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 ...

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 ...

David Gaveau, co-creator of the newly updated Atlas of Deforestation and Industrial Plantations in Borneo, has been working on developing tools for buyers, traders, producers, governments and ...

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 ...

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 ...

are from the same province on Borneo island where Indonesia is building its new capital, a project environmentalists fear ...

We spoke to experts to find out… Deforestation in Borneo, Malaysia, as oil palm plantations are created. Deforestation is a big part of the problem. “In only 13 years we’ve lost the ...

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 ...