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Borneo’s elephants prefer degraded forests, a new study finds

John Cannon 27 Mar 2018

Oil palm plantations’ dearth of biodiversity rubs off on nearby forests, study shows

Mongabay.com 19 Mar 2018

Bornean bearded pigs seen adapting to oil palm habitats, study finds

Basten Gokkon 6 Mar 2018

What is happening to the orangutans of Borneo?

Basten Gokkon 15 Feb 2018

New study suggests Borneo’s had elephants for thousands of years

John Cannon 31 Jan 2018

Economic headwinds buffet once-resilient Sumatran forest-farms

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Oct 2017

Oil palm firms advance into Leuser rainforest, defying Aceh governor’s orders

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Sep 2017

Mammal numbers high in logged tropical forests, study finds

John Cannon 16 Aug 2017

Orangutans find home in degraded forests

John Cannon 24 Jul 2017
Processed palm oil in Liberia. Photo by Antoshananarivo via Wikimedia Commons.

In Liberia, a battered palm oil industry adjusts to new rules

Ashoka Mukpo 10 May 2017

Over the bridge: The battle for the future of the Kinabatangan

John Cannon 3 May 2017

Meet the ‘Almost Famous Animals’ that deserve more conservation recognition

Mike Gaworecki 7 Mar 2017

The Republic of Congo: on the cusp of forest conservation

John Cannon 27 Feb 2017

‘Revolutionary’ new biodiversity maps reveal big gaps in conservation

John Cannon 27 Jan 2017

‘Running out of time’: 60 percent of primates sliding toward extinction

John Cannon 19 Jan 2017

New study analyzes biggest threats to Southeast Asian biodiversity

Mike Gaworecki 12 Jan 2017

Industry, NGOs agree to single approach to eliminating deforestation from palm oil supply chain

Mike Gaworecki 10 Nov 2016

Higher incomes driving Indonesian smallholders to oil palm and rubber

John Cannon 3 Nov 2016

Mongabay Newscast episode 3: Crucial conservation votes at CITES CoP17 and the future of socio-ecological research

Mike Gaworecki 18 Oct 2016

Scoring palm oil buyers on their sustainability commitments

Mike Gaworecki 10 Oct 2016

Here’s how much forest we’ll have to destroy to feed our growing junk food addiction

Mike Gaworecki 19 Sep 2016

Here’s where tropical forests have been destroyed for palm oil over the past 25 years

Mike Gaworecki 18 Aug 2016

Study concludes conservation NGOs might be better off working outside the RSPO

Mike Gaworecki 26 Jul 2016

Replanting oil palm plantations reduces frog diversity, but researchers say there are ways to fix that

Mike Gaworecki 6 Jul 2016

NGOs and oil-palm growers team up to help orangutans, but progress is slow

Melati Kaye 21 Apr 2016

France imposes new palm oil tax; Indonesia, Malaysia protest

Mongabay.com 24 Mar 2016

Gorillas in threatened Cameroon forest caught on film for first time

Mike Gaworecki 7 Mar 2016

Communities and cutting-edge tech keep Cambodia’s gibbons singing

Claire Salisbury 22 Feb 2016

A toad’s relationship with its prey endures in the face of deforestation for palm oil

Jordanna Dulaney 15 Jun 2015

Palm oil certification body to establish stronger voluntary standard

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 May 2015

Surprising habitat: camera traps reveal high mammal diversity in forest patches within oil palm plantations

Julian Moll-rocek 21 Jul 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? Privatizing conservation management

Dr Liz Kimbrough 7 Mar 2014

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