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To build its ‘green’ capital city, Indonesia runs a road through a biodiverse forest

Basten Gokkon 10 Apr 2023
Burned peat forest in Borneo.

Deforestation drives fire risk in Borneo amid a warming climate, study finds

Spoorthy Raman 27 Mar 2023
A river flows through the Amazon Rainforest.

Tropical forest regeneration offsets 26% of carbon emissions from deforestation

Jaqueline Sordi 23 Mar 2023
A Bornean bearded pig family.

Bearded pigs a ‘cultural keystone species’ for Borneo’s Indigenous groups: Study

John Cannon 20 Mar 2023

As Indonesia’s new capital takes shape, risks to wider Borneo come into focus

Basten Gokkon 8 Mar 2023
Laurensius Asia, a member of the cooperative in Teluk Bakung.

Six steps to tackle exploitation in Indonesia’s palm oil smallholder scheme (commentary)

Tom Walker 23 Feb 2023
Tower for measuring forest CO2

Even in recovery, previously logged tropical forests are carbon sources: Study

Carolyn Cowan 25 Jan 2023

Unsustainable fishing to be banned in Irrawaddy dolphin’s Bornean sanctuary

Basten Gokkon 22 Dec 2022
Liana

Lianas affect forest carbon uptake differently by region, study shows

Carolyn Cowan 14 Dec 2022
Mother and baby orangutans.

What can Half or Whole Earth conservation strategies do for orangutans?

John Cannon 28 Nov 2022

Indonesia’s orangutans declining amid ‘lax’ and ‘laissez-faire’ law enforcement

Basten Gokkon 25 Nov 2022

If there’s an elephant in the room, that’s because it’s not in a protected area

Jim Tan 21 Nov 2022

Indonesia’s grand EV plans hinge on a ‘green’ industrial park that likely isn’t

Justin Jin Soong Liew and Chun Sheng Goh 15 Nov 2022
An orangutan under treatment.

Severe malaria cases in rescued orangutans raises concerns for wild populations

Sean Mowbray 20 Oct 2022
A guigna.

Wild cats threatened by ‘underrecognized’ risk of spillover disease

Sean Mowbray 13 Oct 2022

Mangroves and wildlife in Bornean bay at risk from Indonesia’s new capital

Basten Gokkon, Richaldo Hariandja 7 Oct 2022

Malaysia revokes oil palm concession near UNESCO-listed Bornean park

Rachel Donald 5 Oct 2022
Forest in the Baram Peace Park area in November 2019. The Baram Peace Park – or Taman Damai Baram – is an Indigenous community-led initiative that aims to protect old-growth forest and traditional Indigenous lands in the upper Baram river basin near the border with Indonesia. Photo credit: The Borneo Project.

Survey captures Bornean ecosystems and Indigenous lives around them

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 5 Oct 2022

As Indonesia paints rosy picture for orangutans, scientists ask: Where’s the data?

Philip Jacobson 3 Oct 2022
Ledan holding ironwood saplings

After 20 years and thousands of trees planted, Kalimantan’s veteran forester persists

Budi Baskoro, Lusia Arumingtyas 14 Sep 2022

Indigenous activists in Borneo claim win as logging firm removes equipment from disputed area

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 2 Aug 2022
A coal mine in Borneo.

Building Indonesia’s ‘green’ new capital could see coal use surge (analysis)

Chun Sheng Goh 2 Aug 2022
A male orangutan in Indonesian Borneo. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Deforestation in Borneo threatens one in four orangutans, study says

Basten Gokkon 26 Jul 2022
Lowland tropical rainforest

Indigenous knowledge settles question of a Bornean tree species: Study

Carolyn Cowan 17 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

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

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

Mongabay | The Gecko Project | BBC News 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

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

Sean Mowbray 26 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

‘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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