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Malayan tiger

Fate of Malaysian forests stripped of protection points to conservation stakes

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 13 Oct 2021

In a sea of oil palms, even monitor lizards need islands of natural forest

Carolyn Cowan 11 Oct 2021

Hidden camera footage exposes bribery for palm oil in Papua New Guinea

Mongabay.com 8 Oct 2021
Hornbill

Malaysian hornbill bust reveals live trafficking trend in Southeast Asia

Carolyn Cowan 29 Sep 2021

When a tree falls in the forest, you can still hear the birdsong

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 22 Sep 2021

Saving sea turtles in the ‘Anthropause’: Successes and challenges on the beach

Elizabeth Fitt 15 Sep 2021

Oil palms alone can be damaging; with other crops, the benefits abound

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Sep 2021

Win for Malaysian forest after government backs down on development plan

Rachel Donald 14 Sep 2021

Borneo’s bearded pigs and traditional hunters adapted to oil palms. Then came swine fever

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 8 Sep 2021

Dam builder denies responsibility as logjam chokes river in Malaysian Borneo

Rachel Donald 26 Aug 2021
An orangutan in Sabah, Borneo

Highway cutting through Heart of Borneo poised to be ‘very, very bad’

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 23 Aug 2021

They safeguarded nature, but now Malaysia’s Mah Meri face eviction for an eco-resort

Rachel Donald 20 Aug 2021

Malaysian timber giant Samling takes conflict over logging activity to court

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 19 Aug 2021
Fireflies illuminate the forest. Image by Roberto Marchegiani via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Loss of mangroves dims the light on firefly populations in Malaysia

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 15 Aug 2021
Bornean gibbon

In the Borneo canopy, life thrives in surprising ways, camera-trap study shows

Carolyn Cowan 4 Aug 2021

For Malaysia’s Indigenous Penan, vaccine doubt is part of historic govt distrust

Rachel Donald 15 Jul 2021

Tiger habitat threatened by Malaysian royals’ mining plans

Rachel Donald 7 Jul 2021
Oil palm fruit. Image by Dave Barce via Wikicommons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Blind spot in palm policy raises deforestation risk in Malaysia, report says

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 2 Jul 2021

Monks and wildlife come under pressure from Malaysian cement company

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 30 Jun 2021
Sabah’s remaining elephants are hemmed in by oil palm plantations, and scientists worry that stretches of the Pan Borneo Highway could further fragment the population. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

NGOs call for alternative routes for Bornean road to avoid wildlife habitat

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 29 Jun 2021

Malaysian council opens hearing into claims of timber certification flaws

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 17 Jun 2021

Banks increased deforestation-linked investments by $8B during Covid-19: report

Mongabay.com 15 Jun 2021
The "Stop the Chop Protest" in Miri, Sarawak against Malaysian forestry company Samling in October 2020. Photo credit: The Borneo Project

‘Listening to communities must go beyond ticking compliance boxes’, says Peter Kallang, a Kenyah leader

Rhett A. Butler 9 Jun 2021

Chinese banks pouring billions into deforestation-linked firms, report says

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 9 Jun 2021
Smoke rising from smoldering peatland in PT Raja Garuda Mas Sejati. Photo courtesy of Greenpeace Media Library.

Efforts to restore tropical peatlands need fire-free plantations (commentary)

Evi Wulandari | Dilva Terzano 2 Jun 2021

Threat of legal action against Indigenous Borneans protesting timber company

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 1 Jun 2021
Satellite image of oil palm, agriculture, and forest in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Image credit: Maxar Technologies.

Chocolate giant funds high resolution carbon map to protect forests

Aurora Solá 1 Jun 2021

Wildlife trafficking, like everything else, has gone online during COVID-19

Imelda Abano, Leilani Chavez 1 Jun 2021

As the rest of world tackles plastics disposal, the U.S. resists

Charles Pekow 17 May 2021

An owl not seen in over a century makes a brief return — then vanishes again

Romi Castagnino 13 May 2021

Malaysian firm bidding to clear Papua forest loses land bid, but deforestation persists

Philip Jacobson, Tom Johnson 29 Apr 2021

Sumatran rhinos show low inbreeding — but when it happens, collapse is quick

Carolyn Cowan 29 Apr 2021

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