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, ...

"This is what keep the ... people alive." Corporation under fire for plans to raze one of world's most biodiverse regions: ...

While the 2015 fires were particularly severe, reports of such tropical forest fires in Indonesia, especially Borneo, have hit headlines almost every year for decades. A recent study predicts that as ...

For most of its history Borneo was scarcely populated ... Beyond the obvious deforestation that results from clearing lowland rainforest for plantations (86 percent of deforestation in Malaysia ...

As life-changing experiences go, spending 100 days in a Borneo forest rescuing orangutans ranks high up for Liza Heavener ... countries who represent the eyes and ears of an international movement to ...

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.

After oceans, forests are the largest storehouses of carbon. But we're losing forests at an alarming rate. Two-thirds of global forest cover loss is occuring mainly in the tropics and sub-tropics, ...

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 ...

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.