There is more money in the Borneo rainforest’s biodiversity than in the deforestation of it. Preserving existing forests is essential to finding unique species that not only have great economic ...

A new study published in Animal Conservation finds that most predicted biodiversity hotspots in Borneo and Sumatra fall outside formally protected areas, with only 9.2% and 18.2% of the modeled ...

The strategy, not only in Borneo but across similarly imperiled biodiversity hotspots like the Amazon, is to end illegal deforestation by protecting lands and to ensure that companies responsibly ...

WWF projections indicate that if the island of Borneo continues at its current rate of natural capital loss through deforestation, it will be severely affected by climate change through the increased ...

Dodging fire-ants, snakes and millions of nighttime creepy-crawlies, a group of trekkers advances through the humid Bornean ...

Alex Shoumatoff argues that the plundering of Borneo’s rain forests is worse than that of the Amazon’s, with a deforestation rate “unparalleled in human history.” This has horrible ...

BALIKPAPAN, Indonesia — The deforestation rate has surged in a key habitat for critically endangered orangutans in Indonesian Borneo, with an area of forest 40 times the size of New York City ...

Borneo’s forests and ecosystems are succumbing to the economic and social pressures of life in the 21st century. Many of these pressures are familiar: clearance for industrial agriculture, ...

Few natural products are as maligned as palm oil, the vegetable oil that’s in everything from chocolate spread to washing up liquid. On the island of Borneo, oil palm plantations have replaced ...