However, this plan would devastate land in the Borneo rainforest — one of the ... as harmful gases if the trees are cut down. Deforestation from this project could accelerate the rising of ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

What about the effect outside of concession areas, or in nearby forests? Deforestation caused by fire is even more dramatic in Borneo outside concessions, where it recently jumped by 400 percent to a ...

Producing the wood pellets and chips used for "co-fire" coal plants also risks driving deforestation ... at risk include orangutans in Sumatra and Borneo, the report said. Using wood to achieve ...