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 ...

A palm oil company is gearing up to expand into critical orangutan habitat in Indonesian Borneo, raising alarms over the ...

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 ...

Researchers have called out the Indonesian government’s claim of having reduced deforestation by 90% over the past decade, ...

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.

Forests are essential to life as we know it. They play a vital role as carbon sinks and climate regulators, they are habitats ...

When I got out of the car, though, I realized that the haze was smoke, wafting thick and acrid from the burning forest ... the leading engines of deforestation across Brazil.

Brazil's environment minister Edson Duarte said in a statement that illegal logging was the main factor behind the increase in deforestation ... of Brazil's Amazon rainforest reached its highest ...

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 ...