Much your flight might get boring: mangroves on the coast, lowland […] If you flew over the island of Borneo in 1950, you would see nearly unbroken, untouched forest from one end to the other.

A female orangutan forages for ripe figs in the rainforest canopy of Gunung Palung National Park in Indonesia’s West Kalimantan Province. The park’s 417 square miles support about 2,500 of the ...

Most of Borneo’s old-growth lowland rainforests have been destroyed since 1980. Borneo rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler For the month of December, I’ll be posting some of my favorite ...

Just below the equator, on the island of Borneo, a tropical rain forest is rising out of a logged, ... all but 2 percent of its lowland forests will be gone by 2022, ...

The report Treasure island at risk supports a 2001 World Bank report that predicted all lowland rainforests in Kalimantan – the Indonesian part of Borneo – would disappear by 2010, and predicts an ...

This post concludes our “Postcards From Borneo” series. Over the past weeks Proof has been following the adventures of Tim , Cheryl , and their children, 10-year-old Jessica and 14-year-old ...

And these days, the illegal logging of the biggest and most valuable rainforest trees for the timber industry is by no means the biggest threat to lowland rainforests of western Borneo — it’s ...

INDONESIA: The lowland tropical rain forests in Indonesian Borneo could disappear in five years due to rampant logging and forest… INDONESIA: The lowland tropical rain forests in Indonesian ...