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Red flags as Indonesia eyes relocating its capital city to Borneo

Basten Gokkon 2 Aug 2019
Traditional Iban tattoos on a Dayak leader's back. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Travelogue: Visiting an indigenous rainforest tribe in Borneo (Insider)

Rhett A. Butler 31 Jul 2019

Orangutan habitats being cleared in areas near palm oil mills, report finds

Loren Bell 17 Jul 2019

Travelogue: Ground-truthing satellite data in Borneo (Insider)

Rhett A. Butler 3 Jul 2019
Iban dugout canoes on the Utik river in Sungai Utik's customary forest in West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indigenous Iban community defends rainforests, but awaits lands rights recognition

Aseanty Pahlevi, Rhett A. Butler 1 Jul 2019

In Indonesia, bigger catches for a fishing village protecting its mangroves

Aseanty Pahlevi 3 May 2019

In Borneo, dwindling forests face further fragmentation as roads spread

Basten Gokkon 22 Jan 2019
One of the major goals of protected areas is to conserve biodiversity. Photo of knobbed hornbill by Rhett A. Butler.

Group helps illegal bird traders transition into different lines of business

Nadine Freischlad 3 Dec 2018

For the two Congos, lessons in a peatland partnership with Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Nov 2018

Deforestation-linked palm oil still finding its way into top consumer brands: report

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Sep 2018

Study games out oil palm development scenarios in Borneo

Loren Bell 17 Sep 2018

Fires and haze return to Indonesia as peat protection bid falls short

Aseanty Pahlevi, Hans Nicholas Jong, Zamzami 29 Aug 2018

Revealed: Paper giant’s ex-staff say it used their names for secret company in Borneo

Philip Jacobson 10 Jul 2018

Facebook video shows orangutan defending forest against bulldozer

Rhett A. Butler 15 Jun 2018

Illegal logging persists in Borneo orangutan habitat despite government ban

Basten Gokkon 7 Jun 2018

Greenpeace disowns paper giant over deforestation allegations

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 May 2018
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Study puts a figure to hidden cost of community-company conflict in palm oil industry

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Apr 2018

Indonesian billionaire using ‘shadow companies’ to clear forest for palm oil, report alleges

Daniel Pye 11 Apr 2018

‘Extreme concern’: Report gives glimpse into scale of Kalimantan bird trade

Basten Gokkon 30 Nov 2017

Indonesia to kick off 10-year plan to save critically endangered helmeted hornbill

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Nov 2017

How unhealthy is the haze from Indonesia’s annual peat fires?

Loren Bell 3 Nov 2017

Palm oil giant FGV will ‘endeavor to rehabilitate’ peatlands it trashed in Borneo

Basten Gokkon 13 Sep 2017

First real test for Jokowi on haze as annual fires return to Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Aug 2017

Why the Suy’uk are fact-checking their Dayak origin myth

Andi Fachrizal 4 Aug 2017

Pressure builds on palm oil firm Goodhope after RSPO sanction

Alice Cuddy 31 May 2017

Indonesian governor asks president to let timber firms drain peat in his province

Lusia Arumingtyas 20 May 2017

Alarms raised as timber firm said to pierce one of Indonesia’s last orangutan strongholds

Basten Gokkon 14 Mar 2017

Conservation in oil palm is possible (commentary)

Erik Meijaard 25 Nov 2016

Pulp and paper supplier denies draining peat on island near Singapore

Mongabay Haze Beat 13 Sep 2016

No fire, no food: tribe clings to slash-and-burn amid haze crackdown

Cory Rogers 1 Sep 2016
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Indonesian police arrest hundreds in connection to burning land

Mongabay Haze Beat 26 Aug 2016
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesian parliament to investigate fire-linked firms in Riau

Mongabay Haze Beat 20 Aug 2016

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