people and environment – conflict and solutions
Palm oil
UNILEVER SUSPENDS PALM OIL DEAL DUE TO DEFORESTATION
Unilever follows other Western companies in cutting off unsustainable palm oil suppliers
40% OF INDONESIAN RAINFOREST LOST IN 15 YEARS
82,400 square miles of rainforest destroyed mostly for paper and oil palm
PALM OIL PROSPECTORS PUSH INTO PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Five million hectares of forest targeted for clearance by agro-industrialists
PALM OIL SAFEGUARDS FOR VITAL SUMATRAN ECOSYSTEM
Bukit Tigapuluh Ecosystem in Sumatra declared a ‘high conservation value area’.
FOREST CORRIDORS COULD SAVE SABAH ORANGUTANS
Palm oil industry agrees to create forest corridors through plantations
BOOTS AND WAITROSE NAMED IN PALM OIL SCANDAL
Retailers complicit in environmental damage caused by industry says WWF
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