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‘Give us back our land’: paper giants struggle to resolve conflicts with communities in Sumatra

Alice Cuddy 9 Jun 2017
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesia’s plantation lobby challenges environmental law

Basten Gokkon, Lusia Arumingtyas 7 Jun 2017

Communities band together to protect El Salvador’s last mangroves

Martha Pskowski 23 May 2017

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

Lusia Arumingtyas 20 May 2017

Palm oil firm pledges to stop deforesting after RSPO freezes its operations in Papua

Mongabay.com 11 May 2017

Over the bridge: The battle for the future of the Kinabatangan

John Cannon 3 May 2017

Al Gore and Bangladesh PM spar over coal plants in the Sundarbans

Jeremy Hance 30 Mar 2017

A Sumatran king’s 1,400-year-old vision for sustainable landscape planning

Taufik Wijaya 27 Mar 2017

As Thailand ramps up its palm oil sector, peat forests feel the pressure

Demelza Stokes 24 Mar 2017

Plans to mine coal in South African protected area trigger conservation battle

Kim Harrisberg 22 Mar 2017

Discovering the Congo carbon sink

Caitlin Looby 3 Mar 2017

A Bornean village conserves a forest the government listed for cutting

Indra Nugraha 2 Mar 2017

World’s largest tropical peatlands discovered in swamp forests of Congo Basin

Mike Gaworecki 9 Feb 2017
Deforestation for pulp and paper production in Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Norway starts $400-million fund to halt deforestation, help farmers

Mongabay 31 Jan 2017

‘Revolutionary’ new biodiversity maps reveal big gaps in conservation

John Cannon 27 Jan 2017

Politician’s son named a suspect over illegal land clearing in Leuser Ecosystem

Junaidi Hanafiah 26 Jan 2017
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Green groups want paper giant to stop using drained peat in Indonesia

Mongabay Haze Beat 23 Jan 2017

HSBC financing tied to deforestation, rights violations for palm oil in Indonesia

John Cannon 18 Jan 2017

How local elites earn money from burning land in Indonesia

Alice Cuddy 16 Jan 2017

A trip on Borneo’s Mahakam River in search of forgotten wildlife

Erik Meijaard 15 Jan 2017
Adult male orangutan in Kalimantan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Following in Raven’s Footsteps: 100 years of wildlife loss on Borneo

Erik Meijaard 6 Jan 2017

The year in tropical rainforests: 2016

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Dec 2016
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

As accusations fly, paper giant appears to stand by its replanting of burned peat in Sumatra

Mongabay Haze Beat 22 Dec 2016
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Green groups raise red flags over Jokowi’s widely acclaimed haze law

Mongabay Haze Beat 9 Dec 2016

From loathed to loved: Villagers rally to save Greater Adjutant stork

Diane Toomey 6 Dec 2016

Palm oil culprits apprehended in the Leuser Ecosystem. Who sent them?

Junaidi Hanafiah 23 Nov 2016
Indawgyi Lake in Kachin State, Myanmar. Photo by Brent Crane

Illegal logging ‘ravaging’ Myanmar’s Indawgyi Lake Wildlife Reserve

Brent Crane 16 Nov 2016

Parents who say Indonesia’s haze killed their children testify in citizen suit

Mongabay Haze Beat 4 Nov 2016

Hectare by hectare, an indigenous man reforested a jungle in Indonesia’s burned-out heartland

Indra Nugraha 26 Oct 2016

Company poised to destroy critical orangutan habitat in breach of Indonesia’s moratorium

Erik Meijaard 24 Oct 2016

Fires ravaged forests in Indonesian palm oil giant Astra’s land in 2015

Mongabay.com 7 Oct 2016

139 scientists shoot down ‘misleading’ reports from Malaysia peat congress

Loren Bell 4 Oct 2016

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