Loren Bell

The world's forests are fragmented and deteriorating, states a new paper published in Science Advances. After analyzing satellite ...

20.7 million people are affected by river flooding each year, and the number is expected to more than ...

The governor of East Kalimantan, Indonesia, has reaffirmed his commitment to a 2013 moratorium on mining, logging, and ...

A sting operation by Indonesian officials snared a group of tiger hunters operating in Karinci Seblat National Park ...

The world's first cabinet-level ministry dedicated to implementing REDD+ has been dissolved. In accordance with Indonesian Presidential Decree ...

"If we don't have forests, community grounds, burial place, and rice fields... then what will be the fate ...

The village of Pekandangan sits on the border of Register 39, a 41,000-hectare protected forest containing the headwaters ...

A half-kilometer south of the village of Demaisi, Yohan Ullo pulls weeds from his garden. The 50 square ...

During Indonesia's 2014 national census, 848 people were recorded living in the village of Setulang, an hour's drive ...

"We were managing communal land, but according [to] the government it was protected forest," Syafrizal recalls, "I knew ...

The rolling green hills covered in rice paddies and coffee plantations give Semende in the Muara Enim regency ...

rda tends to his two-hectare timber plantation in Pamulukkang Forest at the base of Tanete Kindo Mountain in ...

Ngata Toro borders Lore Lindu National Park in Central Sulawesi about a three-hour drive from Palu—the provincial capital ...

Delang district is different than many parts of Central Kalimantan. Namely, on the drive in from Nangabulik, you ...

The small village of Tumbang Bahanei is inhabited by 139 indigenous families that tend to 2,859 hectares of ...

"For generations, the people have used the surrounding forests as community forest," said Tau Hamid, former village head ...

The Indonesian Ministry of the Environment and Forestry has announced it will further hobble its peatlands protection law ...

Located on the slopes of Inerie Mountain on the island of Flores in Indonesia, farmers in Bajawa district ...

Meet Bimo Kencana Arief. At 13 years old, this Indonesian middle school student is not spending his afternoons ...

Reclamation of over 830,000 hectares of abandoned mines has yet to begin in East Kalimantan, Indonesia--despite a provincial ...

In the largest confiscation in Indonesia to date, authorities seized 103kg of manta gills in Bali, and arrested ...

Two online merchants of tiger parts have been arrested in Indonesia. The bust was the result of a ...

Oil palm company PT. Kallista Alam has filed an appeal with the Supreme Court continuing the closely-watched legal ...

As more palm oil companies are held accountable for deforestation in Indonesia, a growing number are hiring local ...

Furthering Indonesia's renewed commitment to environmental justice, the High Court of Banda Aceh denied an appeal by PT. ...

Baharuddin should be happy. The rambutan and durian trees flanking his home are heavy with fruit. Two hectares ...

Since 2009, PT Hati Prima Agro (HPA), a subsidiary of palm oil giant Bumitama Gunajaya Agro Group (BGA), ...