To help convince people not to turn to illegal logging, you need to give the economic alternatives. Health in Harmony’s offset program works with them to plant trees, and provides them with services, too.
Despite corporate efforts to halt deforestation, palm oil from trees grown illegally in an Indonesian wildlife reserve is entering supply chains, an investigation finds.
The study increases conservationists' understanding of how orangutans survive in difficult and variable climatic conditions — important information given the likely impact of climate change.
Orangutans face a changing climate and are hemmed in by a growing human population using novel technologies to hunt them down. It's a situation they have been in before — 20,000 years ago.
Orangutans face a bleak future in Borneo, hammered by habitat loss to plantations and mines, poached for the illegal pet trade, and exterminated by farmers.
At least six illegal logging camps have sprung up in a peat forest in Indonesian Borneo that the government had declared off-limits last year, a Greenpeace investigation has revealed.
