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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

A pioneering global study has found deforestation and forests lost or ... Central Africa, and Borneo. They found the type of human disturbances in Borneo resulted in the greatest carbon reductions ...

In “Pulping Borneo,” Greenpeace, the Environmental Paper Network and others charged Royal Golden Eagle of flouting its own no-deforestation policy through the actions of its viscose ...

It was the last of his increasingly desperate attempts to train the world’s eyes on the island’s deforestation and what he claimed was Taib’s involvement. A year later he returned to Borneo, set off ...