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Rainforests: 11 things to watch in 2021

Rhett A. Butler 2020 was a rough year for tropical rainforest conservation efforts, as explained in Mongabay’s year-end wrap-up on rainforests. So what’s in store for 2021? Here are 11 things to watch. Mongabay Founder Rhett A. Butler reviews some of 11 key things to watch in the world of rainf

South Korea’s finance of ‘green’ palm oil drives destruction in Indonesia

Seulki Lee A growing grassroots movement aims to stop the government bankrolling palm oil companies linked to forest destruction and human rights abuses In 2019, South Korea imported 745,000 metric tonnes of palm oil, up from 194,000 metric tonnes in 2005. It is one of the fastest-growing markets fo

World Orangutan Day: Numbers in decline despite Indonesian government’s claims

The #team found that half of all #Bornean #Orangutans are impacted by #resource #extraction, and that their numbers fell by more than 100,000 over the sixteen years of the study -1999 to 2015

Facebook video shows orangutan defending forest against bulldozer

Rhett Butler Dramatic footage released last week by an animal welfare group shows a wild orangutan trying in vain to fight off destruction of its rainforest home in Borneo. The video, filmed in 2013 but posted on Facebook on June 5th for World Environment Day by International Animal Rescue (IAR), wa

Salim Group, Pepsico and Nestle connected to illegal rainforest clearance in Borneo

Major international banks and brands connected to company controlled by notorious Indonesian business tycoon, knowingly clear-cutting tropical rainforests   A new report exposes one of the largest cases in recent years of ongoing, illegal clearance of tropical rainforests in Borneo. Currently, app

Sarawak natives wins legal battle to save ancestral land

The endangered Bidayuh Dayak community reached a settlement with the Sarawak state in Malaysia to acquire their traditional land rights. The land was being taken away from the natives for developing a wild life sanctuary in Upper Bengoh. Over the last five years, the Bidayuh’s have been fighti

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