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Investigations into Singapore palm oil firm find family ties to Borneo deforesters

Robin Hicks 29 Oct 2026

A dry canal in the Air Merah community forest area.

Early tech warning hopes to give Sumatra’s peat community a head start on fires

Teguh Suprayitno 29 Oct 2026

Fishers in eastern Indonesia struggle as rough seas keep them ashore

Basten Gokkon 29 Oct 2026

Pangolin scale lawsuit in Indonesia could shake up how wildlife traffickers pay

Carolyn Cowan 28 Oct 2026

Copper mine in Chile. Image by Tom Hegen

Photographer Tom Hegen’s aerial eye reveals the true scale of the critical mineral age

Carolyn Cowan 28 Oct 2026

A thick haze obscures the skyline behind the Central Business District area in Singapore, Oct. 9, 2026.

‘Influence without enforcement’: Indonesia’s fires test Singapore’s anti-haze law

Gabrielle See 27 Oct 2026

A man rides a bicycle through thick haze caused by wildfires in Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Oct. 23, 2026.

Indonesians allege social media posts on wildfires and haze are being censored

Winda Charmila 23 Oct 2026

Scorched sanctuaries: The race to save Borneo’s orangutans from fires

Garry Lotulung 22 Oct 2026

Illegal gold mining activity in the Pamong Besar River, Sangir, South Solok. Photo: Vinolia/Mongabay Indonesia.

Deadly gold rush continues as latest landslide kills four in Sumatra

Vinolia 22 Oct 2026

Rare Indonesian maleo birds face new threat from international exotic pet trade

Mongabay.com 22 Oct 2026

Fire has engulfed Mount Arjuno close to Malang.

Wildfire in Indonesia’s Mount Bromo National Park kills 4 firefighters

Eko Widianto 20 Oct 2026

Wisye Sahambangung, front, and other women from Rhizopora work in a muddy mangrove area in Sarawet on Sept. 2, 2026. Image courtesy of Wisye Sahambangung.

Indonesian women cash in on mangrove restoration: Interview with community leader Wisye Sahambangung

Annisa Dinulislam 17 Oct 2026

Firefighters battling a blaze in Central Kalimantan in 2026.

‘Perpetuating stupidity’: Indonesia comes under fire for response to burning and haze

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Oct 2026

Two rare pregnancies spark hope for Sumatran rhinos — but also concerns about inbreeding

Basten Gokkon 14 Oct 2026

Indonesia returns 20 green sea turtles to the ocean after Bali smuggling raid

Associated Press 13 Oct 2026

Indonesia says it no longer needs forests for rice. What happens to projects underway?

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Oct 2026

Deadly wildfires leave Borneo wildlife scrambling for fresh water

Basten Gokkon 9 Oct 2026

A customary longhouse in Sungai Utik.

Indigenous activist Kynan Tegar on Indonesia’s fires, and defending the Earth

Mike DiGirolamo, Basten Gokkon 6 Oct 2026

A Dayak Ngaju tribe man tries to extinguish fire on burning peatland in Mantangai, Central Kalimantan.

The Indonesians facing El Nino’s fires have lessons to teach us (commentary)

Akane Nishimura 6 Oct 2026

A Sumatran orangutan in Bukit Lawang, North Sumatra.

Indonesia threatens prison time for unauthorized downloads of forest data

Dyna Rochmyaningsih, Philip Jacobson 6 Oct 2026

‘There could be local extinction’: The fight to protect Indonesia’s orangutans as El Niño fuels fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Oct 2026

Weak prosecution leaves Southeast Asia’s tigers vulnerable to trafficking: Report

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2026

Wildlife traffickers are now targeting Indonesia’s critically endangered maleo birds

Spoorthy Raman 2 Oct 2026

A resident is extinguishing a fire at Talang Turunan Gajah using simple tools. Photo: Muhammad Akbar/Mongabay Indonesia.

As fires spread, Indonesia’s rubber growers draw on traditional ways to fight back

Taufik Wijaya 2 Oct 2026

Indonesia’s new peatland agency faces questions over what it will do differently

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Oct 2026

Indonesia passes agrarian reform law amid concerns over land protections

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Sep 2026

Thumbnail Firefly, Bali

Bringing back Bali’s lost fireflies

Rizky Maulana Yanuar, Sam Lee 27 Sep 2026

Thumbnail Firefly

A plan to save Bali’s lost fireflies

Sam Lee, Rizky Maulana Yanuar 26 Sep 2026

Orange-winged amazon (Amazona amazonica).

Brazil’s tropical forest fund races to raise $2.7 billion before deadline

Carla Ruas 24 Sep 2026

Indonesia’s geothermal push runs into local fears at Mount Ungaran

Triyo Handoko 24 Sep 2026

An adult orangutan drinking from a peat river in the Tanjung Puting National Park area, Central Kalimantan.

As fires spread in Indonesia, Bornean orangutans run out of forest to flee

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Sep 2026

Freediver and turtle

Tourism has the potential to reverse coral decline at Bali travel hotspot: Study

Carolyn Cowan 22 Sep 2026

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