2015
Natural forest and acacia plantation in Riau. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

APP to clear plantations to restore peatlands

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Aug 2015

After long battle, big swath of Sumatran rainforest wins protection

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Aug 2015

Man selling baby orangutans on Facebook arrested in Sumatra

Junaidi Hanafiah 6 Aug 2015

Palm oil a mixed blessing in Indonesia’s peat peninsula

Zamzami 4 Aug 2015

A “singing swinging” lesser ape: the Siamang

Jeremy Hance 3 Aug 2015

Not just any Wilmar supplier caught violating no-deforestation policy

Mongabay.com 30 Jul 2015

Govt asked to guard Aceh wildlife corridor’s slow recovery

Chik Rini 29 Jul 2015

Nine months in, how has Jokowi fared on the environment?

Mongabay.com 23 Jul 2015

Peatland emissions from oil palm conversion highly understated: report

Mike Gaworecki 16 Jul 2015

Minister flies over Kalimantan as forest fires surge in Indonesia

Aseanty Pahlevi 15 Jul 2015

Indonesian kingpin of illegal wildlife trade gets two years in prison

Mongabay.com 13 Jul 2015

Fires rage in Indonesian park illegally trashed for palm oil

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Jul 2015

Indonesians cite MIFEE project at UN meeting on corporate abuses

Sapariah Saturi 10 Jul 2015

Push to revise conservation law as Indonesians post wildlife crimes to Facebook

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 10 Jul 2015

Customs officials seize 455 pangolins hidden in crates of fish in Indonesia

Petrus Riski 9 Jul 2015

Man selling eagles on Facebook arrested in Indonesia

Petrus Riski 7 Jul 2015

First Resources the latest palm oil giant to announce zero-deforestation commitment

Mongabay.com 3 Jul 2015

Wilmar, Musim Mas supplier still destroying forest for oil palm in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem

Mongabay.com 3 Jul 2015

‘Criminalization’ of local people in Indonesian province rife amid oil palm, coal booms

Yustinus S. Hardjanto 1 Jul 2015

‘Sea change’ in clothing industry means more protections for forests

Mike Gaworecki 30 Jun 2015

Corporations rush to make zero-deforestation commitments, but is it working?

Julian Smith 29 Jun 2015

After two decades, Indonesia publishes plan for tackling invasive species

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 29 Jun 2015

Illegal forest clearing spotted in Aceh’s biggest peat swamp

26 Jun 2015

Indonesian president pledges to accelerate long-delayed indigenous rights law

Sapariah Saturi 26 Jun 2015

Status change to come for Indonesia’s partial logging moratorium?

Mongabay.com 25 Jun 2015

Indonesia’s booming caged-bird trade is fueling trafficking and threatening extinction

25 Jun 2015

Indigenous Indonesians file land claim against IndoMet coal project

Mongabay.com 24 Jun 2015

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