Tag: Rainforests

By Sara Stefanini Political uncertainty hangs over large swathes of the world’s tropical forests this year, raising the risk of more destruction and carbon emissions. Recent...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk A palm oil supplier to Mars, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever is destroying rainforests in the Indonesian-ruled Papua region, a new investigation...

By Astari Pinasthika Sarosa in Jakarta The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior is sailing throughout Indonesia - including West Papua - as a vehicle for environmental...

Rapacious logging cartels feature in PNG's Northern Province Governor Gary Juffa's speech. Video: Café Pacific By David Robie at Te Papa Northern Province Governor Gary Juffa...

By Dames Alexander Sinaga in Jakarta A civil society group has urged the Indonesian government to revoke a presidential decree on the indigenous resettlement schemes...

By Basten Gokkon in Pontianak, West Kalimantan A timber plantation company is illegally clearing one of Indonesia’s last coastal peat swamp forests, a carbon reservoir...

This undercover footage by Greenpeace shows bulldozers destroying Indonesian rainforest. HSBC, one of the biggest banks in the world, is accused of lending millions...

By Adam Harvey in Jakarta Indonesia says it will watch foreigners more closely after Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio tweeted his support of a controversial environmental...

By India Thorogood "Indonesia is burning - so why is the world looking away?" Late last year those words shone a small spotlight on a...

Report from The Sydney Morning Herald By Michael Neilson in Jakarta Activists are suing the Indonesian government in a bid to stop development they say will...