Media coverage

Each year, CIFOR’s research and scientists are mentioned in over 1,500 news stories by local and international media outlets worldwide. Find the latest here, with over a decade of archives.

World's oldest rainforests burn as Jokowi scales back promises

Published on 04 Oct 2015
The financial benefit from the fires may be $856 a hectare for farmer group organizers, village heads and land claimants, Herry Purnomo, a forestry scientist for the Indonesia-based Center for International Forestry Research, said in a report last month. They get thousands of dollars more from planting palm over the years.
Read more on Chicago Tribune