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A Sumatran rhinoceros in Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

‘I’m not distressed, I’m just pissed off’: Q&A with Sumatran rhino expert John Payne

Jeremy Hance 11 May 2023

Trapping holds back speed of bird recovery in a Sumatran forest, study shows

Basten Gokkon 11 May 2023

Australia bushfires may have caused global climate phenomenon La Niña: Study

Mongabay Haze Beat 11 May 2023
A worker sorts through harvested oil palm.

New book by Mongabay Indonesia & Kaoem Telapak investigates palm oil industry

Elviza Diana, Hans Nicholas Jong 10 May 2023
Workers fertilizing on an oil palm plantation.

EU deforestation tracking regulation sparks division among groups, producers

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 May 2023
Potato farmers at the foot of Mount Kerinci.

In Sumatra, potato appetite bites into a UNESCO-listed tiger haven

Teguh Suprayitno 8 May 2023

Indonesia’s new capital ‘won’t sacrifice the environment’: Q&A with Nusantara’s Myrna Asnawati Safitri

Basten Gokkon 4 May 2023
An oil palm plantation and natural forest in Jambi, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Indonesia legalizes illicit oil palm farms in program slammed as opaque

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 May 2023
A juvenile Javan leopard on the road in Baluran National Park.

Study shows Javan leopard habitat shrinking, but real picture may be worse

Sean Mowbray 4 May 2023
Rainbow over the rainforest and oil palm plantations in the midst of a tropical downpour in Jambi on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

With little will to fight it, corruption is major risk for Indonesian palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 May 2023

High-carbon peat among 1,500 hectares cleared for Indonesia’s food estate

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Apr 2023

Meet the 2023 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 24 Apr 2023
Bioacoustic researcher

The more degraded a forest, the quieter its wildlife, new study shows

Carolyn Cowan 24 Apr 2023
Former lowland rainforest replaced with cocnut in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Deforestation in Borneo threatens three endangered, endemic plant species

Basten Gokkon 21 Apr 2023
Tapanuli Orangutans found near YEL's orangutan study camp in the Batang Toru forest. Image by Aditya Sumitra/Mighty Earth.

Fight for survival: The battle to save the last Tapanuli orangutans

Abhishyant Kidangoor, Sandy Watt 14 Apr 2023

World’s newest great ape faces habitat loss, multiple threats: Will it survive?

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Apr 2023
A female Tapanuli orangutan.

Saving the last Tapanuli orangutans

Lucia Torres 13 Apr 2023

Report: Indonesia’s ‘food estate’ program repeating failures of past projects

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Apr 2023

Flawed count puts ‘glorified’ Javan rhinos on path to extinction, report says

Basten Gokkon 11 Apr 2023

To build its ‘green’ capital city, Indonesia runs a road through a biodiverse forest

Basten Gokkon 10 Apr 2023

Indonesian Indigenous group AMAN wins Skoll Award for defending land rights

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Apr 2023
Gas-fueled power plant in Riau, Indonesia. Image courtesy of PLN.

Indonesia’s Just Energy Transition Partnership must increase transparency (commentary)

Firdaus Cahyadi 7 Apr 2023

Study: Women, youths can be more effective at driving sustainable farming changes

Basten Gokkon 7 Apr 2023
A worker sorts through harvested oil palm.

How do oil palm companies get away with disregarding Indonesian law? (commentary)

Tania Li 29 Mar 2023
Burned peat forest in Borneo.

Deforestation drives fire risk in Borneo amid a warming climate, study finds

Spoorthy Raman 27 Mar 2023

Palm oil deforestation hits record high in Sumatra’s ‘orangutan capital’

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Mar 2023

When a red snapper is more than just a fish: Q&A fisheries scientist Elle Wibisono

Basten Gokkon 22 Mar 2023
Men working with timber.

Indonesian campaigns getting money from illegal logging, mining, watchdog says

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Mar 2023
A Bornean bearded pig family.

Bearded pigs a ‘cultural keystone species’ for Borneo’s Indigenous groups: Study

John Cannon 20 Mar 2023

How we built a database of conflicts driven by Indonesia’s palm oil smallholder scheme

Tom Walker 16 Mar 2023

Loss of wetlands threatens South Sumatra’s rich fish-preserving tradition

Fadhil Nugraha, Mahesa Putra 15 Mar 2023

Rule change sees foreign investors back in Indonesia’s fisheries scene

Basten Gokkon 10 Mar 2023

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