Since 1973, nearly 16,000 square miles of rain forest on Borneo, the island shared by Malaysia and Indonesia, have been logged, burned, and bulldozed to make way for oil palm. It accounts for a ...

Rising unemployment was a serious concern in Borneo in the late 1990s and early 2000s and ethnic conflict raged in parts of Kalimantan during this time. The sudden rise of the oil palm in the late ...

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Prior to and following the field experience in Borneo, students will complete coursework via Canvas ... and large-scale rubber and palm oil plantations. The Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary consists of ...

In March 2021, Brunei’s National Unitization Secretariat and Petronas signed an agreement on the terms of the unitization of the GKGJE fields’ oil and gas discoveries in Borneo, an island that ...

0Three palm oil companies in Indonesian Borneo, including subsidiaries of ... releasing thousands of years’ worth of carbon emissions. Field inspections in 2024 confirmed the construction ...

Borneo has lost almost 40% of its forest in the last 10 years to Palm oil. One of the animals most affected by this habitat loss is the orangutan. For Seven Worlds, One Planet we filmed a mother ...

JAKARTA (AFP): Indonesian police were accused by a rights group on Tuesday (Oct 10) of opening fire on a protest in Borneo against an oil palm company last week, killing one demonstrator and ...

Fire is also a major threat. Conserving orang-utan habitat: We are working in both Borneo and Sumatra to secure well-managed protected areas and wider forest landscapes connected by corridors.