Sebangau National Park in Indonesia – home to more than 5,800 critically endangered Bornean orangutans and the biggest protected peatland in Central Kalimantan – is suffering encroachment which is destroying its forest and peatland
A new project in Myanmar called Reef to Ridge is seeking to expand protected areas and establish a new national park covering more than 1,452 million hectares at a cost of $21 million
The European Parliament’s Environment Committee voted to strengthen the European Commission’s overall plans to cut plastic pollution under its Plastics Strategy. The Environment Committee called for a number of measures that go beyond the Commission’s original proposals
The European Commission is tackling plastic pollution with new laws to reduce throwaway single-use plastics. The proposal sets a number of different policy measures to tackle these problematic single-use products, from bans and reduction efforts to labelling and extended producer responsibility schemes
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has confirmed it is seeking an independent legal review of an oil palm plantation in Papua, Indonesia, following ongoing complaints that it operated illegally in the past
Daphne was, first and foremost, a rare and remarkable human being. Pioneering efforts to rescue and rehabilitate orphaned elephant calves, she was perhaps the greatest matriarch of them all and succeeded in reintroducing many of these babies back into the wild