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Secretive group found to have cleared orangutan habitat in Indonesia: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Mar 2021

Peatland on fire again as burning season starts in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Mar 2021

Palm oil conflicts persist amid lack of resolution in Indonesian Borneo

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Mar 2021

The Hungry Mills: How palm oil mills drive deforestation (commentary)

Rob McWilliam 12 Mar 2021

Déjà vu as palm oil industry brings deforestation, pollution to Amazon

Karla Mendes 12 Mar 2021

Dutch to limit forest biomass subsidies, possibly signaling EU sea change

Justin Catanoso 9 Mar 2021

Deforestation in Indonesia hits record low, but experts fear a rebound

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Mar 2021

A million hectares of Papuan forest licensed for clearing, report shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Mar 2021
Liberian tropical forest. Image via USAID

Review finds palm oil firm Golden Veroleum cleared carbon-rich Liberian forests

Ashoka Mukpo 3 Mar 2021

‘We attack,’ Indonesia declares in joint bid with Malaysia to shield palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Mar 2021

Papua deforestation highlights eastward shift of Indonesia forest clearing

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Mar 2021

500+ experts call on world’s nations to not burn forests to make energy

Justin Catanoso 15 Feb 2021

‘Hungry’ palm oil, pulpwood firms behind Indonesia land-grab spike: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Feb 2021

Indonesia’s top palm oil deforesters are the usual shady suspects: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Feb 2021

Will new US EPA head continue his opposition to burning forests for energy?

Justin Catanoso 4 Feb 2021

Trader Cargill, pension fund TIAA linked to land grabs in Brazil’s Cerrado

Caio de Freitas Paes 3 Feb 2021

‘Race against time’: Saving the snakes and lizards of Brazil’s Cerrado

Sharon Guynup 2 Feb 2021
rice field by Rhett Butler/Mongabay.

6% of Earth’s protected land is used to grow crops, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 Jan 2021

Plantations, mines didn’t worsen flood, Indonesia says. The data begs to differ

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Jan 2021

Papua tribe moves to block clearing of its ancestral forest for palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Jan 2021

Palm oil plantations, coal mines linked to deadly Indonesia flood

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Jan 2021

Deforestation spurred by road project creeps closer to Sumatra wildlife haven

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Jan 2021

Paper giant APP failing its own sustainability goals, report alleges

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Jan 2021

Lack of protection leaves Spain-size swath of Brazilian Amazon up for grabs

Jenny Gonzales 8 Jan 2021

Indonesia renews peat restoration bid to include mangroves, but hurdles abound

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Jan 2021
Oil palm plantation in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Agribusiness giants ADM, Bunge trading in ‘conflict’ palm oil, report says

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Jan 2021
Rainforest mantis in Suriname. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Rainforests: 11 things to watch in 2021

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Jan 2021

Indonesia’s five most consequential environmental stories of 2020

Loren Bell 29 Dec 2020
Blackwater oxbow lake, rainforest, and a whitewater river in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

How the pandemic impacted rainforests in 2020: a year in review

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Dec 2020
Forest cleared for palm oil production in Indonesia. Rhett C. Butler for Mongabay.

Top Indonesian palm oil developments in 2020

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Dec 2020

Indonesia’s biofuel bid threatens more deforestation for oil palm plantations

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Dec 2020
Farmers cut grass and shrub fodder for their livestock. Photo by Maheder Haileselassie Tadese for Mongabay.

Land inequality is worsening and fueling other social ills, report says

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Dec 2020

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