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Water is key as study shows restoration of drained tropical peat is possible

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Jun 2024
Ilham Mahmudi

Unrest and arrests in Sumatra as community fights to protect mangroves

Ayat S. Karokaro 5 Jun 2024
Sumatran elephants in Sumatra, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler

Analysis: Michelin’s no-deforestation claims in Indonesia rubber plantation a stretch

Stefano Valentino 30 May 2024
Fire fighters cooling burnt peatlands.

Floods set to worsen on Sumatra peat as landscape gives way

Suryadi 30 May 2024

Mysterious, at risk, understudied flat-headed cat lacks conservation focus

Sean Mowbray 29 May 2024

Hold my ointment: Wild orangutan observed healing wound with medicinal plant

Basten Gokkon 14 May 2024
Clouded leopard

Borneo and Sumatra megaprojects are carving up clouded leopard forests

Carolyn Cowan 29 Apr 2024
Nasidi holds up a water lettuce plant, which is often found in the Lenggang River.

Indigenous community fights to save its lands on Indonesia’s historic tin island

Moh. Tamimi 25 Apr 2024

Study challenges use of charismatic wildlife as umbrella species for conservation

Basten Gokkon 20 Apr 2024
Bendri lost his house due to flash floods accompanied by wood and large stones in Batu Balah Village.

Sumatra villages count cost of deadly river tsunami swelled by illegal logging

Jaka Hendra Baittri, Vinolia Ahmad 17 Apr 2024
Muhammad Erlangga, a student, washes his clothes with rainwater.

Rainwater reserves a tenuous lifeline for Sumatran community amid punishing dry season

Suryadi 11 Apr 2024

Palm oil deforestation persists in Indonesia’s Leuser amid new mills, plantations

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Mar 2024

Norway pension fund breaks with U.K. conglomerate Jardines over endangered orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Mar 2024

Indonesian gold mine expanding in ‘wrong direction’ into orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Mar 2024
The effect is most dangerous in peatland areas like Riau province and southern Borneo, where out-of-control wildfires cause environmental destruction, excess deaths and economic losses in the billions of dollars.

Sumatra firefighters on alert as burning heralds start of Riau dry season

Suryadi 6 Mar 2024
The people of Tebing Tinggi Okura, Riau, protest against the clarity of 20% plasma plantations for them.

Sumatra community faces up to ‘plasma’ disappointment after palm oil policy shift

Suryadi 4 Mar 2024

Bid to mitigate gold mine’s impact on orangutans hit by stonewalling, data secrecy

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Feb 2024
The Suralaya coal-fired power plant in Indonesia

Indonesian utility PLN ordered to disclose coal plants’ emissions data

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 Jan 2024

Indonesian palm oil firm fined for fires sues expert a second time over testimony

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Jan 2024
Sumber Makmur Farmers’ Collective's seed nursery.

Sumatra coffee farmers brew natural fertilizer as inflation bites

Themmy Doaly 4 Jan 2024
A dugong.

Sumatran dugong hunter struggles to adapt to changing times

Dody Hidayat, Yogi Eka Sahputra 3 Jan 2024

Newly described tree species from Sumatra could be vital for threatened orangutans

Liz Kimbrough 28 Dec 2023
Indonesia is a top producer of coconut oil.

Indonesian districts trial a shift from commodity monocrops to sustainable produce

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Dec 2023

Indonesia remembers Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, rare policymaker who stood for nature

Junaidi Hanafiah, Richardo Hariandja 22 Dec 2023

Smallholders and loggers push deeper into Sumatra’s largest park

Jeremy Hance 29 Nov 2023

New calf brings new hope, and new concerns, for embattled Sumatran rhinos

Jeremy Hance 27 Nov 2023
A lobster larva. Image by Fathul Rakhman/Mongabay-Indonesia.

Indonesia welcomes new Singapore regulation to help curb lobster smuggling

Basten Gokkon 18 Nov 2023
Forest in British Columbia. Photo: Rhett A. Butler

Calls for FSC to drop Canada’s Paper Excellence over ties to deforester

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Nov 2023

Burn now, pay later: Fines trickle in from Indonesia’s crackdown on forest fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Nov 2023

Indonesian activist Gita Syahrani wins $3m award for work on sustainable growth

Lusia Arumingtyas 3 Nov 2023

Report alleges APP continues deforestation 10 years after pledge to stop

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 Oct 2023

For 1st time, Indonesia government recognizes ancestral forests in Aceh — but only some

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Oct 2023

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