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 ...

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.

The Dayak Oil Palm Planters Association (Doppa) is calling on the European Union (EU) to grant a ‘no risk’ exemption for indigenous farmers in Sarawak, following the EU’s decision to classify Malaysia ...

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 ...

Roughly a third of that deforestation was caused by palm oil, according to a 2022 study. In Borneo, an island split among Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia, the palm oil industry caused roughly 40 ...

although there are conservation centres for them in Sarawak and Sabah on Borneo. NGOs also run conservation programmes to restore their habitat. Johari urged large palm oil producers to ...

“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 ...