Interpol and partners have launched a global law enforcement effort to fight illegal deforestation in tropical areas.

* Indonesian illegal logging hurting U.S. industry -report * Trade tools can help clean up the sector * Illegal logging threat to efforts to fight climate change By David Fogarty, Climate Change ...

Lack of clarity makes it difficult to assess whether Indonesia’s moratorium on new logging concessions in primary forest areas and peatlands will actually reduce greenhouse gas emissions from ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Indonesia has approved a two-year extension to a landmark ban on clearing primary rainforests and peatlands, officials said Thursday. Environmentalists praised the move but ...

WASHINGTON – The United States and Indonesia agreed on Tuesday to begin negotiations on a trade agreement to combat illegal logging of forests in Indonesia.The negotiations were announced following ...

LAM KABEUE, Indonesia — The rebels of Aceh are trading their guns for chain saws, cashing in on a logging binge that is jeopardizing the future of the world’s third-largest tropical forest reserves.

SOLOK, Indonesia, Feb 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Clipped onto a rope, climbing high up in a tree swaying in gusts of wind, Topher White finally reaches the roof of the rainforest and opens a ...

Deforestation for an oil palm plantation in Central Kalimantan in 2013. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.. Reclassifying logging concessions as permanent forest estates and thereby barring them from ...

An excavator is seen in a destroyed forest at a peatland area in Kuala Tripa district in Indonesia's Aceh province on December 20, 2011. REUTERS/Roni Bintang Some experts say the new policy doesn't go ...

Environmental activists said Thursday they had uncovered the world’s biggest smuggling racket involving a single type of wood, with huge shipments of logs being shipped from Indonesia’s remote Papua ...

SOLOK, Indonesia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Clipped onto a rope, climbing high up in a tree swaying in gusts of wind, Topher White finally reaches the roof of the rainforest and opens a laptop to ...