Indonesian environmentalists and Catholic activists have slammed a government plan to clear about 20 million hectares of forest for food and energy projects, which they say will worsen the ...

Indonesia’s forestry minister says 20 million hectares (50 million acres) of forest can be converted to grow food and biofuel crops, or an area twice the size of South Korea. Experts have ...

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the President of Indonesia, has extended the country’s moratorium on deforestation for another 2 years. This moratorium prohibits new exploitation permits for both primary ...

"The country's forests face unprecedented threats from the industrial scale projected for biomass demand," said the groups, which include Auriga Nusantara and Earth Insight. Indonesia's production ...

Following the announcement by Asia Pulp & Paper that it has stopped all clearance of Indonesian forests, WWF is now calling on its competitor Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL) to ...

Indonesia's government has also said it will target land that has already been granted in concessions rather than virgin forest. But environmentalists warned even mass conversion of agricultural ...

By 2000, the cloud forests of Centinela Ridge were gone ... and they all live in one national park on the Indonesian island of Java. And along Ecuador’s Centinela Ridge, a small herb with ...