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Indonesia’s No. 2 palm oil firm faces global backlash over community conflict

Agus Mawan 10 Jul 2023
Oil palm plantation

Degraded, but not defunct: Modified land still has wildlife value, study says

Carolyn Cowan 7 Jul 2023

Nearly 85% of Indonesian peatlands aren’t protected, study shows

Basten Gokkon 6 Jul 2023
Plantation workers on the SAC plantation in Sierra Leone's Sahn Malen chiefdom. Image by Maja Hitij for Mongabay.

Communities accuse Socfin and Earthworm Foundation of greenwash in West Africa

Victoria Schneider 21 Jun 2023
A worker in an oil palm plantation.

Alleged torturers roam free as Indonesia struggles to bring charges in palm oil slavery case

Mongabay.com 21 Jun 2023
Yuliana and Singapue, workers in an oil palm plantation

Palm oil giants face corruption charges as Indonesia probe widens

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Jun 2023

Palm oil: The crop that cuts into southeastern Mexico’s jungles and mangroves

Aminetth Sánchez 20 Jun 2023

In Indonesia, companies defy government’s decision to revoke their permits

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Jun 2023
Batin Irasan, the village’s ketua adat, or spiritual leader.

Sumatra Indigenous community displaced by Samsung palm oil unit await justice

Suryadi 6 Jun 2023
Burned peat forest in Borneo.

Peatlands, Indonesia’s carbon trove, are mostly unprotected, study finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Jun 2023

Palm giants Wilmar, Indofood, RGE fined over Indonesian cooking oil shortage

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 May 2023

Indonesia, Malaysia deploy ministers to push back on EU palm oil restrictions

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 May 2023
An oil palm plantation adjacent to a forest in East Kalimantan.

Indonesian audit finds taxes unpaid on 22 million acres of oil palm plantations

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 May 2023
Lúcio Tembé, chief of the Turé-Mariquita village in Tomé-Açu, northeastern Pará.

Indigenous chief shot in head in Brazil’s ‘palm oil war’ region; crisis group launched

Karla Mendes 16 May 2023
Yuliana and Singapue, workers in an oil palm plantation

From palm oil waste to cellulosic ethanol: Indonesia’s opportunity (commentary)

Tenny Kristiana 12 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
Activist Emmanuel Elong at the foot of an ancestral tomb on the sacred site of Bayong Mbonjo. Photo by Yannick Kenné.

Palm oil giant hands over sacred community land for reforestation project

Yannick Kenné 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
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
A Quilombolas man lights candles in the cemetery.

RSPO suspension of Brazil palm oil exporter tied to Mongabay land-grabbing report

Karla Mendes 29 Mar 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

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Mar 2023
An oil palm plantation and natural forest in Jambi, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Conservationists decry palm oil giants’ exit from HCSA forest protection group

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Mar 2023

Orangutan death in Sumatra points to human-wildlife conflict, illegal trade

Ayat S. Karokaro, Sri Wahyuni 6 Mar 2023

Indonesian palm oil billionaire gets 15 years for corruption

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Feb 2023
A margay.

Forest loss may push tree-dependent marbled cats into threatened category

Sean Mowbray 8 Feb 2023
Palm oil estate worker

Indonesia and Malaysia assail new EU ban on ‘dirty commodities’ trade

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 Jan 2023

Indonesia’s biofuel push must go beyond palm oil to reduce risk, experts say

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jan 2023

Indonesia prosecutors decry ‘lenient’ sentences in palm oil corruption case

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Jan 2023

For Indonesian smallholders, EU deforestation rule is a threat — and an opportunity

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Jan 2023
Researcher Elielson Pereira da Silva and Quilombola people sit waiting for a canoe.

Video: In Brazil’s Amazon, Quilombolas fight major palm oil firm for access to cemeteries

Karla Mendes 28 Dec 2022

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