Seven years after the governments of Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam signed the Heart of Borneo Declaration to conserve one of the most important areas of tropical rainforest in the world, ...

Indonesia lost more than 26,000 sq km of primary and secondary forests last year, according to a new NGO report An area of ...

Using LANDSAT satellite data to observe annual changes in forest area and annual expansion of industrial plantations, scientists at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) are assessing ...

Beyond the obvious deforestation that results from clearing ... Drainage systems required for plantations (oil palm plantations in Borneo are often established in swamp forest) may lower water ...

The upland rainforests and montane forests of Borneo grow at higher elevations and do not suffer high rates of deforestation, with nearly 90% of the historical coverage still remaining. Indeed, the ...

It accounts for a fifth of the total deforestation on Borneo since 1973—and for 47 percent since 2000. IndonesiaIndonesia’s palm oil frontier is on the island of New Guinea; forests and ...

talks with officials and learning about deforestation and wildlife problems. Armed with their new insights, the volunteers returned to their homes to raise funds and build support for DeforestAction.

More than half of the forest loss affected critical habitats for threatened species like orangutans, tigers and elephants, particularly in Borneo and Sumatra. Key industries driving deforestation ...

Deforestation, illegal logging, and mining have been devastating to the ecosystem. Researchers estimate that one-third of the wild population was killed in forest fires in Indonesian Borneo in ...