I’ve updated my article on the “Save the Great Barrier Reef” legal challenge to add information about the withdrawal of the construction company Lend Lease from the Abbot Point coal port project, […]
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Legal challenge launched to protect Great Barrier Reef from dredge dumping
Photo © Darren Jew / Greenpeace Lawyers for the North Queensland Conservation Council have filed an application to challenge the decision to allow the dumping of three million cubic metres of dredge […]
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I have updated my article on Procter & Gamble to add a comment from the company. There are also now additional photos from Greenpeace at the end of the article. Readers can […]
Greenpeace urges Procter & Gamble to clean up its palm oil supply chain
Greenpeace International has launched a new petition calling on the multi-national company Procter & Gamble to clean up its supply chain and manufacture only forest-friendly products. According to Greenpeace, Procter & Gamble […]
Activists commend Kellogg, but urge swift action on palm oil
The US-based Rainforest Action Network has welcomed the new sustainable palm oil commitment made by the food manufacturing company Kellogg, but says fast implementation is needed “to eliminate conflict palm oil from […]
Kellogg makes new sustainable palm oil commitment
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 […]
PALM OIL NEWS BRIEF
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 […]
Scientists call for action to stop palm oil deforestation
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 […]
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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
Landowners in Malay enclave resist high-rise development
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, […]
News and petition updates
New content Don’t forget to check out my regularly updated pages that provide links to the latest news about environmental and related issues, and to petitions about animal protection, global food control, […]
Changing Times is forging ahead
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 […]
Environmentalists urge Indonesian minister to halt new spatial plan
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, […]
Palm oil company fined millions of dollars for destroying Sumatran forest
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 […]
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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 […]
Campaigners want world heritage protection for Sumatran forest
(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 […]
Palm oil drives deforestation in Indonesia
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 – a melting pot of cultures and cuisine
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 […]
Indonesian fishermen risk life and limb diving for sea cucumbers
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 […]
Indonesia’s slash-and-burn haze spreads again
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 […]
