An orangutan discovered on an oil palm plantation in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, with more than 40 shotgun pellets in her body has died from her injuries. The veterinary team at the Borneo […]
Delegates at the recent Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) gathering in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur grappled with the thorny issue of traceability and admitted that tracking palm oil supplies back […]
Delegates meeting at the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) annual gathering in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur have called on governments to do more to ensure that forests are protected from […]
Worker exploitation and human rights abuses in the palm oil industry were the focus of a special workshop held in Kuala Lumpur this week. Trades union and human rights organisations from Malaysia […]
Deforestation in Indonesia (Photo by Roni Bintang) The number of multinational companies that say they are committed to supplying and using only deforestation-free palm oil is growing fast. More than twenty global […]
Tripa burning in 2012; photo by Carlos Quiles. The director of the Indonesian palm oil company PT Kallista Alam, Subianto Rusyid, has been found guilty of illegally clearing peat forest in Aceh, […]
Greenpeace International says more than 100,000 people are dying each year because they are inhaling smoke particles from peatland fires in Indonesia. The environmental organisation has called on the Indonesian president Susilo […]
Australia’s prime minister, Tony Abbott, announced in parliament today that satellite imagery shows two objects in the southern Indian Ocean that could be debris from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. Military aircraft […]
There were emotional scenes at the Sama-Sama hotel at Kuala Lumpur’s international airport today when relatives of Chinese passengers on board the missing flight MH370 came to the hotel where the press […]
The area of land and sea being covered in the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 measures more than 2.24 million square nautical miles – an area the size of Australia. In […]
Updated article A new scorecard that ranks the palm oil sourcing commitments of 30 top companies in the packaged food, fast food, and personal care sectors shows that 24 of them have […]
The US-based Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has analysed the palm oil sourcing commitments of 30 top companies in the packaged food, fast food, and personal care sectors and found that 24 […]
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 […]
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 […]
(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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
