When I arrived in Pangkalan Bun, Kalimantan Tengah at the beginning of June 2004 to begin the implementation of our GIS program, our USAID Project Manager, Pak Zaqie, shared some very disturbing news with me. For the first time, a long road had been plowed in Tanjung Puting National Park (TPNP) and the palm oil plantation company, whose plants already bordered the park, was planning on further expanding into park land. We were pretty confident [...]

  Field Update   Palm Oil, Tanjung Puting, by Debra Erickson.