Palm oil companies in Indonesia continue to operate on protected peatlands and clear forests, despite having their forestry ...

Since 1973, nearly 16,000 square miles of rain forest on Borneo, the island shared by Malaysia and Indonesia, have been logged, burned, and bulldozed to make way for oil palm. It accounts for a ...

Rising unemployment was a serious concern in Borneo in the late 1990s and early 2000s and ethnic conflict raged in parts of Kalimantan during this time. The sudden rise of the oil palm in the late ...

The demand for palm oil, a versatile ingredient in numerous products, from food to cosmetics, has led to devastating deforestation in the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra, the only habitats where ...

Indonesian prosecutors on Monday handed over more than 221,000 hectares (546,000 acres) of illegal palm oil plantations seized as part of an on-going corruption probe to a new state-owned company that ...

Borneo has lost almost 40% of its forest in the last 10 years to Palm oil. One of the animals most affected by this habitat loss is the orangutan. For Seven Worlds, One Planet we filmed a mother ...

Borneo is also under serious threat from a number of human activities including logging, mining, and large-scale rubber and palm oil plantations. The Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary consists of ...

Outside the confines of the Heart of Borneo, there is still potential for oil palm expansion. Parts of Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) with degraded soils and vegetation may offer the best prospects, ...

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Fire is also a major threat. Conserving orang-utan habitat: We are working in both Borneo and Sumatra to secure well-managed protected areas and wider forest landscapes connected by corridors.