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An elephant roams through a recently cleared eucalyptus plantation.

Report links paper giant RGE to Indonesia deforestation despite pledges

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Jul 2023

Companies, big banks are still lagging on deforestation regulations: report

Maxwell Radwin 20 Feb 2023

Report unveils ties between Indonesian conglomerate Sinar Mas and Canada’s Paper Excellence

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Nov 2022
Deramakot forest reserve is a FSC-certified logging concession in Sabah, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

With FSC rule change, deforesters once blocked from certification get a new shot

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Oct 2022
Misak women, men and children observe the contrast between the monoculture pine and eucalyptus plantation, on the right, and the natural forest in their territory, on the left, from a distance.

FSC-certified paper plantation faces farmer backlash in Colombia

Natalia Torres Garzón 15 Aug 2022

Plantations threaten Indonesia’s orangutans, but they’re not oil palm

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Jul 2022

Net-zero commitments must include more anti-deforestation policies, UN tells private sector

Maxwell Radwin 5 Jul 2022

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Mar 2022
primary forest in Danum Valley Conservation Area, Sabah, by John C. Cannon/Mongabay

Bornean communities locked into 2-million-hectare carbon deal they don’t know about

John Cannon 9 Nov 2021

Paper giants’ expansion plans raise fears of greater deforestation in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Oct 2021

Spike in deforestation detected in Papua concession linked to South Korea’s Moorim

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Sep 2021

North American paper industry merger sets off environmental alarms

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Sep 2021

Indonesian pulpwood firms told to protect peat are doing the opposite: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Aug 2021
A man taps into a frankincense tree to extract the yellowish resin out of it in the customary forest of the Pandumaan-Sipituhuta Indigenous community in North Sumatra, Indonesia. Image by Barita News Lumbanbatu/Mongabay Indonesia.

For an Indigenous group in Sumatra, a forest regained is being lost once more

Barita News Lumbanbatu 27 Jul 2021

Land dispute turns violent as Sumatran Indigenous groups clash with pulpwood firm

Ayat S. Karokaro 17 Jun 2021

‘Drastic forest development’: Vietnam to plant 1 billion trees — but how?

Michael Tatarski 20 May 2021

In Indonesia, pulp and paper firms stoke demand that may drive deforestation

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Mar 2021

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Mar 2021

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Feb 2021

Seven financial firms key to rooting out deforestation, report finds

John Cannon 29 Jan 2021

Paper giant APP failing its own sustainability goals, report alleges

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Jan 2021

On plantations and in ‘protected’ areas, Sumatran elephants keep turning up dead

Mongabay Indonesia, Tempo 16 Dec 2020

Pulp producers pull off $168 million Indonesia tax twist, report alleges

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Dec 2020

Sumatra’s deforestation demystified

Mongabay.com 18 Nov 2020

Brazilian and international banks financing global deforestation: Reports

Sue Branford; Thais Borges; and Diego Rebouças 5 Nov 2020

‘Zero-deforestation’ paper giant APRIL justifies clearing of Sumatran peatland

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Oct 2020

Paper giant APRIL linked to Borneo forest clearing despite zero-deforestation vow

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Oct 2020

Which version? Confusion over environmental fallout of Indonesia deregulation law

Hans Nicholas Jong, Philip Jacobson 13 Oct 2020

Paper giant APP’s Sumatran road project cuts through elephant habitat

Taufik Wijaya 21 Sep 2020

Just half of major timber and pulp suppliers committed to zero deforestation: Report

Claire Asher 2 Sep 2020

Paper giant APP linked to Indonesia peat clearing despite sustainability vow

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Sep 2020
Excavator working an acacia plantation in Riau, the Indonesian province that lost 22% of its primary forest cover between 2002 and 2019. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

FSC slammed for slow probe into deforestation by firms linked to Indonesia’s richest man

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Aug 2020

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