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Indonesia’s ore-smelting ambitions augur rain of poison in Sulawesi

Melati Kaye 19 Jan 2016

India, China, Indonesia score lowest when it comes to tropical forest protection

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Jan 2016

Reproductive technology (and understanding of experimental psychology) needed to save a critically endangered rhino

John Payne 14 Jan 2016

Countries call for new CITES protections for rosewood species

Mike Gaworecki 14 Jan 2016

Malaysia plans road expansion through dwindling elephant, orangutan habitat

John Cannon 14 Jan 2016

Are prosthetic reefs the answer to Indonesia’s coral die-off?

Melati Kaye 14 Jan 2016
A Bornean tarsier. Photo by Russ Mittermeier.

Potential crisis in Sabah’s amazing Kinabatangan rainforest

Russell A. Mittermeier 13 Jan 2016
Wood fiber concession on recently cleared peatland in Riau Province, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesia appoints conservationist to save country’s declining peatlands

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Jan 2016

Deforestation increasing cases of ‘monkey malaria’ in humans, study says

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Jan 2016
Pulp and paper plantation on peatland in Riau. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

APP to work with 500 villages to combat deforestation

Loren Bell 13 Jan 2016

Men who sold 8 Sumatran tigers arrested in Indonesia

Dedek Hendry 13 Jan 2016

Palm oil co suspends forest conversion to comply with Wilmar’s zero deforestation policy

Mongabay.com 13 Jan 2016

Scientists sound alarm over hydropower’s impacts on tropical fish biodiversity

Mike Gaworecki 12 Jan 2016

Scientists try hair traps to track tropical carnivores

Chaney Giordano 12 Jan 2016

Indonesia seeks re-do on court decision absolving company for haze-causing fire

Indra Nugraha 12 Jan 2016

Palm oil expands in Aceh

Junaidi Hanafiah 12 Jan 2016

South African ban on domestic rhino horn sales in limbo after court overturns it

Mic Smith 8 Jan 2016
Burning peat forest and oil palm in Riau, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesia loses flagship case against company accused of burning

Mongabay.com 8 Jan 2016

Jokowi’s plan to free captive birds earns unexpected backlash

Mongabay.com 5 Jan 2016

Facebook posts lead to arrest of two suspected tortoise thieves

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Jan 2016

What’s ahead for rainforests in 2016? 10 things to watch

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jan 2016

Komodo dragon: one of Indonesia’s rare conservation success stories

Jeremy Hance 30 Dec 2015
Image taken September 24 from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite shows the "haze" as its peak. Red outlines indicate hot spots where the sensor detected unusually warm surface temperatures associated with fires. Thick gray smoke hovers over both islands and has triggered air quality alerts and health warnings in Indonesia and neighboring countries. Visibility has plummeted. NASA image by Adam Voiland (NASA Earth Observatory) and Jeff Schmaltz (LANCE MODIS Rapid Response). Caption by Adam Voiland.

50+ companies being investigated or punished for Indonesia’s haze crisis

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2015

The year in rainforests: 2015

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2015

Why are Southeast Asia’s mangroves being destroyed? Hint: it may be your diet

Morgan Erickson-Davis 29 Dec 2015
Young orangutan in Sabah, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Christmas gift to the planet: massive rainforest reserve created in Borneo

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Dec 2015

China’s demand for rosewood is destroying forests in Southeast Asia and, increasingly, In Africa

Mike Gaworecki 23 Dec 2015
Chevron's Duri oil field in Riau, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

How does the global commodity collapse impact forest conservation?

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Dec 2015

Aceh official takes chainsaw to illegal oil palm trees

Junaidi Hanafiah 17 Dec 2015

Norway extends forest conservation initiative

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Dec 2015

Indigenous leaders at COP21: 20 percent of tropical forest carbon is sitting on Indigenous land

Mike Gaworecki 2 Dec 2015

Palm oil expansion triggers ecological cascade, boosting pigs but hurting other species

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Dec 2015

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