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

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

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

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

The machine is one of 27 "Guardian" sensors eavesdropping on forests in Indonesia's West Sumatra province, to listen out for chainsaws as a way to tackle illegal logging in the region.

Indonesia is down to its last tropical seasonal forests—and they’re entirely unprotected. The forests are found in the Tanimbar archipelago in Maluku Province, due directly north of Darwin, Australia, ...

The machine is one of 27 "Guardian" sensors eavesdropping on forests in Indonesia's West Sumatra province, to listen out for chainsaws as a way to tackle illegal logging in the region.

Lush tropical rainforest once covered almost all of Indonesia's 17,000 islands between the Indian and Pacific oceans. And just half a century ago, 80 per cent remained. But since then, rampant ...

Two years ago, the government took aim at the illegal logging in its rainforests, which are among the most extensive -- and most rapidly disappearing -- anywhere. Illegal timber shipments from the ...

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.

At least 75% of the logging is illegal, said Environment Minister Nabiel Makarim, but the weak central government, plagued by graft, is powerless to stop it. “If this goes on for seven or eight ...