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Scientific articles published in scientific peer-reviewed journals

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  1. Ecol. Appl. Conserving biodiversity in production landscapes
  2. PLOS ONE. Recent Surveys in the Forests of Ulu Segama Malua, Sabah, Malaysia, Show That Orang-utans (P. p. morio) Can Be Maintained in Slightly Logged Forests
  3. Biotropica. Purity and Prejudice Deluding Ourselves About Biodiversity Conservation
  4. PLOS ONE. Declining orangutan encounter rates
  1. Biotropica. A Modest Proposal for Wealthy Countries to Reforest Their Land for the Common Good
  2. Asian Primate J. First sighting of Bornean Orang Utan Twins in the wild
  3. PLOS ONE. Quantifying Killing of Orangutans and Human- Orangutan Conflict in Kalimantan, Indonesia
  4. PLOS ONE. Why Don’t We Ask? A Complementary Method for Assessing the Status of Great Apes
  1. Report. An impact analysis of RSPO certification on Borneo forest cover and Orangutan populations
  2. Strategic Rev. The trillion dollar gamble on Borneo
  3. Scientific Rep. First integrative trend analysis for a great ape species in Borneo
  4. Curr. Biol. Morphometric, behavioural, and genomic evidence for a new orangutan species
  5. PNAS. Canopy structure drives orangutan habitat selection in disturbed Bornean forests
  6. Strategic Review. Getting community forest reforms right
  7. Glob. Env. Ch. Community forest management in Indonesia: Avoided deforestation in the context of anthropogenic and climate complexities
  8. Glob. Ecol. Cons. Not more, but strategic collaboration needed to conserve Borneo's orangutan
  9. J. Appl. Ecol. Mixed policies give more options in multifunctional tropical forest landscapes
  1. PNAS. Ten principles for a landscape approach to reconciling agriculture, conservation, and other competing land use
  2. PLOS ONE. It’s not Just Conflict That Motivates Killing of Orangutans
  3. PLOS ONE. Breaking the Link between Environmental Degradation and Oil Palm Expansion: A Method for Enabling Sustainable Oil Palm Expansion
  4. PLOS ONE. Reconciling Forest Conservation and Logging in Indonesian Borneo
  1. Nature. Conservation - focus on implementation
  2. Trends Ecol. Evol. Maintaining ecosystem function and services in logged tropical forests
  3. Ecol. Appl. Ecosystem services from a degraded peatland of Central Kalimantan: implications for policy, planning, and management 
  4. Env. Res. Lett. Restoring degraded tropical forests for carbon and biodiversity
  5. Curr. Zoology. Foraging site recursion by forest elephants Elephas maximus borneensis
  6. PLOS ONE. Conservation Strategies for Orangutans: Reintroduction versus Habitat Preservation and the Benefits of Sustainably Logged Forest
  7. Diversity and Distributions. Forecasts of habitat suitability improve habitat corridor efficacy in rapidly changing environments
  8. PLOS ONE. Four Decades of Forest Persistence, Clearance and Logging on Borneo
  9. Systematic Biology. Borneo and Indochina are Major Evolutionary Hotspots for Southeast Asian Biodiversity
  10. Biol. Cons. Secrecy considerations for conserving Lazarus species
  11. Scientific Rep. Coming down from the trees: Is terrestrial activity in Bornean orangutans natural or disturbance driven?
  12. PLOS ONE. Synergies for Improving Oil Palm Production and Forest Conservation in Floodplain Landscapes
  13. Ecosystem Services. What scope for certifying forest ecosystem services? 
  14. PLOS ONE. Through the Eyes of Children: Perceptions of Environmental Change in Tropical Forests
  15. PLOS ONE. People’s Perceptions about the Importance of Forests on Borneo
  16. Cons. Lett. Conservation in a wicked complex world; challenges and solutions
  17. J. Indonesian Nat. History. Think before you plan: Introducing preplanning considerations in conservation
  1. Cons. Biol. Geographic bias in citation rates of conservation research
  2. Global. Ch. Biol. Anticipated climate and land-cover changes reveal refuge areas for Borneo’s orang-utans 
  3. Better land-use allocation outperforms land sparing and land sharing approaches to conservation in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia 
  4. Nature Comms. Alternative futures for Borneo show the value of integrating economic and conservation targets across borders 
  5. Oryx. Of Pongo, palms and perceptions a multidisciplinary assessment of Bornean Orangutan in an oil palm context
  6. Diversity and Distributions. Mapping perceptions of species’ threats and population trends to inform conservation efforts: the Bornean orangutan case study 
  7. Curr. Biol. Targeted Conservation to Safeguard a Biodiversity Hotspot from Climate and Land-Cover Change
  8. Ecosystem Services. Spatially explicit perceptions of ecosystem services and land cover change in forested regions of Borneo
  1. PLOS Biology. Conservation Research Is Not Happening Where It Is Most Needed
  2. Int. J. Natural Res. Ecol. Manag. Exploring Conservation Management in an Oil-palm Concession
  3. An Introduction to Primate Conservation. The role of multifunctional landscapes in primate conservation
  4. Mamm. Rev. Ebola in great apes – current knowledge, possibilities for vaccination, and implications for conservation and human health
  5. Env. Res. Lett. Rising floodwaters: mapping impacts and perceptions of flooding in Indonesian Borneo
  6. J. Mamm. Book Review - “Phillipps’ Field Guide to the Mammals of Borneo and Their Ecology”
  7. Scientific Rep. Rapid conversions and avoided deforestation: examining four decades of industrial plantation expansion in Borneo
  8. Enhancing feasibility: Incorporating a socio-ecological systems framework into restoration plannin
  9. Charisma counts: the presence of great apes affects the allocation of research effort in the paleotropics
  10. American. J. Primatology. South to South Learning in Great Ape Conservation
  1. Report. An impact analysis of RSPO certification on Borneo forest cover and Orangutan populations
  2. Strategic Rev. The trillion dollar gamble on Borneo
  3. Scientific Rep. First integrative trend analysis for a great ape species in Borneo.
  4. Curr. Biol. Morphometric, behavioural, and genomic evidence for a new orangutan species
  5. PNAS. Canopy structure drives orangutan habitat selection in disturbed Bornean forests 
  6. Strategic Review. Getting community forest reforms right
  7. Glob. Env. Ch. Community forest management in Indonesia: Avoided deforestation in the context of anthropogenic and climate complexities
  8. Glob. Ecol. Cons. Not more, but strategic collaboration needed to conserve Borneo's orangutan
  9. J. Appl. Ecol. Mixed policies give more options in multifunctional tropical forest landscapes
  1. Curr. Biol. Orangutan populations are certainly not increasing in the wild
  2. Nature. Create and empower lead authors from the global south
  3. Curr. Biol. Global demand for natural resources eliminated more than 100,000 Bornean orangutans
  4. Glob. Env. Ch. Offsetting the impacts of developments at a landscape scale reveals tough choices
  5. Env. Res. Lett. Evaluating the effectiveness of palm oil certification in delivering multiple sustainability objectives
  6. Science Adv. Orangutans venture out of the rainforest and into the Anthropocene
  7. Env. Res. Lett. Forest loss and Borneo's climate
  8. Tr. Ecol. Evol. Saving the world with satire
  9. Cons. Biol. Quantifying Species Recovery and Conservation Success: a practical framework for an IUCN Green List of Species
  1. Front. For. Glob. Ch. The moral minefield of ethical oil palm and sustainable development
  2. Nature. A dam or an ape - Indonesia faces a stark choice
  3. People and Nature. Conservation and the social sciences: beyond critique and co-optation. A case study from orangutan conservation
  4. Nature Ecol. Evol. Rediscovery of the silver-backed chevrotain in Vietnam
  5. Nature Sustainability. Larger gains delivered by improved management over sparing-sharing for tropical forests
  6. World Development. Does oil palm alleviate rural poverty? Insight from a landscape-scale multidimensional assessment
  7. Remote Sensing. Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) mapping with details: smallholder vs. industrial plantations and their extent in Riau, Sumatra
  8. Biol. Cons. Cost-benefit based prioritisation of orangutan conservation actions in Indonesian Borneo
  9. Land Use Policy. Changing landscapes, climate, livelihoods and human-wellbeing in the context of oil palm development
  10. People and Nature. Heterogeneous impacts of community forest management on multiple aspects of human-wellbeing
  11. Biol. Cons. Top 100 research questions for biodiversity conservation in Southeast Asia
  1. Nature Plants. The environmental impacts of palm oil in context
  2. Nature Sustainability. Impact of palm oil sustainability certification on village well-being and poverty in Indones
  3. Cons. Biol. Coconut oil, conservation and the conscientious consumer
  4. Nature Ecol. Evol. Tapanuli orangutan endangered by Sumatran hydropower scheme
  5. Cons. Lett. How many bird and mammal extinctions have been prevented through recent conservation action?
  6. Cons. Lett. African Swine Fever threatens Southeast Asia’s endemic wild pig species
  7. Glob. Env. Ch. Interannual climate variation, land type and community effects on wildfires in Kalimantan, Indonesia
  8. Env. Res. Lett. Compounding impact of deforestation on Borneo's climate during El Niño events
  9. Bioscience. Severe lack of evidence limits effective conservation of the world’s primate
  10. Land Use Policy. Beyond the Community in Participatory Forest Management: A Governance Network Perspective
  11. Science. Underestimating global biodiversity loss
  12. Cons. Biol. Ex situ management as insurance against extinction of mammalian megafauna in an uncertain world
  13. Cons. Biol. How amusing memes in social media can raise concern for an ugly species
  14. Env. Res. Lett. Compounding impact of deforestation in Borneo's climate during El Nino events
  15. Cons. Sc. Prac. Toward improved impact evaluation of community forest management in Indonesia
  16. J. Nat. Cons. Memindahkan Kera: Hasil Konservasi dan kesejahteraan dari penyelamatan dan pelepasan orangutan Borneo di Kalimantan, Indonesia
  17. J. Nat. Cons. Shifting apes: Welfare and conservation outcomes of Bornean orangutan rescue and release in Kalimantan, Indonesia
  18. Biodiversitas. Envisioning a Future for Bornean Orangutans: Conservation Impacts of Action Plan Implementation and Recommendations for Improved Population Outcomes
  1. Earth Syst. Sc. Data. High-resolution global map of small and large-holder mature oil palm plantations
  2. Landsc. Ecol. High-resolution global map of small and large-holder mature oil palm plantations
  3. Cons. Biol. Testing a global standard for quantifying species recovery and assessing conservation impact
  4. Biol. Cons. Forest loss in Indonesian New Guinea: trends, drivers, and outlook
  5. PLOS ONE. The historic range and drivers of decline of the Tapanuli orangutan
  6. Earth Systems Science Data. First high-resolution global map of small and large-holder mature oil palm plantations
  7. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. Importance of Small Forest Fragments in Agricultural Landscapes for Maintaining Orangutan Metapopulations
  8. Nature. Reshoring EU agriculture risks undermining SDGs
  9. Oryx. Saving the Tapanuli orangutan requires zero losses
  10. Raffles Bull Zool. Extreme ecological specialization in a rainforest mammal, the Bornean tufted ground squirrel, Rheithrosciurus macrotis Gray, 1857.
  1. Oryx. Restoring the orangutan in a Whole- or Half-Earth context
  2. Bioscience. Safeguarding imperiled biodiversity and evolutionary processes in the Wallacea center of endemism
  3. Comm. Converting tropical forests to agriculture increases fire risk by fourfold.
  4. Biol. Cons. Orangutan killing and trade in Indonesia: Wildlife crime, enforcement, and deterrence patterns
  5. Curr. Biol. Effectiveness of 20 years of conservation investments in protecting orangutans
  6. Persp. Ecol. Cons. Deforestation projections imply range-wide population decline for critically endangered Bornean orangutan
  7. PLOS ONE. Slowing oil palm expansion and deforestation in Indonesia coincide with low oil prices
  8. Front. Nutrit. Dietary fats, human nutrition and the environment: balance and sustainability
  9. Front. Nutrit. A need for a paradigm shift in healthy nutrition research.
  10. J. Biog. Expert range maps of global mammal distributions harmonised to three taxonomic authorities.
  1. Front. Cons. Apes and Agriculture.
  2. Oryx. High readership on academic social platforms may poorly reflect conservation interest
  3. Anecdotal pre-and post ASF population trends in Sus barbatus in Borneo. Preliminary report published on behalf of the IUCN Wild Pigs Specialist Group’s working group on African Swine Fever. Brunei Darussalam
  4. Encyclopedia of Biodiversity. Oil palm plantations in the context of biodiversity conservation.
  5. Global Change Biology. Drivers of habitat availability for terrestrial mammals: unravelling the role of livestock, land conversion and intrinsic traits in the past 50 years
  6. Earth System Science Data. High-resolution global map of closed-canopy coconut
  7. Communications in Earth & Environment. Replanting unproductive palm oil with smallholder plantations can help achieve Sustainable Development Goals in Sumatra, Indonesia
  8. Conservation Science and Practice. Killing of orangutans in Kalimantan - Community perspectives on incidence and drivers
  9. Environmental Science & Policy. Public opinion on protecting iconic species depends on individual wellbeing: Perceptions about orangutan conservation in Indonesia and Malaysia
  10. Front. Publ. Health. Sustainable nutrition and the case of vegetable oils to match present and future dietary needs
  11. Remote Sensing. Empowering Wildlife Guardians: An Equitable Digital Stewardship and Reward System for Biodiversity Conservation using Deep Learning and 3/4G Camera Traps
  1. Meijaard, E., Virah-Sawmy, M., Newing, H.S., Ingram, V., Holle, M.J.M., Pasmans, T., Omar, S., van den Hombergh, H., Unus, N., Fosch, A., Ferraz de Arruda, H., Allen, J., Tsagarakis, K., Chidozie Ogwu, M., Diaz Ismael, A., Hance, J., Moreno, Y., O'Keeffe, S., Slavin, J.L., Slingerland, M., Meijaard, E.M., Macfarlane, N.B.W., Jimenez, R., Abiguna, A., Wich, S., Sheil, D., 2024. Exploring the future of vegetable oils. Oil crop implications - Fats, forests, forecasts, and futures. IUCN and SNSB, Gland, Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.2305/KFJA1910
  2. Meijaard, E., Erman, A., Ancrenaz, M., Goossens, B., 2024. Pig virus imperils food security in Borneo Science. 19 Jan 2024.
  3. Meijaard E, Azhar B, Persio M, Sheil D. 2024. Oil palm plantations in the context of biodiversity conservation. Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, 3rd edition 4: 752-773.
  4. Ariffin, T., Khalid, S., Dennis, R., Said, S., Unus, N., Husaini, N., Carson, R.A., Meijaard, E., 2024. Baseline Study of Sun Bear in Brunei Darussalam, p. 41. Borneo Futures, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam.
  5. Calebe et al. 2024. CamTrapAsia: 210 full wildlife capture lists from camera trapping studies. Ecology.
  6. Seaman, D.J.I., Voigt, M., Ancrenaz, M., Bocedi, G., Meijaard, E., Oram, F., Palmer, S.C.F., Santika, T., Sherman, J., Travis, J.M.J., Wich, S., Humle, T., Supriatna, J., Struebig, M.J., 2024. Capacity for recovery in Bornean orangutan populations if both forest fragmentation and offtake are limited. Diversity & Distributions.

Newspaper Articles

  1. 15 June, 2011 - (with several co-authors). A Moratorium, or More of the Same? Opinion Page.
  2. 28 May, 2011 - (with Ramadhani Achdiawan). Where Have All the Geckos Gone? Opinion Page.
  3. 24 March 2011 - Indonesia Has Its Share Of Scientists, So Where’s the Science?
  4. 12 March 2011 - Conservation better Get Used to Working With Business.
  1. 30 September 2012 - Local Communities Put Species at Risk with Willingness to Kill.
  2. 06 December 2011 - Orangutan Deaths Meet an Eerie Silence.
  1. 08 December 2013 - (with Fitrian Ardiansyah and Jessie Wells). Flooding: Looking Beyond Jakarta.
  2. 21 September 2013 - (with Fitrian Ardiansyah). Improved Governance Crucial to Protect Our Most Pristine Forests.
  1. 24 December 2014 - The Killing Fields of Indonesian Forests.
  2. 12 December 2014 - Why Is Conservation So Much Harder in Indonesia Than Elsewhere?
  3. 10 December 2014 - Aceh Set to Create Its Own New and Totally Preventable Disaster. (4,600 Facebook Likes).
  4. 04 December 2014 - Humanity Is Too Selfish to Save Each Other or Our Environment.
  5. 27 November 2014 - Indonesia’s Reforestation Dilemma. (14,000 Facebook Likes).
  6. 12 November 2014 - The Mythology of Conservation.
  7. 04 November 2014 - Oil Palm: Not the Evil We Think It Is.
  8. 25 October 2014 - Borneo’s Nature and Culture at Risk Due to Sale of Magnificent Hornbills.
  9. 11 October 2014 - What Does Democracy Have to Do with Protecting Indonesia’s Environment? (936 Facebook Likes).
  10. 30 September 2014 - Is Big Business Really Responsible for the Loss of Indonesian Forests?
  11. 22 September 2014 - After Decades of Conservation Failure in Indonesia and Malaysia: A Lesson From Fukushima.
  12. 11 September 2014 - Hidden in Plain Sight: One Forgotten Island Showcases Indonesia’s Incredible Riches.
  13. 05 September 2014 - Why Indonesia’s Well-Off Should Do More to Support Conservation Efforts.
  14. 01 July 2014 - Don’t Let All of Indonesia’s Birds Become Mythical Creatures.
  15. 23 June 2014 - Presidential Candidates Say Indonesians Want Large Plantations, but Do They Really? Opinion Page.
  16. 05 June 2014 - Smoke and Mirrors Obscure the Smoking Gun Behind Forest Fires.
  17. 25 May 2014 - How to Get Indonesia’s Leaders to Accept Some Inconvenient Truths. (13,000 Facebook Likes).
  18. 24 April 2014 - Whoever Wins, Indonesia’s Next President Has Important Calls to Make on Land, Resource Use.
  19. 13 April 2014 - Empty Forest Syndrome: How Wildlife Is Disappearing From Indonesia. (1,900 Facebook Likes).
  20. 06 April 2014 - (with Gabriella Fredriksson). Privatizing Indonesia’s Conservation Efforts.
  21. 27 March 2014 - Why Indonesia’s Ecological Riches are Worth the Overwhelming Odds.
  22. 22 March 2014 - Orangutan Action Plan a Bad Joke.
  23. 25 February 2014 - It Would Be Cool if Indonesia Could Keep Its Trees.
  24. 12 February 2014 - Why doesn’t Indonesia sell its orangutans?
  1. 31 December 2015 - What's good for people is good for Orang Utans
  2. 30 December 2015 - A Sumatran Wonderland
  3. 26 December 2015 - Tricky Tradeoffs Between Indigenous Land Rights and Deforestation
  4. 12 December 2015 - The erosion of the Indonesian identity
  5. 12 December - Hidden in Plain Sight: One Forgotten Island Showcases Indonesia’s Incredible Riches
  6. 01 December 2015 - Intelligent conversation in Indonesia
  7. 27 November - Feeding ‘Godzilla’ – As Indonesia Burns, Its Govt Moves to Increase Forest Destruction
  8. 18 November 2015 - A commodity gone off the scales
  9. 17 Nov 2015 - Why is Conservation so much harder in Indonesia than elsewhere?
  10. 11 October 2015 - Going beyond environmental pacifiers in Indonesian Conservation
  11. 30 October 2015 - Indonesia's silent tragedy in a connected world
  12. 24 October 2015 - Indonesia's Fire Crisis — The Biggest Environmental Crime of the 21st Century
  13. 16 October 2015 - Who is accountable for Indonesia's fire disaster?
  14. 06 October 2015 - Pragmatism not Idealism needed to address the haze problem in Indonesia
  15. 25 September 2015 - Where are the Indonesian conservation experts
  16. 19 September 2015 - Who owns Indonesia's protected species
  17. 11 September 2015 - Get your facts right about Indonesia's haze problem
  18. 04 September 2015 - The Tale of the Ibis in Indonesia
  19. 26 August 2015 - Learning from the past - if we can
  20. 18 June 2015 - Cutting Down and Dumbing Down pdf
  21. 15 June 2015 - When the People of Borneo First Got Together. (1,500 Facebook Likes)
  22. 08 June 2015 - That Sinking Feeling, Again.
  23. 20 May 2015 - Saving the Jungle Hipster of Borneo.
  24. 11 May 2015 - What People Should Learn From Ants.pdf
  25. 29 April 2015 - The Great Conservation Fallacy. (1,000 Facebook Likes) pdf
  26. 15 April 2015 - International Collaboration Can Save Borneo — And Money
  27. 01 April 2015 - Indonesia Needs to Start Taking Science Seriously. (2,000 Facebook Likes) pdf
  28. 09 March 2015 - The Final Blow for Indonesia’s Forests? (much discussed article) pdf
  29. 15 February 2015 - Is Conservation Guerrilla Warfare Dead, or Just Turned Corporate? pdf
  30. 04 February 2015 - Serious Law Enforcement Needed to Save Orangutans From Extinction. (2,500 Facebook Likes) pdf
  31. 30 January 2015 - Modifying Indonesia’s Conservation Methods. (1,800 Facebook Likes) pdf
  32. 16 January 2015 - Indonesia’s Contribution to the Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax. (1,000 Facebook Likes) pdf
  33. 12 January 2015 - What’s Good for People Is Good for Orangutans. (1,700 Facebook Likes)pdf
  34. 03 January 2015 - I’d Love to Live in Harmony with Nature, but Who Knows How?
  1. 26 November 2016 - Conservation in oil palm is possible
  2. 25 October 2016 - Company poised to destroy critical orangutan habitat in breach of Indonesia moratorium
  3. 26 September 2016 - 'I am the Forest' exhibition reveals Kalimantan's magnificent wildlife
  4. 20 August 2016 - Rapid conversions and avoided deforestation: examining four decades of industrial plantation expansion in Borneo
  5. 21 June 2016 - No more fires in Indonesia?​​
  6. 14 April 2016 - Are organizations like WWF beyond reproach?
  7. 23 February 2016 - Oil palm plantations need to protect Orang Utans
  8. 09 February 2016 - Top 7 Future Environmental Headlines for Indonesia
  9. 27 January 2016 - Beware the Burning Beard
  10. 20 January 2016 - Credit running out for the Orang Out-an
  11. 12 January 2016 - Indonesia is losing the race to cash in on nature
  1. 18 September 2017 - Does social forestry always decrease deforestation and poverty?
  2. 20 July 2017 - Orangutan conservation: Government agencies no "cleaning service"
  3. 30 January 2017 - A possible undiscovered orangutan population on Borneo (part 4)
  4. 22 January 2017 - Then and now. 100 years of wildlife loss and deforestation on Borneo (part 3)
  5. 16 January 2017 - A trip on Borneo’s Mahakam River in search of forgotten wildlife (part 2)
  6. 6 January 2017 - Following in Raven’s Footsteps: 100 years of wildlife loss on Borneo (part 1)
  1. 21 July 2019 - Hydro project versus rare orangutan.
  2. 13 February 2019 - Greenwashing: the Hydrodam and Apes
  1. 6 July 2020 - Coconut oil production threatens five times more species than palm oil – new findings
  2. 11 May 2020 - Indonesian environmental poet and Dayak leader Yohanes Terang, 1956-2020
  3. 26 Feb 2021 - Forest patches amid agriculture are key to orangutan survival: Study
  4. 25 July 2020 - Orwellian doublespeak clouds discussion over ape and dam
  1. 26 February - Forest patches amid agriculture are key to orangutan survival: Study
  1. 18 January - Pig virus imperils food security in Borneo
  2. 12 August - Can palm oil help us eat our way to a greener future?
  3. This year - In Support of Sustainable Palm Oil – Experts Respond to Ozi: Voice of the Forest
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