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 ...

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 ...

Seven years after the governments of Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam signed the Heart of Borneo Declaration to conserve one of the most important areas of tropical rainforest in the world, ...

A modelling study finds that under current climate change projections and with rapid deforestation in Borneo, fire risk increases by the end of the century. The dry season of 2015 was a devastating ...

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 ...

The immense natural capital is under threat because of deforestation and development driven by unsustainable exploitation and poor governance of natural resources. Borneo has now lost half of its ...

But the research also showed that natural resources were still being exploited in Borneo "at an unsustainable rate". Deforestation alone, the researchers predict, could wipe out a further 45,000 ...

Near-real-time satellite imagery and data from the Global Forest Watch (GFW) monitoring platform show numerous deforestation alerts in primary forest just outside the Sungai Barito protected area.