Rainforests and Indonesia News

RSS
2290 stories

Remnant forests struggle to survive amid oil palm plantations, study shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Sep 2021

For Indonesian MPs, Indigenous rights may be bad for business, report says

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Sep 2021
Sumatran tiger

Indonesia terminates agreement with Norway on $1b REDD+ scheme

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Sep 2021

Indonesia lays out plan to rescue 15 lakes under pressure from human activity

Basten Gokkon 10 Sep 2021

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Sep 2021

Indonesia still clinging to coal despite phaseout pledge, new plan shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Sep 2021

Palm oil firms in Papua hit back with lawsuit after permits are revoked

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Sep 2021

North American paper industry merger sets off environmental alarms

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Sep 2021

Mother tiger and her cubs found dead in Sumatran forest

Junaidi Hanafiah 26 Aug 2021

Calls mount for Indonesian ban on new palm oil plantations to be extended

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Aug 2021
An orangutan in Sabah, Borneo

Highway cutting through Heart of Borneo poised to be ‘very, very bad’

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 23 Aug 2021

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Aug 2021

Climate change threatens to squeeze out Indonesia’s medicinal plants

Basten Gokkon 18 Aug 2021

Indonesia reports two new Javan rhino calves in the species’ last holdout

Basten Gokkon 17 Aug 2021

Plantations and roads strip away Papua’s forests. They’re just getting started

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Aug 2021

UNESCO calls for closure of road running through World Heritage park in Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Aug 2021

In Indonesia, an unassuming brown bird is proof of turbo-charged evolution

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 10 Aug 2021

Palm oil grower looks to make amends for past deforestation in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Jul 2021

Camera trap cameo for Buru Island babirusa last seen 26 years ago

Christopel Paino 27 Jul 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

Indonesia eyes less severe fire season, but COVID-19 could turn it deadly

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Jul 2021

FSC dumps palm oil giant Korindo amid rights, environmental issues in Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Jul 2021
Deforestation in Indonesian Borneo in 2019. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Local leaders in Indonesia make forest and peatland protection pledge

Taufik Wijaya 15 Jul 2021

Indonesia bets on biofuels over oil, but EVs could render both moot

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Jul 2021
Oil palm fruit. Image by Dave Barce via Wikicommons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Blind spot in palm policy raises deforestation risk in Malaysia, report says

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 2 Jul 2021

Study warns of impacts of unregulated trade in Indonesian porcupines

Basten Gokkon 30 Jun 2021
Thailand deforestation

Forest loss in mountains of Southeast Asia accelerates at ‘shocking’ pace

Carolyn Cowan 28 Jun 2021

Development of third Sumatran rhino sanctuary advances to save species

Junaidi Hanafiah 25 Jun 2021

Deforestation of orangutan habitat feeds global palm oil demand, report shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Jun 2021

Never too late to save Earth: Q&A with Leuser forest guardian Rudi Putra

Junaidi Hanafiah 17 Jun 2021

Tin mines close in on an Indonesian hamlet still clinging to nature

Taufik Wijaya 16 Jun 2021

Two new Javan rhino calves spotted in the species’ last holdout

Basten Gokkon 16 Jun 2021

you're currently offline