LAND CONVERSION & AGRIBUSINESS

In several countries, particularly in the tropics, forest land is increasingly being converted for agriculture; most controversially soy and palm oil plantations. In many cases this conversion is legal and contributes to macro economic development in the country in question. However it remains environmentally destructive and, according to NGOs, plantations have been illegally and forcibly established on land traditionally owned by indigenous peoples and development has often been associated with violent conflict.

Ninety per cent of the world's palm-oil exports come from the oil-palm plantations of Malaysia and Indonesia. Most of these plantations are on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra. The very lowland forest that the oil-palm industry favours for conversion is the only remaining habitat of critically endangered species such as the orang-utan.

As a result of the civil society concern, companies that use palm oil, such as supermarkets and food manufacturers, are beginning to ensure that the products they buy are legal and not from the most damaging conversions by working with initiatives such as the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil. However, verifying the legality of palm oil supply chains faces many of the same problems that have been found in the timber trade.

One particularly significant area of concern for the future is the increasing demand for bio-diesel, which can be made from palm oil. Although use of this fuel has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transport, if it is produced in a way that encourages deforestation it may not be the environmental salve that has been hoped.

DOCUMENTS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
10/06/2013	Drivers of Deforestation and WTO Rules - Conflicts and Solutions This short summary paper presents key findings from the GCP’s forthcoming report, ‘Controlling ...	Matt Leggett, Global Canopy Project
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10/06/2013	Breaking the Link between Commodities and Climate Change The production of just four agricultural commodities is responsible for over half of global deforestation. ...	Climate Advisers
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25/04/2013	A Dirty Business: How a leading RSPO palm oil producer is clearing peatland tiger habitat covered by Indonesia's moratorium on deforestation This crime file reveals the ongoing rogue activities of one of Indonesia's largest palm oil producers, ...	Greenpeace
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26/03/2013	Dynamics of Indirect Land-Use Change: Empirical Evidence from Brazil The expansion of a given land use may affect deforestation directly if forests are cleared to free land ...	S. Andrade de S´a , C. Palmer and S. Di Falco
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20/12/2012	Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL): Riau, Sumatra’s Biggest Forest Pulper 2009 to 2012 This report claims that, despite having access to pulpwood supply concessions covering more than 10% ...	Eyes on the Forest, Indonesia
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16/12/2012	Global forest land-use change 1990–2005 This report, prepared by the FAO and the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) is based on ...	FAO
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25/10/2012	Soy Moratorium: Mapping and Monitoring Soybean in the Amazon Biome – 5th Year The Soy Moratorium in the Amazon Biome was renewed for the fifth time in October 2011, continuing the ...	ABIOVE, the Brazilian Vegetable Oil Industries Association
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22/10/2012	Why the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry Recommends that Asia Pulp & Paper revise its "APP Sustainability Roadmap 2020 and Beyond” On 14 May 2012, Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) announced what it described as “its new High Conservation ...	Greenomics, Indonesia
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08/10/2012	An Assessment of Deforestation and Forest Degradation Drivers in Developing Countries Countries are encouraged to identify drivers of deforestation and forest degradation in the development ...	Environmental Research Letters (Noriko Hosonuma, Martin Herold, Veronique De Sy, Ruth S De Fries, Maria Brockhaus, Louis Verchot, Arild Angelsen, and Erika Romijn)
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07/10/2012	Carbon Emissions from Forest Conversion by Kalimantan Oil Palm Plantations Oil palm supplies more than 30% of world vegetable oil production. Plantation expansion is occurring ...	Nature Climate Change (Kimberly M. Carlson, Lisa M. Curran, Gregory P. Asner, Alice McDonald Pittman, Simon N. Trigg & J. Marion Adeney)
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01/10/2012	Biofuels in Africa: Impacts on Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity and Human Well-being Biofuel production and use in Africa have been linked to numerous environmental and socio-economic impacts ...	United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) (Alexandros Gasparatos, Lisa Y. Lee, Graham P. von Maltitz, Manu V. Mathai, Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira & Katherine J. Willis)
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27/09/2012	Drivers of Deforestation and Forest Degradation The long-term viability of REDD+ depends on altering business-as-usual activity in sectors currently ...	Gabrielle Kissinger, Lexeme Consulting, Canada & Martin Herold & Veronique De Sy of Wageningen University, The Netherlands
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03/09/2012	Policy Options to Reduce Deforestation Based on a Systematic Analysis of Drivers and Agents in Lowland Bolivia The reduction of tropical deforestation is of crucial importance for mitigating climate change and curbing ...	Land Use Policy (Robert Müller, Till Pistorius, Sophia Rohde, Gerhard Gerold, Pablo Pacheco)
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01/09/2012	Land Deal Brief: Massive Deforestation Portrayed as Sustainable Investment: The Deceit of Herakles Farms in Cameroon The authors of this report say that, from its very name, American-owned SG Sustainable Oils Cameroon, ...	The Oakland Institute & Greenpeace International
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30/07/2012	Up for Grabs: Millions of Hectares of Customary Land in PNG Stolen for Logging This report analyses and documents the background conditions and impacts of Papua New Guinea’s ...	Greenpeace
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12/07/2012	Testing the Law: Carbon, Crime and Impunity in Indonesia’s Plantation Sector This report highlights the criminal activities of an oil palm plantation company operating in Kalimantan, ...	EIA (Environmental Investigation Agency) / Telapak
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28/06/2012	Grade A Choice? Solutions for Deforestation-Free Meat Producing meat, especially beef, requires large amounts of land. Global meat consumption has increased ...	Union of Concerned Scientists, US
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19/06/2012	Frying the Forest: How India’s Use of Palm Oil is Having a Devastating Impact on Indonesia’s Rainforests, Tigers and the Global Climate India is now the world’s largest market for palm oil, estimated to use 7.2 million tonnes in 2011-12, ...	Greenpeace
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06/06/2012	JBS Scorecard In 2009, Greenpeace exposed how the cattle industry in the Amazon was involved in deforestation, invasion ...	Greenpeace
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21/05/2012	Junking the Jungle: How KFC is Junking the Jungle by Driving Rainforest Destruction in Indonesia Greenpeace International research has revealed that KFC is sourcing paper for its packaging products ...	Greenpeace International
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17/05/2012	Clear-Cut Exploitation: How International Investors & REDD+ Donors Profit from Deforestation in West Papua This report documents how an Indonesian oil palm plantation in which Norway has a financial stake paid ...	EIA (Environmental Investigation Agency)
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11/05/2012	Driving Destruction in the Amazon: How Steel Production is Throwing the Forest into the Furnace Greenpeace says that wood charcoal is burning up more than what’s for dinner at backyard barbecues. ...	Greenpeace
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27/04/2012	Committed Carbon Emissions, Deforestation, and Community Land Conversion from Oil Palm Plantation Expansion in West Kalimantan, Indonesia Industrial agricultural plantations are a rapidly increasing yet largely unmeasured source of tropical ...	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), US (Kimberly M. Carlson, Lisa M. Curran, Dessy Ratnasari, Alice M. Pittman, Britaldo S. Soares-Filho, Gregory P. Asner, Simon N. Trigg, David A. Gaveau, Deborah Lawrence, & Hermann O. Rodrigues)
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25/04/2012	Truth and Consequences: Palm Oil Plantations Push Unique Orangutan Population to Brink of Extinction Read more: Truth and Consequences: Palm Oil Plantations Push Unique Orangutan Population to Brink of Extinction The authors of thie report describe how fire inside the globally renowned Tripa rainforest in Aceh, Indonesia ...	Rainforest Action Network
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01/04/2012	An Agribusiness Attack in West Papua: Unravelling the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate The Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate (MIFEE) is a vast mega-project, a plan for over a million ...	awasMIFEE!, UK
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30/03/2012	Beauty and the Beast: Norway’s Investments in Rainforest Protection and Rainforest Destruction The authors of thie report claim that the Norwegian government keeps increasing its investments in industries ...	Rainforest Foundation Norway & Friends of the Earth Norway
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27/03/2012	A Very Real and Practical Contribution? Lessons from the Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership On 9 September 2007, Australian Ministers and the Indonesian President announced a $100 million Kalimantan ...	Australian National University (Erik Olbrei & Stephen Howes)
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26/03/2012	APP: Default on Environmental Covenant The authors of this report claim that Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) has broken “legally binding” ...	Eyes on the Forest, Indonesia
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20/03/2012	Shifting Cultivation, Wood Use and Deforestation Attributes of Tobacco Farming in Urambo District, Tanzania Tobacco farming in Tanzania relies heavily on shifting cultivation and abundant supply of fuel wood to ...	Current Research Journal of Social Sciences (Mwita M. Mangora)
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07/03/2012	Recipes for Success: Solutions for Deforestation-Free Vegetable Oils Global demand for vegetable oils has recently increased, which impacts not only the global economy, but ...	Union of Concerned Scientists, US
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17/02/2012	Indonesia's Moratorium on New Forest Concessions: Key Findings and Next Steps This Working Paper analyzes Indonesia’s moratorium on new licenses in primary natural forests and ...	World Resources Institute (WRI)
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15/02/2012	Peatland and Forest at Serious Risk from Merauke Food and Energy Estate Development The authors of this report claim that the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate (MIFEE) poses a serious ...	Greenomics, Indonesia
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08/02/2012	Don’t Flush Tiger Forests: Toilet Paper, U.S. Supermarkets and the Destruction of Indonesia’s Last Tiger Habitats This report by WWF identifies the 20 biggest U.S. grocery chains that were believed to be the top 20 ...	WWF
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19/01/2012	The Amazon Basin in Transition Agricultural expansion and climate variability have become important agents of disturbance in the Amazon ...	Nature (Eric A. Davidson, Alessandro C. de Araújo, Paulo Artaxo, Jennifer K. Balch, I. Foster Brown, Mercedes M. C. Bustamante, Michael T. Coe, Ruth S. DeFries, Michael Keller, Marcos Longo, J. William Munger, Wilfrid Schroeder, Britaldo S. Soares-Filho, Carlos M. Souza & Steven C. Wofsy)
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10/01/2012	Decoupling of Deforestation and Soy Production in the Southern Amazon During the Late 2000s From 2006 to 2010, deforestation in the Amazon frontier state of Mato Grosso decreased to 30% of its ...	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), US (Marcia N. Macedo, Ruth S. DeFries, Douglas C. Morton, Claudia M. Stickler, Gillian L. Galford & Yosio E. Shimabukuro)
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21/12/2011	EOF Report: Fact or Fiction? In response to the Eyes on the Forest report titled “The ...	EoF (Eyes of the Forest), Indonesia
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13/12/2011	The Truth Behind APP’s Greenwash The authors of this NGO coalition report say that while SMG/APP has been operating in Riau and Jambi ...	Eyes on the Forest, Riau, Indonesia
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24/11/2011	Building Bridges Between REDD+ and Sustainable Agriculture: Addressing Agriculture's Role as a Driver of Deforestation The potential role of forests in reducing of global greenhouse gas emissions is attracting considerable ...	FAO
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21/11/2011	Human Rights Abuses and Land Conflicts in the PT Asiatic Persada Concession in Jambi: Report of an Independent Investigation into Land Disputes and Forced Evictions in a Palm Oil Estate This report exposes how local Indonesian police (BRIMOB) in Jambi, working with plantation staff, systematically ...	HuMa, Sawit Watch & Forest Peoples Programme (Marcus Colchester, Patrick Anderson, Asep Yunan Firdaus, Fatilda Hasibuan & Sophie Chao)
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21/11/2011	Oil Palm Expansion in South East Asia: Trends and Implications for Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples The exponential growth in the palm oil sector, which accounts for a third of the total global trade of ...	Forest Peoples Programme and Sawit Watch (Marcus Colchester & Sophie Chao (Eds) with Jonas Dallinger, H.E.P Sokhannaro, Vo Thai Dan & Jo Villaneuva)
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01/11/2011	Regional Development and Greenhouse Gases Emission: the Case of the Amazon Region Amazonian deforestation is a major regional and global disaster, rapidly diminishing natural capital, ...	University of São Paolo (Denise Imori, Joaquim José Martins Guilhoto, Letícia Scretas David, Leopoldo Millan Gutierre & Caio Waisman)
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19/10/2011	Broken Promises - How the Cattle Industry in the Amazon is Still Connected to Deforestation, Slave Labour and Invasion of Indigenous Land Following a three-year investigation, Greenpeace published a report in 2009 that revealed the cattle ...	Greenpeace
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01/09/2011	Orangutans and the Economics of Sustainable Forest Management in Sumatra Deforestation is responsible for approximately 17% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and is therefore ...	UNEP
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19/07/2011	Trading Forests: Taking Stock of Trade and the Planet’s Woodlands in the International Year of Forests Forests provide vital resources to humanity, both directly in the form of timber and non-timber products ...	ICTSD
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16/06/2011	Caught REDD Handed: How Indonesia's Logging Moratorium was Criminally Compromised on Day One and Norway will Profit EIA and Telapak report that at the same time that the Indonesian president was declaring an area of peat ...	EIA (Environmental Investigation Agency) / Telapak
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13/06/2011	The Root of the Problem: What's Driving Tropical Deforestation Today? Deforestation and forest degradation have been occurring for thousands of years. Both deforestation, ...	Union of Concerned Scientists
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09/06/2011	Cattle, Soyanization, and Climate Change: Brazil’s Agricultural Revolution This report finds that whilst Brazil's investments in agribusiness have made it an agricultural ...	Brighter Green
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07/06/2011	How APP is Toying with Extinction This report explains how many top brands within the toy sector are manufactured in China and Indonesia ...	Greenpeace
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31/05/2011	Soya and the Cerrado: Brazil's Forgotten Jewel This report has highlights the impact that the growing global demand for soya is having on sensitive ...	WWF
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19/04/2011	Gold Mining in the Peruvian Amazon: Global Prices, Deforestation, and Mercury Imports Many factors such as poverty, ineffective institutions and environmental regulations may prevent developing ...	PLoS (Jennifer J. Swenson, Catherine E. Carter, Jean-Christophe Domec, Cesar I. Delgado)
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11/04/2011	ForestWatch Issue 159 In this issue: * Carbon as commodity: Reducing emissions or filling pockets? * Will biofuels sustainability ...	FERN
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07/03/2011	Remotely Sensed Evidence of Tropical Peatland Conversion to Oil Palm Rising global demands for food and biofuels are driving forest clearance in the tropics. Oil-palm expansion ...	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Lian Pin Koh, Jukka Miettinen, Soo Chin Liew & Jaboury Ghazoul)
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31/01/2011	Including Carbon Emissions from Deforestation in the Carbon Footprint of Brazilian Beef Effects of land use changes are starting to be included in estimates of life-cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) ...	Environmental Science & Technology (Christel Cederberg, Martin Persson, Kristian Neovius, Sverker Molander & Roland Clift)
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28/01/2011	Agriculture Greenhouse Emissions in Latin America and the Caribbean The authors of this pilot study claim that farmers in Latin America and Caribbean will see billions in ...	Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
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25/01/2011	Impact of oil palm plantations on peatland conversion in Sarawak 2005-2010 This document briefly reports on the results of project activities providing maps and associated statistics ...	SarVision
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24/01/2011	How Western Environmental Policies Are Stunting Economic Growth in Developing Countries The author argues that governments and large agribusinesses are increasingly using the environmentalist ...	The Heritage Foundation, US (James Roberts)
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10/01/2011	Time for Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) to Come Clean to Stakeholders on its Indonesian Operations: Letter & Report to APP Stakeholders The authors note that in a report published on 1 August 2010, Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) made claims ...	Greenomics Indonesia
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15/12/2010	Agriculture and Deforestation: What Role Should REDD+ and Public Support Policies Play? They key highlights of this paper from the Institut du Devéloppement Durable et des Relations ...	IDDRI (Romain Pirard & Sébastien Treyer)
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01/12/2010	Getting to the Roots: Underlying Causes of Deforestation and Forest Degradation, and Drivers of Forest Restoration This is a report summarizing the findings of the Global Forest Coalition’s three year global program ...	Global Forest Coalition
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01/12/2010	Sumatra’s Forests, their Wildlife and the Climate Windows in Time: 1985, 1990, 2000 and 2009 The report's authors note that forests that harboured some of the world’s highest biodiversity ...	WWF-Indonesia
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23/11/2010	Protection Money: Indonesia is at a Crossroads The authors of this report warn that a landmark US$1 billion deal between Indonesia and Norway – ...	Greenpeace
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08/11/2010	Food, Fuel, or Forests? Charting A Responsible U.S. Role in Global Palm Oil Expansion This report warns that the increased demand for palm oil -- which makes its way into the U.S. in a myriad ...	National Wildlife Federation, US
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11/10/2010	From Forest to Fork: The UK’s Contribution to Deforestation in Brazil This report looks at the UK's role in two of the main farming activities which drive Brazil's ...	Friends of the Earth UK
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01/10/2010	Asia Pulp & Paper’s Hidden Emissions: Calculating the Real Carbon Footprint of APP’s Paper In order to develop a more complete carbon footprint estimate for Asia Pulp and Paper’s (APP) paper ...	Rainforest Action Network (RAN) & Japan Tropical Forest Action Network (JATAN)
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27/09/2010	Tyrants, Tycoons and Tigers: Yuzana Company Ravages Burma’s Hugawng Valley The authors of this report describe how a bitter land struggle is unfolding in northern Burma’s ...	The Kachin Development Networking Group (KDNG)
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01/09/2010	Empires of Collusion The authors of this report claim that attacks on imported paper products from labour unions, environmental ...	Consumers Alliance for Global Prosperity
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30/08/2010	Africa: Up for Grabs - The Scale and Impact of Land Grabbing for Agrofuels The authors of this report claim that their investigations show that the amount of land being taken in ...	Friends of the Earth Europe
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30/08/2010	Palm Oil and Indigenous Peoples in South East Asia This report sets out to show how rapid expansion of oil palm plantations across Southeast Asia has run ...	Forest People's Programme
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29/07/2010	How Sinar Mas is Expanding its Empires of Destruction The authors of this report say that the Sinar Mas group is notorious for its destruction of millions ...	Greenpeace
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06/07/2010	How Sinar Mas is Pulping the Planet Greenpeace claims this report shows how major brands like Walmart, Auchan and Kentucky Fried Chicken ...	Greenpeace
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04/05/2010	Cargill's Problems With Palm Oil: A Burning Threat in Borneo U.S. agribusiness giant Cargill plays a leading role in the global palm oil market. The largest importer ...	Rainforest Action Network (RAN)
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01/03/2010	A Quick Scan of Peatlands in Malaysia This report presents the first national assessment of peatlands in Malaysia. It identifies remaining ...	Wetlands International
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19/01/2010	Can REDD make natural forests competitive with oil palm? The authors of this update claim that payments for forest conservation under the proposed REDD mechanism ...	ITTO (International Tropical Timber Organisation) Tropical Forest Update (Lian Pin Koh & Rhett A. Butler)
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01/12/2009	Illegal Forest Clearance and RSPO Greenwash: Case Studies of Sinar Mas Indonesian conglomerate, the Sinar Mas group, has extensive interests in both the palm oil and pulp ...	Greenpeace
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10/11/2009	Up for Grabs: Deforestation and Exploitation in Papua’s Plantations Boom The plantations boom in Papua is being promoted by the Indonesian government as a means of bringing ...	Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)
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30/10/2009	Palming off Livelihoods? The Misguided Campaign Against Palm Oil The author of this paper claims that campaigns against palm oil are based on a false premise, and that ...	Tim Wilson, Institute of Public Affairs, Australia
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01/09/2009	Failing Governance - Avoiding Responsibilities: European Biofuel Policies and Oil Palm Plantation Expansion in Ketapang District, West Kalimantan (Indonesia) This case study demonstrates how the emerging bio-energy market is contributing to an excessive expansion ...	Milieudefensie (Friends of the Earth Netherlands) & WALHI KalBar (Friends of the Earth Indonesia, West Kalimantan)
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16/08/2009	Growing Pains: The Problems and Possibilities of Biofuels This report reviews the evidence and concludes that biofuels are not the silver bullet for cutting carbon ...	Christian Aid
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07/05/2009	An Emergency Package for Tropical Forests Through a process of broad consultation, The Princes Rainforests Project has developed a proposal for ...	The Prince's Rainforests Project
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30/10/2008	Life as Commerce: Certification in South Africa Report on plantation certification in South Africa, and in particular the impact of market-based conservation ...	Global Forest Coalition and Timberwatch
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01/10/2008	Asia Pulp & Paper/Sinar Mas Group Threatens Senepis Forest, Sumatran Tiger Habitat, and Global Climate An investigation by Eyes on the Forest has found that companies associated with Asia Pulp & Paper ...	Eyes on the Forest, Indonesia
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01/04/2008	Australian Plantation Products and Paper Industry Council member guidelines for stopping the supply of illegally logged forest products to Australia Guidelines produced by A3P to provide their Australian member companies with a practical framework for ...	Australian Plantation Products and Paper Industry Council (A3P)
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08/11/2007	How the Palm Oil Industry is Cooking the Climate This report shows how, through growing demand for palm oil, the world's largest food, cosmetic and ...	Greenpeace
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25/05/2005	RSPO Draft Criteria for Sustainable Palm Oil - 2nd Public Consultation The RSPO is in the process of developing a credible definition of sustainable palm oil production that ...	ProForest for RSPO
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01/10/2003	Corporate Social Responsibility in the Palm Oil Sector WWF seeks to engage companies in multi-lateral discussion. To this end, WWF, together with key players ...	WWF (Patrick Cooper)
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05/09/2003	Sources of investment for forestry: preventing flows of finance to illegal activities This paper was prepared for the international workshop on 'Sources of investment for forestry: preventing ...	Chatham House/RIIA (Jan Willem van Gelder, Wolfgang Richert and Eric Wakker)
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NEWS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
07/06/2013	Cameroon blasted for lifting ban on deforestation Greenpeace International and the Oakland Institute have lashed out at the Cameroonian government’s ...	Africa Science News
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04/06/2013	Making the right choice on Indonesia’s forest moratorium Ending months of uncertainty, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia made a courageous decision ...	The Jakarta Post
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26/05/2013	'The Sumatran rainforest will mostly disappear within 20 years' In only a few years, logging and agribusiness have cut Indonesia's vast rainforest by half. The ...	The Guardian
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21/05/2013	Why Indonesia's deforestation ban isn't enough to protect its forests The president of Indonesia has banned deforestation for another couple of years. This is great news - ...	Greenpeace (blog)
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14/05/2013	The Death of "Sustainability" Can destroying a tropical rainforest be "sustainable"? ...	Glenn Hurowitz, for The Huffington Post
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13/05/2013	Deutsche Bank and IFC accused of bankrolling Vietnam firms' land grabs Two Vietnamese firms bankrolled by Deutsche Bank and the International Finance Corporation – the ...	The Guardian
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13/05/2013	Indonesian palm oil giant cutting deforestation from supply chain Indonesian palm oil giant Golden Agri-Resources (GAR) is continuing to reduce deforestation under its ...	Mongabay.com
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10/05/2013	Palm Oil Planters Bid to End Deforestation Moratorium Palm oil planters have denounced a two-year forest-clearing moratorium that ends this month, saying it ...	Jakarta Globe
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02/05/2013	Extending the Success Against Illegal Logging to Palm Oil and Other Drivers of Deforestation The week before last I had the opportunity to go to London to participate in a workshop at Chatham House, ...	Doug Boucher for The Equation
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25/04/2013	Indonesian palm oil giant clearing peat forest despite its RSPO membership, alleges Greenpeace A major Indonesian palm oil producer continues to clear rainforests in Sumatra despite being a prominent ...	Mongabay.com
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24/04/2013	Gapki says ‘no’ to moratorium extension The Indonesian Palm Oil Association (Gapki) has opposed the government’s plan to prolong a two-year ...	The Jakarta Post
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15/04/2013	Brazil may fine beef producers buying Amazon cattle Brazilian prosecutors are seeking to fine 26 beef producers a total of $282 million for buying cattle ...	Reuters (US)
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12/04/2013	UK government throws weight behind private sector push to tackle deforestation The UK government has officially joined an innovative new public-private initiative designed to harness ...	Business Green
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08/04/2013	How to avoid unsustainable palm oil products The cultivation of palm oil plantations for food, bio diesel, cosmetics and other uses is a huge business, ...	Asian Correspondent
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05/04/2013	Foreign demand for beef, soybeans adds pressure on Amazon forest Rising foreign demand for beef and soybeans will tempt Brazil to clear more of the Amazon rainforest, ...	Planet Ark
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05/04/2013	30% of Brazil's emissions from deforestation are export-driven 2.7 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions or 30 percent of the carbon associated with deforestation ...	Mongabay.com
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04/04/2013	Neste Oil to work closer with its stakeholders to protect the world's rainforests Neste Oil is to strengthen its commitment to procuring sustainable renewable raw materials by beginning ...	Market Watch, Wall Street Journal
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04/04/2013	A question of shareholder responsibility Another blow to the palm oil industry came on March 11 when JP Morgan Asia Pacific Equity Research revealed ...	The Jakarta Post
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03/04/2013	Conservation gets boost from new Landsat satellite Efforts to monitor the world's forests and other ecosystems got a big boost in February with the ...	Mongabay.com
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25/03/2013	Easter eggs rated by palm oil use Lindt, Thorntons and Guylian come bottom of a league table of chocolate Easter eggs scored on use of ...	The Guardian
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08/03/2013	The need to jump-start REDD to save forests At least US$7.3 billion has been pledged for REDD+ over the period from 2008 to 2015, with $4.3 billion ...	Mongabay.com
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22/02/2013	Latin America’s forests – what lies ahead in 2013? Lima, Peru - In the past year, Latin America’s forests saw progress and setbacks that will shape ...	Center for International Forestry Research
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12/02/2013	After Indonesian paper giant commits to no deforestation, pressure mounts on its biggest competitor After Indonesian paper giant Asia Pulp & ...	Mongabay.com
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05/02/2013	WWF welcomes APP announcement to halt clearing, urges paper buyers to wait for proof Jakarta, Indonesia - WWF welcomed the announcement by the Sinar Mas Group's Asia Pulp & Paper ...	ACN Newswire
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05/02/2013	Paper giant APP promises no deforestation in Indonesia The world's third-largest paper producer Asia Pulp and Paper said on Tuesday it had stopped using ...	The Jakarta Globe, Indonesia
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30/01/2013	Growing palm oil could speed up climate change, study says London - Growing palm oil trees to make biofuels could be accelerating the effects of climate change, ...	Reuters
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28/01/2013	Bolivia takes step to boost agriculture and curb surging deforestation Bolivia has passed a land use law that aims to boost food security and slow deforestation in a region ...	Mongabay.com
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25/01/2013	Exclusive: Deforestation appears to rise again in Brazil's Amazon After years of gains against destruction of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil appears to be suffering from ...	Planet Ark (Reuters)
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18/01/2013	Palm oil sustainability initiative must rule out deforestation, says group The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) must implement standards that protect forests and account ...	Mongabay.com
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31/12/2012	Kedah MB told to stop deforestation Alor Star - Placards, banners and an angry mob of villagers greeted Kedah Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Azizan ...	New Straits Times, Malaysia
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31/12/2012	The year in rainforests 2012 was another year of mixed news for the world's tropical forests. This is a look at some of ...	Mongabay.com
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26/12/2012	Tobacco farms drive major deforestation in Tanzania Kwihara, Tanzania – Cutting of trees for firewood to cure tobacco over the last few decades has ...	Reuters AlertNet
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26/12/2012	Paper giant breaks pledge to end rainforest logging in Sumatra, says group Pulp and paper giant Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL) continues to destroy large ...	Mongabay.com
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20/12/2012	Brazil's JBS says withdraws lawsuit against Greenpeace JBS SA, the world's largest meat company, said on Wednesday it has withdrawn a lawsuit against environmental ...	Planet Ark (Reuters)
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20/12/2012	Rogue palm oil firm ordered to stop clearing in Muara Tae London - The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has upheld a complaint lodged by the London-based ...	EIA (Environmental Investigation Agency)
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17/12/2012	Deforestation wreaks havoc in Guatemala’s Caribbean region Guatemala City - “Many tourists come to this area for bird watching, but the terrible deforestation ...	IPSNews
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14/12/2012	News Corp publisher's books linked to paper from endangered rainforests: RAN HarperCollins, a division of News Corp, has been accused by a conservation group of using materials sourced ...	Planet Ark (Reuters)
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28/11/2012	EU Commission backs controversial sustainable palm oil scheme The European Commission has approved a scheme that would certify as sustainable transport fuel made from ...	Planet Ark (Reuters)
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19/11/2012	Two forests near water sources 'under siege' The Kedah government has been urged to explain rampant logging activity at two high-value forests in ...	New Straits Times, Malaysia
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14/11/2012	Brazil's Amazon rangers battle farmers' burning business logic Evandro Carlos Selva is one of 1,400 hi-tech environmental cops who use eyes in space and feet on the ...	The Guardian, UK
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07/11/2012	RSPO fails to act as Muara Tae is destroyed: International body’s credibility called into question London - The credibility of the international Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has been called ...	EIA (Environmental Investigation Agency)
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06/11/2012	Warning to financiers - don't fund forest destruction Financial institutions have been warned today to avoid investments in pulp and paper mills associated ...	European Environmental Paper Network (EEPN)
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05/11/2012	Disney’s new paper policy aims to save the rainforests The Walt Disney Company announced its new paper policy on October 11 which establishes guidelines for ...	Triple Pundit
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02/11/2012	Palm oil plantations fuel deforestation and forest rights violations New Delhi - Palm oil may be the largest source of vegetable oil; it is also the leading cause behind ...	The Times of India
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31/10/2012	KFC UK drops rainforest fiber KFC UK/Ireland will no longer use packaging from suppliers actively involved in rainforest clearance, ...	Environmental Leader
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31/10/2012	UK sustainable palm oil targets are too weak, say retailers Retail bodies say they have already signed up to much stricter standards on sustainable p.alm oil than ...	The Guardian, UK
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31/10/2012	APP, APRIL say they are open for inquiry Two of Indonesia’s paper giants, Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) and Asia Pacific Resources International ...	The Jakarta Post, Indonesia
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31/10/2012	2 new tools can cut deforestation and support sustainable palm oil in Indonesia Can the world have its palm oil and forests, too? This is an issue that my colleague and I discussed ...	World Resources Institute (WRI) Insights
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30/10/2012	Government and businesses to shelve unsustainable palm oil Fifteen industry bodies pledge to source only sustainable palm oil by 2015, but critics question the ...	Business Green
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29/10/2012	Deforestation increases Agribusiness and fires destroy extensive areas of woodlands. Bolivia loses 300,000 hectares (740,000 ...	Latin America Press
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28/10/2012	Deforestation Amazon biome at standstill ABIOVE, the Brazilian Vegetable Oil Industries Association, published the results of the fifth annual ...	AllAboutFeed, The Netherlands
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22/10/2012	U.S. officials to visit Indonesia for palm oil emissions talks The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will visit Indonesia next week, officials said on Friday, in ...	Planet Ark (Reuters)
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18/10/2012	Brazil's Rousseff enacts forest law in blow to farm lobby Brasilia - Brazil enacted a controversial law on Thursday meant to protect forests and force farmers ...	Reuters
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12/10/2012	Disney revamps paper buying to protect rainforests Walt Disney Co, the world's biggest publisher of children's books, said on Thursday it changed ...	Planet Ark (Reuters)
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12/10/2012	Open for big businesses – but little people pay the price Last month, the President of Indonesia did the international investment equivalent of, shall we say, ...	EIA (Environmental Investigation Agency) blog
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11/10/2012	Dollar General drops APP due to rainforest destruction concerns U.S. retailer Dollar General has stopped sourcing paper products from controversial brand Asia Pulp and ...	Mongabay.com
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10/10/2012	Cambodia closes case, thwarts justice, in forester murder The Cambodian government has rightly earned failing grades for doing nothing to halt or investigate human ...	The Huffington Post
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09/10/2012	Scaling up sustainability: time for forestry to come out of the forest Linking forestry to food security, human development and the economy can help create solutions to pressing ...	The Guardian, UK
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08/10/2012	In the land of the Maya, a battle for a vital forest In Guatemala’s vast Maya Biosphere Reserve, conservation groups are battling to preserve a unique ...	Yale Environment 360
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08/10/2012	Liberia: Farmers attribute climate change to govt concession policies Local farmers across the country are blaming government's policies that allocated large-scale industrial ...	The News, Liberia (posted on allAfrica.com)
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08/10/2012	The hidden destroyer: palm oil demand increases deforestation and carbon dioxide emissions Increasing demand for palm oil is destroying the rainforest and accounts for ‘massive carbon dioxide ...	CosmeticsDesign.com, US
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03/10/2012	Second generation of biofuels could give forests a break Biofuel has been criticised for propelling deforestation, but second-generation biofuels have the potential ...	Responding to Climate Change (RTCC)
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03/10/2012	Agricultural expansion: an “either or more” factor in deforestation ...	Responding to Climate Change (RTCC)
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02/10/2012	Alert: End intimidation & forest destruction in Muara Tae London - The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is calling for supporters world-wide to demand ...	EIA (Environmental Investigation Agency)
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29/09/2012	Indonesian palm oil company loses permit on illegal logging Jalarta - Indonesia's Aceh province revoked a permit from a palm oil company found to be logging ...	AFP
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27/09/2012	Agriculture causes 80% of tropical deforestation Agriculture is the direct driver of roughly 80 percent of tropical deforestation, while logging is the ...	Mongabay.com
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27/09/2012	Sustainability pact aside, Greenpeace says paper giant APP must stop facilitating deforestation Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) must stop accepting timber sourced from clearance of rainforests and peatlands ...	Mongabay.com
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11/09/2012	WB expresses concern over increasing deforestation in Bangladesh ...	Energy Bangla, Bangladesh
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10/09/2012	Sanctuaries threatened by excavations and deforestation Department of Wildlife Conservation (DWLC), Department of Forest Conservation (DFC) and Geological Survey ...	The Sunday Leader, Sri Lanka
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10/09/2012	What are the ecological costs of China’s future food imports? China’s growing agribusinesses and demand for soybeans and meat is bringing intensive farming and ...	China Dialogue
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08/09/2012	Google mapping tool exposes illegal logging Conservationists working to save forests and species on the ground are looking to the sky, thanks to ...	National Geographic
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08/09/2012	Illegal palm oil firms blamed for razing protected East Kalimantan forests Berau, East Kalimantan. Forestry officials and police in Berau district are investigating the burning ...	The Jakarta Globe, Indonesia
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06/09/2012	Guess who's chopping down the Amazon now? Though Brazil's Amazon has been the focus of environmental groups for decades, the deforestation ...	NPR (National Public Radio), Washington, US
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06/09/2012	APP establishes deforestation moratorium in Jambi; greens remain skeptical Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) has established a moratorium on natural forest conversion in Jambi province ...	Mongabay.com
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06/09/2012	Walhi scores big win over illegal permit Environmental activists have hailed a court decision demanding that the Aceh administration revoke an ...	The Jakarta Globe, Indonesia
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05/09/2012	Palm oil company in Cameroon drops bid for eco-certification of controversial plantation Herakles Farm, a U.S.-based agricultural developer, will no longer seek eco-certification of its 70,000-hectare ...	Mongabay.com
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03/09/2012	Cattle ranching and law enforcement key areas of action to slow Bolivia’s deforestation rate Bogor, Indonesia - Policy makers seeking to slow the pace of deforestation in lowland Bolivia need to ...	CIFOR Forests Blog
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31/08/2012	Amazon forest threat is greater outside Brazil In Ascencion, Bolivia — On a scorching afternoon in the Amazon, all Agustin Villa and his partner ...	The Washington Post, US
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27/08/2012	In Bolivia, a battle over a highway and a way of life Growing conflicts over development in South America have come to a head in Bolivia, where indigenous ...	Yale Environment 360
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13/08/2012	Deforestation continues at alarming rate in Papua Jayapura - Greenpeace Indonesia has noted that every year the rate of deforestation in Papua reaches ...	Tempointeractive
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10/08/2012	World’s largest butterfly threatened by shrinking habitat and deforestation Counting butterflies in the wild is not an easy task, even when you are looking for the largest butterfly ...	Scientific American blog
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10/08/2012	Indonesia's pulp and paper targets incompatible with green growth goals Indonesia's ambitious targets for boosting pulp and paper production to make it the world's ...	Mongabay.com
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09/08/2012	Cross-sector partnership on deforestation could be game changing A partnership between the US government and 20 of the world's largest companies is aiming to eliminate ...	The Guardian, UK
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07/08/2012	Plantation permits approved for 300,000 forest hectares so far in 2012 The Forestry Ministry has so far this year issued permits to convert more than 300,000 hectares of forest ...	The Jakarta Globe, Indonesia
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06/08/2012	Soybeans and forests in Brazil’s Arc of Deforestation: A temporary truce? Bogor, Indonesia - With global demand for commodities like palm oil, soy and beef rapidly increasing, ...	CIFOR Forests Blog
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02/08/2012	Deforestation now driven by profit, not poverty Bonito, Brazil - The main drivers of deforestation worldwide are no longer subsistence-level farmers ...	CIFOR Forests Blog
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02/08/2012	Pig iron producers sign zero deforestation pledge after Greenpeace campaign Pig iron producers in the Brazilian state of Maranhão today pledged to stop using charcoal produced ...	Mongabay.com
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01/08/2012	The true picture Malaysian farmers have over the last generation harnessed modern agricultural technology and techniques ...	The Star Online, Malaysia
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30/07/2012	PNG's forest sell-off revealed Papua New Guinea's former Somare government introduced a controversial concession that allegedly ...	The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
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23/07/2012	Indonesia to investigate palm oil company's alleged breach of deforestation moratorium Indonesia's top official charged with implementing the country's moratorium on new concessions ...	Mongabay.com
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16/07/2012	Deforestation from mining in the Congo more than ‘a hole in the canopy’ Bogor, Indonesia - Seen from the sky, a mining pit might look like ‘a small hole in the canopy’ ...	CIFOR Forests Blog
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13/07/2012	Environment or profit - palm oil firm tests Indonesia An Indonesian palm oil firm received preliminary approval six years ago for a large plantation in a swampy, ...	Planet Ark (Reuters)
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13/07/2012	KFC-Indonesia suspends purchases from Asia Pulp & Paper due to deforestation, says Greenpeace The Indonesian arm of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has suspended purchases from Asia Pulp & Paper ...	Mongabay.com
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12/07/2012	Illegal logging blamed for North Sumatra flooding Uncontrolled illegal logging has been blamed for the flash floods in Pematang Siantar and Tapanuli Tengah, ...	The Jakarta Post, Indonesia
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12/07/2012	Amazon's doomed species set to pay deforestation's 'extinction debt' Ending forest clearance would not save some species from the effects of decades of destruction, scientists ...	The Guardian, UK
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12/07/2012	Unchallenged crimes of ‘rotten apple’ palm oil company London - Systemic law enforcement failings threaten to make a mockery of Indonesia’s pledge to ...	EIA (Environmental Investigation Agency)
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07/07/2012	Profitable palm oil leaves environment poor Even if you've never visited Malaysia or Indonesia, it's likely that you've made contact ...	CNN
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05/07/2012	Sumatra burns in palm oil rush The carbon-rich peat forests of northern Sumatra are burning again as palm oil companies break Indonesian ...	Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand
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28/06/2012	Report links beef production with deforestation, threats to climate and health Washington - With the Fourth of July just around the corner, millions of Americans are planning to fire ...	Union of Concerned Scientists, US
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27/06/2012	Asia Pulp assures customers after ‘misleading’ Greenpeace claims Asia Pulp & Paper is reassuring customers that it uses no illegally logged trees in its paper mills ...	Eco-Business.com
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24/06/2012	Legislature cries foul over Indonesian ‘Deforestation Decree’ Samarinda, East Kalimantan - The East Kalimantan legislature is set to report M.S. Kaban, the former ...	The Jakarta Globe, Indonesia
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20/06/2012	Despite moratorium and investigation, fires rage in key Sumatran peat swamp Several fires are burning in a contested concession within Aceh Province's Tripa peat swamp raising ...	Mongabay.com
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19/06/2012	Indian palm oil consumption driving deforestation in Indonesia, says Greenpeace Greenpeace opened a new front in its effort to push Indonesia's palm oil industry to reduce its ...	Mongabay.com
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17/06/2012	Deforestation-based policy 'no longer tenable' says Indonesian President Indonesia "has reversed course" from a forest policy that drove deforestation in previous decades ...	Mongabay.com
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17/06/2012	Deforestation-based policy 'no longer tenable' says Indonesian President Indonesia "has reversed course" from a forest policy that drove deforestation in previous decades ...	Mongabay.com
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12/06/2012	New satellites to help save Indonesian forests Jakarta - Virtual mapping has become a vital tool in forest conservation, allowing the public to see ...	Voice of America
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12/06/2012	A desperate effort to save the rainforest of Borneo The once-magnificent tropical forests of Borneo have been decimated by rampant logging and clearing for ...	Yale Environment 360
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09/06/2012	Credits lost in tangle of Aceh's forest An Australian plan embraced by the world to save Indonesian forests and address climate change is failing, ...	The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
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08/06/2012	Brazilian beef giant on defensive on its Amazon sourcing practices JBS, the world's largest meat and leather company, is on the defensive after Greenpeace accused ...	Mongabay.com
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08/06/2012	Colombia seizes 450 tons of illegal timber The Colombian military seized 450 tons of illegally felled timber in the Pacific port of Buenaventura, ...	InSight Crime, US / Colombia
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07/06/2012	JBS Brazil to sue Greenpeace Sao Paulo, Brazil — Brazil's JBS said on Wednesday it will sue Greenpeace for claiming the ...	Global Post
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07/06/2012	UK retailer backlash against Brazilian meat giant JBS UK retailers have severed their ties with meat giant JBS following ...	meatinfo.co.uk, The Online Meat Trades Journal, UK
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06/06/2012	Tesco sold beef farmed in Amazon Tesco has been accused of fuelling the destruction of the Amazon rainforest by selling beef from cattle ...	The Independent, UK
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06/06/2012	Adidas, IKEA sever ties with world’s largest beef producer over Amazon deforestation Adidas, IKEA, Clarks, and Sainsbury’s are among the big-name brands that have suspended ties with ...	Ecouterre
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05/06/2012	Palm oil giant moves forward on zero deforestation initiative One of the world's largest palm oil companies has become the first to identify and disclose high ...	Mongabay.com
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04/06/2012	Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam: a conflict in the Amazon As the United Nations’ Rio+20 conference on sustainable development takes place in Rio de Janeiro ...	Yale Environment 360
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03/06/2012	Indonesia’s REDD reality Indonesia is on the brink of transformation. Committing to a bilateral deal with Norway, it has run ...	The Jakarta Post, Indonesia
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24/05/2012	Illegal logging in Kalimantan ‘cost state $35b in 2011’ Illegal forest clearing in Kalimantan potentially cost the state Rp 321 trillion ($34.6 billion) in losses ...	The Jakarta Globe, Indonesia
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23/05/2012	Indonesia forest moratorium won't meet climate pledge - Norway Indonesia's progress in reforming its forestry sector will not be sufficient to meet its pledge ...	Planet Ark (Reuters)
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23/05/2012	Indigenous group paid $0.65/ha for forest worth $5,000/ha in Indonesia A palm oil company has paid indigenous Moi landowners in Indonesian Papua a paltry $0.65 per hectare ...	Mongabay.com
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23/05/2012	Cameroon's forests pressured as leaders welcome palm oil investors Yaoundé, Cameroon – Cameroon is inviting foreign companies to expand lucrative palm plantations, ...	Reuters AlertNet
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21/05/2012	Indonesia peatland back on protected list in test case Indonesia's government said on Monday it would protect a strip of peatland in Aceh province at the ...	Reuters
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21/05/2012	Green activists call on Indonesian president to strengthen deforestation moratorium Jakarta - Coalition of Indonesia's civil society organizations for forest protection today called ...	Shanghai Daily, China
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17/05/2012	West Papua’s big palm oil plantations rip-off London - An Indonesian oil palm plantation in which Norway has a financial stake paid Papuan tribal landowners ...	EIA (Environmental Investigation Agency)
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17/05/2012	Ford, GM and BMW linked to illegal logging and slave labour in Brazil Car makers source iron from Brazil that contributes to Amazon deforestation, says Greenpeace ahead of ...	The Guardian, UK
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16/05/2012	Agriculture: Better land management pays dividends At an FT conference on sustainable agriculture in Brazil held in London at the end of March, you could ...	Financial Times, UK
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16/05/2012	Obama’s biggest climate decision of the year may be … palm oil? by Glenn Hurowitz The Obama administration is poised to make one of the biggest climate policy decisions ...	Think Progress, US
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16/05/2012	East Kalimantan is third largest carbon emitter Balikpapan, East Kalimantanv - The fast rate of deforestation in East Kalimantan over the last few years ...	The Jakarta Globe, Indonesia
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11/05/2012	Regency head calls for stop to palm oil development in contested peat forest in Indonesia The acting head of Nagan Raya Regency — the location of Tripa peat swamp — on Thursday demanded ...	Mongabay.com
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04/05/2012	Forestry, economic development & climate change in Asia: resolving the tension Reducing poverty in developing countries through economic development is often contrary to addressing ...	The Conversation, Australia
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03/05/2012	115 companies mining illegally: Report At least 115 companies have carried out mining activities in 471,714 hectares of productive and protected ...	The Jakarta Post, Indonesia
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01/05/2012	A grim portrait of palm oil emissions Indonesia ranks right behind the United States and China in the lineup of the world’s top 10 greenhouse ...	The New York Times
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27/04/2012	Palm oil is a major driver of peatlands destruction in Indonesian Borneo, finds new study Developers in Indonesian Borneo are increasingly converting carbon-dense peatlands for oil palm plantations, ...	Mongabay.com
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26/04/2012	Fighting a last-ditch battle to save the rare Javan rhino Rhinoceroses worldwide are under siege as their habitat shrinks and poachers slaughter hundreds annually ...	Yale Environment 360
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25/04/2012	In sustainability push, Unilever aims to build palm oil processing plant in Indonesia Unilever is in talks to build a $130 million palm oil processing mill in Indonesia as part of its commitment ...	Mongabay.com
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24/04/2012	Vietnam's mangroves trees threatened by rising tide of deforestation ...	The Guardian, UK
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23/04/2012	Indonesia, greens move to stop eco disaster The Indonesian government and environmentalists have moved to halt the destruction of a peatland forest ...	Times Live, South Africa
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23/04/2012	Warning on Indonesia’s disappearing forests Earth Day commemorations in Indonesia were low-key, but those who marked the day were quick to warn of ...	The Jakarta Globe, Indonesia
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22/04/2012	'They're killing us': world's most endangered tribe cries for help Logging companies keen to exploit Brazil's rainforest have been accused by human rights organisations ...	The Guardian, UK
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22/04/2012	Deforestation, biodiversity loss top list of major woes Massive deforestation and the need to rehabilitate the country’s degraded forests in the face of ...	Business Mirror, Philippines
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18/04/2012	Kalimantan palm plantations threaten last pygmy elephants With no more than 80 Borneo pygmy elephants left in Indonesia, the massive clearing of forests to make ...	The Jakarta Globe, Indonesia
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17/04/2012	Indonesia to investigate forest concession The Environment Ministry has said it will launch an investigation into the issuance of a plantation concession ...	The Jakarta Globe, Indonesia
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12/04/2012	Can we make enough food to eat without cutting down all the trees? To make more farms, we usually need to cut down more forests. In Brazil, they’re trying to find ...	Co.EXIST
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12/04/2012	SBY aide vows to probe Aceh forest concession An aide to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has expressed concern over a recent court ruling that cleared ...	The Jakarta Globe, Indonesia
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11/04/2012	Green groups may call for boycott of Indonesian palm oil over forest destruction in Sumatra Environmental groups are escalating their battle over an area of peat forest in Tripa, Sumatra that has ...	Mongabay.com
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09/04/2012	Experts warn of massive deforestation in Thailand Environmental activists and forestry experts have called on the Thai government to relocate people living ...	Press TV, Iran
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08/04/2012	Endangered mangroves These forests serve an important socio-economic purpose providing sustenance not only to humans but also ...	Dawn.com, Pakistan
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07/04/2012	Authority to report on illegal logging claims Quang Nam — A delegation from the Viet Nam Administration of Forestry is inspecting deforestation ...	Viet Nam News
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06/04/2012	Former Aceh chief denies orang-utans died in burn The man who signed the permit allowing 1600 hectares of carbon-rich peat forest and orang-utan habitat ...	The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
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02/04/2012	Multinationals vow to boycott APP after outcry over illegal logging The companies will suspend purchases from Asia Pulp and Paper after evidence emerged of illegal logging ...	The Guardian, UK
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30/03/2012	Norway: spending far more on rainforest destruction than rainforest protection The Norwegian government keeps increasing its investments in industries widely known to be key forces ...	Rainforest Foundation Norway
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29/03/2012	World Tobacco Atlas rings alarm bells for India ...	The Times of India
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29/03/2012	Orangutans in Indonesia's Aceh forest may die out in weeks Forest fires and land clearing by palm oil firms could kill off within weeks about 200 orangutans in ...	Planet Ark (Reuters)
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28/03/2012	MapHook app used to raise awareness of Sumatran tiger habitat Dulles, Va, US - MapHook, the location-based journal application, is helping the World Wildlife Fund ...	MarketWatch, The Wall Street Journal
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27/03/2012	Ongoing deforestation puts APP in breach of debt restructuring agreements, finds report Note: this article was amended shortly after posting to include APP's denial and demand for retraction ...	Mongabay.com
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27/03/2012	Australia-led peat conversation project in Borneo failing to deliver on hype A $100 million peat conservation project launched in the heart of Indonesian Borneo by the Australian ...	Mongabay.com
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24/03/2012	Vast tracts in Paraguay forest being Replaced by Ranches Filadelfia, Paraguay — The Chaco thorn forest, a domain with 118-degree temperatures so forbidding ...	The New York Times
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20/03/2012	Scientists sound alarm on massive oil palm development in Cameroon The following is an open letter written by several world-class scientists on the subject of a proposed ...	National Geographic
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17/03/2012	Drilling for oil in Eden: initiative to save Amazon rainforest in Ecuador is uncertain Quito, Ecuador— The most biologically diverse habitat in the western hemisphere, the Yasuní ...	Scientific American blog
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14/03/2012	Palm oil: the hidden ingredient causing an ecological disaster Palm oil is in our food, cleaning products and fuel. But it's destroying rainforest and contributing ...	The Ecologist, UK
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13/03/2012	Brazil slowing forest destruction cuts greenhouse gas burden As world political and business leaders ready for the Rio+20 U.N. sustainability conference in June, ...	Bloomberg Businessweek
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07/03/2012	After illegal logging allegations, certifier lodges complaint against paper giant APP Less than a week after Greenpeace released evidence that protected tree species were being illegally ...	Mongabay.com
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07/03/2012	Cambodia's Amazon under threat Illegal logging, government collusion combine. The sounds of birds chirping filter down through the ...	Asia Sentinel
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07/03/2012	Global demand for vegetable oils contributing to deforestation New report helps businesses become deforestation-free. Washington - The global demand for vegetable ...	Union of Concerned Scientists News Center
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05/03/2012	Controversial vote to ease limits on Amazon rainforest deforestation Brazil stands at a crossroads in its efforts to preserve the Amazon rainforest, as the government considers ...	WTVR, Virginia, US
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01/03/2012	Investigation links APP to illegal logging of protected trees A year-long undercover investigation has found evidence of Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) companies cutting ...	Mongabay.com
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29/02/2012	Alarm over proposed dam The Sam Rainsy Party has asked Prime Minister Hun Sen to verify the details of a proposed dam that could ...	The Phnom Penh Post, Cambodia
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29/02/2012	Indonesia investigates rainforest agreement breaches Authorities in Indonesia are investigating what could be a violation of the forestry agreement held with ...	The Foreigner, Norway
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28/02/2012	The Brazilian rainforest: caught between biodiversity and business Brazil is exporting more and more agricultural produce: soya beans and beef in particular, but also corn, ...	Science Daily
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28/02/2012	India targets forests for destruction, industrial development In a bid to fast-track industrial projects, India's Prime Minister's Office (PMO) is opening ...	Mongabay.com
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24/02/2012	Virginia Republicans defend Mercury Paper Virginia’s Governor and Lieutenant Governor are crusading for a surprising cause: writing letters ...	WAMU 88.5, American University Radio
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23/02/2012	Virginia's Mercury Paper rebuffs environmentalist claims One of the fastest growing paper companies in the nation is Mercury Paper out of Strasburg, Va. Two environmental ...	WAMU 88.5, American University Radio
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22/02/2012	Brazil's farming pioneers fight to maintain way of life In recent years, Brazil has been at the frontline of a battle to curb deforestation, but in the 1980s ...	BBC News
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22/02/2012	First pictures from sealed-off Bakun dam zone reveal social and environmental disaster Bruno Manser Fund investigation in the Bakun dam’s exclusion zone shows increased poverty due to ...	Bruno Manser Fund, Switzerland
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22/02/2012	Virginia paper company linked to rainforest destruction The World Wildlife Fund issued a surprising plea last week, asking consumers to take care when buying ...	WAMU 88.5, American University Radio
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20/02/2012	Paper industry decimating Indonesia's tigers Washington - The survival of Sumatra's tigers, elephants, orangutans, rhinos, as well as indigenous ...	IPSNews
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19/02/2012	Land wars: Indonesia unrest shows risks of resource-led growth On a scorching day in January, the only thing hotter than the afternoon sun is the fiery shouts emanating ...	Time Magazine
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17/02/2012	The carbon footprint of a shrimp cocktail Vancouver, Canada - In many parts of Latin America and Asia, large swaths of coastal mangrove forests ...	Science Now
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17/02/2012	New study highlights opportunities and challenges for Indonesia forest moratorium Today WRI releases a working ...	World Resources Institute (WRI)
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16/02/2012	Busting the forest myths: people as part of the solution The long-held contention that rural forest communities are the prime culprits in tropical forest destruction ...	Yale Environment 360
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16/02/2012	More than 1 million acres of New Guinea forest cut from Indonesia's forest moratorium More than 400,000 hectares (1 million acres) of land — including 350,000 hectares of peatland — ...	Mongabay.com
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15/02/2012	Paper giant hammered on forest certification claims Beleaguered paper giant Asia Pulp & Paper was sharply criticized Wednesday for its claims that its ...	Mongabay.com
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15/02/2012	Forest Service blocks coal mine expansion in Colorado roadless area Denver, Colorado - The U.S. Forest Service regional office in Denver has overturned approval of a coal ...	Environmental News Service
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13/02/2012	Ignoring forests won’t bring Rio+20’s ‘future we want’ In June 2012 around 40,000 participants are expected to attend one of the most important environmental ...	The Conversation, Australia
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08/02/2012	Girl Scouts fighting for deforestation-free cookies win United Nations award New York – The United Nations today awarded Madison Vorva and Rhiannon Tomtishen, two 16-year-old ...	Union of Concerned Scientists News Center
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08/02/2012	WWF report links Sumatra deforestation to toilet paper We know how difficult it is to link products to dangerous practices. Eco-friendly companies and individuals ...	Earth Times
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07/02/2012	Call for tighter laws to halt illegal timber imports Australia must tighten laws to stop illegal timber imports and insist on stricter labelling of timber ...	The Canberra Times, Australia
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04/02/2012	Aceh governor goes from hero to zero When the former rebel leader Irwandi Yusuf became governor of Indonesia's Aceh province, he proclaimed ...	The New Zealand Herald
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03/02/2012	Deforestation threatens Brazil's wetland sanctuary The Pantanal, a stunning biodiversity sanctuary in central-western Brazil, is threatened by intensive ...	Physorg.com
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03/02/2012	RI opposes EPA determination on palm oil Indonesia, the world’s largest palm oil producer, will propose its own greenhouse gas analysis ...	The Jakarta Post, Indonesia
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01/02/2012	16 year old Girl Scouts fighting for deforestation-free cookies up for major United Nations award On Thursday, February 9, the United Nations will announce the winners of its first ever International ...	Union of Concerned Scientists News Center
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01/02/2012	REDD: When carbon credits work in the Amazon This article is the second in a three-part series that explores the issue of deforestation and climate ...	Global Post
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01/02/2012	Malaysia deforestation Is three times faster than rest of Asia combined Amsterdam - New satellite imagery shows Malaysia is destroying forests more than three times faster than ...	The Huffington Post
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30/01/2012	Sumatran elephants endangered status upgraded to critical The Sumatran elephant, a subspecies of Asian elephant unique to the Indonesian island of Sumatra, was ...	This Dish is Veg, US
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27/01/2012	Palm oil does not meet U.S. renewable fuels standard, rules EPA The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruled on Friday that palm oil-based biofuels will not ...	Mongabay.com
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27/01/2012	Pregnant orangutan mother and child rescued at last minute from knife-bearing bounty hunters in Borneo The incident showcases the threat orangutans are facing as they are targeted for slaughter with a price ...	NY Daily News, New York, US
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25/01/2012	Logging of primary rainforests not ecologically sustainable, argue scientists Tropical countries may face a risk of 'peak timber' as continued logging of rainforests exceeds ...	Mongabay.com
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25/01/2012	El Chaco deforestation worsens Deforested area increased by more than 20 percent in 2011 over the previous year. An area of more ...	LatinAmerican Press
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24/01/2012	On the front line: Muara Tae’s last stand against big palm oil Muara Tae, East Kalimantan - The fate of a Dayak community deep in the interior of East Kalimantan demonstrates ...	EIA (Environmental Investigation Agency)
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24/01/2012	Perak Forestry Department silent on illegal logging at Chikus Forest Reserve Ipoh - The Perak Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has yet to receive a report on illegal logging at Chikus ...	Bernama, Malaysia
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24/01/2012	WWF: At current rate of deforestation, Sumatran elephants could be extinct in 30 years Jakarta, Indonesia — The Sumatran elephant could be extinct in the wild within three decades unless ...	The Washington Post
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19/01/2012	As roads spread in rainforests, the environmental toll grows From Brazil to Borneo, new roads are being built into tropical forests at a dizzying pace, putting previously ...	Yale Environment 360
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18/01/2012	Rainforest in transition: is the Amazon transforming before our eyes? A review suggests that the Amazon rainforest may be changing, courtesy of human impacts on the region's ...	Scientific American
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17/01/2012	Levi's new forest policy excludes fiber from suppliers linked to deforestation Editor's note: this story has been corrected since originally posted. See the end of the story ...	Mongabay.com
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17/01/2012	Shocking new evidence of Taib corruption Kuching, Malaysia - Leaked records from the Malaysian state of Sarawak's Land and Survey Department ...	Bruno Manser Fund, Switzerland
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13/01/2012	Officials accused of not protecting state forests Passing the buck: A Forestry Bureau official said the state-owned forest was in an Aboriginal reserve ...	Taipei Times, Taiwan
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13/01/2012	FRA welcomes news on successful Brazilian deforestation policies Seattle, WA - Forestry Research Associates (FRA), a research and analysis consultancy, has welcomed news ...	SBWire, The Small Business Newswire, US
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12/01/2012	Actor Abhay Deol joins protest against coal mining in Singrauli Bhopal - Bollywood actor Abhay Deol joined a Greenpeace campaign against deforestation for coal mining ...	The Times of India
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10/01/2012	Colonization program remains important driver of deforestation in Brazil Government-subsidized colonization of the Amazon rainforest remains an important driver of forest loss ...	Mongabay.com
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09/01/2012	Tribal villages, mining firms fight for land in Indonesia Mataram - Members of two tribal communities in Sumbawa, West Nusa Tenggara, say they are being driven ...	The Jakarta Globe, Indonesia
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09/01/2012	As Amazon deforestation falls, food production rises A sharp drop in deforestation has been accompanied by an increase in food production in the Brazilian ...	Mongabay.com
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04/01/2012	The ABCs of REDD+: on building a new forestry model that works for Indonesia It has been joked that anyone who claims to understand REDD+ must, in fact, be under-informed on the ...	The Jakarta Globe, Indonesia
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03/01/2012	Mouths are sewn shut in protest against deforestation in Indonesia Twenty-eight Indonesians have taken the extreme measure of sewing their mouths shut in a protest turned ...	Mongabay.com
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27/12/2011	Palm oil threat to Indonesia's orangutans Eight-month-old baby orangutan Elaine would have never survived without her carer Rosa. ...	BBC News
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22/12/2011	Dozens of Indonesians sew mouths shut in deforestation protest Jakarta - A group of Indonesian protesters have sewed their mouths shut in a protest against deforestation ...	Channel 6 News Online, US
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22/12/2011	Kroger, America's largest grocery chain, stops carrying APP products due to deforestation concerns Kroger, America's largest grocery store chain, will stop carrying products sourced by Asia Pulp ...	Mongabay.com
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21/12/2011	New analysis supports claim that paper giant cleared part of its tiger sanctuary in Indonesia Asia Pulp & Paper (APP)'s supplier PT Ruas Utama Jaya has indeed cleared an area of forest it ...	Mongabay.com
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17/12/2011	Saving the rest of the rainforests Since the 13th round of climate change talks in Bali in 2007, the issue of reducing greenhouse gas emissions ...	New Straits Times, Malaysia
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16/12/2011	Indonesia to probe beheadings of farmers Jakarta, Indonesia - Indonesia's president has ordered an investigation into the videotaped beheadings ...	CBS News
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13/12/2011	APP’s tiger sanctuary ‘greenwash’ is hogwash A forest tiger sanctuary, which is claimed by giant paper and pulp producer APP to be proof of their ...	WWF
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10/12/2011	Controversial pulp and paper companies underwrite Indonesia's climate change pavilion in Durban A 'significant proprtion' of Indonesia's $3.3. million pavilion at climate talks in Durban ...	Mongabay.com
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09/12/2011	No justice for C. Kalimantan orangutans The Kalimantan orangutan population is increasingly under threat, with the discovery of the remains of ...	The Jakarta Post
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07/12/2011	Deforestation robbing communities of their income Ssese Islands, Uganda - From a distance, Bugala Island in Lake Victoria is a patchwork of green and brown. ...	IPS News
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06/12/2011	Jump-starting REDD finance: $3 billion Forest Finance Facility needed to halve deforestation within a decade Guest commentary by Donald P. Kanak and Andrew W. Mitchell How to finance a means to reduce deforestation, ...	Mongabay.com
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06/12/2011	Seismic trails cut by U.S. oil firm in Belizean national park used by illegal loggers By Robin Oisín Llewellyn, special to mongabay.com In the Belizean rainforest two rangers look ...	Mongabay.com
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04/12/2011	Britain spends £10m to stop deforestation in Brazil Britain is spending £10 million to stop deforestation in Brazil as part of a multi-billion fund ...	The Telegraph, UK
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03/12/2011	Illegal deforestation threatens the last 23 Hainan gibbons The world’s final 23 Hainan black-crested gibbons (Nomascus hainanus) are making what may be their ...	Scientific American
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03/12/2011	Mozambique's new forests may not be as green as they seem Maputo - Foreign companies are spending billions of dollars to plant forests in Mozambique, but conservationists ...	AFP
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02/12/2011	Deforestation and forest degradation slows in Brazil's Amazon since August Deforestation and forest degradation are down moderately from August through October 2011 relative to ...	Mongabay.com
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28/11/2011	Asia Pulp & Paper lashes back at Greenpeace Asia Pulp & Papers (APP) has been accused repeatedly by Greenpeace of causing deforestation in Indonesia ...	Triple Pundit
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24/11/2011	RPT-Vale halts dealings with company over deforestation Sao Paulo - Brazil's Vale, the world's largest iron ore miner, said on Thursday it had suspended ...	Reuters
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23/11/2011	RSPO seeks to certify Indonesian crude palm oil The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil aims to certify 3 million tons of Indonesian crude palm oil as ...	The Jakarta Globe
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22/11/2011	Indonesia green prosperity program gets $600 million from State Dept This weekend, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed an agreement with Indonesia's government ...	SustainableBusiness.com
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21/11/2011	New report exposes human rights abuses in Wilmar Group plantation in Jambi, Indonesia A new report released today ...	Forest Peoples Programme
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21/11/2011	Palm oil need not harm environment or local communities, says new study The exponential growth in the palm oil sector, which accounts for a third of the total global trade of ...	Forest Peoples Programme
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17/11/2011	EU biofuel target seen driving species loss: study A European Union target to promote the use of biofuels will accelerate global species loss because it ...	Reuters, featured on Planet Ark
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17/11/2011	China’s appetite for wood takes a heavy toll on forests More than half of the timber now shipped globally is destined for China. But unscrupulous Chinese companies ...	Yale Environment 360
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17/11/2011	Deforestation threatens planet, economies and communities, UN chief warns Deforestation not only threatens the planet’s climate and national economic development, but also ...	UN News Centre
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16/11/2011	Rare photos of wild cats in threatened forest: WWF Rare photos of five different wild cats, including the endangered Sumatran tiger, have been caught on ...	Reuters
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16/11/2011	WWF-Indonesia calls for action to save rainforest from palm oil, pulp & paper industries WWF-Indonesia is appealing to authorities to take steps to save a valuable area of Sumatran jungle from ...	The Jakarta Globe
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16/11/2011	Can Indonesia grow its economy and keep its forests? President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s commitment to dedicate the last three years his term to delivering ...	Climate Spectator
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14/11/2011	Toilet paper critics on a roll Next time you see a loo roll think about where the fibre is sourced from. In the seventh of an eight-part ...	Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand
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13/11/2011	‘No new exemptions to log ban’ says Mines bureau head President Benigno Aquino III did not grant any new exemptions to the total log ban other than what is ...	The Inquirer, Phlippines
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12/11/2011	Environmentalists buck lifting of mining log ban Imagine the environmental impact of giving blanket authority to mining companies to cut down thousands ...	The Inquirer, Phlippines
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09/11/2011	Malaysia to spend $7.7M to defend palm oil from criticism The Malaysian government will spend 24 million ringgit ($7.7 million) in 2011 and 2012 to counter criticism ...	Mongabay.com
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04/11/2011	Brazil faces $100 billion hit if forest bill fails, Senator says Brazil would lose about $100 billion in agricultural output if the senate rejects legislation that forgives ...	Bloomberg BusinessWeek
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03/11/2011	Pulp and paper giant battles with Greenpeace over deforestation claims Ottawa - An international pulp and paper giant with operations in Canada says it's being victimized ...	Montreal Gazette, Canada
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01/11/2011	Toymaker Hasbro cuts deforestation from its supply chain Hasbro, the second largest American toy company, today announced a new packaging policy that excludes ...	Mongabay.com
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01/11/2011	Indigenous community forcibly evicted for palm oil in Indonesian Borneo A palm oil company has forcibly evicted an indigenous community from one of the last tracts of rainforest ...	Mongabay.com
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28/10/2011	UK forests campaigner deported from Indonesia Greenpeace UK forests campaigner Andy Tait has been “deported” from Indonesia after drawing ...	TTJ, The Timber Industry Magazine, UK
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28/10/2011	Mystery still shrouds alleged orangutan slaughter in E Kalimantan Jakarta - Last September, a newspaper in Samarinda, the capital of East Kalimantan Province, received ...	Kompas.com, Indonesia
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26/10/2011	Highlands, southern region urged to better protect forests Dak Lak - Authorities in the Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) and Southeastern regions need to tighten ...	Viet Nam News
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25/10/2011	Plantations, mining and REDD a threat: Dayak Expanding oil palm plantations, mining concessions and even forest conservation projects are threatening ...	The Jakarta Globe
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24/10/2011	Worst food additive ever? It's in half of all foods we eat and its production destroys rainforests and enslaves children The production of this ingredient causes jaw-dropping amounts of deforestation (and with it, carbon emissions) ...	AlterNet
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20/10/2011	McDonald's joins sustainable palm oil initiative McDonald's Corp. has officially joined the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a body that ...	Mongabay.com
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19/10/2011	World's largest beef company breaks commitment on avoiding Amazon deforestation In a campaign launched in Italy on Wednesday, Greenpeace accused Brazilian beef giant JBS-Friboi of breaking ...	Mongabay.com
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14/10/2011	Indonesia 'blocks' Greenpeace boss The head of Greenpeace UK has been barred from entering Indonesia, where the environmental group has ...	The Press Association
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13/10/2011	Brazilian soy farmers doubled Amazon deforestation on price gain Brazilian soy farmers almost doubled the amount of Amazon land they deforested in the previous season ...	Bloomberg BusinessWeek
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12/10/2011	The Co-op claims lead on palm oil with new commitments The Co-operative Group has claimed it is the largest UK supermarket to certify all of its palm oil as ...	The Grocer, UK
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11/10/2011	High gold price triggers rainforest devastation in Peru As the price of gold inches upward on international markets, a dead zone is spreading across the southern ...	Mongabay.com
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11/10/2011	Meat consumption jumps 20 percent in last decade with super-sized environmental impacts Meat consumption and production remains on the rise, according to a new report Worldwatch Institute, ...	Mongabay.com
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08/10/2011	The beginning of the end for RSPO? Indonesia’s palm oil growers pulling out of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil has grave implications ...	The Star Online, Malaysia
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07/10/2011	Girl Scouts USA respond to campaign for sustainable cookies What started as a research project to earn a Girl Scout Bronze Award has become a five-year-long campaign ...	The Huffington Post, US
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07/10/2011	European biofuels target condemned by leading US scientists Union of Concerned Scientists warns that the EU view that biofuels are carbon neutral is 'not supported ...	Guardian, UK
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06/10/2011	Barbie and Ken may rekindle love after Mattel pledges to tackle deforestation Greenpeace welcomes toy makers' new goals to build a more sustainable supply chain. ...	Business Green
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05/10/2011	Mattel drops paper company linked to Indonesia deforestation It's official: Barbie has broken up with Asia Pulp and Paper. Responding to a campaign by Greenpeace, ...	Los Angeles Times
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05/10/2011	Continuing rape of Perak’s forests Some time in 2006, a sharp alarm was sounded over massive illegal logging and clearing activities in ...	The Sun Daily, Malaysia
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04/10/2011	How green is your coffee? Our taste for coffee has hit forests and biodiversity, but efforts are afoot to make production more ...	Guardian, UK
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02/10/2011	Ecuador has one of Latin America’s highest deforestation rates Quito – Ecuador has one of the highest deforestation rates in Latin America, with an annual loss ...	Latin American Herald Tribune
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01/10/2011	Developing countries united under UN agency to counter deforestation According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), deforestation causes a fifth of global ...	The International
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01/10/2011	UK welcomes Indonesia's lead in protecting forests Work to tackle illegal logging has taken a step forward with the news that Indonesia has become the fifth ...	Media Newswire
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28/09/2011	Investing in forests a win-win for communities, climate - UNEP Conserving key rainforests in Indonesia could generate revenues three times greater than felling them ...	Voxy.co.nz, New Zealand
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28/09/2011	Indonesia’s finances, water supplies and apes set to benefit from UN green plan Conserving key forests in Indonesia could generate billions of dollars in revenue, up to three times ...	UN News Centre
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27/09/2011	Illegal plantation causes Rp9 trillion in financial losses, says ICW Jakarta - Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW), together with Save Our Borneo and the Borneo People Contact, ...	Tempo Interactive
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26/09/2011	Brazil farming revolution may slow Amazon demise Cassio Carvalho do Val is about to invest nearly $2 million to add 10,000 cattle to his ranch on the ...	Reuters, featured on Planet Ark
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26/09/2011	Climate Conversations - REDD+ in Mozambique: A new opportunity for land grabbers? Land is cheap and is perceived to be abundant in Africa. A scramble for Africa’s land, following ...	Reuters AlertNet
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20/09/2011	Aussie committee backs down on Bill Canberra - The Australian House of Representatives Economics Committee has put up a recommendation seeking ...	The Star Online, Malaysia
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19/09/2011	Converting rainforest to cropland in Africa reduces rainfall Converting West African rainforests into cropland reduces rainforest in adjacent forest areas, reports ...	Mongabay.com
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19/09/2011	Cameroon: Investment plans endanger forest reserves Cameroon's dream of building, digging and mining its way out of widespread poverty by 2035 has sparked ...	Africa News
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12/09/2011	Rising gold prices drives 6-fold increase in deforestation of Amazon Record high prices for gold have driven a recent six-fold increase in deforestation in parts of the Peruvian ...	Click Green, UK
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12/09/2011	A huge oil palm plantation puts African rainforest at risk As global agricultural companies turn to Africa, a U.S. firm is planning a massive oil palm plantation ...	Yale Environment 360
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04/09/2011	62% of deforested Amazon land ends up as cattle pasture 62 percent of the area deforested in the Brazilian Amazon until 2008 is occupied by cattle pasture, reports ...	Mongabay.com
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02/09/2011	Cottonsoft smokescreen fools nobody as Foodstuffs launches investigation It's been ten days since we first revealed that Cottonsoft toilet paper was linked to deforestation ...	Scoop Independent News, New Zealand
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23/08/2011	Plantations ‘destroy’ endangered species’ habitats Animal protection group ProFauna Indonesia warns that private plantations are destroying the habitats ...	The Jakarta Post
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22/08/2011	NZ toilet paper brand linked to deforestation in Indonesia - WWF An investigation released today reveals that Auckland based company Cottonsoft is sourcing its toilet ...	Voxy.co.nz, New Zealand
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22/08/2011	Cottonsoft hits back at 'outrageous' toilet paper claims Toilet paper maker Cottonsoft has slammed as "wrong and outrageous" claims that its paper comes ...	The New Zealand Herald
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21/08/2011	APP affiliate 'regrets' astroturfing on Indonesia deforestation claims Solaris, an Australian affiliate of Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), has been caught astroturfing an article ...	Mongabay.com
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17/08/2011	Ministry of Forestry continues to undermine Indonesia's REDD program, finds Reuters Indonesia's Ministry of Forestry is continuing to undermine the country's ambitious forest ...	Mongabay.com
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14/08/2011	Indonesia’s forests: Paper trail to destruction Indonesia’s vanishing natural forests and wildlife species are testament to deforestation out of ...	The Scavenger
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04/08/2011	Fuji Xerox cuts ties for illegal logging Environmentalists have praised Fuji Xerox for cutting ties with a big paper manufacturer accused of illegally ...	Sky News, Australia
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03/08/2011	Government told to investigate illegal logging The federal government has been told it has a responsibility to investigate claims of illegal logging ...	Herald Sun, Australia
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01/08/2011	Report: Malaysia hints at rival to Sustainable Palm Oil certification ...	Business Green
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27/07/2011	15 million hectares of forests destroyed from 2000 to 2009: FWI Indonesia lost 15 million hectares of forests from 2000 to 2009, a study conducted by Forest Watch Indonesia ...	The Jakarta Globe
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26/07/2011	Tiger death linked to Australian loo paper sold by IGA Greenpeace is calling on consumers to boycott IGA toilet paper, saying it's linked to the destruction ...	Herald Sun, Australia
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15/07/2011	Lego drops deforestation after Greenpeace pressure Lego has agreed to cut relations with supplier Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) in favor of packaging material ...	Earth911.com
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13/07/2011	Cargill sets sights on worldwide sustainable palm oil by 2020 Agribusiness giant Cargill plans to only offer palm oil - an ingredient in Girl Scout cookies and numerous ...	GreenBiz
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12/07/2011	A race for land is destroying the Guatemalan rainforest Expansion of sugar exports, demand for palm oil, cattle farming and subsistence communities pushed off ...	Guardian, UK
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12/07/2011	2 Mich. Girl Scouts seek palm oil ban in cookies Two Michigan Girl Scouts concerned about deforestation’s effect on orangutans have launched a campaign ...	Chicago Sun Times, US
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11/07/2011	Despite some efforts, forests continue to dwindle Cambodia’s woodlands are seeing continued deforestation, despite a plan by the government to curb ...	Voice of America
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09/07/2011	KFC, Taco Bell, and the destruction of the rain forests YUM! Brands, which operates 38,000 fast food restaurants in 110 countries (including not only KFC but ...	Blast Magazine
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07/07/2011	Lego banishes Asia Pulp & Paper due to deforestation link In response to a campaign by Greenpeace asserting that packaging used for its iconic toy building blocks ...	Mongabay.com
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06/07/2011	Sarawak reiterates goal to convert 1 million ha of forest to oil palm plantations Despite rising criticism over deforestation and human rights abuses, Sarawak is maintaining its target ...	Mongabay.com
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27/06/2011	Green tigers: new research shows protecting forests will deliver new economic boom for Southeast Asia A raft of new studies show that protecting Southeast Asia's forests could provide an enormous economic ...	Mongabay.com
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27/06/2011	Australia's Senate passes palm oil labeling bill Just days after being rejected by the the Senate Community Affairs Committee, Australia's Senate ...	Mongabay.com
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24/06/2011	FSC mulls controversial motion to certify plantations responsible for recent deforestation Update: Motion 18 passed the General Assembly with substantial amendments, including a call to revise ...	Mongabay.com
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22/06/2011	Amazon faces fresh threat of deforestation The news from the Brazilian Amazon in recent weeks has looked like a throwback to the dark days of the ...	Financial Times, UK
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17/06/2011	Beef barons exposed by space pics face jail Brazilian beef barons whose illegal clearance of land inhabited by uncontacted Indians in Paraguay was ...	Scoop Independent News, New Zealand
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16/06/2011	'Allow grassroots participation in forest management' Members of the National Forestry Forum, Ghana have stated that the time has come for government, Ministry ...	Modern Ghana
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16/06/2011	Leading environmental and development organisations call for halt to forest loss within a decade As the latest United Nations climate change talks reach their final stages, CARE International, Greenpeace ...	WWF
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16/06/2011	Malaysian palm oil company violates Indonesia's logging moratorium An undercover investigation has found evidence that a subsidiary of Malaysian palm oil company has illegally ...	Mongabay.com
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14/06/2011	In Brazil, palm oil plantations could help preserve Amazon In recent years, palm oil development in Malaysia and Indonesia has devastated tropical forests there. ...	Yale Environment 360
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13/06/2011	Profit, not poverty, increasingly the cause of deforestation A new report highlights the ...	Mongabay.com
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13/06/2011	Indonesia's Sinar Mas sees 2.3 mln T palm oil output in 2011 Indonesia's Sinar Mas expects to produce 2.3 million tonnes of palm oil this year, or about 10 percent ...	Reuters
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12/06/2011	Massive infrastructure push could strip nation of resources: expert Indonesia has made developing infrastructure its main priority. But the country’s master plan to ...	The Jakarta Globe
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10/06/2011	Pressured by Greenpeace, Mattel cuts off sub-supplier APP The environmental group's global campaign against the toy maker prompts the El Segundo company to ...	Los Angeles Times
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09/06/2011	Can Brazil meet deforestation, climate goals and still grow its cattle industry? Despite environmentalists' efforts to combat "rainforest beef" in the 1980s, pasture expansion ...	Mongabay.com
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07/06/2011	Barbie, Legos, other toys linked to destruction of Indonesia's rainforests Some of the world's largest and most prominent toy-makers are sourcing their packaging materials ...	Mongabay.com
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04/06/2011	Rape of Kalimantan's forests continues Bentian Besar, East Kalimantan - At a mine-site near Sangatta in East Kalimantan, a titanic crater yawns ...	The Jakarta Globe
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31/05/2011	Biofuels boom in Africa as British firms lead rush on land for plantations Controversial fuel crops linked to rising food prices and hunger, as well as increased greenhouse gas ...	Guardian, UK
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27/05/2011	Sustainable palm oil hits five million-tonne milestone Green Palm reports that RSPO-certified palm oil now accounts for nine per cent of global supply as demand ...	Business Green
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26/05/2011	IOI Corp working with industry group to achieve roadmap IOI Corp., Malaysia’s second-biggest listed palm oil producer, said it has been working “closely” ...	Bloomberg
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25/05/2011	A farce in the forest A presidential decree on the moratorium on new concession permits for primary forests and peatlands in ...	The Jakarta Globe
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23/05/2011	Govt defends decree as first step in saving forests Deforestation has severely ravaged Indonesia’s tropical forests, and a recently introduced moratorium ...	The Jakarta Post
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23/05/2011	Miners say protected forests fair game The mining industry pointed out on Sunday that a much ballyhooed presidential decree allowing geothermal ...	The Jakarta Globe
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21/05/2011	Forest moratorium too harsh for some, too weak for others While forest activists were denouncing a government moratorium on new concession in forests as disappointing, ...	The Jakarta Globe
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20/05/2011	Soybean farms destroying Amazon Brasilia - Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon jumped almost sixfold in the March-April period, led ...	The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
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20/05/2011	Indonesia forest moratorium softens blow for planters Indonesia revealed a long list of exemptions on Friday to a two-year moratorium on new permits to clear ...	Reuters
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20/05/2011	Malaysia and Indonesia bolster defence of palm oil industry to west Countries form European Palm Oil Council in attempt to counter criticism of industry's environmental ...	Guardian, UK
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19/05/2011	Special report: How a $115b illegal logging probe was felled As a forestry expert, Bambang Hero Saharjo has tramped through jungles during his entire career, but ...	The Jakarta Globe
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19/05/2011	Deforestation devours rich ecosystems La Paz, Bolivia - Occupations of land for agriculture over the last four decades in Bolivia, whether ...	IPS News
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16/05/2011	Will Indonesia lose the next oil palm? Deep in the rainforests of Malaysian Borneo in the late 1980s, researchers made an incredible discovery: ...	The Jakarta Post
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13/05/2011	Fires burn in Sumatra, drive air pollution in Malaysia More than 100 Indonesian firefighters are battling peatland fires set by oil palm plantation developers ...	Mongabay.com
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06/05/2011	IOI gets extended timeline Petaling Jaya - IOI Corp Bhd has been given an extension to May 25 by the Roundtable On Sustainable Palm ...	The Star Online, Malaysia
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06/05/2011	Brazil forest law under fire again Brazil’s most important environmental protection legislation - the Forest Law - is on the chopping ...	WWF
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05/05/2011	Brazil's forest code debate may determine fate of the Amazon rainforest Brazil's forest code may be about to get an overhaul. The federal code, which presently requires ...	Mongabay.com
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05/05/2011	7 conglomerates control 9M ha of land in Indonesia Efforts to slow deforestation in Indonesia should include curtailing further expansion of forestry holdings ...	Mongabay.com
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03/05/2011	Indonesia to set-up green palm body in May - govt Indonesia will form a body to manage, monitor and clarify its mandatory green palm oil industry scheme ...	Reuters
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29/04/2011	Indonesian official: REDD+ forest conservation plan need not limit growth of palm oil industry Indonesia's low carbon development strategy will not impede the palm oil industry's growth ...	Mongabay.com
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29/04/2011	World's largest beef company signs Amazon rainforest pact The world's largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave ...	Mongabay.com
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28/04/2011	Brazil: JBS strikes deal over slavery, deforestation lawsuit JBS has struck a deal that will see allegations that the meat giant bought beef from farms that contributed ...	just-food
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27/04/2011	Deforestation goes into hyperdrive with rising gold price Deforestation around the Amazon River in Peru has increased six-fold in recent years as miners, driven ...	Science-a-go-go
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27/04/2011	Is Indonesia's program to stop deforestation in meltdown? Back in December, I wrote an article ...	The Investigative Fund
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26/04/2011	APP responds to last week's Greenpeace ambush Asia Pulp & Paper has responded to the Greenpeace ambush of its conference by saying the environmental ...	ProPrint, Australia
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21/04/2011	Saving Indonesia's forests A scheme to save the world's few remaining rainforests by paying states to reduce carbon emissions ...	Gulf News
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19/04/2011	Demand for gold pushing deforestation in Peruvian Amazon Deforestation is on the rise in Peru's Madre de Dios region from illegal, small-scale, and dangerous ...	Mongabay.com
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18/04/2011	Malaysian palm oil lobby fires at Xenophon Malaysia's palm oil lobby has reacted angrily to a push for labels to be added to foods containing ...	The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
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14/04/2011	Greenpeace and BMF attack Finnish Neste Oil over palm oil purchases Helsinki, Finland - Activists from Greenpeace are today protesting in Helsinki against deforestation ...	Bruno Manser Fund, Switzerland
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14/04/2011	Brazil issues $1.2 bln in fines on beef companies Brasilia — Brazilian authorities announced Thursday they are seeking $1.2 billion in fines against ...	AFP
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13/04/2011	'Eco-friendly' biofuels may do more harm than good The drive for ‘eco-friendly’ biofuels has backfired and may be contributing to climate change, ...	The Daily Mail, UK
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12/04/2011	NGOs add new twist to IOI-RSPO issues While IOI Corp is busy clearing its name following a sanction by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil ...	The Star Online, Malaysia
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11/04/2011	Britain's taste for cheap food that's killing Brazil's 'other wilderness' While rainforest destruction grips our attention, one of the world's great habitats is under threat. ...	The Independent, UK
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11/04/2011	Peruvian presidential election may decide Amazon future The enormous segment of Amazonian rainforest that covers over half of the country has always been an ...	The Cutting Edge News
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10/04/2011	Study calls for REDD+ money to boost yields in West Africa using agrochemicals Small-scale agriculture — including cocoa, cassava, and oil palm farming — has driven large-scale ...	Mongabay.com
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07/04/2011	Malaysia's 2nd-biggest listed palm-oil company under scrutiny Kuala Lumpur - IOI Corp Bhd, the country's second-biggest listed palm-oil company, is being scrutinised ...	The Star Online, Malaysia
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05/04/2011	Is Sarawak deforested? Lim Swee Bin caught up with Brimas director Mark Bujang and seized the opportunity to find out the real ...	ALIRAN, Malaysia
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04/04/2011	North, South on high alert: Residents brace for more landslides and storms The National Disaster Warning Centre has warned people in the South to remain on high alert for more ...	Bangkok Post, Thailand
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31/03/2011	New World Growth report contains 'false and misleading' information A new report from World Growth International, a lobby group for industrial forestry interests, contains ...	Mongabay.com
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26/03/2011	SBY vows to protect palm oil interests While preparing to enforce a moratorium on forest-clearing, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said palm ...	The Jakarta Post
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25/03/2011	Palm oil giants target Africa in 'land grab' following Indonesia deforestation ban Indonesia's move to bring in a two-year moratorium on new palm oil plantations to protect its remaining ...	The Ecologist, UK
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25/03/2011	German bank dumps palm oil company stock DWS, a fund management company run by Deutsche Bank, has dropped all Wilmar International stock from ...	Mongabay.com
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18/03/2011	Dancing with devils St Patrick's Day 2010 I received an excited Skype message from a friend of dark green political ...	The Huffington Post, US
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15/03/2011	Call to end EU biofuel perks Kuching - Global environmental organisation Wetlands International has called for an end to incentives ...	The Star Online, Malaysia
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15/03/2011	Coalition calls on Europe to label palm oil on food products Do you have the right to know whether the chocolate bar you're munching on includes palm oil, which ...	Mongabay.com
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15/03/2011	Western media spinning erroneous reports, says Len Kuching - Western media and blogs are out to campaign against oil palm development in Sarawak to make ...	The Borneo Post
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14/03/2011	How two 15-year-old Girl Scouts (and Grist readers) changed Kellogg’s When Kellogg’s announced this week that it is moving to limit the deforestation caused by the palm ...	Grist
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10/03/2011	Fight for the Borneo rainforest: Gordon Brown celebrates the role of journalist Clare Rewcastle I have a declaration of interest to make at the outset. Clare Rewcastle is my sister-in-law. She is also ...	The Independent, UK
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10/03/2011	Fighting illegal logging in Indonesia by giving communities a stake in forest management Over the past twenty years Indonesia lost more than 24 million hectares of forest, an area larger than ...	Mongabay.com
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10/03/2011	Report: corruption in Sarawak led to widespread deforestation, violations of indigenous rights At the end of this month it will be 30 years since Abdul Taib Mahmud came to power in the Malaysian state ...	Mongabay.com
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09/03/2011	The war on palm oil - Is it possible to avoid taking sides? Jessica Shankleman wrestles with the environmental and ethical dilemmas presented by the global palm ...	Business Green
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08/03/2011	Is palm oil a kernel of development for African countries like Liberia? ...	Guardian, UK
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08/03/2011	Malaysia says palm oil exports to EU down Kuala Lumpur - Activists who blame the palm oil industry for damaging Malaysia's environment have ...	AFP
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07/03/2011	Palm oil plantations equal deforestation Another day and there's another study that undermines the case for biofuels as an eco-friendly source ...	Time
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07/03/2011	Stopping export logging, oil palm expansion in PNG in 2012 would cost $1.8b, says economist Stopping logging for timber export and conversion of forest for oil palm plantations would cost Papua ...	Mongabay.com
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06/03/2011	Moratorium on Amazon deforestation for soy production proving effective The Brazilian soy industry's moratorium is proving effective at slowing deforestation for soy production ...	Mongabay.com
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04/03/2011	Brazilian beef - greater impact on the environment than we realise Increased export of Brazilian beef indirectly leads to deforestation in the Amazon. New research from ...	Science Centric
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04/03/2011	Kellogg Company takes leadership stance in support of sustainable palm oil Kellogg Company intends to purchase sustainable palm oil once a segregated palm oil supply is available ...	Food Ingredients First
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03/03/2011	Ethiopia: A double standard on land related issues Ethiopia Agriculture Ministry, last month, rejected a petition to reconsider the lease of huge forestry ...	Afrik News
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03/03/2011	First map of annual forest-cover loss in Indonesia Researchers from the US have used remote-sensing data to put together the first-ever annual maps showing ...	Environmental Research Web
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02/03/2011	Palm oil business killing orangutans: French filmmaker Kolkata - China, Europe and India are fuelling the high demand for palm oil, in turn leading to the rapid ...	Sify News
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28/02/2011	28,000 ha of Indonesia national park damaged Around 28,000 hectares out of the total 83,064 hectares of Tesso Nilo National Park have been deforested ...	VIVA News, Indonesia
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28/02/2011	Can palm oil firms really create a sustainable future? The palm oil industry has stepped up efforts to reduce its environmental impact, but as Jessica Shankleman ...	Business Green
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25/02/2011	Indonesian Borneo and Sumatra lose 9% of forest cover in 8 years Kalimantan and Sumatra lost 5.4 million hectares, or 9.2 percent, of their forest cover between 2000/2001 ...	Mongabay.com
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24/02/2011	Villagers blame govt for forest degradation Jambi - The government has been criticized for its failure to curb rampant illegal logging, which has ...	The Jakarta Post
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23/02/2011	The battle to save Indonesia's disappearing forests Imagine 400 football fields of trees disappearing during the duration of a soccer match. That was the ...	The Jakarta Globe
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23/02/2011	Malaysia: Conservation and development in tug-of-war Malaysia - A recent report by an international environmental group flagging the alarming rate of deforestation ...	Eco-business.com
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23/02/2011	Greenpeace hits back at 'notorious forest destroyer' Asia Pulp and Paper Campaigners urge retailers to follow example of Tesco and Adidas in cutting links with the controversial ...	The Ecologist, UK
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22/02/2011	Denise Hamu: Brazil 'needs to increase' beef and soya productivity Matilda Lee talks exclusively to the head of WWF Brazil about controversial beef and soya production, ...	The Ecologist, UK
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22/02/2011	Of thin mints and orangutans It's Girl Scout cookie season, but Michigan scouts Rhiannon Tomtishen and Madison Vorva are finding ...	The Huffington Post, US
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21/02/2011	The Indonesian deforestation moratorium: The devil is in the details Indonesia has promised to become a world leader in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In 2009 the president ...	The Jakarta Post
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20/02/2011	ASU geographer calls for complexity in sustainability science models Tropical deforestation is intimately linked with urban dynamics and needs to be considered along with ...	Arizona State University, US
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19/02/2011	SBY to sign moratorium this month President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is slated to sign a presidential instruction this month, serving as ...	The Jakarta Post
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17/02/2011	Moratorium to preserve only protected forest areas: Draft Deforestation would continue in the country despite the pledged two-year moratorium, since it would only ...	The Jakarta Post
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15/02/2011	Central America has highest rate of forest loss in region Guatemala City - Central America has suffered the highest rate of forest loss in Latin America over the ...	IPS News
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14/02/2011	Sumatra showdown: why a former Greenpeace activist is now backing a controversial paper company Asia Pulp and Paper, a subsidiary of Sinar Mas, has a Greenpeace-fueled reputation of destroying Sumatran ...	Fast Company, US
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11/02/2011	The Cambodian government has approved a titanium mine which will lead to the deforestation of over 50,000 acres of rain forest Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Prime Minister Hun Sen has approved a land concession to United Khmer Group, a ...	PR Urgent
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09/02/2011	Palm oil giant vows to spare most valuable Indonesian rainforest Golden Agri-Resources – the world's second highest palm oil producer – bows to pressure ...	Guardian, UK
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09/02/2011	Deforestation means larger carbon footprint for Brazilian beef Beef production in Brazil, the world's second-largest producer, leads to greater carbon emissions ...	Chemical & Engineering News
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07/02/2011	Government happy with palm kernel imports The Government has no plans to stop palm kernel imports after Greenpeace activists were arrested this ...	The National Business Review, New Zealand
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07/02/2011	Forests vs. food? The story of the world's forests is usually a depressing one. Tropical rain forests are under pressure ...	Time
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07/02/2011	Satellite imagery reveals Malaysian peatland destruction Palm oil production is rapidly leading to the destruction of Malaysia’s sensitive peat swamp forests, ...	ICTSD
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07/02/2011	Scepticism over Wetlands report Petaling Jaya - A report that says Malaysia is destroying its forests at three times the rate of the ...	Sun2Surf, Malaysia
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06/02/2011	Ship protestors due in court Five members of Greenpeace who were arrested after boarding a ship transporting palm kernel, will appear ...	Radio New Zealand
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05/02/2011	Greenpeace activists who boarded ship arrested The Greenpeace activists who boarded a ship in a bid to prevent it from unloading 10,000 tonnes of palm ...	Radio New Zealand
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03/02/2011	Communities not getting a say in how forests are managed Conservation groups and scientists claim government-backed forest industries have led to entrenched poverty ...	Guardian, UK
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03/02/2011	Will intensified farming save the rainforests? The idea that you can save the natural world by increasing the efficiency of agriculture is very appealing. ...	New Scientist (Fred Pearce)
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02/02/2011	Forest Year warning of wrong solutions As UN declares International Year of Forests, groups demand solutions to root causes of deforestation. Insist ...	OneWorld.net
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02/02/2011	967 forestry firms under govt scrutiny A joint government team is planning stricter law enforcement against hundreds of plantation and mining ...	The Jakarta Post
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02/02/2011	As UN declares International Year of Forests, groups demand solutions to root causes of deforestation New York City - At the launch of the High Level segment of the UN Forum on Forests, Mr. Sha Zhukan, UN ...	Global Forest Coalition
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01/02/2011	Planters threaten Selangor peat swamp One of the last tracts of peat swamp forest in Selangor now faces the axe. It is a wasteland. Nothing ...	The Star Online, Malaysia
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01/02/2011	Malaysia destroying its forests three times faster than all Asia combined Malaysia is destroying its forests more than three times faster than all of Asia combined, new satellite ...	The Telegraph, UK
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01/02/2011	Malaysia deforestation: Can palm oil plantations be good news? Whilst the latest news on Malaysian deforestation is bad, it must be recognised that palm oil can be ...	The Telegraph, UK
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01/02/2011	Malaysia deforestation: Why is palm oil so controversial? ...	The Telegraph, UK
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01/02/2011	Indonesia set to clear 3 million ha of rainforest in New Guinea Indonesia's Ministry of Forestry has approved conversion of some 3 million hectares of natural forest ...	Mongabay.com
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31/01/2011	Revenues, employment in Latin American tropical areas to decline due to deforestation ban Farmers in Latin America and Caribbean will see billions in lost revenue over the next two decades if ...	Hispanically Speaking News
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31/01/2011	Asia Pulp and Paper: why activists are wrong over destructive logging allegations The paper giant has been accused by Greenpeace of destructive logging and green-washing. But campaigners ...	The Ecologist, UK
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30/01/2011	What we do for environs is SAFE, says Najib Maliau Basin - Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said certain Western critics of Malaysia’s oil palm industry ...	The Star Online, Malaysia
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28/01/2011	Greed and demand doom rainforest Indonesia's timber mafia is making a killing, thanks to the lack of regulation and the insatiable ...	Gulf News
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21/01/2011	Indonesia to road test green palm oil standards Indonesia will trial voluntary green standards for palm oil producers in February, before rolling out ...	Reuters
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19/01/2011	German government funds Lufthansa partnership with leading palm oil agrofuel producer Lufthansa has published plans for the world's first commercial flights with agrofuel-blends – ...	Rainforest Rescue
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19/01/2011	Environmental problems plague palm oil production Palm oil has become a key part of many products used daily in the West. But its cultivation has major, ...	Deutsche Welle, Germany
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13/01/2011	Does chopping down rainforests for pulp and paper help alleviate poverty in Indonesia? Over the past several years, Asia Pulp & Paper has engaged in a marketing campaign to represent its ...	Mongabay.com
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13/01/2011	Oil palm plantations replace mangrove forests on Sembilan island Langkat, North Sumatra (ANTARA News) - Hundreds of hectares of mangrove forests on Sembilan island in ...	Antara News, Indonesia
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12/01/2011	Imperilled by the timber mafia In Borneo’s majestic rain forest, trees are being felled to meet western demand for wood products. ...	China Dialogue
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11/01/2011	Good policies a must for commercial use of forests The United Nation (UN) has declared 2011 as the international year of forests although more than a billion ...	IPP Media
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03/01/2011	Top five forest stories of 2010 In the context of an overall bleak 2010 for the planet, forests offer a bright point for some celebration ...	Grist
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02/01/2011	Converting palm oil companies from forest destroyers into forest protectors In efforts to save the world's remaining rainforests great hopes have been pinned on "degraded ...	Mongabay.com
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29/12/2010	Indonesian climate official: palm oil lobbyist is misleading the public Alan Oxley, a lobbyist for industrial forestry companies in the palm oil and pulp and paper sectors, ...	Mongabay.com
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23/12/2010	WWF position on APRIL In April 2010, Rainforest Alliance’s SmartWood Program suspended APRIL’s interim FSC Controlled ...	WWF
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17/12/2010	Indian mines company accused of unlawful deforestation A subsidiary of the Vedanta mining group in India has cleared forest land apparently in violation of ...	BBC News
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16/12/2010	Green groups accuse pulp giants of illegal logging in Indonesia's Sumatra National Park Jakarta - Environmental groups on Wednesday accused one of Indonesia’s largest pulp and paper companies ...	The Jakarta Globe
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15/12/2010	Palm oil and reduced global warming At a recent forum organised by the Palm Oil Refiners Association of Malaysia (PORAM), it was revealed ...	New Straits Times, Malaysia
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15/12/2010	Deforestation sparks giant rodent invasions Capybara are expanding into areas of deforestation throughout South America, reports a new study conducted ...	Mongabay.com
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13/12/2010	Warm praise for Cancun deal to stop logging One of the key agreements from the Cancun climate summit is a deal to pay poor countries to stop chopping ...	ABC News, Australia
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13/12/2010	Sarawak government announces destruction of 1 million hectares of tropical forests ...	Bruno Manser Fund, Switzerland
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03/12/2010	Brazil's largest national bank signs zero deforestation pact for Amazon soy Banco do Brasil, Brazil's largest state-owned bank, announced it has joined a zero deforestation ...	Mongabay.com
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02/12/2010	Indonesian paper firm defends its reputation One of the biggest paper companies in the world, Asia Pulp and Paper is also one of the most criticised. The ...	ABC Radio Australia
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01/12/2010	Forest policy fails to address the underlying causes of deforestation and degradation Cancun, Mexico - A report released by the Global Forest Coalition today at the UN Climate Talks in Cancun, ...	Global Forest Coalition
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30/11/2010	Pulp plantations destroying Sumatra's rainforests Indonesia's push to become the world's largest supplier of palm oil and a major pulp and paper ...	Mongabay.com
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30/11/2010	Limits of green alarmism Boosting Indonesia’s economy and meeting our development objectives while simultaneously tackling ...	The Jakarta Post
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30/11/2010	Sarawak to double oil palm plantation area Kuching - Sarawak, which recorded its fastest pace in opening up land for oil palm cultivation in the ...	The Star Online, Malaysia
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29/11/2010	Greenpeace raps Indonesian deforestation Jakarta - A deal to cut deforestation and reduce carbon emission in Indonesia is in jeopardy because ...	UPI.com
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29/11/2010	Sustainable palm oil: rainforest savior or fig leaf? The push to promote sustainable palm oil is turning into a test case for green consumerism. The outcome ...	Yale Environment 360
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23/11/2010	Indonesia's billion-dollar forest deal in danger Jakarta - Greenpeace on Tuesday warned that a billion-dollar deal between Norway and Indonesia to cut ...	AFP
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10/11/2010	Indonesia develops rival sustainable palm oil scheme The Indonesian government hit out at the Kuala Lumpur-based Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) ...	The Jakarta Post
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27/10/2010	Scientists blast greenwashing by front groups A group of prominent scientists has published an open ...	Mongabay.com
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25/10/2010	Forest logging zones in Malaysia to be converted for oil palm The government of Terengganu, a state in peninsular Malaysia, will clear forests along its border to ...	Mongabay.com
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22/10/2010	TPAC revises judgement on MTCS Earlier this year, the Timber Procurement Assessment Committee (TPAC) judged that the Malaysian certification ...	Timber Procurement Assessment Committee, Netherlands
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22/10/2010	Walmart and General Mills bullish on sustainable palm oil Your morning bowl of cereal is about to get more environmentally friendly - that is, as long as you eat ...	Reuters
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22/10/2010	Businesses warm to Indonesia's moratorium on forest clearing The Indonesian government is imposing a moratorium on forest clearing in return for $1 billion grant ...	VoA News
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20/10/2010	Corporations, conservation, and the green movement The image of rainforests being torn down by giant bulldozers, felled by chainsaw-wielding loggers, and ...	Mongabay.com
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17/10/2010	Greenpeace: palm-oil campaign not effort at sabotage Jakarta - International environmental group Greenpeace is denying accusations that it is waging a foreign-funded ...	The Jakarta Globe
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14/10/2010	Sumantra tiger habitat destroyed by illegal deforestation Heat activated video cameras installed by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to monitor the endangered Sumatran ...	This dish is veg
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07/10/2010	Environmentalists push for cash incentives to farmers to stop global deforestation Brazil, the World’s largest exporter of beef, cotton, coffee, orange juice soybeans and sugar, ...	WiredPRNews.com
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04/10/2010	Deforestation imperils biodiversity, but some trends encouraging – UN High rates of deforestation and degradation of woodlands continue to threaten the world's forest ...	UN News Centre
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30/09/2010	Permits clear way for forest graft: NGO Jakarta - Environmental activists have voiced suspicions of forest-clearing permits being issued illegally ...	The Jakarta Globe
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28/09/2010	Asia Pulp & Paper fumbles response to deforestation allegations by Greenpeace A new audit that seems to exonerate Asia Pulp & Paper from damaging logging practices in Indonesia ...	Mongabay.com
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27/09/2010	World's largest tiger reserve clearcut for plantations Yangon, Myanmar - In August, Myanmar officials formally announced that the entire remote Hukawng Valley ...	Environment News Service
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27/09/2010	Indonesian pulp mill denies deforestation claims One of the world's largest paper producers says a Greenpeace report on its logging operations in ...	ABC News, Australia
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26/09/2010	Independent audit by ITS Global shows Greenpeace faked data to build phony case against APP Jakarta, Indonesia - Greenpeace was caught using false and misleading information to attack the credibility ...	Business Wire
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24/09/2010	General Mills to source palm oil from sustainable sources by 2015 General Mills has announced plans to source 100% of its palm oil from responsible and sustainable sources ...	TradingMarkets.com
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23/09/2010	The long road to sustainability: Western consciences can do only so much to conserve forests In June last year Daniel Avelino, the public prosecutor of Brazil’s state of Pará, the home ...	The Economist, UK
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23/09/2010	Eco-friendly palm oil initiative censures company linked to deforestation The Roundtable On Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a body the sets standards for eco-friendly palm oil production, ...	Mongabay.com
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23/09/2010	Something stirs: But to save the forests, the world needs to find somewhere else to grow its food When Michael Williams, a British geographer, sat down in 1994 to write a chronicle of deforestation, ...	The Economist, UK
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23/09/2010	Better REDD than dead: Tropical forests’ best hope North of East Kalimantan’s scarified waste is an area where the extractive juggernaut has not yet ...	The Economst
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22/09/2010	Another food goliath falls to palm oil campaign One of the world's biggest food makers, General Mills, has pledged to source only sustainable and ...	Mongabay.com
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21/09/2010	Fonterra’s implication in rainforest destruction Auckland – Following new evidence, Greenpeace demands that Fonterra and the Government put an end ...	Scoop Independent News, New Zealand
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18/09/2010	Biofuel plantations on peat excluded from CDM support Plantations on peatsoils will no longer be supported by The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). This is ...	Wetlands International
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17/09/2010	Graft could jeopardise Indonesia's climate deals Billions of dollars Indonesia stands to earn every year in climate change deals could be at risk if it ...	Reuters
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13/09/2010	UK government told to cut 2020 biofuels target Britain should cut its target for biofuels use by 2020 so that tropical forests are not cut down to make ...	Reuters, featured on Planet Ark
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13/09/2010	Debate over paper mill's green credentials Singapore - The April paper mill in Sumatra’s Riau province can boast some environmentally friendly ...	eco-business.com
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08/09/2010	Active counter prepared for global deforestation campaign Jakarta - Global campaign against deforestation that target palm oil producers has received government ...	Tempo Interactive
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02/09/2010	We got it our way! Burger King ditches Sinar Mas palm oil The independent audit which Sinar Mas thought would absolve it of deforestation, peatland clearance and ...	Greenpeace UK
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30/08/2010	Biofuels companies buy African land, cause deforestation, food-output loss Biofuels companies from the U.K. to Brazil and China are buying up large swaths of Africa, causing deforestation ...	Bloomberg
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30/08/2010	Rapid growth of palm oil industry tramples indigenous peoples' rights, says report Rapid expansion of oil palm plantations across Southeast Asia have run roughshod over customary tenure ...	Mongabay.com
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30/08/2010	Green group slams Cargill over SMART palm oil Environmentalists on Friday criticized a decision by agribusiness giant Cargill Inc to continue buying ...	Reuters, featured on Planet Ark
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19/08/2010	Saving forests with carrots as well as sticks - part 1 Forests cover about a third of Earth's land area and contain about 70% of the carbon found in living ...	The Huffington Post, US
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16/08/2010	Climate change expert urges a rethink of forest futures The earth could be in the mists of the single biggest extinction period since the dinosaurs, according ...	Charles Darwin University, Australia
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12/08/2010	Analysis - Indonesia forest moratorium to stymie palm oil firms Jakarta - Indonesia’s plans to halt forest clearing will slow the aggressive expansion of plantation ...	The Jakarta Globe
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11/08/2010	Indonesia APP says audit shows deforestation claim untrue Indonesian paper firm Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) on Wednesday released an audit it said showed allegations ...	Reuters
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11/08/2010	Report clears SMART of deforestation An environmental audit into palm oil producer PT SMART, paid for by the company, has cleared the company ...	The Jakarta Post
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09/08/2010	Indonesia may let palm oil growers collect CO2 credits Indonesia may propose palm oil plantations be eligible to earn carbon credits under a U.N.-backed scheme ...	Reuters
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05/08/2010	Greenpeace tells APP to stop destroying tiger habitat Jakarta, Indonesia - Greenpeace activists unfurled a giant banner reading "APP-Stop destroying Tiger ...	Common Dreams
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04/08/2010	Getting Papua province REDDy The island of New Guinea, which is shared by Papua New Guinea and the Indonesian province of Papua, supports ...	Reuters AlertNet
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02/08/2010	Longtime target of green groups, Cargill, to supply sustainably-certified palm oil to Unilever Agriculture giant Cargill has announced an agreement to supply Unilever with 10,000 metric tons of palm ...	Mongabay.com
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02/08/2010	Proposal to extend moratorium on conversion of peatlands The Indonesian government has prepared draft legislation to extend the 2-year moratorium on conversion ...	ITTO Market Report
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30/07/2010	Indonesian Sinar Mas-linked firms wrecked forest: report Greenpeace said on Thursday it had fresh evidence that palm oil firms linked to Indonesian agribusiness ...	Reuters, featured on Planet Ark
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26/07/2010	Amazon soy and deforestation: Collaboration delivers for Greenpeace and Cargill A Brazilian ban on buying soybeans from illegally deforested areas in the worlds largest standing forest ...	Ethical Corporation
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17/07/2010	Ranchers and drug barons threaten rain forest El Mirador, Guatemala — Great sweeps of Guatemalan rain forest, once the cradle of one of the world’s ...	The New York Times
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13/07/2010	Government to track UK contribution to palm oil deforestation Environment secretary Caroline Spelman to announce launch of palm oil research project. ...	BusinessGreen.com
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13/07/2010	Large-scale forest destruction in Sumatra undermines Indonesia's deal with Norway While the Indonesian government basks in a recent agreement with Norway to slow deforestation to the ...	Mongabay.com
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08/07/2010	Asia Pulp & Paper responds to Greenpeace's false accusations on Indonesian forestry Los Angeles - In response to the recently released Greenpeace report regarding the Indonesian forestry ...	PR Newswire
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08/07/2010	Amazon soy moratorium extended Brazilian soy farmers have extended their moratorium on Amazon deforestation for another year, reports ...	Mongabay.com
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07/07/2010	Paper's toll on Indonesia's rainforests Jakarta - Greenpeace chastised Indonesian palm oil and paper giant Sinar Mas, as well as its customers, ...	UPI.com
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07/07/2010	Verdant Borneo losing out heavily to deforestation Bau: Deforestation and oil palm plantations are the biggest culprits behind climate warming in Borneo, ...	Free Malaysia Today
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07/07/2010	Wal-Mart latest to step away from Sinar Mas Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, said it has “taken steps to stop” sourcing ...	The Jakarta Globe
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05/07/2010	Indonesian firm accused of clearing rain forests Jakarta, Indonesia — The environmental group Greenpeace has accused one of the world’s largest ...	The New York Times
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01/07/2010	Deforestation moratorium is not panacea? At the Oslo Climate and Forest Conference, the Indonesian and Norway governments had signed a partnership ...	The Jakarta Post
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25/06/2010	Greenpeace cautions Indonesian gov't on new palm oil sustainability claim International environment campaigner organization, Greenpeace, expressed on Friday its fear that the ...	Global Times, China
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24/06/2010	The other oil spill Palm oil is a popular, cheap commodity, which green activists are doing their best to turn into a commercial ...	The Economist, UK
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24/06/2010	In the battle to save forests, activists target corporations Large corporations, not small-scale farmers, are now the major forces behind the destruction of the world’s ...	Environment 360, Yale, US
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24/06/2010	Scientists warn that Malaysia is converting tropical forests to rubberwood plantations The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) has condemned Malaysia's booming practice ...	Mongabay.com
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21/06/2010	Penan violently attacked as communities set up road blockade to protect their rainforests Long Sebayang, Sarawak, Malaysia - A Penan hunter has been violently attacked by a logging company official ...	Bruno Manser Fund, Switzerland
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15/06/2010	Swiss retailer lodges complaint against Malaysian palm oil group Migros requests a probe on IOI's breaches of law and sustainability standards in Borneo. ...	Bruno Manser Fund, Switzerland
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14/06/2010	Deforestation on the rise again in Brazil Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon may be on the rise again after reaching record-low levels last ...	Mongabay.com
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12/06/2010	Broken biofuel policies still driving rainforest destruction Brussels, International — New sustainability guidelines for biofuels in Europe do not go far enough ...	Media Newswire
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10/06/2010	Palm oil and tropical rainforest conservation An international conference on climate change and forests, held recently in Oslo, Norway, has agreed ...	The Jakarta Post
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10/06/2010	EU mandates biofuel environmental standards to protect forests, wetlands The E.U. today moved to establish environmental standards for biofuels used in Europe, requiring biofuels ...	Mongabay.com
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07/06/2010	REDD alert for forest climate change policy Curitiba, Brazil - Carbon dioxide emissions from an unexpected rise in the number of forest fires in ...	SciDev Net
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03/06/2010	Palm oil’s promotion as diesel alternative draws fire London — Ubiquitous in products from cookies to cosmetics, and increasingly in European fuel tanks, ...	The New York Times
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31/05/2010	Indonesia to scrap permits to save forests-official Indonesia will revoke existing forestry licences held by palm oil and timber firms to save natural forests ...	Reuters
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28/05/2010	How an ingredient found in everything from chocolate to chips is causing massive environmental destruction The production of palm oil, the common ingredient in an astounding number of products, is causing deforestation, ...	AlterNet
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26/05/2010	Indonesia announces two-year moratorium on deforestation Oslo — Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Wednesday he would introduce a two-year ...	AFP
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24/05/2010	Social media can help save the planet, says Greenpeace boss Greenpeace is well-known for taking direct action in the name of saving the environment, but key to its ...	CNN
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24/05/2010	How the palm oil trade causes a food chain of destruction Food giant ADM's forays into new global agricultural markets bring charges of forced child labor ...	AlterNet
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19/05/2010	Online protest drives Nestlé to environmentally friendly palm oil Nestlé, the world's biggest food manufacturer, says it will make the palm oil in its best-selling ...	The Independent, UK
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17/05/2010	Deforestation victory! Nestlé will stop using rainforest-destroying palm oil Concerned about forest-destroying palm oil? You can now rest a little easier. The world's largest ...	TreeHugger
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14/05/2010	Possible WTO case over EU palm oil restrictions? At a recent meeting among Malaysian and Indonesian palm oil producers, Tan Sri Bernard Dompok - the Malaysian ...	ICTSD
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11/05/2010	Greenpeace encourages sustainable oil palm planting system in Indonesia An Indonesian senior official said that Greenpeace is willing to promote Indonesian palm oil plantation ...	People's Daily Online, China
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05/05/2010	Activists lock themselves in Cargill headquarters as new report alleges illegal deforestation Following a damning report from the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) alleging illegal clearing of rainforest ...	Mongabay.com
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29/04/2010	Palm oil producers to meet May 3 to discuss deforestation charges Kuala Lumpur - Palm oil producers and government officials from Malaysia and Indonesia will meet May ...	Nasdaq
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28/04/2010	Large-scale soy farming in Brazil pushes ranchers into the Amazon rainforest Industrial soy expansion in the Brazilian Amazon has contributed to deforestation by pushing cattle ranchers ...	Mongabay.com
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27/04/2010	Indonesia: Sinar Mas denies Greenpeace deforestation charges Kuala lumpur - Sinar Mas, Indonesia's biggest palm oil producer, Tuesday said the company remains ...	EasyBourse.com
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19/04/2010	Indonesian firm faces new forest clearing allegation Conservationist group Greenpeace released on Friday new satellite images it said linked Indonesian oil ...	Reuters, featured on Planet Ark
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16/04/2010	Does growing soy destroy Amazon rainforest? In the first seven years of this century, around 19 million hectares of rainforest in the Legal Amazon ...	Environmental Research Web
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15/04/2010	New report slams Sarawak government's unlawful dealing with native land rights The Malaysian network of indigenous peoples and NGOs (JOANGOHUTAN) releases documentation on 140 land ...	Bruno Manser Fund, Switzerland
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15/04/2010	Nestle shareholder meeting interrupted by Greenpeace orangutans Nestle's shareholder meeting turned raucous today, as Greenpeace protesters were arrested in full-orangutan ...	Mongabay.com
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14/04/2010	Legitimate companies to blame for much illegal logging: expert Successfully breaking up large-scale illegal logging operations will require authorities to re-examine ...	The Jakarta Globe
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12/04/2010	Sinar Mas should prove all plantations sustainable: Activists Activists have called the steps a palm plantation giant was taking to clear itself of Greenpeace Indonesia’s ...	The Jakarta Post
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10/04/2010	Palm oil: environmental curse or a blessing? It is blamed for everything from deforestation to threatening the extinction of the orangutan, but palm ...	Gulf Times, Qatar
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07/04/2010	Unilever backtracks: may purchase palm oil from Sinar Mas The world's biggest buyer of palm oil, Unilever, says it will again purchase palm oil from PT SMART, ...	Mongabay.com
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06/04/2010	Brazilian slaughterhouses fail to fully meet first deadline for stopping Amazon deforestation São Paulo, Brazil — In a meeting on April 5th with Greenpeace, the major slaughterhouses ...	Greenpeace USA
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05/04/2010	SBY demands more diligence to protect Indonesia's forests President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told his ministers on Monday to pay more attention to illegal logging ...	The Jakarta Globe
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01/04/2010	The core issue is credibility: Editorial Eighteen major palm oil producers and the Directorate General of Plantations decided here Monday to set ...	The Jakarta Post
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01/04/2010	Borneo natives win class action suit against Malaysian oil palm giant Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia - More than twelve years after going to court, the Kayan native community of ...	Bruno Manser Fund, Switzerland
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31/03/2010	Australian supermarket's palm oil plans questioned Australia's Green groups are divided over a commitment by the country's Woolworths supermarkets ...	Australia Network News
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25/03/2010	Cargill threatens palm oil supplier over deforestation Cargill, the world's largest trader of agricultural commodities, has become the third company to ...	Financial Times, UK
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23/03/2010	Nestle fiasco continues: Indonesian oil palm planters threaten boycott too Candy and food giant Nestle is finding itself between a rock and a hard place. The online campaign against ...	Mongabay.com
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20/03/2010	A new world?: Social media protest against Nestle may have longstanding ramifications The online protest over Nestle's use of palm oil linked to deforestation in Indonesia continues ...	Mongabay.com
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18/03/2010	Nestlé stars in smear campaign over Indonesian palm oil: Greenpeace links food manufacturer with mass deforestation Nestlé is fighting a PR battle with Greenpeace over claims that it is continuing to source palm ...	Guardian, UK
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09/03/2010	‘Protected forests’ now up for grabs for mining The government has just issued two new regulations on forests, which could allow protected forests to ...	The Jakarta Post
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09/03/2010	Legal action targets EU biofuel policy Green groups to take European Commission to court over alleged failure to release documents thought to ...	businessGreen.com
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07/03/2010	Indonesia and Malaysia team up against palm oil critics Indonesia and Malaysian palm oil producers have agreed to jointly tackle challenging environmental and ...	The Jakarta Globe
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05/03/2010	BBC Documentary shakes up Sustainable Palm Industry Multinational conglomerate Unilever has blacklisted Duta Palma, a certified sustainable Indonesian palm ...	ICTSD (International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development)
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04/03/2010	Palm oil tested on sustainability Nusa Dua, Bali - Palm oil plantations play a major role in the growing problems of deforestation and ...	Asia Times Online
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02/03/2010	Palm oil: environmental curse or a blessing? Nusa Dua, Indonesia — It is blamed for everything from deforestation to threatening the extinction ...	AFP
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01/03/2010	European laws could cause deforestation A renewable fuel alternative to coal could result in the destruction of forest habitats, according to ...	Environmental Data Interactive Exchange
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28/02/2010	Palm oil from the Mersey that will spare the jungle Palm oil greases the wheels of modern life. It’s in your margarine, your chocolate bar, your washing ...	Times Online, UK
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26/02/2010	'Govt abetting deforestation for illegal mining' Panaji [Goa] - Opposition leader Manohar Parrikar has lambasted the state government, alleging that it ...	The Times of India
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25/02/2010	UK palm oil power plant rejected: Environmental concerns scupper W4B’s second project A UK biofuel plant has been refused planning permission over worries that the palm oil powering it would ...	The Chemical Engineer Today
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23/02/2010	Oil palm plantation not in forest sector: Govt Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan said he had no plan to draft a decree aimed at including oil palm plantations ...	The Jakarta Post
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23/02/2010	Conflicting signals out of Indonesia on whether palm oil plantations will be classified as forests Indonesia will not allow the conversion of natural forest for oil palm plantations, claimed the country's ...	Mongabay.com
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22/02/2010	Orangutan survival and the shopping trolley The challenge of saving the orangutan - man's closest relative - from extinction is trickling down ...	BBC News
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22/02/2010	TFT is working towards responsible palm oil ...	The Forest Trust
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21/02/2010	Saving the Amazon may be the most cost-effective way to cut greenhouse gas emissions If the U.S. adopts a cap-and-trade program, companies facing carbon controls could meet part of their ...	Los Angeles Times, US
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17/02/2010	New area to be available for oil palm plantations The Agriculture Ministry plans to use 1.8 million hectares of land designated as industrial forests (HTI) ...	The Jakarta Post
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16/02/2010	Palm estate is forest, says ministry The Forestry Ministry is drafting a decree to include oil palm plantations in the forest sector to comply ...	The Jakarta Post
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16/02/2010	Big business leaves big forest footprints Consumers around the globe are not aware that they are "eating" rainforests, says Andrew Mitchell. ...	BBC News
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12/02/2010	Pricing carbon insufficient to save tropical forests from deforestation Putting a price on carbon emissions from deforestation is unlikely to prevent tropical forests being ...	Environmental Expert
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07/02/2010	Commodity trade and urbanization, rather than rural poverty, drive deforestation Forest conservation via REDD may be ineffective without addressing commodity consumption and trade, argues ...	Mongabay.com
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03/02/2010	Forestry Ministry graft behind rapid deforestation Corruption was the root cause of the country’s rapid pace of deforestation, threatening to hamper ...	The Jakarta Globe
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01/02/2010	Greenwashing for beef land A Brazilian cattle-ranching company has been publicly exposed for illegally bulldozing land belonging ...	Slow Food
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01/02/2010	UK failing to meet biofuel sustainability standard Only 4 percent of biofuel imported for use in the UK — and 20 percent of biofuel used overall — ...	Mongabay.com
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29/01/2010	UK pledges £50m to tackle Indonesia deforestation The UK is to contribute £50m ($80m) to a project in Indonesia in the hope it will tackle climate ...	BBC News
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26/01/2010	Greenpeace presents ‘World Cup of Forest Destruction’ to SBY Jakarta, Indonesia — Greenpeace activists today presented the ‘World Cup of Forest Destruction’ ...	InfoShop News
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21/01/2010	Borneo natives win landmark court case over oil palm plantation "Native Rights Action Front" launched on historic day for Sarawak native landowners. ...	Bruno Manser Fund
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21/01/2010	Greenwash award exposes Brazilian company Brazilian cattle-ranching company named and shamed for destroying the land of an uncontacted tribe. ...	The Ecologist
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21/01/2010	Sarawak court orders oil palm company to return native land Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia - Sarawak's natives have won two important court cases over native land ...	Environment News Service
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13/01/2010	Indonesia forest plan at odds with carbon target The Indonesian government’s pledge to cut greenhouse emissions growth via forestry efforts can’t ...	Carbon Positive
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07/01/2010	Trouble for palm oil ...	Asia Sentinel
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27/12/2009	Rainforest conservation: a year in review 2009 may prove to be an important turning point for tropical forests. ...	Mongabay.com
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21/12/2009	Time running out for orangutans: conservationists Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia – The world has less than 20 years left to save the orangutan, according ...	Canada.com
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20/12/2009	Iban villagers erect blockade against oil palm company Miri - Yesterday a group of about 50 Iban villagers from Rumah Jonathan Tinggi, Sungai Sekaloh, Niah, ...	Borneo Resources Institute, Malaysia
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13/12/2009	Greenpeace rebuffs offer of talks by Indonesia's Sinar Mas The international environmental group Greenpeace has ruled out any discussion with PT Sinas Mas unless ...	The Jakarta Globe
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13/12/2009	Indonesian village's environmental dilemma weighs on the world Tiny Teluk Meranti, in an area seen as ground zero for climate change, is being wooed from all sides. ...	Los Angeles Times
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11/12/2009	Unilever drops palm oil supplier Jakarta - Unilever PLC said on Friday it would stop buying palm oil from Indonesian producer PT Sinar ...	The Wall Street Journal
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10/12/2009	EU demand scant for non-rain forest palm oil Hamburg - Europe's food industry is proving slow to buy palm oil certified under a new scheme as ...	Reuters, featured on Planet Ark
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10/12/2009	Indonesia's Sinar Mas accused of illegal land clearing Greenpeace on Thursday released new evidence of illegal land clearing in West Kalimantan conducted by ...	The Jakarta Globe
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08/12/2009	The end of the jungle? The Malaysian government and the palm oil industry has been accused of laying waste to last remaining ...	BBC News
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07/12/2009	Copenhagen: Felling the Amazon rainforest could end within a decade Amazonia has become synonymous with the destruction of the world’s rainforests, but the Copenhagen ...	Telegraph, UK
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06/12/2009	‘Time is running out’ for Sumatra’s rainforest as demand for palm oil soars Driving through Indonesia's central Sumatra, it appears that all life on earth has been obliterated, ...	The Jakarta Globe
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03/12/2009	RI to expand oil palm estates amid environmental concerns Despite environmental concerns, Indonesia plans to continue the expansion of its much-contested oil palm ...	The Jakarta Post
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02/12/2009	In absence of measures to address consumption, REDD may fail to protect forests Rising demand for timber and agricultural products could work against a proposed initiative to reduce ...	Mongabay.com
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02/12/2009	Paper provider for fashion gurus drops APP due to deforestation across Indonesia One by one, the fashion industry's biggest companies are leaving Asian Pulp and Paper (APP) - and ...	Mongabay.com
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01/12/2009	Riau seeking compensation from advanced countries Jakarta - While Greenpeace recently put Riau's forests in the international spotlight, Riau authorities ...	Bernama, Malaysia
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29/11/2009	Tree harvester offers to save Indonesian forest Teluk Meranti, Indonesia — From the air, the Kampar Peninsula in Indonesia stretches for mile after ...	The New York Times
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27/11/2009	New Zealand firm "linked to deforestation" A company in New Zealand has been accused of being involved in activity leading to endangered rainforest ...	Cool Earth
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27/11/2009	Jobs, economics complicate Brazil's Amazon fight Novo Progresso, Brazil - Drawing his .40-caliber pistol, Severiano Pontes dashes across the steaming, ...	The New York Times
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19/11/2009	REDD may increase the cost of conservation of non-forest ecosystems Policy-makers designing a climate change mitigation mechanism that will reduce emissions from deforestation ...	Mongabay.com
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13/11/2009	"Responsible" palm oil producers pledge not to develop endangered Sumatra rainforest Members of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), an initiative developing ...	Mongabay.com
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12/11/2009	Greenpeace activists demand US action on deforestation Jakarta - Greenpeace activists from around the world chained themselves to excavators in a logged peatland ...	The Times of India
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11/11/2009	Up for grabs: deforestation and exploitation in Papua's plantations boom Jakarta - The planned expansion of plantations in the Papuan provinces of Indonesia should be immediately ...	Global Research, Canada
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10/11/2009	Indonesian forests on frontline of climate debate Teluk Meranti, Indonesia — With the approach of global climate talks in Copenhagen, activists are ...	AFP
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05/11/2009	Diary: Amazon road trip The Brazilian government is seeking to repave the almost impassable BR-319 route between Porto Velho ...	BBC News
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02/11/2009	Watchdog bans "sustainable" palm oil advert ASA rules that Malaysian Palm Oil Council's claims that plantations are sustainable and help to ...	BusinessGreen.com
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30/10/2009	Copenhagen climate treaty may subsidise forest destruction Conservation organisations have warned that the Copenhagen climate treaty threatens to subsidise the ...	IndyBay, Australia
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28/10/2009	The palm oil scandal: Boots and Waitrose named and shamed Most British manufacturers and retailers including Boots, Morrisons and Waitrose have done little to ...	The Independent, UK
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24/10/2009	M&S makes palm oil pledge to save forests Marks & Spencer will commit to paying more for sustainable palm oil across its entire range of products ...	The Independent, UK
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14/10/2009	The low-down on palm oil If you ever wondered what the fuss about palm oil is all about, read The Lorax by Dr Seuss. ...	The Taranaki Daily News Online, New Zealand
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14/10/2009	Forests versus oil palm plantations in Sumatra A chainsaw chugs into life and tears into the trunk of a tree as tall as a two-story house. Petrol and ...	Mongabay.com
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05/10/2009	EU biofuel consumption leads to deforestation, social conflict: report Despite efforts to make the industry sustainable, increased consumption of biofuels in the EU is leading ...	ICTSD
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01/10/2009	Rainforest preservation project underway in Indonesia Washington DC and Miamisburg, Ohio - Palm Oil, Timber and Carbon Offsets ...	World Resources Institute (WRI) & the New Page Corporation
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29/09/2009	JBS commits to Amazon deforestation moratorium Brazilian beef giant JBS has agreed to stop sourcing cattle from farms responsible for deforestation ...	MeatInfo.co.uk
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26/09/2009	In a haze, Indonesia slows deforestation Bali - This year's haze season is in full swing across Kalimantan and residents of Indonesia's ...	Asia Times Online
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26/09/2009	Harapan rainforest raises hope amid overexploitation Sumatra's low-plain forests are fast diminishing, currently measuring only 400,000 hectares. The ...	The Jakarta Post
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22/09/2009	Can Nike and Wal-Mart save the Amazon? An ambitious commitment by some of the world's largest companies not to buy beef or leather products ...	The Christian Science Monitor
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21/09/2009	EU biofuels policy undermines governance in Indonesia, alleges report Indonesian authorities are failing to prevent illegal logging and conversion of protected areas for oil ...	Mongabay.com
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21/09/2009	Forests fight back as Indonesia tackles illegal palm oil ACEH, Indonesia - For decades, the roar of the chainsaw has meant one thing in Indonesia's national ...	Reuters UK
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16/09/2009	Big business to measure ‘forest footprint’ “Investors are sleepwalking into a financial bear trap as businesses are increasingly called to ...	Developments
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16/09/2009	All protesters removed from freighter All the remaining Greenpeace protesters who stormed and chained themselves to freighter East Ambition ...	3news, New Zealand
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09/09/2009	Britain bans palm oil ad campaign Britain's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), a group that regulates advertisements, has again ...	Mongabay.com
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09/09/2009	World Bank's IFC suspends lending to palm oil companies The World Bank has agreed to suspend International Finance Corporation (IFC) funding of the oil palm ...	Mongabay.com
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03/09/2009	Spears versus bulldozers in Borneo In the jungles of central Borneo, loggers and native tribes, environmentalists and plantation companies, ...	Al Jazeera
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28/08/2009	Irish call for total EU ban on Brazilian beef The Irish Farmers Association (IFA) has written to the EU Commission calling for an immediate and complete ...	meatinfo.co.uk
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25/08/2009	Getting rich in Malaysia cronyism capital means Dayak lose home After a stomach-churning takeoff from a 550-meter runway at Long Banga airstrip on the Malaysian side ...	Bloomberg
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18/08/2009	Forests and businesses: uneasy bedfellows Windhoek - Too few businesses use appropriate industry-led approaches to tackle the threat of wholesale ...	New Era, Namibia
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17/08/2009	The case against palm oil Public concerns over palm oil were highlighted when Cadbury revealed it had started using palm oil in ...	Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand
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16/08/2009	Corporations and the Amazon These days just about every large corporation would have us believe that it is in the vanguard of the ...	Corp Watch - Holding Corporations Accountable
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11/08/2009	Brazil Amazon governor backs cattle control effort Sao Paulo - Cattle ranching has become the biggest environmental challenge for Brazil's Mato Grosso ...	Reuters
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07/08/2009	Letters: Clarification from WWF I am writing in response to Alan ...	The Jakarta Post
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31/07/2009	Alcoa razes rain forest in court case led by Brazil prosecutors For four decades, Edimar Bentes and his family have survived by farming tiny clearings in the jungle ...	Bloomberg
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22/07/2009	Nike implements policy to avoid leather produced via Amazon deforestation Nike is working with Greenpeace to ensure its products don't contribute to destruction of the Amazon ...	Mongabay.com
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08/07/2009	Failure to support greener palm oil may lead industry to abandon environmental measures Consumer apathy towards eco-certified palm oil have undermined efforts to improve the environmental performance ...	Mongabay.com
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03/07/2009	Tesco 'trusts' cattle suppliers involved in Amazon deforestation Despite the lack of traceability in the supply chain, the assurances of cattle producers that they are ...	The Ecologist
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02/07/2009	Carbon markets won't save the rainforest - we must tackle the route causes of deforestation Responding to the launch of the [UK] Environmental Audit Committee's report on how to stop emissions ...	7th Space Interactive
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01/07/2009	Brazil's development bank to require beef-tracking system to avoid illegal Amazon deforestation Responding to allegations that major Brazilian cattle producers are responsible for illegal forest clearing ...	Mongabay.com
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29/06/2009	Analysis - Brazil beef industry yields to Amazon criticism Sao Paulo/Rio de Janeiro - In a victory for conservationists, Brazil's huge cattle industry is bending ...	Reuters
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28/06/2009	Scots firm accused of destroying endangered apes' rainforest home - Orangutans fight for survival as palm oil producer clears jungle The ancient peat swamp forests of Tripa, on Indonesia's Sumatra island, were once home to 1500 orangutans. ...	Sunday Herald, Scotland, UK
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23/06/2009	The Amazon rainforest: worth the fight? Brazil is home to one-third of the world's rainforest and half of the Amazon. Between its vast rainforests ...	Scoop Independent News, New Zealand
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22/06/2009	Amazon deforestation in 2009 declines to lowest on record Annual deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell below 10,000 square kilometers for the first time since ...	Mongabay.com
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10/06/2009	Indonesian orang-utans and tigers threatened by new logging scheme Elephants, Sumatran tigers and some of Asia's rarest orang-utans will be plunged into a "dire ...	The Times (UK)
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08/06/2009	The Amazon is dying Brazil's president, Luiz Incio Lula da Silva, writing in the Guardian in March, offered us these ...	Guardian, UK
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05/06/2009	Rainforest is worth more standing The Indonesian rainforest is worth more standing than felled say researchers. ...	BBC News
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03/06/2009	Competitors behind palm oil slurs: industry boss Jakarta - Western countries are using climate change as an excuse to constrain palm oil production in ...	Reuters AlertNet
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02/06/2009	Brazil on target in slowing Amazon deforestation Brasilia - Brazil is on track to meet its target to reduce Amazon deforestation this year and will cut ...	Reuters
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08/05/2009	Stopping the Burning season: Can carbon trading save Indonesia's forests? Fires scorch the forests in the Aceh province in Northwest Indonesia, fires started by palm oil farmers ...	ScienceLine
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07/05/2009	Celebrating 10 years of saving the Amazon Rainforest Manaus, Brazil - Ten years ago, we set up an office in Manaus, a city inaccessible except by boat or ...	Greenpeace
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04/05/2009	Greenpeace: biodiesel not seen as significant driver in Amazon deforestation In July 2006, after Greenpeace International authored a report claiming that soya farming was the leading ...	Biodiesel Magazine
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04/05/2009	News: Unsustainable palm oil production threatening the Indonesian orangutan population Unregulated palm oil production is causing widespread deforestation in Southeast Asia, dislocating natives ...	FoodBizDaily
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02/05/2009	The guilty secrets of palm oil: Are you unwittingly contributing to the devastation of the rain forests? Does your shopping basket contain KitKat, Hovis, Persil or Flora? If so, you may be contributing to the ...	The Independent, UK
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01/05/2009	An oil shock we cannot ignore There is no shortage of ways to measure the cost of palm oil. First there is the catastrophic impact ...	The Independent, UK
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29/04/2009	Analysis - Economic woes may damage moves to slow deforestation Kuala Lumpur / Jakarta - Growing economic pain may increasingly force consumers to turn to palm oil, ...	Reuters AlertNet
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24/04/2009	Can "sustainable" palm oil slow deforestation? Malaysia-based United Plantations marked the beginning of a new era for the controversial palm oil market ...	WorldWatch Institute
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21/04/2009	"Greener" palm oil finds going tough Amsterdam - A drive to improve the green credentials of palm oil, used in foods and cosmetics but tainted ...	Reuters UK
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14/04/2009	Cattle, not soy, drives Amazon deforestation: report Brasilia - Cattle ranchers are far bigger culprits in Amazon deforestation than soy farmers, a study ...	Reuters
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10/04/2009	Global palm oil demand fueling deforestation The benefits of the oil palm are difficult for Indonesia to ignore. ...	WorldWatch Institute
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02/04/2009	REDD alert: how Brazil's biggest state is protecting forests with credits Deforestation remains an entrenched and ongoing issue in the Amazon, the world's largest and naturally ...	Guardian, UK
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23/03/2009	Indonesia's Sinar Mas defends palm oil expansion Jakarta - Sinar Mas Group, one of Indonesia's top palm oil growers, denied on Friday accusations ...	Reuters, featured on Planet Ark
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17/03/2009	Indonesia must boost palm yields to save forests Jakarta - Indonesia needs to squeeze far higher yields from existing palm oil plantations rather than ...	Reuters, featured on Planet Ark
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10/02/2009	Indonesian Ecolabel Institute Must Stop Issuing Sustainable Forest Management Certificates to Unsustainable Industrial Timber Estates (Press Release) Jakarta, Indonesia - The Indonesian Ecolabel Institute must stop issuing sustainable ...	Telapak and Forest Watch Indonesia (Indonesia)
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08/02/2009	Last call for forests in Northern Burma Forests in Northern Burma, some of the last frontiers of Asia's rain forests, are facing a chronic ...	Mizzima.com (India)
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06/02/2009	NewPage in Partnership to Protect Indonesian Forests Washington DC, USA ' The World Resources Institute (WRI) and NewPage Corporation today announce ...	Graphic Arts Online (USA)
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01/02/2009	Unilever blocking deforestation for palm oil London, UK - The word came last spring at a climate change conference here. Unilever, the world's ...	San Francisco Chronicle (USA)
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25/12/2008	Golden ticket to global export arena Malaysia - Many commodity players have or are getting green certificates for access to stringent US and ...	The Star (Malaysia)
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20/11/2008	Real risk of genocide for uncontacted tribe A Brazilian government official has warned that the last known survivors of an uncontacted Amazon tribe ...	Survival International (UK)
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13/11/2008	Uncontacted Indians spotted 'fleeing forest destruction' Paraguay - The last uncontacted Indians in South America outside the Amazon basin have been spotted, ...	Survival International (UK)
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10/10/2008	Sat photos reveal uncontacted tribes land being destroyed New satellite photos reveal that the territory of Paraguay's only remaining uncontacted Indians ...	Survival International (UK)
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30/09/2008	Brazilian government faces criminal charges over Amazon deforestation The Brazilian government faces criminal charges after a report found that the Amazon rainforest is being ...	Guardian (UK)
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01/09/2008	Brazil: Deforestation rises sharply as farmers push into Amazon Concerns over the destruction of the Brazilian rainforest resurfaced at the weekend after it emerged ...	Guardian (UK)
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21/08/2008	Are You Paying to Burn Down the Rainforest? 3 Ways to Buy Smart, and Avoid Deforestation Independent research from various scientists as well as groups like Mongo Bay, The Nature Conservancy, ...	Daily Green (USA)
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01/07/2008	Brazil fines 24 ethanol producers for illegal forest clearing Brazil fined two dozen ethanol producers accused of illegal clearing the country's endangered Mata ...	Mongabay.com (USA)
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28/06/2008	Smoke-screens and the lungs of the world Reducing deforestation, has become a respected policy target for governments. Unfortunately, the term ...	Jakarta Post (Indonesia)
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24/06/2008	Brazil seizes thousands of cattle in logging crackdown Rio de Janiero, Brazil - The Brazilian government seized thousands of cattle grazing on public land in ...	International Herald Tribune (France)
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14/06/2008	Forests stripped for farming Lax management of an old growth forest in the central highlands province of Lam Dong has been blamed ...	Thanh Nien Daily (Vietnam)
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03/06/2008	Regents' permits add to deforestation: Study Indonesia - Forestry activists have warned of a sharp increase in the national deforestation rate if ...	Jakarta Post (Indonesia)
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02/06/2008	Brazil to Create 'Green Barrier' to Protect Amazon Brazil plans to create a "green barrier" to deter deforestation in the Amazon and will seize ...	Bloomberg (USA)
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30/05/2008	EC-Indonesia FLEGT Support Project targets threats to biodiversity Antara News reported that the EC-Indonesia Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Support ...	ITTO Tropical Timber Market Report (Japan)
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18/04/2008	A3P stands alone in fight against illegal logging (A3P Press Release) Australia - A3P, the peak industry body for the plantation products and paper industry ...	ForestNewsWire (Canada)
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19/03/2008	Veracel: FSCs Death Certificate (WRM Press Release) Uruguay - Yesterday we were notified by the FSC certifying body SGS (Socit Gnrale ...	World Rainforest Movement (Uruguay)
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07/03/2008	Police repress peasant women to protect Swedish-Finnish company Stora Ensos illegal plantations (World Rainforest Movement Press Release) Brazil - The Swedish-Finnish company, Stora Enso has purchased ...	World Rainforest Movement (Uruguay)
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11/02/2008	Staples Fires Paper Supplier with Questionable Green Track Record Oakland, California, USA - Staples Inc. reportedly canceled all contracts with a Singapore-based paper ...	GreenBiz (USA)
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28/01/2008	Forest copper mine triggers controversy in Armenia In Northern Armenia, a company has been given the go-ahead to establish a copper mine in Teghut Forest ...	Mongabay.com
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23/01/2008	Analysis: Banning 'Bad' Biofuels, Becoming Better Consumers Casual observers might consider it a setback for proponents of ethanol and biodiesel now that Europe ...	Worldwatch Institute (USA)
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24/12/2007	Brazil Cracks Down on Illegal Amazon Farm Products Brasilia, Brazil - Brazil has banned the sale of farm products from illegally deforested areas in the ...	Planet Ark (Australia)
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01/12/2007	Stopping the rot in logging industry With world leaders ready to nut out Kyoto's successor, corruption in Indonesian forestry is a huge ...	Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
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28/11/2007	Logging damage revealed by secret filming Secret filming by villagers has revealed the damage being caused to the Indonesian rainforests by uncontrolled ...	Telegraph (UK)
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19/11/2007	Now see this Indonesia - An unlikely band of DIY environmentalists. A new EIA project in Papua is using film-making ...	Economist (UK)
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08/11/2007	Sarawak police arrest native chief Malaysia - Iban community leader in custody over oil palm plantation dispute. ...	Bruno Manser Fonds (Switzerland)
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10/10/2007	Peatland to palm oil no good for RI Indonesia needs to focus on reigning in the distruction of peatland along with illegal logging if it ...	The Jakarta Post (Indonesia)
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07/10/2007	Papua's forests and global warming Indonesia - Papua is the size of California and is almost entirely covered by vast stretches of virgin ...	The Jakarta Post (Indonesia)
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18/09/2007	Amazon farmers grow grain and save the forest At first glance, there seems little common ground between fast-food giant McDonald's, US commodities ...	Christian Science Monitor (USA)
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13/07/2007	Palm Oil Firms Burning Indonesia Forests - Greenpeace Jakarta, Indonesia - Palm oil companies are burning peat forests to clear land for plantations in Indonesia's ...	Planet Ark (Australia)
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10/06/2007	Indonesia's forests threatened by logging and palm oil Jakarta, Indonesia - It's one of the few countries that still has vast swathes of tropical rainforests ...	Daily Times (Pakistan)
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08/06/2007	Malaysia, Indonesia launch PR campaign to defend palm oil Malaysia and Indonesia have launched a major publicity campaign to counter accusations that their palm ...	Bridges Trade BioRes
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25/04/2007	China to push for sustainable logging overseas: China issues guidelines for sustainable forest plantations abroad In a surprising move, China has developed guidelines for the establishment of sustainable forest plantations ...	Mongabay.com (USA)
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25/04/2007	Exporting the FSC 'model' to biofuels? FSC-Watch was interested to learn recently that FSC Executive Director, Heiko Liedeker, has joined the ...	FSC Watch
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23/03/2007	South African plantations need further controls Up to 40 per cent of all timber plantations in South Africa may be illegal. This is partly due to the ...	People & the Planet (UK)
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06/03/2007	The Disastrous Local and Global Impacts of Tropical Biofuel Production USA - Last November, Patricia A. Woertz, the CEO and president of Archer Daniels Midland, outlined a ...	Energy Tribune (USA)
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23/02/2007	Environmental groups attack Indonesian government, World Bank Environmental groups have criticized the World Bank for a forest management plan in Indonesia that they ...	Voice of America (USA)
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06/01/2007	The Vanishing Man of the Forest Borneo - While illegal logging degrades the forest, plantations absolutely destroy it. And the destruction ...	New York Times (USA)
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31/12/2006	Shady loggers blamed for derailed EU workshop: British High Commission Malaysia Reports Rimbunan Hijau, a Malaysian owned logging company operating in Papua New Guinea has been implicated in ...	British High Commission Malaysia Quarterly Report (Malaysia)
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22/12/2006	RSPO Indonesia Liaison Office Established RT4 in Singapore saw the launch of the Roundatable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) Indonesia Liaison Office ...	RSPO (Indonesia)
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13/12/2006	Uganda's Museveni defends plans to destroy forests Kampala, Uganda - President Yoweri Museveni has defended plans to destroy some of Uganda's last ...	Reuters (UK)
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30/10/2006	Azmi allays fears over furniture exports to Europe Petaling Jaya: Malaysia has assured Britain that it is not exporting furniture made from illegally-logged ...	The Star (Malaysia)
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16/10/2006	Indofood to acquire 3 oil palm plantation firms Jakarta, Indonesia - Publicly-listed Indofood Sukses Makmur (INDF) will acquire three oil palm plantation ...	Antara News (Indonesia)
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30/09/2006	A dire threat to rainforests Kapuas Hulu, Indonesia - Deep in the pristine rainforests of Borneo are places that have never heard ...	Newsday (USA)
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08/09/2006	The Kalimantan/Malaysia borderlands: contested periphery or heartland? The Kalimantan/Malaysia border extends roughly 1,800 km between West and East Kalimantan, Sarawak and ...	Asian Analysis (Australia)
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31/07/2006	Food giants set to boycott illegal Amazon soy Leading European supermarkets, food manufacturers and fast-food chains, including McDonald's, were ...	ITTO Tropical Timber Market Report
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25/07/2006	Govt preparing fiscal incentives for investment in bioenergy Jakarta, Indonesia - The chief of the National Team for Bioenergy development, Al Hilal Hamdi, said here ...	Antara (Indonesia)
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24/07/2006	Food giants to boycott illegal Amazon soya UK retailers expected to sign moratorium today - move hailed as victory for consumer power. ...	Guardian (UK)
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05/07/2006	Ex-general arrested for illegal logging Indonesia - The National Police said Tuesday they had arrested three company directors, including a retired ...	Jakarta Post (Indonesia)
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18/06/2006	Grumble in the jungle Gingery, cheeky, intelligent ... and extinct in 12 years' time. The rampaging hunger of western ...	Observer (UK)
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21/05/2006	BIOFUEL: Sweet success Brazil leads on alternative energy sources, but at what cost to its forests? ...	Observer (UK)
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19/05/2006	Greenpeace activists arrested in Brazil after protest at Cargill SAO PAULO, Brazil - Police detained 16 activists from the environmental group Greenpeace on Friday after ...	Duluth News Tribune (USA)
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10/05/2006	Responsible soy sourcing: A taste of complexity With an area as large as France deforested from the Brazilian Amazon over the last thirty years, the ...	Ethical Corporation Magazine (UK)
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08/05/2006	Govt seeks new land for border project Indonesia - The government will go ahead with a much-criticized mega-plantation project along the Indonesia-Malaysia ...	The Jakarta Post (Indonesia)
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29/04/2006	Forests in Southeast Asia Fall to Prosperity's Axe Borneo - For as long as anyone can remember, Anyie Apoui and his people have lived among the majestic ...	The New York Times (USA)
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13/04/2006	Demand for Palm Oil Triggers Massive Expansion in Borneo Friends of the Earth Press Release - A new report released today reveals how the Indonesian government ...	Harold Doan and Associates Ltd (USA)
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13/04/2006	Asia pacific loses six million hectares of forest The Asia Pacific region lost more than six million hectares of natural forests, mainly converted to agricultural ...	Pertubuhan Berita Nasional (Malaysia)
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03/06/2005	Saving the Amazon Rainforest Through Agricultural Certification New Certification Scheme for Cattle and Soy. ...	Mongabay.com
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18/04/2005	Palm Oil Roundtable not welcome in PNG A visit to PNG by representatives from the international 'Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil' ...	Papua New Guinea Eco-Forestry Forum
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17/03/2005	More soy, less forest - and no water Buenos Aires - In the Argentine province of Cordoba, the prosperity of the countryside stands in stark ...	IPS News Agency
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01/01/2005	Zambia Leaf Tobacco strives to curb deforestation Zambia Leaf Tobacco Company has targeted planting about four million trees during the 2004/5 season in ...	Times of Zambia
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