Latest
Not a single company on track to meet 2020 zero-deforestation deadline
27.03.2019 Forest 500 report shows no palm oil, soy, cattle or timber firm that committed to eliminate deforestation from supply chains by 2020 will meet that goal
The secret deal to destroy paradise
28.11.2018 The story behind the single biggest threat to the rainforests of Indonesia
Does Indonesia’s storied anti-graft agency have a blind spot for corrupt land deals?
21.08.2018 Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission is perhaps the most trusted institution in a country plagued with graft. But the KPK, as it is known, has prosecuted only a handful of cases in the plantation sector
How corrupt elections fuel the sell-off of Indonesia’s natural resources
07.07.2018 Corrupt sell-offs by politicians, often to raise money for political campaigns, are driving deforestation and land rights abuses
Top US plywood importer in league with one of the world's dirtiest timber companies
19.10.2017 Products made from the rainforests of Malaysian Borneo, supplied by a firm known to have bulldozed intact forests, abused indigenous people and propped up the regime of a billionaire kleptocrat
Firms filmed exploiting peatland forest in West Kalimantan
29.08.2017 An Indonesian company and its Chinese partner pushed ahead with an industrial wood plantation, flouting a moratorium on the drainage and exploitation of lands
Indonesian government failing to collect $1bn in deforestation fines
25.08.2017 The Indonesian government is failing to make firms convicted of illegal deforestation pay more than US$1 billion in fines, hampering efforts to restore peat and forest habitats
Illegal palm oil concession generates flood of timber, greenwashed by Indonesia’s flagship certification scheme
26.06.2017 A new report reveals how company previously exposed has continued operating illegally, by clearing after permits expired and beyond the boundaries of its concession
Pulp giant ‘misinterprets’ peat canal blocking decree, constructs canal
19.12.2016 Pulp and paper giant April has carved a 3 km canal through carbon-rich peatlands in Sumatra in violation of Indonesian government regulations
