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Deforestation and fires persist in Indonesia’s pulpwood and biomass plantations

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 May 2025
Members of the international study team pull a peat core from a wetland in the Colombian Amazon.

New research finds substantial peat deposits in Colombia’s conflicted Amazon

Erik Iverson 23 Apr 2025
Sustainable harvesting techniques, such as climbing the aguaje tree to collect the fruit instead of cutting it down, have taken hold in local communities that previously cut down the trees. Image by Wilfredo Martinez / One Planet.

Indigenous aguaje tree climbers bring down profits in Peru’s Amazon — sustainably

Aimee Gabay 10 Apr 2025

Indonesia’s peatlands face growing flood risks amid widespread degradation

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Apr 2025

Peru’s rare peatland swamps at risk as illegal gold mining expands

Maxwell Radwin 26 Mar 2025

Indonesians suing pulpwood firms over haze face intimidation, seek human rights protection

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Mar 2025

‘Sustainable’ palm oil firms continue illegal peatland clearing despite permit revocation

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Mar 2025
Haze rising from an oil palm plantation and forest in Riau province.

Political appointments in Indonesian climate program spark outcry over accountability

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Mar 2025
Researchers from the U.K. and the Democratic Republic of Congo take samples of the Cuvette Centrale peatlands. Image © Kevin McElvaney/Greenpeace

Only 17% of peatlands, vital to curbing climate change, are protected, study finds

John Cannon 19 Feb 2025
Peatland forest in Central Kalimantan.

Protecting peatlands and mangroves could halve Southeast Asia’s land-use emissions

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Feb 2025
An orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Indonesian company defies order, plants acacia in orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Jan 2025
A Shipibo woman does the Shipibo-Conibo traditional embroitery art.

Gaps in Peru’s peatland policies harm conservation and Indigenous Shipibo: Study

Aimee Gabay 5 Dec 2024

Sumatra citizen lawsuit seeks accountability for haze-causing fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Sep 2024

Indonesia’s Farwiza Farhan among Ramon Magsaysay awardees for protecting Leuser Ecosystem

Lusia Arumingtyas, Sapariah Saturi 2 Sep 2024

Sumatra pulp & paper giants violate zero-deforestation pledge, activists allege

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Jul 2024
Handils are the boundaries of fields as well as paths for transportation and waters to fish in.

Borneo’s Dayak adapt Indigenous forestry to modern peat management

Titik Kartitiani 25 Jun 2024
Ecosystem destruction on Borneo peatlands.

Better accounting of peat and mangrove carbon to help Indonesia’s climate policies

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Jun 2024

Water is key as study shows restoration of drained tropical peat is possible

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Jun 2024
Fire fighters cooling burnt peatlands.

Floods set to worsen on Sumatra peat as landscape gives way

Suryadi 30 May 2024
A Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) hangs from the trees. Fewer than 100,000 orangutans remain on Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Indonesian company defies order, still clearing peatlands in orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 May 2024
A Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) hangs from the trees. Fewer than 100,000 orangutans remain on Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Report links pulpwood estate clearing Bornean orangutan habitat to RGE Group

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Mar 2024

Palm oil deforestation persists in Indonesia’s Leuser amid new mills, plantations

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Mar 2024
The effect is most dangerous in peatland areas like Riau province and southern Borneo, where out-of-control wildfires cause environmental destruction, excess deaths and economic losses in the billions of dollars.

Sumatra firefighters on alert as burning heralds start of Riau dry season

Suryadi 6 Mar 2024
Deforestation for oil palm in East Kalimantan, Indonesia in 2016. Photo courtesy of Linus.

Palm oil deforestation makes comeback in Indonesia after decade-long slump

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Feb 2024
Army officers try to extinguish fires in peatland areas in Central Kalimantan.

2023 fires increase fivefold in Indonesia amid El Niño

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jan 2024

Reversing progress, Indonesia pulp & paper drives up deforestation rates again

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Jan 2024

Traditional small farmers burned by Indonesia’s war on wildfires

Philip Jacobson | Aseanty Pahlevi | Hans Nicholas Jong | Yusie Marie | M Rahim Arza 14 Dec 2023
Aerial view of the NGOWP team's mekoro along the Cuando River.

New study pushes for protection of one of Africa’s ‘least understood treasures’

Ryan Truscott 15 Nov 2023

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Nov 2023

Indonesian activist Gita Syahrani wins $3m award for work on sustainable growth

Lusia Arumingtyas 3 Nov 2023

In Venezuela, a mysterious fire sparks concerns for rare mountain wildlife

Maxwell Radwin 31 Oct 2023

Report alleges APP continues deforestation 10 years after pledge to stop

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 Oct 2023

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