Increased hunting and poaching in our world’s rainforests has decimated many mammal and bird populations. According to two new studies, the loss of these important seed-dispersers is imperiling the very nature of rainforests. Read more below. Read more about forest and climate policy in Borneo A fruit falls to the...
North Sumatra villagers demand farmers be released, customary land be returned, after 16 arrested in conflict with TPL, a plantation company affiliated with APRIL. Read more below. Read more from Mongabay Read more about Borneo Forest and Climate Policy Protesting community members. Photo by Sapariah Saturi Dozens of villagers from...
In an unusually bold statement catalyzed by the deaths of 14 rare elephants, six Malaysian NGOs recently called on the Sabah state government to pursue “a more conservation focused agenda” in managing the state’s forests. Read more below. Read more from Mongabay Read more about Borneo Forest and Climate Policy...
APRIL, the Indonesian paper and pulp giant, continues to disregard indigenous community rights for the sake of profit and unrelenting palm oil plantation development. Read more below. Read more from redd-monitor.org Read more about Borneo Forest and Climate Policy ********** Once again, an Indonesian pulp and paper company is clearing...
Research published in 2012 provided a better understanding of tropical deforestation’s contribution to greenhouse gas emissions. Two studies — one published in Science and the other published in Nature Climate Change, concluded that while deforestation now accounts for a lower share of global emissions relative to the late 1990s, it still represents roughly 10...
The Eyes on the Forest report [PDF] finds that APRIL and its suppliers cleared at least 140,000 hectares (346,000 acres) of natural forest between 2008 and 2011 in Riau, accounting for 27 percent of all forest loss in the province during the period. Some of the area cleared by APRIL and its...
Penan leaders issue stern warning to loggers. “We will do everything necessary to protect our forests”: Penan leaders from Sarawak’s Middle Baram region (Photo : www.bmf.ch) It could well have been a plot from Joseph Conrad’s novel, Heart of Darkness. Except that, instead of the African Congo, the clashes between...
LONDON: The credibility of the international Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has been called into question over its failure to act against a company bulldozing ancestral forests and perpetrating human rights abuses in Indonesia. First Resources Ltd has submitted documents to the RSPO falsely claiming that its subsidiary PT Borneo Surya...
A paper published this week in Nature Climate Change confirms that expansion of oil palm plantations in Indonesia is destroying the country’s rainforests while simultaneously increasing global carbon emissions. The study, led by Yale and Stanford University researchers, used Landsat satellite analyses to discern multiple land covers, coupled with above-and below-ground carbon accounting. The study...
A photograph of the rare and nocturnal Sunda clouded leopard (Neofelis diardi) was captured by remote camera trap in Malua Bio Bank in Borneo. The leopard is the largest wild cat in Borneo and is classified as Endangered by the IUCN Red list of threatened species. See below for the...
