Up to 71 percent of mangrove forests in Indonesia have been damaged, Environment Minister Gusti Muhammad Hatta said Saturday in Brebes, Central Java.

Australia will force its 500 worst polluters to pay 23 Australian dollars ($25) for every ton of carbon dioxide they emit, with the government promising to compensate households hit with…

The Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) will present a symposium on Monday on conserving threatened plant and animal species.

The Indonesian Environment Ministry and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) here on Monday on partnership for environmental protection and sustainable utilization of natural…

At least 13 caves in Ciampea, the West Java regency of Bogor, are in danger of disappearing due to nearby limestone mining activities.

The Jambi administration has announced plans to develop a special area of elephant habitat in its latest attempt to end years of conflicts between elephants and the local population.

Eighty percent of the 2,000 hectares of mangrove forest on Surabaya's eastern coast now belongs to property developers, while 40 percent is damaged, an NGO reported Tuesday.

At a recent ceremony in London hosted by Her Royal Highness Princess Anne, Indonesian conservationist Hotlin Ompusunggu received the 2011 Whitley Award for her conservation work in West Kalimantan.

A federal assessment shows more than 3,000 desert tortoises that are threatened with extinction would be disturbed by a California solar project, and up to 700 of the young turtles…

More than 230 million hectares of forested areas across the globe will disappear by 2050 if no action is taken, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) warns.