How Pressuring Corporations Can Save the Amazon from Destruction
As severe and sweeping in impact as the Amazon deforestation crisis is, it is also avoidable.
Indonesia’s Big Palm Oil Firms Silently Complicit with Pro-Deforestation Omnibus bill
The Omnibus bill includes multiple provisions that analysts warn will worsen deforestation in Indonesia and by extension inflict international reputational harm on the palm oil sector.
Toxic Forest Fires and COVID-19 Could Be a Deadly Combination in Southeast Asia
Smog and the COVID-19 pandemic could pose a double crisis, as experts say that air pollution could exacerbate the number of coronavirus deaths
Consumer Brands Set Precedent by Suspending Samling Group
Consumer brands like Nestlé and Unilever have taken action to suspend the group from their supply chains.
Project to Build Japan’s Largest Palm Oil Burning Power Plant Defeated
Environmental groups are celebrating today’s dissolution of Maizuru Green Initiatives GK, a company set up to build a palm oil burning power plant in Maizuru City, Japan.
Indigenous Papuan Man Killed by Brutal Beating at Korindo Palm Oil Plantation
Our hearts go out to the family and friends of Marius Betera, who are now suffering as result of this appalling act of violence.
Unilever, Mars, Hershey, and World’s Largest Palm Oil Traders Suspend Rogue Supplier Over Its Relentless Deforestation
Samling scrambles to adopt sham policy to keep customers while destroying rainforests
‘World’s largest farmer’ faces investigation into deforestation
Olam cleared rainforests over half the size of Singapore.
Major Rainforest Destroyer in Indonesia Pledges to Address its Deforestation Legacy
South Korea's largest trading company, POSCO International, has published a long-awaited zero deforestation policy for its global palm oil operations.
Investigation Finds Papua’s Largest Palm Oil Operator Destroyed Vast Areas of Endangered Rainforest, Cheated and Abused Indigenous People
FSC report shows Korindo Group destroyed over 30,000 hectares of rainforest in the past 5 years while systematically manipulating and underpaying indigenous landowners
Deforestation Continues Because Companies Aren’t Trying
Nobody doing business with Cargill and JBS can credibly say they are concerned about deforestation
Korindo Threatens Legal Action to Bury the Truth
Palm oil and timber conglomerate sends Forest Stewardship Council a cease and desist letter the day it was scheduled to release findings from two-year investigation into the company's wrongdoing