
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 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 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 […]
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 […]
(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 […]