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Oil palm plantation and native tropical rainforest on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler

A decade of stopping deforestation: How the palm oil industry did the seemingly impossible (commentary)

Glenn Hurowitz 27 Dec 2023

Indonesia remembers Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, rare policymaker who stood for nature

Junaidi Hanafiah, Richardo Hariandja 22 Dec 2023
A Java stingaree

Farewell, Java stingaree: Scientists declare the first marine fish extinction

Jeremy Hance 22 Dec 2023

Indonesia delays enforcement of widely panned fisheries policy

Basten Gokkon 17 Dec 2023
A blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus).

The ex-shark fishermen teaching schoolkids how to protect the environment

Claire Turrell 15 Dec 2023

Traditional small farmers burned by Indonesia’s war on wildfires

Philip Jacobson | Aseanty Pahlevi | Hans Nicholas Jong | Yusie Marie | M Rahim Arza 14 Dec 2023

Iconic Indonesian raptor still threatened by habitat degradation, isolation

Basten Gokkon 12 Dec 2023

Activists slam ‘independent’ probe by Indonesian palm oil giant into violations

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Dec 2023

Indigenous groups rebuke court OK for palm oil company to raze Papua forests

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Dec 2023

With Indonesia’s new fishing policy starting soon, fishers still mostly unaware

Basten Gokkon 6 Dec 2023

Indonesia pushes carbon-intensive ‘false solutions’ in its energy transition

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Dec 2023

Lombok sand mine corruption probe continues as Indonesia to resume exports

Fathul Rakhman 1 Dec 2023

As RSPO celebrates 20 years of work, Indigenous groups lament unresolved grievances

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Dec 2023

Smallholders and loggers push deeper into Sumatra’s largest park

Jeremy Hance 29 Nov 2023

Collaboration key to rediscovery of egg-laying mammal in Papua’s Cyclops Mountains

Basten Gokkon 28 Nov 2023

New calf brings new hope, and new concerns, for embattled Sumatran rhinos

Jeremy Hance 27 Nov 2023
Bornean orangutans are threatened by habitat loss and individual killings. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Killings of Bornean orangutans could lead to their extinction

Madeline Reinsel 24 Nov 2023

Investigation shows ‘shadow companies’ linked to Indonesia palm oil giant First Resources

Mongabay.com 23 Nov 2023
A woman stands next to a well with water that tastes salty due to seawater interference.

Salty wells and lost land: Climate and erosion take their toll in Sulawesi

Agus Mawan 21 Nov 2023

Indonesia launches new front in climate campaign focusing on seagrass

Basten Gokkon 21 Nov 2023
A lobster larva. Image by Fathul Rakhman/Mongabay-Indonesia.

Indonesia welcomes new Singapore regulation to help curb lobster smuggling

Basten Gokkon 18 Nov 2023

New platform offers toolkit for companies to prove their eco claims

Claudia Geib 16 Nov 2023
Forest in British Columbia. Photo: Rhett A. Butler

Calls for FSC to drop Canada’s Paper Excellence over ties to deforester

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Nov 2023
A volunteer firefighter from the Power of Mama group.

In Borneo, the ‘Power of Mama’ fight Indonesia’s wildfires with all-woman crew

Mongabay Haze Beat 10 Nov 2023

Boost for Sumatran rhino IVF plan as eggs extracted from Bornean specimen

Basten Gokkon 8 Nov 2023
Maman Ajo makes a living selling boats.

Java farmers displaced by dam remain treading water after decades

Donny Iqbal 8 Nov 2023

Burn now, pay later: Fines trickle in from Indonesia’s crackdown on forest fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Nov 2023
Muslim communities represent a large percentage of the global population and are greatly impacted by climate change, and therefore deserve seats at important climate change negotiations like COP28. Image courtesy of Memona Hossain.

Muslim community must have a seat for global climate change discourse (commentary)

Memona Hossain 3 Nov 2023

Indonesian activist Gita Syahrani wins $3m award for work on sustainable growth

Lusia Arumingtyas 3 Nov 2023
Long-house at Sungai Utik, an Iban community in West Kalimantan that has successfully defended its customary forests against loggers. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / mongabay

Independent project steps in as government slow to map Indonesian ancestral lands

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Nov 2023

As fire season worsens, Indonesian activists report four companies for burning

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Nov 2023

Key Indonesian fish populations depleted & new assessments needed, study shows

Basten Gokkon 31 Oct 2023

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