A 186-mile (300-km) logging road to the top of the Bario highlands in northern Sarawak puts the state’s increasingly rare natural forest at risk, warns the Borneo Resources Institute, a grassroots ...

Pygmy elephants are increasingly threatened by logging and forest conversion for agriculture in their native Borneo, reports a new satellite tracking study by WWF. Researchers report that the ...

A new study has found that more than 80 percent of tropical forests in Malaysian Borneo have been heavily impacted by logging. The team used the Carnegie Landsat Analysis System-lite (CLASlite) to ...

Like a slithering red snake, the dirt road cuts through the jungles shrouding an endless row of hills. At the first sign of humanity, the logging road stops abruptly: a crude barrier of branches tied ...

Borneo's orang-utan population has declined by more than half since 1999 due to palm oil production and logging, a study has found. Between 70,000 and 100,000 of the endangered primates remain in the ...

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For years, environmental and indigenous rights advocates in the forested Malaysian state of Sarawak, on the island of Borneo, have struggled against the rampant logging destroying their homes.

Conservationists are warning that the south-east Asian island of Borneo could lose almost all its lowland forest within a decade. A report from the WWF says illegal logging and clearance for oil palm ...