A palm oil company is gearing up to expand into critical orangutan habitat in Indonesian Borneo, raising alarms over the survival of the critically endangered great apes. PT Equator Sumber Rezeki (ESR ...

By Louise Hunt The Kinabatangan River is the last major area in Malaysian Borneo’s Sabah state with a semblance of forest ...

Deforestation is unfortunately still a major problem in Borneo: every day smaller and large areas of natural forest are disappearing through degradation, clear-cut and fires. In many cases few people ...

If the current rate of deforestation continues, Borneo – the world's third largest island – could lose most of its lowland forests in less than ten years, according to a new WWF report. Gland, ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have uncovered fossil evidence of an endangered tropical tree species for the very ...

Beyond the obvious deforestation that results from clearing ... Drainage systems required for plantations (oil palm plantations in Borneo are often established in swamp forest) may lower water ...

It accounts for a fifth of the total deforestation on Borneo since 1973—and for 47 percent since 2000. IndonesiaIndonesia’s palm oil frontier is on the island of New Guinea; forests and ...

For the first time, scientists have discovered fossil evidence of an endangered, living tropical tree species. The ...

We spoke to experts to find out… Deforestation in Borneo, Malaysia, as oil palm plantations are created. Deforestation is a big part of the problem. “In only 13 years we’ve lost the ...