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A new scientific paper published in Media Konservasi finds that consumer boycotts of palm oil have not played a significant role in reducing deforestation in […]

Indonesia has the largest area of oil palm plantations in the world — around 16 million hectares of industrial and smallholder plantations in 2024 — […]

  When people hear about palm oil, they often immediately think of orangutans, but the conversion of tropical rainforest to oil palm plantations affects many […]

Designing effective policy responses to tropical deforestation requires an understanding of the reasons behind it, commonly called deforestation drivers. In the tropics, over 90% of […]

A difficult task – balancing food production and biodiversity It is well understood that the oil palm industry has had profound ecological, social and economic […]

When we think about colonialism, we often imagine it as a closed chapter—something that ended in 1945. But in Indonesia’s countryside, especially in areas dominated […]

The world is facing a biodiversity crisis, and we can no longer afford to invest in ineffective conservation strategies. Between 1999 and 2019, approximately USD 1 […]

Birth of the Rimba Sometime during 2019, I was listening to the radio. I have no idea what the program was or who the speakers […]

The Chester Zoo Sustainable Palm Oil Communities project relies on organisations stepping forward and taking responsibility for transparency, whilst maintaining their ambition to improve sustainability […]