Indonesian authorities say the cockpit voice recorder from AirAsia Flight QZ8501 has been retrieved from the bottom of the Java Sea. It was lifted onto an Indonesian navy ship and is now […]
Indonesian officials say the cockpit voice recorder from crashed AirAsia Flight QZ8501 has been located in the Java Sea, 20 metres from the flight data recorder that was retrieved earlier today. Divers […]
Indonesian officials say divers have recovered the data recorder of AirAsia Flight QZ8501, which crashed when en route from Surabaya to Singapore just over two weeks ago. The head of Indonesia’s search […]
A formerly blind orangutan, who is the mother of twins born in captivity, was returned to the wild in Sumatra, Indonesia, this week. The much-anticipated release worked well for the mother and […]
Underwater image released in Indonesia today. On the 11th day of the search for victims and the wreckage of AirAsia flight QZ8501, the head of Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency has […]
Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency has confirmed that another four bodies have been recovered from the sea in the search for victims and the wreckage of the AirAsia flight that crashed […]
AirAsia Indonesia has released a statement, confirming that the debris found today is from its missing flight QZ8501. Full statement on December 30, 2014, at 18:00 p.m. local time (GMT+7). SURABAYA, 30TH […]
Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency officials say search teams have found debris from the missing AirAsia plane, and at least one body. News agency reports stated that more than 40 bodies […]
Indonesia has suspended its search for the AirAsia flight that went missing this morning while en route from Indonesia to Singapore. As darkness fell, the authorities decided to call off their operations […]
Search and rescue operations are continuing after an AirAsia plane went missing en route from Indonesia to Singapore. There were two pilots, four flight attendants, and one engineer on board the airbus […]
An AirAsia plane en route from Indonesia to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control. The flight had seven crew and 155 passengers on board. The passengers are reported to include […]
Greenpeace has launched a new report about the progress the palm oil multinational Golden Agri-Resources (GAR) is making in implementing its Forest Conservation Policy. GAR’s record in Indonesia and Liberia is mixed, Greenpeace […]
Activists have launched a petition calling for a government investigation into the killing of an orangutan on an oil palm plantation in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, earlier this month. The adult female orangutan […]
The Rainforest Action Network and Orangutan Outreach have joined forces to organise a Global Call-In Day tomorrow (December 9) to put pressure on the multinational PepsiCo to cut Conflict Palm Oil from […]
An orangutan discovered on an oil palm plantation in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, with more than 40 shotgun pellets in her body has died from her injuries. The veterinary team at the Borneo […]
The Rainforest Action Network (RAN) has issued a report that says a forthcoming multi-million dollar share rights offering by the Indonesian palm oil firm BW Plantation (BWPT) carries serious environmental and financial […]
Delegates at the recent Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) gathering in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur grappled with the thorny issue of traceability and admitted that tracking palm oil supplies back […]
Delegates meeting at the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) annual gathering in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur have called on governments to do more to ensure that forests are protected from […]
Worker exploitation and human rights abuses in the palm oil industry were the focus of a special workshop held in Kuala Lumpur this week. Trades union and human rights organisations from Malaysia […]
Deforestation in Indonesia (Photo by Roni Bintang) The number of multinational companies that say they are committed to supplying and using only deforestation-free palm oil is growing fast. More than twenty global […]
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