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‘The promise was a lie’: How Indonesian villagers lost their cut of the palm oil boom

Mongabay, The Gecko Project, BBC News 23 May 2022
Wood chips for biomass burning at Tofte, Norway. Image by Statkraft via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

As biomass burning surges in Japan and South Korea, where will Asia get its wood?

Annelise Giseburt 19 May 2022
Ranchers who received customized training made more sustainable changes to their properties, including pasture restoration, that led to both economic and environmental benefits, researchers say.

Training on pasture recovery is a win-win for Brazil’s cattle ranchers and forests

Sarah Brown 12 May 2022
Timber for biomass burning at Tofte, Norway

Missing the emissions for the trees: Biomass burning booms in East Asia

Justin Catanoso 11 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
Rainforest in Sumatra. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

Indonesia’s revocation of palm oil, mining permits marred by ‘maladministration’

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 May 2022

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 May 2022
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burned throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

2021 tropical forest loss figures put zero-deforestation goal by 2030 out of reach

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Apr 2022
Harvesting oranges near Sicily, Italy.

Cradle of transformation: The Mediterranean and climate change

John Cannon 28 Apr 2022

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Apr 2022
Burundian soldiers in a nursery.

In Burundi, one-time combatants who razed forests now raise seedlings

Dieudonné Ndanezerewe 21 Apr 2022
Oil palm kernels

Indonesian trade official, palm oil execs charged in cooking oil crisis

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Apr 2022
A great hornbill in a Malaysian rainforest.

Outcry in Malaysia as failure to replant forests sparks ‘cover-up’ accusation

Rachel Donald 15 Apr 2022

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

Mongabay Latam, Rutas del Conflicto 14 Apr 2022

Small farmers take a stand for one of Dakar’s last urban woodlands

Francesco De Augustinis 13 Apr 2022
Leopard Cat.

Study: Most biodiversity hotspots lack formal protection in Borneo and Sumatra

Grace Dungey 12 Apr 2022

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

Taufik Wijaya 7 Apr 2022
Fire fighters putting out forest fire in Riau, Indonesia.

Indonesia’s Riau province declares state of emergency ahead of fire season

Suryadi 5 Apr 2022

Palm oil firm that cleared Papuan forest after losing its permit is still at it

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Apr 2022
Coca plantation on a hillside near Caranavi, western Bolivia.

All coked up: The global environmental impacts of cocaine

Sean Mowbray 4 Apr 2022

For Indonesians, palm oil is everywhere but on supermarket shelves

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Apr 2022

FSC-certified Moorim Paper linked to massive forest clearing in Indonesia’s Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Mar 2022
Farid Tarabay, the new forest guide, under the Lamartine Cedar, one of the oldest in the SBR. Image by Elizabeth Fitt for Mongabay.

From land mines to lifelines, Lebanon’s Shouf is a rare restoration success story

Elizabeth Fitt 23 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

Fate of Indonesian rainforest the size of Belgium hangs in the balance (commentary)

Sam Lawson 17 Mar 2022
Intact rainforest in Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Study: Indonesia’s forest-clearing moratorium underdelivered — but so did donors

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Mar 2022

From teak farms to agroforestry: Panama tests reforestation strategies

Colin Sytsma 10 Mar 2022
A woman harvests palm fruit in a village near Equatorial Palm Oil's former concession in Grand Bassa, Liberia. Image courtesy of the Open Government Partnership via Flickr, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0).

In West and Central Africa, palm oil investors buckle under community pressure

Ashoka Mukpo 10 Mar 2022

In a national park plagued by encroachers, Indonesia tries a new approach

Tonggo Simangunsong 9 Mar 2022
Oil palm plantation in West Kalimantan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Fate of mine, plantation concessions revoked by Indonesia to be finalized soon

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Mar 2022

Palm oil and pulpwood the usual suspects as Papua deforestation persists

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Mar 2022

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