As profit-driven exploitation imperils Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, some unique conservation strategies are working to save ...

Burned peat forest in Borneo. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay. Emissions from peat and mangrove loss. Southeast Asia lost ...

But if oil companies get the go-ahead on July 28, our maps and other records may be all that’s left to prove intact peat swamp forests once existed in the Congo basin. Trekking into the swamps.

But according to Mongabay.com, Yusuf also signed, in 2011, a permit for PT Kallista Alam to convert almost 4,000 acres of peat swamp forest into an oil palm plantation—violating a moratorium on ...

Vartan: When Wendy says “out there,” she means the Indonesian peat swamp forest. She and her colleagues traverse this environment at all times of the night and day, collecting data every two ...

On July 11, a group of journalists participated in a tree-planting programme at HSRM. About 100 saplings from the Kampung Bukit Belimbing nursery were transferred to the forest reserve for the one-day ...

The US Forest Service says that the Black Swamp forest fire is steadily progressing. However, the challenge for firefighters lies not in the flames on the surface, but in what is burning underground.

Southeast Asia’s peat swamp forests are home to varied wildlife and hold large below-ground carbon stocks but many of these forests have been drained and degraded to make room for farmland.

Environmentalist group RimbaWatch has highlighted an ongoing clearing of peat swamp forests near Kampung Orang Asli Air Hitam and Tanjung Keruing in Pekan, Pahang, allegedly involving a private ...