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REPORT: Cutting deforestation out of the palm oil supply chain
In recent years, the world’s biggest companies have woken up to the environmental costs associated with palm oil and the other commodities they buy. Nowhere are those costs more evident than in Indonesia, which has lost 31 million hectares of forest, an area almost the size of Germany, since 1990.
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Queensland land clearing is undermining Australia’s environmental progress
Land clearing has returned to Queensland in a big way. After we expressed concern that policy changes since 2012 would lead to a resurgence in clearing of native vegetation, this outcome was confirmed by government figures released late last year. It is now clear that land clearing is accelerating in Queensland. The new data confirm…
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Ancient trees are burning in Tasmania… and some will never grow back
For the past month fires have ravaged through parts of Tasmania’s World Heritage listed forests, destroying 1,000 year old trees. Is this the new normal? Greenpeace documents the devastation caused by the Tasmanian bushfires in January and February 2016. More than 105,000 hectares of forest have been damaged by bushfires, including a World Heritage site…
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10 shocking facts showing how palm oil and paper companies are still trashing Indonesia’s rainforests.
For months, forest fires raged across Indonesia bringing the world’s attention to the country’s devastating forest destruction. Some processes used to extract palm oil contribute directly to deforestation. By Danielle Boobyer For months, forest fires raged across Indonesia bringing the world’s attention to the country’s devastating forest destruction. Both people and orang-utans were endangered as…
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Sad, scared, alone. The baby orangutan orphaned by the plantation industry
For half an hour Otan wouldn’t let go. Only eight months old, he already had a vice-like grip, his nails digging so deep they left half-moon imprints in the skin of his carer. If there were trees, Otan would be swinging freely from branch to branch, his strong grip lifting him in high arcs through…
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The man who grew a forest – and you won’t believe how big it is (or who lives there)
This is the story of how one person turned a barren sandbar into a forest larger than Central Park in NYC – and how he did it. This is the story of how one person turned a barren sandbar into a forest larger than Central Park in NYC – and how he did it. Image…
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Choked in smoke – living in the thick of Indonesia’s haze
Smoke caused by forest fires and peatland destruction, is covering about 80% of Sumatra, Indonesia. And it seems like no matter how far you try to escape, the smoke follows. My wife and daughter should be at our home in Pekanbaru, Riau on the east of Sumatra right now. It’s been more than a…
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How loggers are destroying the Amazon — and getting away with it
The Amazon rainforest is the largest on earth. Its biodiversity is unparalleled, it is crucial to the stability of the global climate, and it is home to many indigenous peoples. |Trucks loaded with timber await the repair of a ferry used to cross the Curuá-Una river, close to Santarém, Pará State.|Greenpeace Brazil activists place banners…
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Tackling deforestation – it’s a dirty job but someone’s gotta do it
Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) had a history of greenwashing – remember its former Rainforest Realities website? | To address concerns of its stakeholders and customers, APP asked independent auditors Rainforest Alliance to spend several months in the field to see how it was really doing against its Forest Conservation Policy – warts and…