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Journo arrested for reporting on palm oil tycoon’s alleged land grab

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 May 2020

No more business as usual: Halt dangerous development projects that put our health at risk (commentary)

Gaurav Madan 1 May 2020

Indonesia aims for sustainability certification for oil palm smallholders

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Apr 2020

Farmer dies in custody after being charged in dispute with palm oil firm, prompting COVID-19 fears

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Apr 2020

Forest fires in Indonesia set to add toxic haze to COVID-19 woes

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Apr 2020
Rainforest canopy in Kapuas Hulu, West Kalimantan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Obstacles abound in bid to protect Indonesia’s forests and cut emissions

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Apr 2020

As investment giant BlackRock pulls back from coal, NGOs urge the same for biomass energy

Justin Catanoso 17 Apr 2020

Study projects 30% more forest cover if wood biomass is managed right; critics call it a disaster

Lauren Crothers 15 Apr 2020

Land conflicts escalate with spread of COVID-19 in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Apr 2020
Vladimir Plahotniuc and Asif Chaudhry shake hands at a meeting with the Atlantic Council in 2018.

Former U.S. envoy under scrutiny for links to sanctioned Moldovan oligarch, land baron

Jack Davies 14 Apr 2020

Watchdogs lament palm oil giant Wilmar’s exit from forest conservation alliance

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Apr 2020

Defining ‘development’ in the Aru Islands: Q&A with anthropologist Chris Chancellor

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 7 Apr 2020

For Philippines’ displaced indigenous students, COVID-19 is one of many threats

Leilani Chavez 3 Apr 2020

Palm oil gains ground in Chiapas, Mexico

Mongabay Latam 3 Apr 2020

Plantation director in dispute with indigenous community is charged with illegal logging

Nurdin Tubaka 1 Apr 2020

Indonesian anti-graft enforcers set their sights on a new target: corporations

Ian Morse 31 Mar 2020

Coconut farmers in Southeast Asia struggle as palm oil muscles in on them

Nithin Coca 30 Mar 2020

Indonesia ends timber legality rule, stoking fears of illegal logging boom

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Mar 2020

New player starts clearing rainforest in world’s biggest oil palm project

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 24 Mar 2020

Tree plantations are not a climate solution (commentary)

Global Forest Coalition 20 Mar 2020

Palm oil firm has farmers jailed for harvesting from land it stole from them

Indra Nugraha, Yusy Marie 17 Mar 2020

Indonesian police charge indigenous men in dispute over nutmeg plantation

Nurdin Tubaka 12 Mar 2020

PepsiCo renews sustainable palm oil policy to close supplier loophole

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Mar 2020

Indonesian indigenous land defenders jailed in fight with pulpwood giant

Ayat S. Karokaro 9 Mar 2020
Forest in West Papua. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

South Korea’s POSCO vows zero deforestation in Papua palm oil operation

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Mar 2020

Fields of Gold: Commodities kingpin leaves a troubling legacy in Moldova

Jack Davies, Liuba Sevciuk 4 Mar 2020

Where the logging ends in Indonesian Borneo, the forest clearing begins

Shreya Dasgupta 4 Mar 2020

Indonesia’s point man for palm oil says no more plantations in Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Mar 2020

Activists skeptical of win as court orders Papua plantation maps published

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Feb 2020

Deregulation in Indonesia: Economy first, environment later. Maybe

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Feb 2020

Abraham Khouw, the professor who joined the Save Aru movement

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 18 Feb 2020

Indonesia targets pulpwood, palm oil firms in civil suits over 2019 fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Feb 2020

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