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Mongabay’s coverage of palm oil in 2021

Ashoka Mukpo 27 Dec 2021

Indigenous leader sues over Borneo natural capital deal

John Cannon 17 Dec 2021
Smoke rising from smoldering peatland in PT Raja Garuda Mas Sejati. Photo courtesy of Greenpeace Media Library.

Indonesian peat restoration has more benefits than it costs, study finds

Basten Gokkon 15 Dec 2021

Holding agriculture and logging at bay in the Congo peatlands

John Cannon 9 Dec 2021

‘Forests will disappear again,’ activists warn as Indonesia ends plantation freeze

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Dec 2021

Lack of resolution mechanisms allow palm oil conflicts to fester in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Nov 2021

At a ‘certified’ palm oil plantation in Nigeria, soldiers and conflict over land

Ashoka Mukpo 22 Nov 2021

Report: Orangutans and their habitat in Indonesia need full protection now

Basten Gokkon 19 Nov 2021
Forest illegally cleared for oil palm in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Indonesian official busted over alleged bribe for palm oil permit

Hans Nicholas Jong, Suryadi 19 Nov 2021

Palm oil firm that dried out its land held not liable for fires that followed

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Nov 2021

One in five hectares of oil palm in Indonesia is illegal, report shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Nov 2021
primary forest in Danum Valley Conservation Area, Sabah, by John C. Cannon/Mongabay

Bornean communities locked into 2-million-hectare carbon deal they don’t know about

John Cannon 9 Nov 2021
Mills linked to a refinery. Courtesy of palmoil.io

Data-driven platform looks to clear up fog of palm oil traceability

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Nov 2021

Indigenous Papuans won their forest back from a palm oil firm, but still lack land title

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Oct 2021
A long-tongued nectar bat (Macroglossus minimus), a subspecies of which is found on New Britain Island. Image via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Deforestation notches up along logging roads on PNG’s New Britain Island

John Cannon 21 Oct 2021

Green groups call for scrapping of $300m loan offer for Borneo road project

Basten Gokkon 20 Oct 2021
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

Loss of oil palm permits leaves Papuan villages uncertain and fearful

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Oct 2021

Links to coal mining add to Indonesian palm oil sector’s risk for buyers

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Sep 2021

Remnant forests struggle to survive amid oil palm plantations, study shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Sep 2021

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

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 22 Sep 2021

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 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

Palm oil firms in Papua hit back with lawsuit after permits are revoked

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Sep 2021

Calls mount for Indonesian ban on new palm oil plantations to be extended

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 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
Malayan tapir

Deforestation surge continues amid deepening uncertainty in Myanmar

Carolyn Cowan 23 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

FSC dumps palm oil giant Korindo amid rights, environmental issues in Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Jul 2021

Top brands failing to spot rights abuses on Indonesian oil palm plantations

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Jul 2021

Indonesia bets on biofuels over oil, but EVs could render both moot

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Jul 2021

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