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Heavy machinery operates at the nickel mining site of PT Kawei Sejahtera Mining on Kawe Island, Raja Ampat.

Religion at a crossroads in Indonesia as Islamic groups bid to operate large-scale mines

Ramadani Saputra 25 Sep 2025

Indonesia reopens Raja Ampat nickel mine despite reef damage concerns

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Sep 2025
Mark Erdmann releasing a thresher shark. Photo courtesy of Mark Erdmann.

Sharks didn’t rebound—so Mark Erdmann is putting them back

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Jul 2025
Banner image of Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna, courtesy of Morib et al., 2025.

Camera traps and Indigenous knowledge help confirm presence of ‘lost’ echidna species

Kristine Sabillo 19 Jun 2025
Sediment is clearly visible close to nickel mining operations on Kawe Island, Raja Ampat, discolouring the water in one of Indonesia’s most biodiverse marine areas. The concession covers an area of 5,922 hectares and is located within the mega-biodiversity region of Raja Ampat, West Papua. Image courtesy of Greenpeace.

No respite for Indonesia’s Raja Ampat as nickel companies sue to revive mines

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Jun 2025

Indonesia halts most nickel mining in Raja Ampat, but allows one controversial permit

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jun 2025

Pushback grows against nickel mining in Indonesian marine paradise of Raja Ampat

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Jun 2025
Mammalogists often use ear tags to identify individuals in their research. But Echidnas do not have external ears to attach a tag. Opiang used color-coded plastic tubing, glued to spines to identify individuals (visible on the right forelimb). Quiet, rare, nocturnal, hard-to-tag and found in remotest parts of New Guinea, field study of echidnas presents tremendous challenges. Photo by Muse Opiang

With rare mammal tourism, observing means conserving (commentary)

Charles Foley and Jon Hall 1 Nov 2024

Past failures can’t stop Indonesia from clearing forests, Indigenous lands for farms

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Oct 2024

Cost-benefit analysis exposes ‘bogus’ promises of palm oil riches for Papuans

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Oct 2024

World’s biggest deforestation project gets underway in Papua for sugarcane

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Sep 2024

#AllEyesonPapua goes viral to highlight threat to Indigenous forests from palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Jun 2024

Beyond deforestation, oil palm estates pose flood and water contamination risks

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 May 2024

Rewilding program ships eggs around the world to restore Raja Ampat zebra sharks

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Apr 2024

In Raja Ampat, pearl farming balances business and ecological sustainability

Basten Gokkon 22 Mar 2024
A Papuan boy in the Blue River (Kali Biru) of the Knasaimos landscape in Teminabuan, South Sorong, West Papua. Credit line: © Jurnasyanto Sukarno / Greenpeace

Why language is central to the survival of cultures and communities

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 12 Mar 2024

Can ecotourism protect Raja Ampat, the ‘Crown Jewel’ of New Guinea?

Mike DiGirolamo 20 Feb 2024
Deforestation for oil palm in East Kalimantan, Indonesia in 2016. Photo courtesy of Linus.

Palm oil deforestation makes comeback in Indonesia after decade-long slump

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Feb 2024

In first for Indonesia, government recognizes Indigenous Papuans’ ancestral forests

Asrida Elisabeth, Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Dec 2022
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In Indonesian Papua, a one-time gun trafficker now preaches permaculture

Tantowi Djauhari 30 Aug 2022

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

Basten Gokkon 9 Jun 2022

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 May 2022

Fisher groups are the marine militia in Indonesia’s war on illegal fishing

Basten Gokkon 6 May 2022

A seagrass restoration project to preserve the past may also protect the future

Basten Gokkon 3 May 2022

Plan to carve up Indonesian Papua rings alarm over fate of people and forests

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Apr 2022

The Trans-Papua Highway could lose billions and deforest millions of hectares

Mike DiGirolamo 2 Mar 2022

Protecting New Guinea’s forests with birds-of-paradise and ecotourism

Mike DiGirolamo 16 Feb 2022

Spurred by investor-friendly law, palm oil firms sue to get licenses back

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Jan 2022

Exploring New Guinea’s extraordinary natural and cultural richness

Mike DiGirolamo 5 Jan 2022

Papua court ruling a win for local government, Indigenous groups against palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Dec 2021

Papua clan takes first step toward official recognition of land rights

Hans Nicholas Jong, Natalia Laurensia Carmelia Yewen 26 Nov 2021

Indigenous Papuans won their forest back from a palm oil firm, but still lack land title

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Oct 2021

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