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Integrating nature and biodiversity into business practices is key to sustainable operations for Asean’s bioeconomy. However, the lack of pricing mechanisms and firmer regulations governing natural resources must see the region come together to address such challenges.

7 May 2024

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Cambodia’s reliance on microloans, long touted as a way to reduce poverty, belies concerns over debt-fuelled deforestation.

nickel mining concession in Eastern Indonesia

The race to electrify transport is causing extensive deforestation in Indonesia, a Mighty Earth report finds. Will the destructive practices continue under incoming president Prabowo Subianto, who has pledged to ramp up the nickel trade?

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Logging companies have “acquired” roughly 1m hectares of Indigenous peoples’ territory in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 2000, according to a new study.

16 January 2024

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19 December 2023

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30 November 2023

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20 November 2023

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7 November 2023

A village along the Tamiang river was flooded in 2007, affecting 200,000 people

26 September 2023

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19 September 2023

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30 August 2023

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19 August 2023

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15 August 2023

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7 August 2023

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18 July 2023

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14 July 2023

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12 July 2023

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30 June 2023

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23 May 2023

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