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Malaysian state chief: Highway construction must not destroy forest

Mongabay.com 26 Mar 2019

European Parliament to vote on timber legality agreement with Vietnam

John Cannon 11 Mar 2019

Borneo study explores links between farm expansion and deforestation

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Jan 2019
Rainforest in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The biggest rainforest news stories in 2018

Rhett A. Butler 30 Dec 2018

Forestry reforms could fall short without PM’s backing in Ukraine

John Cannon 28 Nov 2018

Fires and haze return to Indonesia as peat protection bid falls short

Aseanty Pahlevi, Hans Nicholas Jong, Zamzami 29 Aug 2018

Report finds APP and APRIL violating zero-deforestation policies with wood purchases from Djarum Group concessions in East Kalimantan

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Aug 2018

EU demand siphons illicit timber from Ukraine, investigation finds

John Cannon 17 Jul 2018

Revealed: Paper giant’s ex-staff say it used their names for secret company in Borneo

Philip Jacobson 10 Jul 2018

Orangutan forest school in Indonesia takes on its first eight students

Jim Tan 21 Jun 2018

Indonesia land swap, meant to protect peatlands, risks wider deforestation, NGOs say

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Apr 2018

Do environmental advocacy campaigns drive successful forest conservation?

Mike Gaworecki 29 Mar 2018

Indonesian palm, pulp companies commit to peatland restoration

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Feb 2018

Paper giant and its ‘suppliers’ are essentially one and the same, investigation finds

Michael Disabato 26 Dec 2017

Companies still not doing enough to cut deforestation from commodities supply chains: report

Mike Gaworecki 12 Dec 2017

RAPP to retire some plantation land in Sumatra amid government pressure

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Oct 2017

FSC mulls rule change to allow certification for recent deforesters

John Cannon 24 Oct 2017

Land-swap rule among Indonesian President Jokowi’s latest peat reforms

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Aug 2017

First real test for Jokowi on haze as annual fires return to Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Aug 2017

Transforming business as usual in Indonesia: an interview with Aida Greenbury

Rhett A. Butler 17 Jul 2017

New investor guide aims to help navigate social and environmental risks of commodities supply chains

Mike Gaworecki 28 Jun 2017

‘Give us back our land’: paper giants struggle to resolve conflicts with communities in Sumatra

Alice Cuddy 9 Jun 2017
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesia’s plantation lobby challenges environmental law

Basten Gokkon, Lusia Arumingtyas 7 Jun 2017

Indonesian governor asks president to let timber firms drain peat in his province

Lusia Arumingtyas 20 May 2017

Rainforest conservation may be aimed at the wrong places, study finds

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 13 Apr 2017

Governments must do more to help companies end deforestation in commodities supply chains, companies say

Mike Gaworecki 11 Apr 2017
A yellow-fronted woodpecker (Melanerpes flavifrons) in Brazil's Atlantic Forest. Photo by Germano Woehl Junior for the Instituto Rã-bugio para Conservação da Biodiversidade.

In Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, conservation efforts drown in a sea of eucalyptus

Ignacio Amigo 5 Apr 2017

In defining plantations as forest, FAO attracts criticism

Benji Jones 21 Mar 2017

Clothing giant VF Corporation adopts sustainable forestry policy

Mike Gaworecki 16 Mar 2017

Where the forest grants went

Harriet Williams 6 Mar 2017

Greenpeace slams paper giant over loophole in fire-prevention policy

Alice Cuddy 10 Feb 2017

Deforestation-free commodities represent a major investment opportunity: Report

Mike Gaworecki 31 Jan 2017

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