Deforestation in Borneo will destroy the habitat of more than 26,000 orangutans, a quarter of the population of the critically endangered species, by 2032, a new study says. Researchers used ...

The rampant deforestation for monoculture plantation and logging in western Indonesian Borneo has exacerbated the extinction risks of three plant species endemic to the island’s riparian lowland ...

Mapping analysis of deforestation in palm oil company PT Equator Sumber Rezeki (ESR), part of First Borneo Group, in West Kalimantan. Image courtesy of Mighty Earth. And there are signs ESR plans ...

The world's largest species of orangutans is rapidly disappearing. Borneo has lost more than 100,000 orangutans in the last 16 years – that's more than the number of the critically endangered ...

Some of the last remaining primary forests of Southeast Asia are found in Borneo, a biodiversity hotspot where you can still walk through ancient forests and prehistoric caves. The heavy wing ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia-- The most comprehensive study of Borneo's orangutans estimates their numbers have plummeted by more than 100,000 since 1999, as the palm oil and paper industries shrink their ...

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, ...

Borneo is divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, and it is estimated that up to 10% of its land is taken up by industrial palm oil and logging operations. But deforestation isn’t just ...

Carbon storage in Borneo’s tropical rainforests faces a dual threat from deforestation for agriculture and droughts caused by El Niño events, a new study finds. Despite these challenges, the remaining ...