photo: Forest Peoples Programme

Take this one as reinforcement of what plenty of environmental NGOs have been saying for some time: The commercial palm oil industry in Indonesia and Malaysia is trampling the rights of indigenous people and destroying rainforests as it rapidly expands.

Another interesting twist in the ongoing saga of Indonesia's greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and how to slow them: As Mongabay reports, a new report by the World Agroforestry Centre shows that because so many of the nation's emissions fr

Image: Conservation International (CI)

Pea-Sized Frog is Old World's Smallest
The smallest frog known on the Asian, European or African continents - and one of the world's tiniest frogs - was found by a group of scientists searching for "lost amphibians." This pea-sized micro frog belongs to the species of microhylid, which, as

Logged forest on left, unlogged forest on right...

Image credit: Andreas Wilting

To say sightings of Lutra sumatrana, better known as the hairy-nosed otter, in Borneo are rare would be an understatement. The most recent spotting occurred after one of the otters was struck by a car and killed in Brunei.

photo: Eyes on the Forest

Echoing a recent Greenpeace report on the deforestation in Indonesia by the paper industry, Eyes on the Forest is highlighting the actions of Asia Pulp & Paper and APRIL in illegally clearing forests and undermining governm

photo: Patrick Barry via flickr

Greenpeace is again pointing a finger the international companies responsible for Indonesian deforestation, and the international brands aiding and abetting them through purchasing their products.

Though they may look like forests at first glance, palm oil plantations often have far lower biodiversity and store far less carbon than the genuine forests they replace.

Photos via G1

Biologists stationed in the Foja Mountains of Indonesia were fortunate enough to uncover a number of animals previously unknown to science, including one frog with an impressive schnoz.