Two Indigenous food educators showcased the abundance of the Sonoran Desert during a tour for the Society of Environmental Journalists’ annual conference on April 25.. Their wisdom, while better ...

A new species of critically endangered betta fish, or fighting fish, was discovered in a single peat swamp in Jambi, Sumatra, next to an oil palm plantation.

image: Industrial oil palm plantation in Jambi, Sumatra. view more . Credit: Gustavo Paterno. Southeast Asia’s tropical forests are renowned for their biodiversity, but at the same time face ...

After a tip about unsustainable logging at a Malaysian state-run oil palm plantation, former Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN) Fellow Low Choon Chyuan launched a yearlong investigation, ...

“Is not because you want to cultivate oil palm plantation you begin to indiscriminately cut down trees, know that this programme is all about protection of the forest,” he stated.

In 2021-22, as many as 281 people were killed by lightning, while 3,790 people were struck by lightning in the last 11 years. Palm trees, being the tallest, work as lightning conductors.

The international research team established 52 tree islands of varying sizes and diversity of planted trees in a conventional industrial oil palm plantation in Sumatra, Indonesia.