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Greenpeace slams paper giant over loophole in fire-prevention policy

Alice Cuddy 10 Feb 2017

Will there really be enough sustainable palm oil for the whole market?

Tara MacIsaac 7 Feb 2017

Documenting the consequences of palm oil production beyond Southeast Asia

Mongabay.com 6 Feb 2017

Honduran politicians, US aid implicated in killings of environmentalists

Sandra Cuffe 1 Feb 2017

Politician’s son named a suspect over illegal land clearing in Leuser Ecosystem

Junaidi Hanafiah 26 Jan 2017

Want to be a responsible palm oil firm? Follow these reporting guidelines

Mongabay.com 25 Jan 2017
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Green groups want paper giant to stop using drained peat in Indonesia

Mongabay Haze Beat 23 Jan 2017

Bridge through Borneo wildlife sanctuary moving forward

Mongabay.com 22 Jan 2017

Scientists ‘impressed and delighted’ by animals found in remnant forests

Benji Jones 20 Jan 2017

‘Running out of time’: 60 percent of primates sliding toward extinction

John Cannon 19 Jan 2017

HSBC financing tied to deforestation, rights violations for palm oil in Indonesia

John Cannon 18 Jan 2017

Indonesian government challenges another green group over freedom of information request

Mongabay.com 17 Jan 2017

How local elites earn money from burning land in Indonesia

Alice Cuddy 16 Jan 2017

NASA releases images of dramatic deforestation in Cambodia

Morgan Erickson-Davis 13 Jan 2017

What to expect for rainforests in 2017

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jan 2017

Sudden sale may doom carbon-rich rainforest in Borneo

John Cannon 2 Jan 2017

The year in tropical rainforests: 2016

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Dec 2016

Consumer pressure to ditch deforestation begins to reach Indonesia’s oil palm plantation giants

Tara MacIsaac 27 Dec 2016

Indonesia’s rich list stacked with palm oil billionaires

Mongabay.com 26 Dec 2016
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

As accusations fly, paper giant appears to stand by its replanting of burned peat in Sumatra

Mongabay Haze Beat 22 Dec 2016

Study maps 187 land conflicts as palm oil expands in Kalimantan

Rachel Diaz-Bastin 20 Dec 2016

Palm oil giant defends its deforestation in Gabon, points to country’s ‘right to develop’

Mongabay.com 19 Dec 2016
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Green groups raise red flags over Jokowi’s widely acclaimed haze law

Mongabay Haze Beat 9 Dec 2016

Chimps help farmers ‘plant’ cacao in Guinea

Morgan Erickson-Davis 6 Dec 2016

Australian retailers accused of misusing the RSPO’s label on their palm oil products

Alice Cuddy 5 Dec 2016

How citizen science is transforming river management in Malaysian Borneo (commentary)

Ken Wilson 29 Nov 2016

Conservation in oil palm is possible (commentary)

Erik Meijaard 25 Nov 2016

Palm oil culprits apprehended in the Leuser Ecosystem. Who sent them?

Junaidi Hanafiah 23 Nov 2016

69m people breathed toxic smoke from 2015 Indonesian fires: study

Mongabay.com 22 Nov 2016

Peruvian Melka group palm oil production company withdraws from RSPO

Milton López Tarabochia 22 Nov 2016

Major Congo Basin forest conference convenes in Rwanda

John Cannon, Ric Francis 21 Nov 2016

New report: Brazil’s Cerrado could sidestep conversion for agriculture

John Cannon 13 Nov 2016

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