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Yasmin trails her son Junaidi on their farm.

Photos: Meet the Indonesians on the front lines of human-elephant conflict in Sumatra

Fieni Aprilia 11 Aug 2022
A herd of elephants in Cot Girek.

‘Chased from every side’: Sumatran elephants pinned down by forest loss

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 10 Aug 2022
A farmer cuts cacao pods from the tree in Colombia.

Delectable but destructive: Tracing chocolate’s environmental life cycle

Sean Mowbray 1 Aug 2022
A male orangutan in Indonesian Borneo. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Deforestation in Borneo threatens one in four orangutans, study says

Basten Gokkon 26 Jul 2022

Palm oil producer mired in legal troubles still razing Sumatran forest

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Jul 2022
Leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis).

Study assesses wildlife exposure to rat poison on oil palm plantations

Sean Mowbray 13 Jul 2022
Fire in Indonesia forest

As dry season starts in Indonesia, risk of fires — and haze — looms

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Jul 2022
Oil palm nursery and processing facility, Indonesia.

Indonesian palm oil audit a chance to clean up ‘very dirty’ industry

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Jun 2022

Second Indonesian province moves to retake forests from palm oil companies

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Jun 2022

Draining tropical peatlands for oil palms isn’t just bad — it’s unnecessary, study shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Jun 2022
Clearing the site with dynamite to access the vein of coal in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

In Indonesian Borneo, a succession of extractive industries multiplies impacts, social fractures

Elizabeth Fitt 13 Jun 2022

Satellites show deforestation surging in Indonesia’s Tesso Nilo National Park

Zamzami｜Morgan Erickson-Davis 9 Jun 2022

Slick operator: Indonesian cooking oil probe may spread to biodiesel industry

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 May 2022
Black-and-yellow broadbill (Eurylaimus ochromalus), a near threatened bird species recorded during point count surveys in an agroforestry orchard in Rembau, Malaysia.

In oil palm-dominated Malaysia, agroforestry orchards are oases of bird life: Study

Grace Dungey 11 May 2022

Indonesia to probe scale of tax-dodging illegal oil palm plantations

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 May 2022

With ban on palm oil exports, Indonesia reaps condemnation and praise

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Apr 2022

Colombian Indigenous community waits in poverty as courts weigh ownership of ancestral land

Mongabay Latam & Rutas del Conflicto 14 Apr 2022

Indonesians, too reliant on palm oil, should go back to their roots (commentary)

Taufik Wijaya 7 Apr 2022
A truck with Oilpalm fruits is entering Fajar Harapan Palm Oil Mill.

EU response to palm oil is opportunity, not threat (commentary)

Andre Barahamin 29 Mar 2022

Deforestation for palm oil falls in Southeast Asia, but is it a trend or a blip?

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Mar 2022
A long-tailed macaque in Gunung Leuser National Park. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Probe finds palm oil firm illegally clearing forest in Sumatra wildlife haven

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Mar 2022

Banning high-deforestation palm oil has limited impact on saving forests: Study

Loren Bell 3 Mar 2022

Colombian palm oil company under investigation for polluting rivers

Alianza periodística tras las huellas de la palma 2 Mar 2022

When Indonesia retook land from developers, it gave them a solid case to sue

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Feb 2022

Indonesian government says no to reclassifying oil palm estates as forests

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Feb 2022

Can the little-known tamanu tree replace palm oil in Indonesia’s biofuel bid?

Nuswantoro 9 Feb 2022
Deforestation for oil palm in Malaysian Borneo.

Even degraded forests are more ecologically valuable than none, study shows

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 7 Feb 2022

Polluting with impunity: Palm oil companies flout regulations in Ecuador

Alianza periodística tras las huellas de la palma 4 Feb 2022

Community in Ecuador punished for trying to stop alleged palm oil pollution

Alianza periodística tras las huellas de la palma 4 Feb 2022

Have we reached peak palm oil? (commentary)

Mark Gregory 2 Feb 2022

Raid against Sumatran official uncovers use of slave labor on oil palm farm

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Jan 2022
New oil palm planting near a protected area in Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Indonesia is clearing less forest for palm oil, but it’s still not sustainable, activists say

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Jan 2022

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