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Sumatra citizen lawsuit seeks accountability for haze-causing fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Sep 2024

More alarms over Indonesia rhino poaching after latest trafficking bust

Donny Iqbal, Nopri Ismi 5 Sep 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

Sumatran province hangs on for late rain as El Niño fires bring heat and sickness

Mongabay Haze Beat 28 Sep 2023

El Niño leads to more fires and toxic air pollution in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Sep 2023
Separating the oil palm fruit.

Cycling oil palm biomass waste back into the soil can boost soil health, study says

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 22 May 2023

Trapping holds back speed of bird recovery in a Sumatran forest, study shows

Basten Gokkon 11 May 2023

Loss of wetlands threatens South Sumatra’s rich fish-preserving tradition

Fadhil Nugraha, Mahesa Putra 15 Mar 2023
Sanjiv is a male Sumatran tiger who has arrived at a captive breeding center in Tacoma, Washington. Photo by Katie Cotterill for Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. Sanjiv.

Sumatran tiger arrives at Tacoma captive-breeding program

Jeremy Hance 6 Jan 2023

Labor groups seek to build on Indonesian palm oil court win in new cases

Grace Dungey 3 Oct 2022
A crew of cantrang fishermen unload their cargo.

Java fishers struggle with seine net ban amid rising costs, falling profits

Asad Asnawi 26 Sep 2022
Fire in Indonesia forest

As dry season starts in Indonesia, risk of fires — and haze — looms

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Jul 2022

Study casts doubt on sustainability of regulated blood python snakeskin trade

Basten Gokkon 2 Jun 2022

‘The promise was a lie’: How Indonesian villagers lost their cut of the palm oil boom

Mongabay | The Gecko Project | BBC News 23 May 2022

‘Land mafia’ makes its mark in a Sumatran village’s fight against oil palm firm

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Dec 2021

For forest communities in Sumatra, loss of nature means loss of culture

Taufik Wijaya 9 Nov 2021

Build around the forest, not through it, study says of Sumatra trucking road

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Sep 2021

Worked to death: How a Chinese tuna juggernaut crushed its Indonesian workers

Mongabay and Tansa and The Environmental Reporting Collective 13 Sep 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

Planned coal-trucking road threatens a forest haven for Sumatran frogs

Elviza Diana, Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Jan 2021

Paper giant APP failing its own sustainability goals, report alleges

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Jan 2021

For Sumatran elephant conservation, involvement of local people is key (commentary)

Roderick T.J. Buiskool 5 Jan 2021

Report finds litany of labor abuses on RSPO-certified oil palm plantations

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Dec 2020

11 workers killed in landslide at illegal coal mining site in Indonesia

Taufik Wijaya 3 Nov 2020

Sumatran bridge project in elephant habitat may exacerbate degradation

Taufik Wijaya 7 Oct 2020

Paper giant APP’s Sumatran road project cuts through elephant habitat

Taufik Wijaya 21 Sep 2020
Sumatran elephants. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Indonesia approves coal road project through forest that hosts tigers, elephants

Elviza Diana 13 Jul 2020

Land conflicts escalate with spread of COVID-19 in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Apr 2020

Habitat loss drives deadly conflict in Indonesia’s tiger country

Taufik Wijaya 30 Dec 2019

Photos: Peatland fires rage through Indonesia’s Sumatra Island

Nopri Ismi 1 Nov 2019

As wildfires roil Sumatra, some villages have abandoned the burning

Taufik Wijaya 3 Oct 2019

A tiger refuge in Sumatra gets a reprieve from road building

Rod Harbinson 31 Aug 2019

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