The burning scar: Inside the destruction of Asia’s last rainforests
Petrus Kinggo walks through the thick lowland rainforest in the Boven Digoel Regency. “This is our mini market,” he says, […]
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Brazil drastically reduces controls over suspicious Amazon timber exports
Forest degradation nearly doubled in the Brazilian Amazon last year, rising from 4,946 square kilometers in 2018, to 9,167 square
Nature Care
Indonesian police charge indigenous men in dispute over nutmeg plantation
Police in Indonesia have charged two indigenous men with vandalizing heavy equipment after a confrontation with a company accused of
Business in Melanesia
Permits for mega-plantation in Papua were falsified: Indonesian government
An area nearly the size of Paris has already cut a hole in a vast stretch of rainforest on the
Melanesia
Dutch pension fund divests from Korean firm Posco Daewoo over deforestation in Indonesia
APB, the Dutch pension fund for government and education employees, announced it would divest 300,000 euros from the firm owned
Melanesia
Indonesia’s Salim Group linked to ‘secret’ palm oil concessions in West Papua
The conglomerate appears to be concealing its involvement in the heavily forested region through offshore mechanisms. One of Indonesia’s largest conglomerates,