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

Mongabay.com 23 Nov 2023
Community tree nursery

How scientists and a community are bringing a Bornean river corridor back to life

Carolyn Cowan 22 Nov 2023

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Nov 2023

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Nov 2023
Sun bear

Conservationists look to defy gloomy outlook for Borneo’s sun bears

Carolyn Cowan 31 Oct 2023
Palm oil plantations in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Indigenous Dayak ‘furious’ as RSPO dismisses land rights violation complaint

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Oct 2023
An orangutan in Sabah, Borneo

Deforestation surges in hotspot of critically endangered Bornean orangutans

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Oct 2023

Indonesia’s besieged Tesso Nilo National Park hit hard by yet more deforestation, satellites show

Morgan Erickson-Davis 19 Oct 2023

Report: Half of plantations in Indonesia’s palm oil heartland are illegal

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Oct 2023

Indonesian police slammed after protester demanding rightful land is shot dead

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Oct 2023
Members of Synaparcam, an association of communities affected by Socapalm holding a banner reading "YES to the respect of community rights" in French. Image courtesy Thierry Didier Kuicheu

Bolloré blacklisted over alleged rights violations on plantations in Africa and Asia

Victoria Schneider 29 Sep 2023

Experts slam massive ‘discount’ in fines for Indonesian palm oil billionaire

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Sep 2023
Tractor and trailer with oil palm seedlings on a Wilmar plantation in Cross River state, Nigeria. Image by Rettet van Regenwald via Flickr (CC BY--NC-ND 2.0)

10 years after land grab, local Nigerian farmers continue fight against palm oil producer

Orji Sunday 22 Sep 2023

Deforestation for palm oil continues in Indonesia’s ‘orangutan capital’

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Sep 2023
Plantation workers loading oil palm fruit off a truck in Sabah, Malaysia.

Group certification helps Malaysia’s Sabah aim for palm oil sustainability

Louise Hunt 19 Sep 2023

Kellogg’s latest to freeze Indonesian supplier over palm oil violations

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Sep 2023

Court ruling spares Papua forest from further clearing for palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Sep 2023

Indonesia permit payoff raises alarm about palm oil industry corruption

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Aug 2023

Palm oil, pulpwood firms not doing enough to prevent peat fires, analysis shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Aug 2023
A local community member who works at an oil palm plantation in Liberia pushing a cart of the harvest.

Investigation confirms most allegations against plantation operator Socfin

Victoria Schneider 11 Aug 2023

Video: Five Tembé Indigenous activists shot in Amazonian ‘palm oil war’

Karla Mendes 11 Aug 2023
Indigenous activists demand justice after five from their communities were shot.

Indigenous activists demand justice after 5 shot in Amazonian ‘palm oil war’

Karla Mendes 9 Aug 2023
A worker fertilizing on oil palm plantation in Papua, Indonesia.

New farmers foundation supports deforestation-free products in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Aug 2023
Along the Via Auca, it is common to find patches of deforested land that will later be planted with agricultural or agroforestry crops.

Oil palm and balsa plantations trigger deforestation in Ecuadorian Amazon

Ana Cristina Alvarado 8 Aug 2023

Oil palms may be magnet for macaques, boars, at expense of other biodiversity

Carolyn Cowan 7 Aug 2023
A Sumatran elephant in South Sumatra.

Elephant encounters rattle farmers in Indonesia’s Jambi province

Yitno Suprapto 1 Aug 2023

Supply chain report investigates deforestation tied to palm growing in Colombia

Yvette Sierra Praeli 1 Aug 2023
The endangered greater green leafbird

Study: More than 900 at-risk species lack international trade protections

Liz Kimbrough 31 Jul 2023
A worker in an oil palm plantation.

Most Indonesian palm oil firms not sharing land with small farmers as required: audit

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Jul 2023
An oil palm plantation adjacent to a forest in East Kalimantan.

Indonesia slammed for ‘bowing down’ in amnesty for illegal oil palm estates

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Jul 2023
Trucks loaded with freshly cut logs transported for further processing, Gunung Lumut, East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Indonesia claims record-low deforestation, but accounting raises questions

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Jul 2023
Protest action in front of the PT BGA office demanding the release of the criminalized farmers.

Civil society changes up campaign against jailed Kalimantan farmers

Richaldo Hariandja 10 Jul 2023

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