The multinational food manufacturing company Kellogg has made a commitment to only buy palm oil that is fully traceable and has been produced in an “environmentally responsible manner”. It says its suppliers […]
The multinational food manufacturing company Kellogg announced yesterday (Friday) that it was making a global commitment to work with its suppliers to source fully traceable palm oil. The company has committed to […]
The US-based Union of Concerned Scientists has just published a new infographic about the deforestation caused by oil palm cultivation and has called on palm oil companies to improve sustainability standards and […]
I have significantly updated my article on the planned redevelopment of Kampong Bharu in Kuala Lumpur. Readers can access the revised article on the original link: Kampong Bharu updated
Residents of the last remaining urban village in central Kuala Lumpur want their 115-year-old heritage protected. Kampong Bharu is the last bastion against high-rise development in the centre of the Malaysian capital, […]
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To date, Changing Times has been viewed by more than 21,000 people. Overall, most of my readers are in the US, and the biggest interest is in my articles about koalas. The […]
Leuser Ecosystem: Photo by Paul Hilton Environmental activists are calling on the Indonesian Home Affairs Minister to halt plans to open up large areas of protected forests in Sumatra for road building, […]
Tripa burning in 2012; photo by Carlos Quiles. An Indonesian court has found the palm oil company PT Kallista Alam guilty of illegally burning large swathes of the Tripa peat forest, which […]
Palm oil company fined millions of dollars for destroying Sumatran forest An Indonesian court has found the palm oil company PT Kallista Alam guilty of illegally burning large swathes of the Tripa […]
(Photo by Paul Hilton.) An international campaign is underway to prevent further destruction of the Leuser Ecosystem in Aceh, northern Sumatra. Environmentalists are appealing for the ecosystem to be declared a UNESCO […]
The palm oil sector was the single largest driver of deforestation in Indonesia between 2009 and 2011, accounting for about a quarter of the country’s forest loss, Greenpeace International has revealed in […]
Melaka – or Malacca as it was previously known – is one of Malaysia’s jewels, a small town on the western side of the peninsula that, in 2008, was declared a UNESCO […]
Sea cucumbers are a popular delicacy throughout Asia. On the international market, they sell for hundreds of US dollars a kilo, but Indonesian divers who supply them earn as little as 20 […]
The slash-and-burn haze that blanketed areas of Sumatra and also shrouded Singapore and western Malaysia last month is spreading again. Singapore is being spared for the moment, but, in Malaysia, areas of […]
Rescuers are searching for survivors of a 6.1-magnitude earthquake in the north Sumatran province of Aceh in Indonesia. Officials say 24 people have been killed and 249 injured. Unofficial reports speak of […]
Borneo’s 16th annual Rainforest World Music Festival, held in the Sarawak Cultural Village near Kuching, brought together musicians and dancers from five continents. Audiences were treated to some powerful performances and a […]
Greenpeace International today released new photographic and satellite evidence of peatland fires in and around the palm oil concession areas of Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) members operating in the Indonesian […]
The haze from slash-and-burn fires on the Indonesian island of Sumatra has now spread to southern Thailand. Several districts in Narathiwat, Songkhla and Satun provinces were blanketed in smog this morning (Tuesday). […]
As fires rage on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, and the resulting haze continues to blanket large areas of Malaysia, Greenpeace International has called on palm oil and pulp and paper companies […]
