13 September 2011
Indonesia's president has expanded the staffing of an agency that aims to save tropical forests to gain carbon credits, after the body struggled to make progress required to win a $1 billion climate deal with Norway.
7 September 2011
An animal rights group is urging the government to be more proactive in putting a halt to the illegal trade in orangutan skulls.
With the rainy season coming to an end, it allows us to start work on the Nyaru Menteng sewerage tanks and wetlands.
Dr. Keith Bolton of Ecoteam – an expert in this field and a leader of waste eco systems in Australia, is kindly donating his time and skills on this project along with a couple of Keith’s expert engineers and Lismore plumber, Nik Hyde.
These images show the initial settling/ treatment tank and the wetland.
23 August 2011
An orangutan from Japan is on its way to becoming a Web sensation after a video of the primate washing itself just like a human emerged online.
20 August 2011
Laboratory testing of Lazer IT office paper made in Indonesia and sold here by Officeworks reveals it is made up of 84 per cent tropical rainforest fibre, in apparent conflict with the retailer's environment policies.
21 August 2011
A spry 80-year-old cruises through the thick vegetation of western Borneo, or western Kalimantan, as it's known to Indonesians.
20 August 2011
Viewers of this summer's Hollywood blockbuster "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" may be surprised to learn that before our earliest ancestors arrived on the scene roughly seven million years ago, apes really did rule the planet.
24 August 2011
Stationary and equipment supply firm Officeworks has ceased doing business with paper supplier APRIL over claims it is illegally logging Indonesian forests.
25 August 2011
Food labels shouldn't lie. In essence that is what the debate about the listing of palm oil in the ingredients information panel is really about.
16 August 2011
In July 2010, US investor Todd Lemons and Russian energy giant Gazprom believed they were just weeks from winning final approval for a landmark forest preservation project in Indonesia.
3 August 2011
The Federal Parliament is under increasing pressure to take action against the shrinking jungles in South East Asia, which are inhabited by endangered orangutans.
2 August 2011
Around five o'clock in the afternoon in the Samboja Lestari project area in East Kalimantan usually means happy time for the sun bears (Helarctos malayanus) living in the area's sanctuary - it is feeding time.
3 August 2011
Consider it from the businessman’s perspective: It all makes so much sense. The rainforest, vital for people, biodiversity, and global climate, is being cut down to make money.
30 July 2011
The best way for Malaysia to counter the rising negative sentiment in Australia towards palm oil, says the Australian food industry, is to quickly increase the production of sustainable palm oil.
27 July 2011
Indonesia lost 15 million hectares of forests from 2000 to 2009, a study conducted by Forest Watch Indonesia (FWI) says.
7 July 2011
Since 2002, on a 2,000 hectare plot of deforested land in the Indonesian state of East Kalimantan on the island of Borneo, an organization called Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) has been regenerating forest to create habitat for orangutans.
July 15 2011
Scientists have long known that trees take up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, now for the first time a group of researchers have worked out exactly how much carbon is being absorbed by the world's forests.
19 June 2011
A controversial bill that would have required manufacturers to explicitly label palm oil as an ingredient on food products will not be passed into law.
22 June 2011
The Federal Coalition has joined an unusual alliance with the Greens and independent senator Nick Xenophon to support legislation making it mandatory for palm oil to be labelled in all Australian foods.
17 June 2011
Footage of an orangutan apparently trying to revive a poorly coot chick has emerged online two years after the video was recorded.
22 June 2011
Indigenous peoples of Indonesian Borneo on Wednesday demanded a halt to internationally backed forest conservation schemes, saying they are trampling their rights and robbing their lands.
15 June 2011
In December 2007, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono launched Indonesia’s orangutan conservation strategy and action plan, which calls for all wild orangutan populations to be viable and stable by 2017.
15 June 2011
Parliament is considering new food-labelling laws that would force food companies to disclose if their product contains palm oil or genetically modified material.
20 May 2011
Norway welcomed on Friday a plan by Indonesia to impose a two-year moratorium on logging in primary forests despite a five-month delay to the deal.
20 May 2011
Environmentalists said Friday a long-awaited moratorium on logging in Indonesia, part of a $1 billion climate deal with Norway, is a "disaster" for forests and will do little to fight global warming.
20 May 2011
Indonesia has banned cutting down peatland and primary forests for two years Friday in a financial deal with Norway that officials say will protect half of the remaining forests in the tropical archipelago.
16 May 2011
Deep in the rainforests of Malaysian Borneo in the late 1980s, researchers made an incredible discovery: The bark of a species of peat swamp tree yielded an extract with potent anti-HIV activity.
5 May 2011
Determining what planet the Malaysian palm oil industry inhabits is about as difficult to comprehend as the arguments they use in support of consuming their crop.
25 April 2011
Back in December I wrote an article for Mother Jones about Indonesia's efforts to reduce its levels of deforestation and, by extension, its greenhouse gas emissions, which are the third highest in the world, trailing only the U.S. and China.
15 April 2011
Orangutans swim about as well as they fly, but research on three Indonesian islands shows that these long-limbed apes nonetheless catch and eat fish.
18 April 2011
Malaysia's palm oil lobby has reacted angrily to a push for labels to be added to foods containing the substance.
14 April 2011
Study confirms links between deforestation and local elections in Indonesia. Politicians in forest districts appear to often rely on funding from loggers, plantation developers, and miners to fund their campaigns.
6 April 2011
The main sustainable palm oil industry group Wednesday suspended an ongoing certification process for major plantation firm IOI Corp. Bhd. (1961.KU) following land dispute complaints and charges of deforestation by non-governmental organizations, a move that market participants said could threaten the company’s supply contracts with major consumer firms.
5 April 2011
The tragic earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan last month is likely to boost wood imports into the recovering nation, adding increased pressure on the already imperiled rainforests of Southeast Asia.
29 March 2011
The state of our forests has reached critical condition in the last several years. Indonesia has one of the world’s highest rates of deforestation.
March 7th, 2011
Another day and there's another study that undermines the case for biofuels as an eco-friendly source of energy.