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Forest protection funds flow to DRC despite ‘illegal’ logging permits

Mongabay.com 1 Feb 2017
Deforestation for pulp and paper production in Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Norway starts $400-million fund to halt deforestation, help farmers

Mongabay 31 Jan 2017

Want to be a responsible palm oil firm? Follow these reporting guidelines

Mongabay.com 25 Jan 2017

Jokowi grants first-ever indigenous land rights to 9 communities

Mongabay.com 4 Jan 2017

The year in tropical rainforests: 2016

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Dec 2016

Consumer pressure to ditch deforestation begins to reach Indonesia’s oil palm plantation giants

Tara MacIsaac 27 Dec 2016
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Green groups raise red flags over Jokowi’s widely acclaimed haze law

Mongabay Haze Beat 9 Dec 2016

Indonesia shifts emissions-reduction burden from energy to forestry sector

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 30 Nov 2016

Indonesian court shuts down legal challenge to Aceh land-use plan

Mongabay.com 29 Nov 2016

If you’re in the U.S., your ramen noodles might become a lot safer for forests

Mike Gaworecki 21 Nov 2016
Rainforest cleared for an oil palm plantation in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesia ships first containers of timber under EU legality scheme

Lusia Arumingtyas 17 Nov 2016

Nearly $1 billion in forest carbon finance committed in 2015

Mike Gaworecki 1 Nov 2016

Could REDD help save an embattled forest in Cambodia?

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Oct 2016

Hectare by hectare, an indigenous man reforested a jungle in Indonesia’s burned-out heartland

Indra Nugraha 26 Oct 2016

Airbus to marshal its satellites against deforestation

Philip Jacobson 12 Oct 2016

Going green with the aviation industry (commentary)

Devan Wardwell, Jeffrey Chatellier 29 Sep 2016

Indonesia seeks foreign funds to aid peat restoration drive

Mongabay Haze Beat 26 Sep 2016

Pulp and paper supplier denies draining peat on island near Singapore

Mongabay Haze Beat 13 Sep 2016

Indonesia mulls revision of orangutan conservation plan

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 11 Aug 2016

Photos: Indonesia’s far-flung indigenous seek audience in Jakarta

Cory Rogers 9 Aug 2016

IPOP’s demise undercuts palm oil industry progress [commentary]

Dave McLaughlin 8 Aug 2016

Up the Kapuas River, a Borneo tribe lives off the land

Vanessa Nirode 29 Jul 2016
Deforestation in Sumatra, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

New initiative to further creation of a single map in Indonesia’s Riau

Mongabay.com 27 Jul 2016

Indonesia declares national park in top palm oil-producing province

Mongabay.com 27 Jul 2016

Cargill suspends new purchase agreements with Malaysian palm oil giant IOI

Mongabay.com 18 Jul 2016
Borneo orangutan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesia’s energy, agriculture targets could undermine its climate goals: report

Mongabay.com 16 Jul 2016
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

What are South Sumatrans doing to prevent another haze crisis?

Taufik Wijaya 29 Jun 2016

Norway commits to zero deforestation

Mike Gaworecki 26 May 2016

Indonesia’s forestry ministry follows through on palm oil permit freeze

Mongabay.com 23 May 2016
Riparian forest and soy. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Brazilian soy industry extends moratorium on deforestation indefinitely

Mongabay.com 9 May 2016

Malaysian palm oil companies say their concession maps are state secrets

Mongabay.com 6 May 2016

How effective will Indonesia’s palm oil permit freeze really be?

Mongabay Haze Beat 4 May 2016

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