Indonesia’s Supreme Court has upheld the government’s decision to block further expansion of the Tanah Merah oil palm project ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Twenty-two Indonesian civil society organizations have sent a letter to European Union Commissioners to express their concerns over the worsening condition of Papua’s rainforests.

Papua New Guinea's prime minister promised ... the world's largest tropical rainforest. "Next year we will be in Brazil," he said in an interview, vowing to push for countries that leave a large ...

The world's third-largest rainforest is on the island of New Guinea. The eastern half is part of Papua New Guinea, and the western half belongs to Indonesia. The island covers approximately ...

Indonesia’s Supreme Court has upheld the government’s decision to block further expansion of the Tanah Merah oil palm project in Papua, preserving a Jakarta-sized swath of primary rainforest.

A series of expeditions by WWF scientists into previously unexplored areas of tropical rainforest in Papua New Guinea have revealed at least eight new orchid species previously unknown to science.