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Gold mining tailing pond near Mandor in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Experts see minefield of risk as Indonesia seeks environmental deregulation

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Feb 2020

As 2020 fire season nears, Indonesian president blasts officials for 2019

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Feb 2020

Mika Ganobal, the civil servant who risked his job to save his homeland

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 7 Feb 2020

Indonesia softens stance on WWF termination as programs fall into limbo

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Feb 2020

Subsistence farming topples forests near commercial operations in Congo

John Cannon 23 Jan 2020

Deforestation clips howler monkey calls, study finds

Mongabay.com 20 Jan 2020
Oil palm plantation in West Kalimantan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Activists seek purge after Indonesia court rules forest plantations illegal

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jan 2020
Proboscis monkeys in Borneo have lost habitat to oil palm plantations and shrimp farms. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Palm oil processors top plantations in destroying proboscis monkey habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Jan 2020

Report identifies tycoons controlling site of new Indonesian capital

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Jan 2020

Communities in Ecuador fight back against palm oil

Alejandro Pérez 3 Jan 2020

‘Rediscovered’ after 100 years, Gurney’s pitta is in peril once again

Megan Stannard 2 Jan 2020

Palm oil, fire pushing protected areas in Honduras to the ‘point of no return’

Leonardo Guevara, Lesly Frazier 30 Dec 2019
Bamboo lemur in Madagascar. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Global consumer demands fuel the extinction crisis facing the world’s primates

Alejandro Estrada, Paul A. Garber 29 Dec 2019
Camvert has moved to establish a nursery in anticipation of logging FMU 0925. Image courtesy John Takang.

NGOs reject new oil palm plantation in southern Cameroon

Eugene N. Nforngwa 25 Dec 2019

EU/Chinese soy consumption linked to species impacts in Brazilian Cerrado: study

Sarah Sax 24 Dec 2019

Indonesian palm oil firm hit with $1.8m fine for 2015 fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Dec 2019

Indonesia fires cost nation $5 billion this year: World Bank

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Dec 2019

Deforestation for potential rubber plantation raises concerns in Papua New Guinea

John Cannon 19 Dec 2019

Malaysia to let RSPO publish oil palm concession maps

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Dec 2019
Sunrise in East Kalimantan, Indonesia in 2019. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Tropical forests’ lost decade: the 2010s

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Dec 2019

Dodgy science and corporate concessions in Indonesia’s bid for clean palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Dec 2019

COP25: EU officials say biomass burning policy to come under critical review

Justin Catanoso 16 Dec 2019

FSC complaint filed against pulpwood firms tied to Indonesia’s richest man

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Dec 2019

COP25: Wood pellet CEO claims biomass carbon neutrality, despite science

Justin Catanoso 13 Dec 2019

Indonesia’s fires burned mostly abandoned and degraded land, not forests

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Dec 2019

Analysis: The Tanah Merah project is a bellwether for Jokowi’s permit review

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 11 Dec 2019

Our fires weren’t as bad as in the Amazon, Indonesian officials claim

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Dec 2019

Revealed: Government officials say permits for mega-plantation in Papua were falsified

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 10 Dec 2019

Killings of environmental defenders on the rise in the Philippines

Mongabay.com 10 Dec 2019

Paper and fast fashion fan the flames burning Indonesia’s peat: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Dec 2019

Follow the permits: How to identify corruption red flags in Indonesian land deals

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 4 Dec 2019

Indonesian officials charged in $1.6m bribes-for-permits scheme

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Dec 2019

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