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

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.

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

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 ...

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.

Researchers set out to Jambi, Sumatra, to learn more about the new species, Betta iaspis, which was was found in a single forest peat swamp less than 11.5 square miles and “adjacent to a huge ...

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 ...