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Indonesia risks timber trade with EU after scrapping license rules

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Mar 2020

Scientists call for independent review of dam project in orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Mar 2020

PepsiCo renews sustainable palm oil policy to close supplier loophole

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Mar 2020
Deforestation in West Kalimantan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Record-high global tree cover loss driven by agriculture

Liz Kimbrough 10 Mar 2020

Versace, Amazon, Samsonite among companies listed as deforestation ‘laggards’

Liz Kimbrough 5 Mar 2020
Forest in West Papua. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

South Korea’s POSCO vows zero deforestation in Papua palm oil operation

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Mar 2020

Indonesia’s point man for palm oil says no more plantations in Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Mar 2020

Activists skeptical of win as court orders Papua plantation maps published

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Feb 2020

Family seeks justice as probe into Indonesian activist’s death stalls

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Feb 2020

As 2020 fire season nears, Indonesian president blasts officials for 2019

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Feb 2020

Indonesia softens stance on WWF termination as programs fall into limbo

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Feb 2020

Mining leads to flooding in Indonesia’s coal capital Samarinda

Yovanda 5 Feb 2020

Indonesian environment ministry ends WWF partnership amid public spat

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Jan 2020

Indonesia forest fires push orangutans into starvation mode, study finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Jan 2020
Oil palm plantation in West Kalimantan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Activists seek purge after Indonesia court rules forest plantations illegal

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jan 2020

Indonesian palm oil firm hit with $1.8m fine for 2015 fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Dec 2019

Fighting to save an endangered ape, Indonesian activists fear for their lives

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Dec 2019

Dodgy science and corporate concessions in Indonesia’s bid for clean palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Dec 2019

FSC complaint filed against pulpwood firms tied to Indonesia’s richest man

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Dec 2019

Indonesia’s fires burned mostly abandoned and degraded land, not forests

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Dec 2019

Our fires weren’t as bad as in the Amazon, Indonesian officials claim

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Dec 2019

Paper and fast fashion fan the flames burning Indonesia’s peat: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Dec 2019

Indonesia fires emitted double the carbon of Amazon fires, research shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Nov 2019

In surprise move, Brazil has removed restrictions on Amazon sugarcane production

Naira Hofmeister 13 Nov 2019

Philippine officials not spared as attacks on environmental defenders persist

Mongabay.com 8 Nov 2019

Area the size of Puerto Rico burned in Indonesia’s fire crisis

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Oct 2019

Indonesian minister draws fire for denial of transboundary haze problem

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Sep 2019

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