Recent News

28 August 2010
Indonesian environmental activists have called on Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard to honor an election promise to ban the import of illegal timber.

20 August 2010
JAKARTA - Indonesia may propose palm oil plantations be eligible to earn carbon credits under a U.N.-backed scheme aimed at preserving forests, a forestry ministry official said on Monday.

12 August 2010
The government plans to set aside 30 million hectares of protected forests for habitats for endangered species in order to prevent their extinction.

15 July 2010
Why should we protect the orangutan? It is a frequently asked question when lay-people, including businesspeople, discuss the need to protect orangutans, Asia's only great ape, which is greatly endangered.

21 June 2010
Some New Zealand food companies are being slippery about whether they use palm oil, according to a Green Party survey.

27 May 2010
Cash-strapped Indonesia remains committed to protection of its rainforests as part of the global initiative to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) Plus scheme, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono says.

26 May 2010
Indonesia and Norway signed a letter of intent to reduce deforestation and degradation in Oslo on Wednesday, in which Norway will provide up to US$1 billion in grant for Indonesia to protect its forests.

27 May 2010
Indonesia will introduce a two-year moratorium on deforestation to help tackle climate change, the country's president has said.

27 May 2010
Indonesia will honor palm oil companies' existing contract despite its pledge to suspend new concessions to clear the nation's natural forests and peat lands for two years, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono says.

28 May 2010
United States congressman Earl Blumenauer has called on the Australian Government to legislate to ban illegal timber imports into Australia.

19 May, 2010

The Prime Minister has been accused of reversing his position on several things: asylum seekers, the emissions trading scheme, schools, pink batts. But there is one promise he really should consider keeping – and it actually belongs to the bloke who had the job before him.

7th May 2010
When it comes to species conservation, Wildlife friendly oil palm plantations are not very friendly - at least for birds - as a new study in the journal Conservation Letters finds.

28 April, 2010
Palm oil producers and government officials from Malaysia and Indonesia will meet May 3 to discuss the latest round of attacks by Greenpeace and other environmental organizations that have blamed producers for destroying rain forests and biodiversity, an industry executive said Wednesday.

1 April 2010
Home-brand biscuits, dressings, and even shampoo, are contributing to the destruction of orang-utan populations in South-East Asia faster than their branded cousins, a report reveals.

10 March 2010
It is no secret that orangutans are threatened with extinction because their rain forests are being destroyed at an alarming rate. Ten years ago, Shawn Thompson, a writer, former journalist and university professor, set out to chronicle the threat to orangutans in a book released in March 2010.

2 March 2010
'Environmentally-friendly' biofuels have been found to be more harmful to the planet than normal fossil fuel.

22 February 2010
BBC documentary shows Indonesian company clearing protected rainforest.