Congratulations to Liz Law, who has been included in this year’s UQ Future Leaders Program! The UQ Future Leaders program recognises graduating students who have gone beyond their typical program of studies to make a positive impact on campus, their community and even the world. Only a small proportion of the near 10,000 new alumni…

What is the best form of management to protect tropical rainforests? CEED researchers (from the Wilson lab) recently set out to answer this question for Kalimantan. In the process they discovered that the manner in which the Indonesian government defines ‘degraded land’ is critical to conservation outcomes in the region…read more

  By Ariana Magini I was extremely grateful to be granted the opportunity of being flown down to Sydney to present my research at the national Students for Sustainability conference. The conference was held at the Western Sydney University Hawkesbury campus on September 15th and 16th, and was attended by over 100 delegates, representing 17 universities…

Opinion piece by Sugeng Budiharta – Monday May 25, 2015, the Jakarta Post President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has assured he will extend the country’s forestry moratorium as proof of his commitment to protect nature. This implies that there will be no new permits to convert primary forests and peatlands within the moratorium areas for the…

 By coordinating conservation and development efforts as well as reforming land-use, Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei could retain up to half of the land of Borneo as forests, protect elephant and orangutan habitats, reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 50 per cent, and possibly significantly reduce the opportunity costs by billions of dollars. The study, published in…