Bribery a matter of course for illegal Thai fishing ships in Indonesia
May 6, 2015, 9:08 am By Philip Jacobson
A convoy of blue fishing boats from Thailand slowly entered the mouth of the Kapuas River near…Aru, Mentawai peoples hit the big screen in Oslo
May 6, 2015, 7:39 am By Philip JacobsonA pair of documentaries about small-island indigenous peoples in Indonesia were screened in Oslo on…West Papua 'oil palm atlas' portrays industry's explosion in the region
May 6, 2015, 12:50 am By Philip Jacobson
There's a saying in the Indonesian palm oil industry: Sumatra is yesterday, Kalimantan is today, and…Using freely available tools to monitor forest cover in critical chimpanzee habitat
May 6, 2015, 12:31 am By Rhett Butler
Think of it as trying to help the long-lost cousins who never left your home town. Researchers and…Sarawak leader pledges no more logging, palm oil expansion
May 5, 2015, 3:37 pm By Rhett ButlerSarawak's leader has allegedly pledged to stop granting industrial timber and palm oil concessions…Facing Future Storms: Poor Honduran Communities Unite to Protect Watersheds and Nature
May 5, 2015, 2:51 pm By Tiffany Roufs
There hasn't been much good news out of Honduras recently. One of the poorest Latin American…Scientists identify frog through DNA without leaving forest
May 5, 2015, 12:55 pm By Jeremy Hance
Yesterday, a team of Italian scientists caught a frog in a montane forest in Tanzania. And then they…30 illegal orangutan pets seized in West Kalimantan
May 4, 2015, 11:44 pm By Philip Jacobson
Thirty orangutans being kept as household pets in Indonesia's West Kalimantan province have been…Orangutan rescued amid sea of palm oil
May 4, 2015, 3:43 pm By Rhett Butler
The rescue, which took place in early April, was conducted by the Orangutan Information Centre (OIC)…Borneo's rainforest may get high-tech 3D scan to boost conservation
May 4, 2015, 12:43 pm By Rhett ButlerConservation efforts in Borneo's embattled rainforest may get a boost with the launch of the newest…Photos: new zoo exhibit dramatically displays real threat to Asian turtle
May 4, 2015, 12:19 pm By Jeremy HanceUsually animal pens in zoos are designed to resemble a species' native habitat: lions in sprawling…World on course to lose 1 in 6 species to climate change – South America, Australia, New Zealand face even more extinctions
May 4, 2015, 11:26 am By Tiffany Roufs
Renowned biologist E.O Wilson, assessing Earth's sixth great extinction now underway, described the…Riau forum asks Jokowi to help business save forests
May 4, 2015, 10:40 am By Philip JacobsonA sustainable-business forum in Indonesia's Riau province urged the government to support companies'…94 trafficked pangolins released into Sumatran wilds after massive bust
May 4, 2015, 12:16 am By Philip Jacobson
Following a major seizure of illegal wildlife goods in North Sumatra, the Indonesian authorities…Brazilian Amazon nears deforestation threshold past which wildlife may crash, says study
May 1, 2015, 7:22 pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis
A study on the impact of forest loss on biodiversity, recently published in the journal Conservation…Ongoing overkill: loss of big herbivores leading to 'empty landscapes'
May 1, 2015, 1:59 pm By Jeremy Hance
Ten thousand years from now, human historians—or alien ones—may view the current wave of…Sarawak increases fines for illegal logging
May 1, 2015, 11:52 am By Rhett ButlerAfter decades of intense logging that has left its rainforests degraded, fragmented, and stripped of…Giant Amazonian catfish threatened by dams
May 1, 2015, 11:12 am By Rebecca Kessler
Giant catfish are among the most important commercial fishes in the Amazon Basin. A new study…Palm giants ask Indonesian gov't to clear path toward sustainability
May 1, 2015, 7:37 am By Philip Jacobson
Executives from palm oil giants Wilmar, Cargill and Golden Agri Resources appeared at a green…Tapping into evolutionary responses to guard crops against elephants
Apr 30, 2015, 7:51 pm By Rhett Butler
The search for effective measures to reduce human-elephant conflict is a top priority for wildlife…
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