Seven years after the governments of Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam signed the Heart of Borneo Declaration to conserve one of the most important areas of tropical rainforest in the world, ...
The immense natural capital is under threat because of deforestation and development driven by unsustainable exploitation and poor governance of natural resources. Borneo has now lost half of its ...
This is what we call company-driven deforestation. What about the effect outside of concession areas, or in nearby forests? Deforestation caused by fire is even more dramatic in Borneo outside ...
The elephants are native to the island of Borneo, where much of their habitat has been lost due to deforestation. Now, there are only 1,000 Bornean elephants left in the wild-but there’s hope ...
For most of its history Borneo was scarcely populated by humans ... Beyond the obvious deforestation that results from clearing lowland rainforest for plantations (86 percent of deforestation ...
It accounts for a fifth of the total deforestation on Borneo since 1973—and for 47 percent since 2000. IndonesiaIndonesia’s palm oil frontier is on the island of New Guinea; forests and ...