Rows of oil palms replace rain forest near Borneo’s Gunung Palung National Park. Vast expanses of orangutan habitat have been lost to palm oil, used for cooking, food products, and cosmetics.

Thanks to innovative conservation efforts, experts have now been given a rare opportunity to study the Sunda clouded leopard, ...

Beneath the island’s rainforest, explorers search for new discoveries deep within some of the Earth’s largest, longest, and wildest caves. At dusk, a swarm of bats disperses to hunt in the ...

As the morning mist rises over Borneo's rainforest, wreathing the soaring trees that pierce the canopy in their ceaseless quest for light, it's easy to sense how ancient this landscape is.

The Heart of Borneo’s natural capital has significant social and economic value at local, national and global levels. This includes social values related to traditional knowledge and sacred sites, the ...

So they started a project that would hopefully protect the forest and help the local communities at the same time. They built ...

BEAMS of sunlight streamed through thick tree canopies, casting flecks of gold on the forest floor as Jibius Dausip made his way deeper into the dense Borneo rainforest, accompanied by a team of ...

For most of its history Borneo was scarcely populated by humans. The unforgiving climate and dense rainforest kept populations small and scattered. In the past half century this has all changed.

In the Heart of Borneo, conservation districts are seen as a logical development to avoid sacrificing natural habitat to unplanned economic development. Planning for conservation districts is the ...

They were awarded the U.N.’s Equator Prize in 2019 for their important work in defending Borneo’s rainforest from illegal loggers, oil palm plantations and other corporate interests.