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 recently published study in Molecular Ecology found that male orangutan’s travel much longer distances than females, based on faecal samples collected a seven sites in Borneo. These findings are further proof that the orangutan needs high-quality natural forests and dispersal corridors, states Sabah Wildlife Department Director Dr Laurentius Ambu....
A recent wildlife study confirmed that orangutans require large swaths of forests to live. In order to ensure the orangutan’s survival, the study calls for the restoration of high-quality natural forests and dispersal corridors. Read more about the study below. For more information on biodiversity in Borneo, please visit: https://borneoproject.org/borneo/biodiversity-conservation...
