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Dodging fire-ants, snakes and millions of nighttime creepy-crawlies, a group of trekkers advances through the humid Bornean ...
University of Leicester-led research has revealed the start of industrial deforestation of the Malaysian rainforest and its long-lasting impact on coastal ecosystems in the skeletons of corals.
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 ...
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 ...
The partnership agreement aims to maintain a downward trend in deforestation levels amid plans by the Indonesian government to build a new capital city in a Borneo jungle.
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 ...
A rise in illegal deforestation heightens the risk of fires in the Brazilian rainforest even more destructive than those that drew global outrage last year.
Many logging concessions in Indonesian Borneo harbor high densities of wildlife, such as the Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) or Bornean clouded leopard (Neofelis diardi borneensis), the study found ...
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 ...