By Carolyn Cowan Intensifying heat waves, extreme floods and forest fires have devastated parts of Southeast Asia in recent ...

Once hailed as the lungs of South-East Asia, Borneo's rainforests are now facing unprecedented threats, having lost more than ...

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 ...

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

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’s efforts to ensure its commodity exports are free of deforestation are ramping up as the European Union ...

Photograph by PASCAL MAITRE IndonesiaIn 2015 this forest growing on peatland ... It accounts for a fifth of the total deforestation on Borneo since 1973—and for 47 percent since 2000.

A joint venture between Indonesia and state-owned Malaysia companies is constructing a network of dams in the Bulungan and ...

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 ...

A man who led a successful campaign to stop a mega-dam being built in Borneo's rainforest has been awarded a top environmental prize. Peter Kallang spent years raising awareness of the plans among ...