The Kinabatangan River is the last major area in Malaysian Borneo’s Sabah state with a semblance of forest corridor linking ...

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 ...

JAKARTA — A palm oil company is gearing up to expand into critical orangutan habitat in Indonesian Borneo, raising alarms over the survival of the critically endangered great apes. PT Equator ...

Despite 35 years of awareness campaigns, palm oil plantations still devastate the landscape of this biodiversity hotspot and the animals who depend on native forests.

Today, the largest producers are Indonesia and Malaysia, which together make over 60 million tonnes of palm oil every year. Much of this oil comes from the island of Borneo, where both countries have ...

Borneo is divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, and it is estimated that up to 10% of its land is taken up by industrial palm oil and logging operations. But deforestation isn’t just ...

Malaysia is promoting high-value palm derivatives such as red palm oil, palm stearin and palm-based ice cream powder in the global markets, said Datuk Chan Foong Hin. The Deputy Minister of Plantation ...

“In 1973, Borneo was home to an estimated 288,500 orangutans ... A commitment to improving forest management and the sustainable production of palm oil would be “the best way to showcase ...

Using satellite imagery, they measured oil palm coverage across 144 plantations on the northern tip of Borneo. They analyzed data from 2017 to 2023 spanning the period before, during, and after ...

The most compelling opportunity was in a region of Borneo bordering the Tanjung Puting ... and campaigning against the expansion of the palm oil sector. After months of unreturned calls, Lemons ...