Rainforests and New guinea News

RSS
153 stories

Mapping indigenous lands in Indonesia’s tallest mountains

Wahyu Mulyono 21 Apr 2017
Oil palm plantation in Riau, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

HSBC to stop financing deforestation-linked palm oil firms

Alice Cuddy 3 Mar 2017

Environmental costs, benefits and possibilities: Q&A with anthropologist Eben Kirksey

John Cannon 28 Feb 2017

An ‘infrastructure tsunami’ for Asia: Q&A with researcher William Laurance

Isabel Esterman 6 Jan 2017

The year in tropical rainforests: 2016

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Dec 2016

Indonesia exploring new model to fund national parks

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 30 Sep 2016

The Long-beaked Echidna: can we save the earth’s oldest living mammal?

Andrew L. Mack 26 Oct 2015

Scientists learn to listen when it comes to assessing rainforest health

Mike Gaworecki 8 Oct 2015

Palm oil giants to investigate company found razing Papuan rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Jun 2015

GAR, Wilmar punish palm oil supplier for clearing rainforest in New Guinea

Mongabay.com 28 May 2015

Russia and Canada lead the world in forest loss in 2013

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Apr 2015

Rogue cop missing from jail

Mongabay.com 27 Jan 2015

Palm oil company clears rainforest in New Guinea

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Jul 2014

Despite moratorium, Indonesia now has world’s highest deforestation rate

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Jun 2014

Palm oil plan unlikely to help communities in Indonesian New Guinea

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 May 2014

Illegal logging makes up 70 percent of Papua New Guinea’s timber industry

Jeremy Hance 22 Apr 2014

Indonesian sugar company poised to destroy half of island paradise’s forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Mar 2014

Procter & Gamble’s palm oil suppliers linked to deforestation (photos)

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Feb 2014

Indonesian cop caught smuggling rare timber worth millions escapes with 2-year sentence

Diana Parker 21 Feb 2014

New Guinea animals losing vital tree cavities to logging, hunting practices

Bobbie Edwards 17 Dec 2013

3.5 million ha of Indonesian and Malaysian forest converted for palm oil in 20 years

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Nov 2013

Bolivia, Madagascar, China see jump in forest loss

Mongabay.com 1 Nov 2013

Palm oil licenses provide cover for logging in New Guinea

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Aug 2013

Saving the Tenkile: an expedition to protect one of the most endangered animals you’ve never heard of

Jordanna Dulaney 5 Jun 2013

Scientists describe over 100 new beetles from New Guinea

Jeremy Hance 3 Jun 2013

Could the Tasmanian tiger be hiding out in New Guinea?

Jeremy Hance 20 May 2013

UN report gives Indonesia low marks in forest governance

Diana Parker 9 May 2013

Will designation of new administrative districts lead to more deforestation in Indonesia?

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Oct 2012

Indigenous group paid $0.65/ha for forest worth $5,000/ha in Indonesia

Jeremy Hance 23 May 2012

Police hired by loggers in Papua New Guinea lock locals in shipping containers

Jeremy Hance 16 Apr 2012

New book series hopes to inspire research in world’s ‘hottest biodiversity hotspot’

Jeremy Hance 17 Jan 2012

New frog trumps miniscule fish for title of ‘world’s smallest vertebrate’

Jeremy Hance 12 Jan 2012

you're currently offline