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For Indonesian oil palm farmers, EU’s deforestation law is another top-down imposition

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 5 Sep 2024

More alarms over Indonesia rhino poaching after latest trafficking bust

Donny Iqbal, Nopri Ismi 5 Sep 2024
Efron spending the night in a forest hut.

A one-time illegal logger grows back a forest for his people in Sumatra

Barita News Lumbanbatu 30 Aug 2024
Aerial photo of the environmental conditions caused by an illegal crude oil well exploding in Pasir Putih village, East Aceh Regency, on 26 Apr., 2018.

Sumatran province brings hammer down on illegal oil wells after fatal blasts

Taufik Wijaya 15 Aug 2024

Javan rhino poaching saga reveals serious security lapse

Mongabay-indonesia 2 Aug 2024
The bone of an elephant that died from electric shock in Karang Ampar.

As human-elephant conflicts in Sumatra rise, so does risk from electric fences

Junaidi Hanafiah 29 Jul 2024

Sumatra pulp & paper giants violate zero-deforestation pledge, activists allege

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Jul 2024
Soil fertilization process in an oil palm plantation.

Indonesia’s oil palm smallholders get a boost in bid for sustainability

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jul 2024

Death of Umi sparks concern over electric threat to Sumatran elephants

Teguh Suprayitno 12 Jun 2024

#AllEyesonPapua goes viral to highlight threat to Indigenous forests from palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Jun 2024
Ilham Mahmudi

Unrest and arrests in Sumatra as community fights to protect mangroves

Ayat S. Karokaro 5 Jun 2024

Analysis: Michelin’s no-deforestation claims in Indonesia rubber plantation a stretch

Stefano Valentino 30 May 2024

Beyond deforestation, oil palm estates pose flood and water contamination risks

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 May 2024
Forest clearing for nickel mining on Wawonii Island.

Critics see payback in Indonesia’s plan to grant mining permits to religious groups

Irfan Maulana 21 May 2024
A Dayak Pitap woman.

On a Borneo mountainside, Indigenous Dayak women hold fire and defend forest

Riyad Dafhi Rizki 15 May 2024

Hold my ointment: Wild orangutan observed healing wound with medicinal plant

Basten Gokkon 14 May 2024
Industrial oil palm development outside Balikpapan

Latest palm oil deforester in Indonesia may also be operating illegally

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 May 2024
A worker at a rubber plantation at PT Alam Lestari Nusantara. Image by Rubber tapping workers at PL ALN.

Desperation sets in for Indigenous Sumatrans who lost their forests to plantations

Teguh Suprayitno 9 May 2024
A Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) hangs from the trees. Fewer than 100,000 orangutans remain on Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Indonesian company defies order, still clearing peatlands in orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 May 2024
Clouded leopard

Borneo and Sumatra megaprojects are carving up clouded leopard forests

Carolyn Cowan 29 Apr 2024

Study challenges use of charismatic wildlife as umbrella species for conservation

Basten Gokkon 20 Apr 2024
Two male proboscis monkeys in Malaysian Borneo.

Indonesian capital project finally gets guidelines to avoid harm to biodiversity

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Apr 2024
Photo of the captive bay cat in 2008.

On the trail of Borneo’s bay cat, one of the world’s most mysterious felines

Jeremy Hance 15 Apr 2024
Informal logging road

Unseen and unregulated: ‘Ghost’ roads carve up Asia-Pacific tropical forests

Carolyn Cowan 11 Apr 2024

As fires ravaged Indonesia in 2023, some positive trends emerged, data show

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Apr 2024
A long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) in Borneo.

Previously logged forests struggle to thrive, even with restoration, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 27 Mar 2024
Deforestation for oil palm plantations in Sabah in 2012.

PalmWatch platform pushes for farm-to-fork traceability of palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Mar 2024
A woman from the Moa community drying cocoa.

Fenced in by Sulawesi national park, Indigenous women make forestry breakout

Sarjan Lahay 18 Mar 2024

Palm oil deforestation persists in Indonesia’s Leuser amid new mills, plantations

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Mar 2024

Norway pension fund breaks with U.K. conglomerate Jardines over endangered orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Mar 2024

Indonesian gold mine expanding in ‘wrong direction’ into orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Mar 2024
The effect is most dangerous in peatland areas like Riau province and southern Borneo, where out-of-control wildfires cause environmental destruction, excess deaths and economic losses in the billions of dollars.

Sumatra firefighters on alert as burning heralds start of Riau dry season

Suryadi 6 Mar 2024

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