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, ...

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 ...

The elephants are native to the island of Borneo, where much of their habitat has been lost due to deforestation. Now, there are only 1,000 Bornean elephants left in the wild-but there’s hope ...

Orangutans belong to the Hominidae family, also called the great apes. They are highly intelligent and share around 96.4% of ...

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 ...

See All Key Ideas JAKARTA — The Indonesian company responsible for the largest amount of deforestation, PT Mayawana Persada, has largely ceased clearing peatlands in the western part of Borneo.

Indonesia is in a race against sea-level rise, which threatens to submerge swaths of its capital city, Jakarta, by 2050. For more than a decade, a steady stream of floods has devastated homes ...

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 ...