American demand for tropical wood that is used in motor homes, conservationists say, is accelerating the disappearance of ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Indonesia ...

Tropical wood demand from some of America's top RV brands is fuelling deforestation on the Indonesian island of Borneo, home ...

Extrapolating to the country level, the study found that total emissions from logging amounted to 40 million tons a year in Malaysia, 25 million tons in Brazil, and 8.7 million tons in Indonesia.

Rainforests are home to half of the world's plant and animal species. Here are the five largest rainforests in the world.

As Indonesia tests the limits of the FSC’s ambitious new framework, the outcome could ripple far beyond its forests — shaping how global supply chains reckon with past environmental harm.

Indonesia's forests estimated only 98 million hectares last year, a drastic fall from the more than 162 million hectares 50 years ago, and the rate of deforestation continues at an alarming rate ...

Undisturbed tropical rainforest is normally highly resistant to fire because it offers little available fuel and has high humidity levels even during drought. In recently cleared areas, however, ...

Religious leaders have committed to protecting Indonesia’s rainforests, the third largest in the world, by launching the Interfaith Rainforest Initiative (IRI) Indonesia. Nine leaders representing ...

Environmentalists said Friday a long-awaited moratorium on logging in Indonesia, part of a $1 billion climate deal with Norway, is a "disaster" for forests and will do little to fight global warming.

Conservationists say the rate at which Indonesia is losing its forests has doubled since the 1980s. They say the lowland forests, the richest in the country, will not survive for long on some of the ...

Indonesia's recent renewal of a ban on new logging permits will not be enough to curb pressures on its forests without stronger enforcement on the ground, researchers and activists say.