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 ...

Today, only half of Borneo's forest cover remains, down from 75 per cent in the mid 1980s. With a current deforestation rate of 1.3 million hectares per year – an area equivalent to about one third of ...

Indonesia is pressing ahead with construction of a new network of dams in Borneo to power a major “green” industrial estate ...

The elephants are native to the island of Borneo, where much of their habitat has been lost due to deforestation. Now, there are only 1,000 Bornean elephants left in the wild-but there’s hope ...

The Borneo orangutan inhabits forest areas in the Borneo archipelago ... young leaves and even eggs. Thus, deforestation is highly damaging to orangutans. For the love of orangutans World ...

stated that this figure was derived from annual monitoring of forest conditions and deforestation rates. "Of this total, approximately 91.9 percent (87.8 million hectares) fall within designated ...