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Will a forest in Borneo be gutted for ‘green’ energy?

Hans Nicholas Jong, Sandy Watt 21 Oct 2024

Revealed: Biomass firm poised to clear Bornean rainforest for dubious ‘green’ energy

Hans Nicholas Jong, Philip Jacobson 21 Oct 2024
Banner image of Talang Parit community members. Image courtesy of AsM Law.

RSPO rules Samsung palm oil subsidiary violated Indigenous rights in Sumatra

Kristine Sabillo 17 Oct 2024

Cost-benefit analysis exposes ‘bogus’ promises of palm oil riches for Papuans

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Oct 2024
Why the EU must stand firm on its plan to help protect the world’s forests

US consumers may be exposed to deforestation-linked palm oil via dairy: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Sep 2024

World’s biggest deforestation project gets underway in Papua for sugarcane

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Sep 2024

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

Indonesia’s Farwiza Farhan among Ramon Magsaysay awardees for protecting Leuser Ecosystem

Lusia Arumingtyas, Sapariah Saturi 2 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

Indonesian cabinet reshuffle promotes champions of destructive projects

Mongabay.com 20 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
Freshly harvested oil palm fruits.

Indonesia palm oil lobby pushes 1 million hectares of new Sulawesi plantations

Sarjan Lahay 8 Aug 2024

Indonesia, EU reconcile forest data ahead of new rules on deforestation-free trade

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 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

Sugarcane megaproject poses latest threat to Papua’s forests, communities

Hans Nicholas Jong, Sarjan Lahay 19 Jun 2024

Death of Umi sparks concern over electric threat to Sumatran elephants

Teguh Suprayitno 12 Jun 2024
Ecosystem destruction on Borneo peatlands.

Better accounting of peat and mangrove carbon to help Indonesia’s climate policies

Hans Nicholas Jong 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
Sumatran elephants in Sumatra, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler

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

NZ funding helps Indigenous farmers in Indonesia protect forests, boost incomes

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 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

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