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Lowland tropical rainforest

Indigenous knowledge settles question of a Bornean tree species: Study

Carolyn Cowan 17 Jun 2022

Second Indonesian province moves to retake forests from palm oil companies

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Jun 2022

Draining tropical peatlands for oil palms isn’t just bad — it’s unnecessary, study shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Jun 2022

Indonesia issues long-delayed rules to protect migrant fishing workers

Basten Gokkon 14 Jun 2022
Clearing the site with dynamite to access the vein of coal in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

In Indonesian Borneo, a succession of extractive industries multiplies impacts, social fractures

Elizabeth Fitt 13 Jun 2022
Rosewood flowering

Overexploited and underprotected: Study urges action on Asia’s rosewoods

Carolyn Cowan 13 Jun 2022

For Thai fishers facing dwindling catches, a Lao dam looms large

Tom Fawthrop 10 Jun 2022

Satellites show deforestation surging in Indonesia’s Tesso Nilo National Park

Zamzami｜Morgan Erickson-Davis 9 Jun 2022

Ray care center: Indonesia’s Raja Ampat a key nursery for young reef mantas

Basten Gokkon 9 Jun 2022
A single-use plastic water bottle found by a snorkeller in The Gili Islands, Indonesia.

Indonesia should take a leadership role in the Global Plastics Treaty (commentary)

Aristyo Rizka Darmawan, Bella Nathania 8 Jun 2022

Indonesian official charged, but not jailed, for trading in Sumatran tiger parts

Junaidi Hanafiah 7 Jun 2022
Tree nursery

Common goals ensure forest restoration success in northern Thailand

Carolyn Cowan 6 Jun 2022

Indonesia teams up with Germany on Sumatran rhino breeding efforts

Basten Gokkon 3 Jun 2022

Indonesian villagers missing out on spoils from palm oil boom

Philip Jacobson 2 Jun 2022

Study casts doubt on sustainability of regulated blood python snakeskin trade

Basten Gokkon 2 Jun 2022

Sumatra palm plantations the usual suspects as unusual burning razes peatlands

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Jun 2022

Opaque infrastructure project ‘a death sentence’ for Cambodia’s Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary

Gerald Flynn, Andy Ball, Vutha Srey 1 Jun 2022
Multi-use MPAs help strike a balance between biodiversity conservation and resource use in Indonesia.

Community participation trumps penalties in protecting seascapes, study suggests

Julia John 1 Jun 2022

A hidden crisis in Indonesia’s palm oil sector: 6 takeaways from our investigation

Mongabay, The Gecko Project, BBC News 31 May 2022

Legal defeats pile up for palm oil companies stripped of permits in Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 May 2022
A river running through an old-growth lowland rainforest in Brunei.

Fossil evidence confirms persistence of prehistoric forests in Brunei

John Cannon 31 May 2022

Indigenous community mounts legal challenge to Thai coal mine development

Carolyn Cowan 27 May 2022

Study warns of risk from feline viruses to wild cats on the palm oil frontier

Sean Mowbray 26 May 2022
Clearing of forest with trucks and cement laid for the foundations of a building at the feasibility study area of KP Cement’s mine. Image by Andy Ball for Mongabay.

Large-scale logging in Cambodia’s Prey Lang linked to politically-connected mining operation

Gerald Flynn, Andy Ball, Vutha Srey 26 May 2022
Yadi, a member of the Menapo House

Saving medicinal plants a village cause in Indonesia

Warief Djajanto Basorie, Yitno Suprapto 26 May 2022

U.N., rights groups flag potential violations in $3b Indonesian tourism project

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 May 2022

Sri Lankan wins Linnean Medal, the ‘Nobel Prize for naturalists’ (commentary)

Rajith Dissanayake 24 May 2022
The endangered manta ray

For reef mantas, Indonesia’s Komodo National Park is a ray of hope

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 May 2022
Giant stingray

In the Mekong’s murky depths, giants abound, new expedition finds

Carolyn Cowan 24 May 2022
Two male proboscis monkeys in Malaysian Borneo.

Ecotours aimed at saving monkeys are likely stressing them out, study finds

John Cannon 23 May 2022
Young people at Macatumbalen are trained by their parents to co-manage the community nursery where the tree seedlings are grown and regularly watered.

Devastated by a typhoon, community foresters in the Philippines find little support

Keith Anthony Fabro 23 May 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

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