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					<title>Don’t quit: A podcaster’s charge to listeners &#038; fellow humans (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/dont-quit-a-podcasters-charge-to-listeners-fellow-humans-commentary/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/dont-quit-a-podcasters-charge-to-listeners-fellow-humans-commentary/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>15 Aug 2025 22:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mike DiGirolamo]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate, Climate Justice, Commentary, Consumer Action, Environment, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Journalism, and Social Justice]]>
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							<![CDATA[Recently, a listener to Mongabay’s podcast sent us an email thanking us for our work and asking, “how can you keep going?” amid all the systems at play that are destroying nature. They wondered how to do even more to save our planet and feel less helpless and depressed. These are good questions. I take [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Recently, a listener to Mongabay’s podcast sent us an email thanking us for our work and asking, “how can you keep going?” amid all the systems at play that are destroying nature. They wondered how to do even more to save our planet and feel less helpless and depressed. These are good questions. I take them seriously. As someone who has dealt with this for years, I have some advice that hopefully will save you some of the pain from the mistakes I made. If, like me, you find your head spinning, and day after day you are wound up and feeling despair at the state of the world, you need to pause. Take a breather, disconnect from the news cycle or social media, and connect with your support networks, mental health counselor, friends and family. Take care of yourself. Do this first. The world can wait. Also, get out in nature. Find the joy that feeds your creativity and your soul, whether it’s a place, person or activity. Connect with it as often as you can, and don’t forget why it matters to you. For me, I find that in my art. I also make time to visit places that bring me peace. The shores of northern Honshu in Japan set my head straight. White rhyolite spires on the shores of Jodogahama Beach in Miyako, Japan. Photo by Mike DiGirolamo/Mongabay. Now, let me tell you a brief story about why I don’t quit and how I found the answer&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/dont-quit-a-podcasters-charge-to-listeners-fellow-humans-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-304331</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Allegations widen against Indonesian palm oil giant Astra Agro Lestari</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/07/allegations-widen-against-indonesian-palm-oil-giant-astra-agro-lestari/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/07/allegations-widen-against-indonesian-palm-oil-giant-astra-agro-lestari/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>09 Jul 2024 04:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Hayat Indriyatno]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and Sulawesi]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, agribusiness, Agriculture, Business, Conflict, Consumer Action, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporations, Environment, Finance, Forests, FPIC, Human Rights, International Trade, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Land Use Change, Law, Palm Oil, Plantations, Social Conflict, and Supply Chain]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Allegations of illegal activity and land-grabbing against Indonesia’s second-largest palm oil company continue to mount as a new report reveals the firm’s violations appear to be more extensive than initially documented. The report alleges that subsidiaries of PT Astra Agro Lestari (AAL) are cultivating oil palms illegally inside forest areas; intimidating and criminalizing [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Allegations of illegal activity and land-grabbing against Indonesia’s second-largest palm oil company continue to mount as a new report reveals the firm’s violations appear to be more extensive than initially documented. The report alleges that subsidiaries of PT Astra Agro Lestari (AAL) are cultivating oil palms illegally inside forest areas; intimidating and criminalizing local community members; and operating without the required permits. The report by Friends of the Earth U.S. and its Indonesian and Dutch counterparts, Walhi and Milieudefensie, respectively, is a follow-up to a previous report issued in 2022. That earlier report looked at three AAL subsidiaries operating on the island of Sulawesi and found them to be engaging in land grabbing, environmental degradation, and the criminal persecution of environmental and human rights defenders. The new report expands the scope by analyzing all of AAL’s known subsidiaries, whose operations span across Indonesia. It found more alleged violations, including operating plantations without permits and within areas that should be off-limits under Indonesian law. On the back of the 2022 allegations of environmental and human rights violations, at least 10 consumer brands suspended their sourcing of palm oil from AAL, with the latest to do so being U.S. food giant Kellogg’s. The cereal maker joined the likes of Hershey’s, PepsiCo and Oreo maker Mondelēz in distancing itself from AAL. In addition to backlash from buyers, AAL also faces pressure from shareholders and financiers. In February, the Norwegian state pension fund cut ties with AAL’s parent companies, Singapore-based Jardine Matheson&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/07/allegations-widen-against-indonesian-palm-oil-giant-astra-agro-lestari/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-284138</doi>				</item>
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					<title>IKEA blamed for Romanian forest destruction</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/ikea-blamed-for-romanian-forest-destruction/</link>
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					<pubDate>25 Apr 2024 13:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Alex Shaw]]>
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						<![CDATA[Alexshaw]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[global forests]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Eastern Europe, Europe, Global, and Romania]]>
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							<![CDATA[Consumer Action, Consumption, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Forests, Overconsumption, and Supply Chain]]>
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							<![CDATA[IKEA is under scrutiny over its wood sourcing practices after two reports linked the furniture giant to destructive logging in some of Europe&#8217;s last ancient forests. The recent investigations, conducted separately by Greenpeace and fellow environmental groups Agent Green and the Bruno Manser Fonds (BMF), focus on IKEA&#8217;s procurement of wood from ecologically sensitive areas [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[IKEA is under scrutiny over its wood sourcing practices after two reports linked the furniture giant to destructive logging in some of Europe&#8217;s last ancient forests. The recent investigations, conducted separately by Greenpeace and fellow environmental groups Agent Green and the Bruno Manser Fonds (BMF), focus on IKEA&#8217;s procurement of wood from ecologically sensitive areas in Romania&#8217;s Carpathian Mountains. Both reports argue that IKEA&#8217;s actions contradict its public commitments to sustainability. As the largest private forest owner in the Eastern European country, IKEA, through its franchisee Ingka Investments, holds approximately 51,000 hectares (126,000 acres) of land in Romania. The authors of the reports voiced concerns about IKEA&#8217;s role as a major furniture retailer, arguing that evidence suggests the company prioritizes wood extraction over responsible forest management. Inter IKEA Group, the franchisor responsible for the IKEA supply chain, and Ingka told Mongabay they &#8220;strongly disagree&#8221; with the findings and that the operations complied with national and European laws. The dispute erupted after Agent Green and BMF last week published a report alleging a &#8220;consistent pattern of destructive logging&#8221; in nine forest areas – seven owned by Ingka and two public forest lands linked to IKEA&#8217;s supply chain. Using official documents and visits to logging sites, the researchers recorded over 50 suspected violations of forestry laws and poor management practices. These included biodiverse woodlands razed to the ground, intensive felling carried out without environmental assessments, and soil degradation from tractor roads used by loggers. Most of the study sites fully or partially&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/ikea-blamed-for-romanian-forest-destruction/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-281392</doi>				</item>
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					<title>PalmWatch platform pushes for farm-to-fork traceability of palm oil</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/palmwatch-platform-pushes-for-farm-to-fork-traceability-of-palm-oil/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/palmwatch-platform-pushes-for-farm-to-fork-traceability-of-palm-oil/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>22 Mar 2024 03:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Hayat Indriyatno]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Colombia, Indonesia, Latin America, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Agriculture, Business, Consumer Action, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporations, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Forest Destruction, Forest Loss, Forests, International Trade, Palm Oil, Plantations, Rainforests, Supply Chain, Sustainability, Threats To Rainforests, Tracking, Trade, Tropical Deforestation, Tropical Forests, and Zero Deforestation Commitments]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Farm-to-fork traceability has become an increasingly urgent, and often required, component of global supply chains, with a growing number of commodities now trackable all the way back to their source. But for palm oil, one of the most controversial yet widely used commodities today, full traceability from the plantation to supermarket shelves to [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Farm-to-fork traceability has become an increasingly urgent, and often required, component of global supply chains, with a growing number of commodities now trackable all the way back to their source. But for palm oil, one of the most controversial yet widely used commodities today, full traceability from the plantation to supermarket shelves to households remains a challenge due to the complexity of the supply chain. A single ton of palm oil derivative like stearic acid, for instance, used in detergents and cosmetics, is likely to consist of palm oil from hundreds of mills that, in turn, process palm fruit harvested from thousands of plantations. These webs of plantations and mills make it difficult to know whether palm oil is legally sourced and produced from an environmental and social conflict-free area. A new open-access online tool, developed by human rights NGO Inclusive Development International and the University of Chicago Data Science Institute, aims to address this issue. Called PalmWatch, it links 15 major industrial consumers of palm oil, such as Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever, to the ground-level impacts of their palm oil consumption, including deforestation. The homepage of PalmWatch. To identify where these brands are sourcing their palm oil from, PalmWatch scraped individual brands’ most recent online supply chain disclosures and found more than 2,000 mills. The information about these mills is scattered across various websites, with much of the data not standardized, said Dustin Roasa, research director at Inclusive Development International. “PalmWatch puts all brands’ mills disclosure on one database, standardizes&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/palmwatch-platform-pushes-for-farm-to-fork-traceability-of-palm-oil/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-280164</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Ecological overshoot is a ‘behavioral crisis’ &#038; marketing is a solution: Study</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/ecological-overshoot-is-a-behavioral-crisis-marketing-is-a-solution-study/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/ecological-overshoot-is-a-behavioral-crisis-marketing-is-a-solution-study/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>20 Mar 2024 21:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mike DiGirolamo]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Planetary Boundaries]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Cities, Conservation, Consumer Action, Consumption, Corporate Social Responsibility, Ecology, Environment, Global Environmental Crisis, Governance, Industry, Overconsumption, and Research]]>
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							<![CDATA[A paper generated by the Merz Institute, an Aotearoa New Zealand-based research institute, and published in the journal Science Progress in 2023, hypothesizes that the environmental crises our planet faces today are the direct result of “the Human Behavioural Crisis” — with ecological overshoot driven by economic growth, marketing and pronatalism (the social and institutional [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A paper generated by the Merz Institute, an Aotearoa New Zealand-based research institute, and published in the journal Science Progress in 2023, hypothesizes that the environmental crises our planet faces today are the direct result of “the Human Behavioural Crisis” — with ecological overshoot driven by economic growth, marketing and pronatalism (the social and institutional pressures to have children). Humanity’s maladaptive behavior, unless changed, the authors maintain, is so ingrained that it could result in the failure of major environmental solutions as proposed today, including “resource-intensive interventions” such as a global transition to renewable energy, which the paper concludes isn’t just a “narrow intervention” but “likely to make matters worse.” Lead author Joseph Merz, founder &amp; chairman of the Merz Institute, and his co-authors propose that marketing, which they count as one of the three major drivers of ecological overshoot (when humanity’s demands exceed ecosystems’ regenerative capacity), should be harnessed as a key environmental solution. “Paradoxically, the marketing, media and entertainment industries complicit in the creation and exacerbation of the behavioural crisis, may just be our best chance at avoiding ecological catastrophe,” they write. &#8220;We now need to look at our behavior across the board … I&#8217;m a big advocate for designing, essentially designing … what human behavior would look like if we were the most sort of ecologically beneficial and restorative species we possibly could be,” Merz told Mongabay. Merz urges using consumer psychology, data analytics and other persuasive tools employed by the marketing, advertising and communication industries, “to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/ecological-overshoot-is-a-behavioral-crisis-marketing-is-a-solution-study/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-280083</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Conservation and food production must work in tandem, new study says</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/12/conservation-and-food-production-must-work-in-tandem-new-study-says/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Dec 2021 12:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sheryl Lee Tian Tong]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sheryl Lee Tian Tong]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, China, Europe, South America, Southeast Asia, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Agriculture, Agroecology, Agroforestry, Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Business, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, Community Development, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Conservation Technology, Consumer Action, Deforestation, Development, Ecology, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Policy, Farming, Food, Food Industry, Food Prices, Forest Loss, Forestry, Forests, Global Environmental Crisis, Governance, Industrial Agriculture, Land Rights, Landscape Restoration, Logging, Mammals, Plantations, Primary Forests, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Reforestation, Restoration, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, Subsistence Agriculture, Technology, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Deforestation, Tropical Forests, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Confining conservation efforts to only 30% of Earth&#8217;s land may render a fifth of mammals and a third of birds at high risk of extinction by 2030, according to a new study. If that 30% were to be strictly conserved without accounting for food production, it could also result in food shortages and insecurity. Known [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Confining conservation efforts to only 30% of Earth&#8217;s land may render a fifth of mammals and a third of birds at high risk of extinction by 2030, according to a new study. If that 30% were to be strictly conserved without accounting for food production, it could also result in food shortages and insecurity. Known as “30 by 30,” the target in the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework draft released by the United Nations in July calls for policymakers to conserve 30% of Earth&#8217;s land and sea by 2030 through “area-based conservation measures” like protected national parks. While the idea has picked up steam in recent years, excluding food production activities from protected land areas could lead to serious impacts on food availability and local livelihoods, researchers behind the study, published November in One Earth, told Mongabay. Their research warns against setting hard targets in isolation, and instead proposes a land-use planning strategy where conservation and food production goals are integrated. Agricultural areas in South Africa. Image by Rhett A. Butler. With the planet’s population growing toward 9.1 billion people in 2050, overall food production needs to increase by 70% in the next few decades, according to estimates from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. (FAO). Modeling an extreme version of the 30 by 30 plan, which involves strictly conserving protected land areas while optimizing food production outside, researchers found food production shortfalls, and a fifth of mammals and a third of birds at high risk of extinction by&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/12/conservation-and-food-production-must-work-in-tandem-new-study-says/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-250512</doi>				</item>
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					<title>In China, agroforestry serves up tea with a spoonful of sustainability</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/in-china-agroforestry-serves-up-tea-with-a-spoonful-of-sustainability/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Nov 2021 15:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sheryl Lee Tian Tong]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sheryl Lee Tian Tong]]>
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							<![CDATA[China]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Agriculture, Agroecology, Agroforestry, Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Business, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, Community Development, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Consumer Action, Deforestation, Development, Ecology, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Policy, Farming, Food, Forest Carbon, Forests, Governance, Industrial Agriculture, Insects, Mammals, Plantations, Social Media, Solutions, Wildlife, and Wildlife Corridors]]>
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							<![CDATA[SINGAPORE — On a vast plateau atop Jingmai Mountain in Yunnan, China, nearly a mile above sea level, grows a forest of ancient tea trees. During summer, silvery cobwebs line the gnarled specimens, some of which are more than 200 years old and up to 8 meters (26 feet) tall. Workers perch on their branches, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[SINGAPORE — On a vast plateau atop Jingmai Mountain in Yunnan, China, nearly a mile above sea level, grows a forest of ancient tea trees. During summer, silvery cobwebs line the gnarled specimens, some of which are more than 200 years old and up to 8 meters (26 feet) tall. Workers perch on their branches, filling bag after bag of fragrant tea leaves. Overhead, 50 m (164 ft) evergreen trees loom, casting the forest in their dappled shade. William Osmont, owner of the tea forest and a Yunnan-based tea production company called Farmerleaf, tells Mongabay in a phone interview the yield from such “ancient tea gardens” is far poorer than what you would get from a monoculture tea plantation, or even a younger and more productive tea forest. But the unusually complex and concentrated flavors makes it worthwhile. “Just like in wine, every place has a different taste,” he says. “Ancient tea gardens have a different ecosystem. They have more biodiversity and are closer to a regular forest. And their tea is richer with a more complex fragrance. “When you drink it, you get a good sweetness in the throat,” he adds. “Good tea has a concentrated presence in the mouth that is very much like a good wine or a good chicken soup. And it can make you feel very, very calm or a bit high.” Contrast that with the way tea is commonly grown in larger tea estates, in monocultures of small bushes sprayed heavily with chemical fertilizers&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/in-china-agroforestry-serves-up-tea-with-a-spoonful-of-sustainability/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-249117</doi>				</item>
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					<title>NGOs say FSC label offers little protection for forests, Indigenous people</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/ngos-say-fsc-label-offers-little-protection-for-forests-indigenous-people/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/ngos-say-fsc-label-offers-little-protection-for-forests-indigenous-people/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>26 Oct 2021 15:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Malavika Vyawahare]]>
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						<![CDATA[Malavikavyawahare]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Congo Basin, Democratic Republic Of Congo, and Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Certification, Consumer Action, Deforestation, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Primary Forests, Rainforests, Supply Chain, Threats To Rainforests, and Tropical Deforestation]]>
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							<![CDATA[As the annual meeting of the world&#8217;s most recognizable ethical wood certifier, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), kicked off on Oct. 25, environmental NGOs accused the body of failing to protect forests and indigenous groups. Drawing on years of investigation, U.K.-based NGO Earthsight highlighted problems at FSC-certified concessions ranging from forest destruction to human rights [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[As the annual meeting of the world&#8217;s most recognizable ethical wood certifier, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), kicked off on Oct. 25, environmental NGOs accused the body of failing to protect forests and indigenous groups. Drawing on years of investigation, U.K.-based NGO Earthsight highlighted problems at FSC-certified concessions ranging from forest destruction to human rights abuses. An open letter signed by NGOs including Greenpeace, Environmental Investigation Agency and Rainforest Action Network said these are not stand-alone cases but point to systemic issues with certification. The FSC was born in 1993 with the backing of WWF and Greenpeace. In 2018, Greenpeace International decided to part ways with the FSC and this year it published a report arguing that the certifier effectively &#8220;greenwashed&#8221; forest destruction. “Alone, FSC cannot solve all the problems resulting from illegal timber trade and poor forest management,” the certifier said in response to the open letter. “The fight against any activities that harm the world’s forests requires a joint effort by all actors and stakeholders.” Certifications help companies adopt an eco-friendly image, attract discerning, higher-paying customers worried their choices are chipping away at the Earth&#8217;s precious rainforests, and meet requirements to access key markets, like the EU. The 2021 Greenpeace report highlighted a trend of increasing deforestation and degradation despite the expansion in certification. The open letter released on Oct. 25 lays down how the FSC fails to protect some of the most valuable forest ecosystems, from temperate forests in Russia to tropical rainforests in Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/ngos-say-fsc-label-offers-little-protection-for-forests-indigenous-people/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-248563</doi>				</item>
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					<title>New beef scorecard measures brands against their deforestation promises</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/04/new-beef-scorecard-measures-brands-against-their-deforestation-promises/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Apr 2021 17:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Aurora Solá]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Genevieve Belmaker]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Beef, Cattle, Consumer Action, Forests, Rainforests, Ranching, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new review published by environmental nonprofit Mighty Earth measures 15 of the biggest global food brands by their own commitments to provide consumers with deforestation-free beef products, spotlighting the gap between promises and action. The companies were selected based on their size and relative impact on forests, their presence in eco-sensitive markets such as [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new review published by environmental nonprofit Mighty Earth measures 15 of the biggest global food brands by their own commitments to provide consumers with deforestation-free beef products, spotlighting the gap between promises and action. The companies were selected based on their size and relative impact on forests, their presence in eco-sensitive markets such as the United States and Europe, and their public commitments to eliminate deforestation from their supply lines by 2020—a deadline that has come and gone. “These are companies that have demonstrated awareness about deforestation risks and should be the leaders in the industry. So we wanted to know, what are these companies doing on beef?” said Lucia von Reusner, a senior campaign director at Mighty Earth, in an interview. Mighty Earth is a global nonprofit specialized in laying tracks for sustainability reform in global agricultural supply chains. Tesco was ranked first on Mighty Earth’s Beef Scorecard, with 65 points out of 100. It was followed by Marks &amp; Spencer with 62/100 and Carrefour with 61/100. The lowest-scoring companies were Rewe (9/100), Aldi Süd (14/100), Ahold Delhaize (19/100), and Auchan Retail (24/100)—all four of which lack beef-specific deforestation policies. This fact and the meager points they scored raise questions about whether their public pledges reflect real commitment or amount to greenwashing. But even the top-scoring companies are far from delivering on their promises to disentangle themselves from forest clearing. “Supermarkets and fast-food companies are the gatekeepers in the supply chain that can either enforce sustainability standards or&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/04/new-beef-scorecard-measures-brands-against-their-deforestation-promises/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Some guitar makers in pursuit of sustainable manufacturing</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/04/some-guitar-makers-in-pursuit-of-sustainable-manufacturing/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/04/some-guitar-makers-in-pursuit-of-sustainable-manufacturing/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>20 Apr 2021 17:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Stephan Boissonneault]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Genevieve Belmaker]]>
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							<![CDATA[Czech Republic, Panama, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Consumer Action, Consumption, Forest Products, Forests, Rainforests, Rosewood, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Forest Management, Timber, Tropical Forests, and Tropical hardwoods]]>
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							<![CDATA[The acoustic guitar industry has made a few eco-friendly leaps in recent years, mainly in terms of manufacturing materials. For example, companies like Martin Guitar and Gibson are now using Richlite, a synthetic plastic with wood properties, as an alternative to ebony (Diospyros ebenum) for their fretboards. Petr Furch’s personal mission is to lead the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The acoustic guitar industry has made a few eco-friendly leaps in recent years, mainly in terms of manufacturing materials. For example, companies like Martin Guitar and Gibson are now using Richlite, a synthetic plastic with wood properties, as an alternative to ebony (Diospyros ebenum) for their fretboards. Petr Furch’s personal mission is to lead the green guitar-making revolution — starting with his own company, Czech Republic-based Furch Guitars. In 2014, Furch took over as CEO of the guitar manufacturer that his father had founded, and since then has been finding creative ways to achieve this mission while looking for any opportunity to inspire other industry equals to do the same. But while Furch knows that the material aspect of guitar making is important from an environmental perspective, he says it’s only one side of the coin. The other side: most of the world’s guitar manufacturers still operate out of factories powered by natural gas or, in Furch’s case, coal. But in 2020, Furch switched to green energy for 100% of his guitar manufacturing at the company’s Velké Němčice factory, and the Furch Guitars website declares this has reduced its carbon footprint by two-thirds. The website lists biogas and biomass as some of its renewable energy sources, although whether they’re “green” is currently the subject of much debate. “In the production and the designing of the guitar it’s good just doing a quality kind of analysis of the steps you make,” Furch said in an interview. “So I looked at our&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/04/some-guitar-makers-in-pursuit-of-sustainable-manufacturing/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-241828</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Ikea faces Swiss complaint over wood believed to have been illegally logged</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/09/ikea-faces-swiss-complaint-over-wood-believed-to-have-been-illegally-logged/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/09/ikea-faces-swiss-complaint-over-wood-believed-to-have-been-illegally-logged/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>25 Sep 2020 13:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Victoria Schneider]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Genevieve Belmaker]]>
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							<![CDATA[Europe and Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Consumer Action, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Forests, Rainforests, Supply Chain, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife consumption]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Swiss NGO Bruno Manser Fonds (BMF) has lodged a complaint against the local subsidiary of furniture giant Ikea and its CEO, Jessica Anderen, accusing them of violating Swiss wood declaration laws and deliberately misleading customers. BMF’s research found that 80 items sold in five Ikea branches in Switzerland did not adequately indicate the origin [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Swiss NGO Bruno Manser Fonds (BMF) has lodged a complaint against the local subsidiary of furniture giant Ikea and its CEO, Jessica Anderen, accusing them of violating Swiss wood declaration laws and deliberately misleading customers. BMF’s research found that 80 items sold in five Ikea branches in Switzerland did not adequately indicate the origin of the timber as required under the country’s Wood Declaration Obligation. “We examined chairs and tables which, under Swiss laws, require the company to declare the country of origin,” said Jonas Schälle, a researcher at BMF. “For the first time, we systematically checked whether the declaration obligations were being met.” They were surprised about the “scope of the violations,” he said, adding that samples checked at Ikea’s Swiss competitors proved more transparent. The complaint was the result of BMF following up on a report released by the U.K.-based NGO Earthsight in June, which found illegal logging activities by some of Ikea’s suppliers in Romania and Ukraine. A similar investigation focusing on Romania, carried out by a Swiss consumer television show, confirmed Earthsight’s findings. The BMF researchers looked at 12 chairs and 12 tables sold in Ikea’s Swiss stores, including the internationally best-selling chair models Ingolf and Terje, which had been traced by Earthsight. The researchers checked the labels on the chairs at five Swiss Ikea stores and documented their findings in an Excel chart that Mongabay has reviewed. In three of the stores, the Ingolf chair, which sells for $49 in the U.S., had no&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/09/ikea-faces-swiss-complaint-over-wood-believed-to-have-been-illegally-logged/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Samsung under fire for partnership with forest-burning Korindo</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/08/samsung-under-fire-for-partnership-with-forest-burning-korindo/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/08/samsung-under-fire-for-partnership-with-forest-burning-korindo/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>25 Aug 2017 06:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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						<![CDATA[Mongabay Editor]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, New Guinea, Papua, South Korea, and Southeast Asia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Activism, Consumer Action, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Crime, Environment, Fires, Forestry, Forests, Rainforests, Threats To Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[An online petition asking Samsung to drop its partnership with a Korean-Indonesian conglomerate over concerns of rainforest destruction on the island of New Guinea has garnered over 73,000 signatures. Samsung recently announced a joint venture with Korindo, in the logistics sector. Meanwhile Korindo’s palm oil operation has come under fire for devastating pristine rainforest in [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[An online petition asking Samsung to drop its partnership with a Korean-Indonesian conglomerate over concerns of rainforest destruction on the island of New Guinea has garnered over 73,000 signatures. Samsung recently announced a joint venture with Korindo, in the logistics sector. Meanwhile Korindo’s palm oil operation has come under fire for devastating pristine rainforest in Indonesia’s easternmost Tanah Papua region, pushing endemic animals like the tree kangaroo to the brink of extinction, infringing on the rights of local communities and contributing to the Southeast Asian haze, all of which was documented in a 2016 report by Mighty Earth, an NGO. Mighty set up the petition, and its CEO Glenn Hurowitz recently delivered it to Samsung’s office in Seoul, ahead of the company’s launch of its new Galaxy Note 8 phone. “Korindo’s customers in many sectors have stopped doing business with it because of its deforestation, but Samsung continues to financially prop it up,” Mighty said in a statement. While Samsung is not cooperating with Korindo’s plantations arm, it does have a direct stake in the oil palm sector via its joint venture with the Ganda Group, which is controversial for its stake in a company that bulldozed people’s homes in Sumatra in 2011 to make way for its plantation. &nbsp; Banner image: A pile of wood is ready to be burned in land controlled by Korindo in Papua. Photo courtesy of Mighty Earth.This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/08/samsung-under-fire-for-partnership-with-forest-burning-korindo/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Fantastic Beasts star Alison Sudol talks conservation and inspiration</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/04/fantastic-beasts-star-alison-sudol-talks-conservation-and-inspiration/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/04/fantastic-beasts-star-alison-sudol-talks-conservation-and-inspiration/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>17 Apr 2017 18:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
						</dc:creator>
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						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[British Columbia, Global, Hawaii, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Arts, Biodiversity, Celebrities, Conservation, Consumer Action, Endangered Species, Environment, Ethics, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Interviews, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Musician and actress Alison Sudol has been connected to nature since she was a very young child growing up in Seattle. Playing under the name A Fine Frenzy in recent years, her songs have featured both subtle and overt environmental themes, so it was entirely natural that she became a Goodwill Ambassador for the International Union [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Alison Sudol at IUCN&#8217;s World Conservation Congress, September 2016. Photo courtesy International Institute for Sustainable Development Musician and actress Alison Sudol has been connected to nature since she was a very young child growing up in Seattle. Playing under the name A Fine Frenzy in recent years, her songs have featured both subtle and overt environmental themes, so it was entirely natural that she became a Goodwill Ambassador for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in 2011. Ms. Sudol attended the IUCN’s most recent World Conservation Congress in Hawaii in September 2016. One afternoon when not busy interviewing conservation luminaries for the IUCN’s official Youtube channel, she played a concert in one of the convention center halls for a huge crowd. The breakout star of the most recent Harry Potter film, “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” in the role of Queenie Goldstein, she is now at work on a new film, “The Last Full Measure,” alongside Hollywood icons Samuel Jackson and Christopher Plummer. Despite her hectic filming schedule, she recently took time out to share what motivates her passionate activism for the planet. AN INTERVIEW WITH ALISON SUDOL Erik Hoffner for Mongabay: Do you find the arts and activism to be good partners? Alison Sudol as Queenie Goldstein in &#8220;Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them&#8221; Alison Sudol: Art has a profound ability to connect people to their own hearts, and to each other. A large challenge in activism, one that I&#8217;ve personally struggled with, is how to open&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/04/fantastic-beasts-star-alison-sudol-talks-conservation-and-inspiration/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-194826</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Drink beer, help the ocean?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2016/06/drink-beer-help-ocean/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2016/06/drink-beer-help-ocean/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>14 Jun 2016 19:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Julia John]]>
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						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
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							<![CDATA[Florida, Mexico, and New York]]>
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							<![CDATA[Consumer Action, Consumption, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Plastic, Pollution, Technology, Waste, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Beer may have a bad rep among carb-fearing ab-chiseling fitness fans, but it could now be better for the environment than it was before. Well, at least the new kind packaged using edible six-pack rings from south Florida’s Saltwater Brewery. This Delray Beach microbrewery north of Miami, Florida, just launched the first ever 100% compostable [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Beer may have a bad rep among carb-fearing ab-chiseling fitness fans, but it could now be better for the environment than it was before. Well, at least the new kind packaged using edible six-pack rings from south Florida’s Saltwater Brewery. This Delray Beach microbrewery north of Miami, Florida, just launched the first ever 100% compostable six-pack rings. Unlike their standard plastic counterparts, these rings feed, rather than harm, marine fauna if they end up in the ocean. Made from brewing byproducts such as barley and wheat ribbons, this design circumvents plastic’s often lethal ensnaring of birds, turtles and fish and its consequent interference with their development. Plastic will outweigh fish in our oceans by 2050; it winds up in the stomachs of everything from plankton to whales. Photo credit: We Believers and Saltwater Brewery. The clever packaging also presents a solution to plastic fatally clogging their digestive tracts when they swallow it, releasing endocrine-disrupting chemicals and bacteria into their bodies–repercussions even conscientiously cut rings have. The innovative rings start disintegrating within an hour of being in the water; if unconsumed, they’ll completely dissolve in two to three months instead of accumulating, polluting the ocean and threatening sea life for centuries as plastic rings do. But the edible rings, which look and feel like cardboard, function just as a carton box does in a household or supermarket fridge; their manufacturers claim these rings are as effective as plastic versions, strong enough to support the weight and handling of six beer cans.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2016/06/drink-beer-help-ocean/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>What’s being done to secure justice for SE Asia’s seafood slaves?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2016/03/whats-being-done-to-secure-justice-for-se-asias-seafood-slaves/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Mar 2016 04:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Cory Rogers]]>
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						<![CDATA[Mongabay Editor]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, Maluku, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, and Thailand]]>
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							<![CDATA[Consumer Action, Environment, Fishing, Forced labor, Governance, Human Migration, Human Rights, Law Enforcement, Oceans, and Slavery]]>
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							<![CDATA[Twenty-hour work days, savage beatings with stingray tails, years at sea with no way home. Until the release of a thunderbolt Associated Press report in March 2015, these brutal features of Southeast Asia’s fishing industry were largely invisible to the world. Today, governments, especially in Indonesia and Thailand, have been pressured to address the abuses, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Twenty-hour work days, savage beatings with stingray tails, years at sea with no way home. Until the release of a thunderbolt Associated Press report in March 2015, these brutal features of Southeast Asia’s fishing industry were largely invisible to the world. Today, governments, especially in Indonesia and Thailand, have been pressured to address the abuses, passing a bevy of new regulations and even prosecuting some of the worst offenders. A new Al Jazeera documentary examines the pace of progress by asking a different question: What is being done to secure justice for the victims of trafficking and slavery? To answer, a film crew travels to Ambon Port in eastern Indonesia to ask Burmese victims to tell their stories. “The way they forced us to work was [actually] worse than slaves,” said one of the Burmese interviewed at the sprawling port, where a care center has been set up for men awaiting repatriation. “Slaves would have their own time to eat, time to sleep,” he said. “We only had time to work.” A trafficking survivor from Myanmar tells his story at the care center in Ambon. Image courtesy of Al Jazeera Since the AP report came out 11 months ago, the Indonesian government, in partnership with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), has been ratcheting up the repatriations of former slaves. As of early March, just 24 of the hundreds of men were still waiting to go home. Most of them were rescued off boats in 2015, while others had fled&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2016/03/whats-being-done-to-secure-justice-for-se-asias-seafood-slaves/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Market-based conservation programs slow deforestation in Chile, study finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2016/02/market-based-conservation-programs-slow-deforestation-in-chile-study-finds/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Feb 2016 15:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Peter Mellgard]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Evolving Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Chile, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Certification, Conservation, Consumer Action, Corporations, Deforestation, Economics, Environment, Forestry, Forests, Green, Habitat Loss, Plantations, Protected Areas, Satellite Imagery, and Temperate Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new study of market-based forest conservation schemes in Chile provides rare insight into the effectiveness of this relatively new approach to preventing deforestation. The schemes, known as non-state, market-driven (NSMD) governance regimes reduced deforestation on participating properties by between 2 and 23 percent, conclude the study’s authors, Robert Heilmayr, who recently completed his doctorate [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new study of market-based forest conservation schemes in Chile provides rare insight into the effectiveness of this relatively new approach to preventing deforestation. The schemes, known as non-state, market-driven (NSMD) governance regimes reduced deforestation on participating properties by between 2 and 23 percent, conclude the study’s authors, Robert Heilmayr, who recently completed his doctorate at Stanford University, and Eric Lambin, an earth scientist there. The study will be published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Together, the schemes, active starting in the early 2000s, conserved nearly 4,000 hectares of natural forest —about 15 square miles. That represents a marginal success, considering that the programs intended to halt deforestation completely, but a notable improvement over business as usual, according to Heilmayr. A temperate rainforest near Parque Pumalín in south central Chile. Photo by Robert Heilmayr. Heilmayr and Lambin set out to investigate whether, in response to growing global demand for forestry products, NSMD conservation schemes “improve[d] the environmental and social impacts of commodity production,” as they aim to do. They also looked at how effective Chile’s three biggest programs were: an industry-driven eco-certification scheme called CERTFOR, a multi-stakeholder eco-certification scheme through the Forest Stewardship Council, and a moratorium on clear-cutting agreed to by certain logging companies and NGOs called the Joint Solutions Project. The Forest Stewardship Council program, the most collaborative of the three, performed the best. NSMD programs are a relatively new approach to conservation, Heilmayr explained in an interview with Mongabay. In forest conservation, they&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2016/02/market-based-conservation-programs-slow-deforestation-in-chile-study-finds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-181384</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Consumer choice: Shade-grown coffee and cocoa good for the birds, farmers, ecosystems</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/05/consumer-choice-shade-grown-coffee-and-cocoa-good-for-the-birds-farmers-ecosystems/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 May 2015 00:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Michael Buelna]]>
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						<![CDATA[Mongabay Editor]]>
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							<![CDATA[Ethiopia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Agroforestry, Birds, Cacao, Coffee, Consumer Action, Ecosystem Services, Environment, Green, Mongabay.org, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[A thunderhead builds over a lush agricultural mosaic in a coffee growing region of Ethiopia. Photo credit: Evan Buechley. The next time you order that &#8220;wake up&#8221; cup of Joe or reach for a sweet treat, you may want to consider whether those coffee or cocoa beans were grown in the shade or open sun. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A thunderhead builds over a lush agricultural mosaic in a coffee growing region of Ethiopia. Photo credit: Evan Buechley. The next time you order that &#8220;wake up&#8221; cup of Joe or reach for a sweet treat, you may want to consider whether those coffee or cocoa beans were grown in the shade or open sun. Choosing the shade grown variety can offer huge benefits to tropical birds, their ecosystems and farmers says a new study by Cagan Şekercioğlu published in the Journal of Ornithology. The University of Utah scientist looked at how tropical birds interact with agricultural habitats to better understand their ecology, the ecosystem services they provide, and conservation. His research specifically compared the types of birds that utilize primary growth forests, agroforests (where crops like coffee and cocoa are grown in the shade of native trees), and open farmland (where these same crops are grown in bright sun). Coffee shrubs grow beneath a native tree canopy in Ethiopia – the original habitat for coffee cultivation. Photo credit: Evan Buechley. Şekercioğlu did meticulous work: He began by sorting a global database of more than 10,000 birds, cataloging them by their habitat choices. Next, he reviewed 40 previous studies that examined various bird communities. Ultimately, he narrowed his view to 6,093 tropical bird species, including migratory birds, categorizing them by their preferences for forest, agroforest, and open farms. He found 4,574 bird species that include forest but not farms in their top three habitats, 303 species that include farms but&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2015/05/consumer-choice-shade-grown-coffee-and-cocoa-good-for-the-birds-farmers-ecosystems/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-23643</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Employing shame for environmental change</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/03/employing-shame-for-environmental-change/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Mar 2015 15:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation and Religion]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Certification, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Conservation Philosophy, Consumer Action, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Economics, Environment, Environmental Law, Fishing, Global Environmental Crisis, Governance, Green, Interviews, Oceans, Overfishing, Philosophy, Politics, Solutions, Sustainability, and Sustainable Development]]>
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							<![CDATA[Shame&#8217;s power: new book explores how shame can challenge environmental transgressors Chilean jack mackerel (Trachurus murphyi) are caught by a Chilean purse seiner off of Peru. Overfishing has become a massive global environmental problem, yet to date both governments and corporations have done little to tackle it. Photo by: C. Ortiz Rojas. In 2010, Greenpeace [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Shame&#8217;s power: new book explores how shame can challenge environmental transgressors Chilean jack mackerel (Trachurus murphyi) are caught by a Chilean purse seiner off of Peru. Overfishing has become a massive global environmental problem, yet to date both governments and corporations have done little to tackle it. Photo by: C. Ortiz Rojas. In 2010, Greenpeace released a video of a bored office worker taking a break with his favorite Nestle candy, Kit Kat. He unwraps the bar and pulls out&#8230;an orangutan finger. Undaunted he puts it in his mouth and chews while his horrified colleagues watch&#8212;blood spurting everywhere. This clever send-up of Kit Kat commercials was intended to shame Nestle to stop sourcing palm oil from companies engaged in the destruction of Southeast Asia&#8217;s rainforest, home to orangutans and countless other animals. And it worked: two months after the video went viral, Nestle announced a new sourcing policy for its products intended to avoid any connection with deforestation in the future. Anyone who has ever felt the sting of shame, knows its power. Shame has long been used by societal institutions&#8212;families, communities, governments, religions&#8212;for making individuals tow the line of the majority. But a new book, that&#8217;s certain to prove controversial, explores another&#8212;arguably more positive&#8212;side of shame: its potential to challenge rule-breaking and ethically-defunct corporations. Written by Jennifer Jacquet, a professor with the Department for Environmental Studies at New York University, the book Is Shame Necessary: New Uses for an Old Tool catalogues the rise of shame in recent decades&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2015/03/employing-shame-for-environmental-change/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Demand for rhino horn drops 38 percent in Vietnam after advertising campaigns</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/10/demand-for-rhino-horn-drops-38-percent-in-vietnam-after-advertising-campaigns/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Oct 2014 20:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Asia, South Africa, Southeast Asia, and Vietnam]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Activism, Animals, Consumer Action, Consumption, Environment, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Mammals, Poaching, Rhinos, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new poll finds that consumer demand for rhino horn in Vietnam has dropped precipitously following several advertising campaigns. According to the poll by the Humane Society International (HIS) and Vietnam CITES, demand has plunged 38 percent since last year. The poll, conducted in six cities in Vietnam, found that 2.6 percent of respondents said [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new poll finds that consumer demand for rhino horn in Vietnam has dropped precipitously following several advertising campaigns. According to the poll by the Humane Society International (HIS) and Vietnam CITES, demand has plunged 38 percent since last year. The poll, conducted in six cities in Vietnam, found that 2.6 percent of respondents said they would continue to buy rhino horn, down from 4.2 percent last August. In Hanoi, where many of the publicity campaigns were targeted, demand fell from 4.5 percent to 1 percent. The HIS and CITES launched a public awareness campaign in August 2013 to drive home the message that rhinos were dying for the illegal trade and that rhino horn is not medicinal. The campaign included a informational children&#8217;s book, entitled I&#8217;m A Little Rhino. This campaign was distributed through women&#8217;s groups, businesses, and school children. HIS and Vietnam CITES&#8217; rhino horn campaign was complemented by another campaign by TRAFFIC and WWF. Both campaigns used the fact that rhino horn is primarily made up of keratin&#8212;the same material that makes up human finger and toe nails&#8212;to drive home the substance&#8217;s lack of medicinal value, including the image of human feet growing from where the rhino&#8217;s horn would be. White rhino in Kruger National Park in South Africa. Last year, South Africa lost over a thousand rhinos to poachers. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. &#8220;People who consume it actually believe it can treat cancer and rheumatism,&#8221; said Teresa Telecky with HIS. &#8220;We told people that rhino&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/10/demand-for-rhino-horn-drops-38-percent-in-vietnam-after-advertising-campaigns/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-24547</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Gucci launches &#8216;zero-deforestation&#8217; handbag</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/03/gucci-launches-zero-deforestation-handbag/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 Mar 2013 22:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, and Europe]]>
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							<![CDATA[Cattle, Certification, Commodity Roundtables, Conservation, Consumer Action, Consumption, Corporations, Environment, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Rainforests, and Ranching]]>
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							<![CDATA[Green Gucci handbags. Courtesy of Gucci Gucci has rolled out a collection of &#8216;zero-deforestation&#8217; handbags. Each handbag comes with a &#8220;passport&#8221; that provides the history of the product&#8217;s supply chain going back to the ranch that produced the leather. The line emerged out of concerns that leather in the fashion industry is contributing to deforestation [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Green Gucci handbags. Courtesy of Gucci Gucci has rolled out a collection of &#8216;zero-deforestation&#8217; handbags. Each handbag comes with a &#8220;passport&#8221; that provides the history of the product&#8217;s supply chain going back to the ranch that produced the leather. The line emerged out of concerns that leather in the fashion industry is contributing to deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, where roughly two-thirds of forest destruction is for cattle production. A 2009 Greenpeace campaign targeting the fashion industry and shoemakers led cattle producers to agree to introduce supply chain tracking and other safeguards to phase out deforestation. Accordingly, the new line uses only leather sourced from ranches that have been certified by the Rainforest Alliance. Only organic cotton is used in the handbags. &#8220;This is a breakthrough moment for sustainable style,&#8221; says Livia Firth, the fashion designer who launched the Green Carpet Challenge, an initiative that pushes the fashion industry to design more eco-friendly products. The handbag is Gucci&#8217;s first product under the initiative. &#8220;Today more than ever before customers want to be associated with brands that are thoughtful and responsible,&#8221; said Frida Giannini, Gucci&#8217;s Creative Director, in a statement. &#8220;Through our sustainability, humanitarian and philanthropic actions we would like Gucci to not just be synonymous with Made in Italy, but also made with integrity. This project with the Green Carpet Challenge was conceived to show how we can be pro-active on environmental issues, by raising awareness and demonstrating action on the subject of deforestation.&#8221; Deforestation for cattle pasture in Brazil&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/03/gucci-launches-zero-deforestation-handbag/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-29432</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Pledge to end wildlife trafficking for Wildlife Conservation Day</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/12/pledge-to-end-wildlife-trafficking-for-wildlife-conservation-day/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Dec 2012 14:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, China, and Vietnam]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Cats, Conservation, Consumer Action, Consumption, Crime, Critically Endangered Species, Elephants, Endangered Species, Environment, Fish, Fishing, Green, In-situ Conservation, Mammals, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Organized Crime, Overfishing, Rhinos, Sharks, Tigers, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[A forest elephant, which is considered by some to be a distinct species of elephant in Africa, in Gabon. Both forest elephants and savannah elephants are increasingly killed for their tusks. The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) estimates that 30,000 elephants will be killed this year along for the black market trade. Photo by: Rhett A. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A forest elephant, which is considered by some to be a distinct species of elephant in Africa, in Gabon. Both forest elephants and savannah elephants are increasingly killed for their tusks. The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) estimates that 30,000 elephants will be killed this year along for the black market trade. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. Today has been dubbed the first ever global Wildlife Conservation Day. To honor it, a coalition of conservation groups&#8212;including WWF and Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)&#8212;are working to raise awareness of illegal wildlife trafficking. Poaching for traditional medicine, bushmeat, and other products has put innumerable species at risk, including tigers, rhinos, sharks, and elephants. &#8220;Wildlife trafficking has become more organized, more lucrative, more widespread, and more dangerous than ever before [&#8230;] Wildlife trafficking threatens security and the rule of law, undermines conservation efforts, robs local communities of their economic base, and contributes to the emergence and spread of disease,&#8221; U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, said at a recent event. WCS estimates that this year 30,000 African elephants will be killed for their ivory, over 25 million sharks will be caught for their fins, and nearly 500 black rhinos&#8212;listed as Critically Endangered&#8212;will be shot down in South Africa alone for their horns. The illegal trade also has a vast human toll: both wildlife rangers and poachers are often killed in shootouts. Demand is in increasing in countries like China and Vietnam for products made from wildlife, such as powdered rhino horn, shark find soup, tiger&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/12/pledge-to-end-wildlife-trafficking-for-wildlife-conservation-day/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-29934</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Is your Halloween candy linked to rainforest destruction?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/10/is-your-halloween-candy-linked-to-rainforest-destruction/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/10/is-your-halloween-candy-linked-to-rainforest-destruction/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>11 Oct 2012 19:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Activism, Agriculture, Animals, Apes, Consumer Action, Consumption, Deforestation, Environment, Green, Orangutans, Palm Oil, Plantations, Primates, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Forests, Wildlife, and Zoos]]>
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							<![CDATA[Oil palm plantations and rainforest in Malaysian Borneo. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. A campaign by the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo hopes to raise awareness about the link between Halloween candy and deforestation in Indonesia and Malaysia. Employing the images of Critically Endangered orangutans, the zoo urges consumer to only buy candy containing eco-certified palm oil [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Oil palm plantations and rainforest in Malaysian Borneo. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. A campaign by the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo hopes to raise awareness about the link between Halloween candy and deforestation in Indonesia and Malaysia. Employing the images of Critically Endangered orangutans, the zoo urges consumer to only buy candy containing eco-certified palm oil by the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). Palm oil, which is an incredibly productive vegetable oil, has become ubiquitous in recent decades in many products: from cosmetics to convenience foods, as well as popular Halloween candies. While the industry has been a boom to the nations&#8217; economies, its rapid expansion has been blamed in part for vast deforestation across Malaysia and Indonesia; in fact a recent paper for the 90 percent of palm oil plantations in the Malaysian state of Kalimantan came at the expense of forests. Orangutans are unable to survive in the long-term in oil palm plantations as they lose their major food sources. In addition, sometimes they are hunted down as pests. This situation has led to increasingly overcrowded orangutan orphanages. However, the destruction of these forests, some of the most biodiverse in the region, not only imperils orangutans, but thousands of other species, some still unknown to science. The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo has created a PDF file that is &#8220;meant to be a helpful guide for consumers that are concerned about orangutan conservation and deforestation due to non-sustainable palm oil production in Indonesia and Malaysia,&#8221; and urges consumers to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/10/is-your-halloween-candy-linked-to-rainforest-destruction/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Mattel to investigate toy packaging sources after Greenpeace alleges deforestation link</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/06/mattel-to-investigate-toy-packaging-sources-after-greenpeace-alleges-deforestation-link/</link>
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					<pubDate>09 Jun 2011 17:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mattel will investigate the sources of its packaging material following a prominent campaign by Greenpeace that linked the Los Angeles-based toy-maker to deforestation in Indonesia. In a statement, Mattel said it &#8220;does it contract directly with Sinar Mas/APP&#8221; &#8212; the paper products Greenpeace has tied to destruction of rainforests in Sumatra. But Mattel said it [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Mattel will investigate the sources of its packaging material following a prominent campaign by Greenpeace that linked the Los Angeles-based toy-maker to deforestation in Indonesia. In a statement, Mattel said it &#8220;does it contract directly with Sinar Mas/APP&#8221; &#8212; the paper products Greenpeace has tied to destruction of rainforests in Sumatra. But Mattel said it has instructed its packaging suppliers to stop sourcing pulp from Sinar Mas/APP until it has investigated the Greenpeace&#8217;s allegations. &#8220;We purchase packaging materials from a variety of suppliers and it is not the normal course of business to dictate where suppliers source materials,&#8221; Mattel said in a statement. &#8220;That said, we have directed our packaging suppliers to stop sourcing pulp from Sinar Mas/APP as we investigate the deforestation allegations. Additionally, we have asked our packaging suppliers to clarify how they are addressing the broader issue in their own supply chains.&#8221; Greenpeace applauded the move but said Mattel would need to do more to ensure its products did not contribute to destruction of tiger habitat in Indonesia. Greenpeace&#8217;s stunt at Mattel&#8217;s headquarters on June 8 &#8220;It&#8217;s good that Mattel has realized it has a major deforestation problem, but it&#8217;s still missing a comprehensive policy to deal with this issue,&#8221; said Greenpeace Senior Forest Campaigner Rolf Skar. &#8220;The world&#8217;s biggest toy company seems to be saying it isn&#8217;t to blame for the actions of its suppliers. Greenpeace believes Mattel should take responsibility for the environmental impact of its products by removing APP and Sinar Mas from its&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/06/mattel-to-investigate-toy-packaging-sources-after-greenpeace-alleges-deforestation-link/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-32418</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Australia forest destruction connected to local products</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/05/australia-forest-destruction-connected-to-local-products/</link>
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					<pubDate>15 May 2011 19:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Certification, Consumer Action, Consumption, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporations, Deforestation, Environment, Forestry, Forests, Green, Logging, Plantations, Pulp And Paper, Sustainability, Sustainable Forest Management, Temperate Forests, Timber, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Some of Australia&#8217;s most popular stores are driving the destruction of native forests, according to a report by a new environmental group Markets for Change (MFC). Furniture, building materials, and paper products were found to be coming at the expense of native forests in Australia and being sold by over 30 businesses in the country, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Some of Australia&#8217;s most popular stores are driving the destruction of native forests, according to a report by a new environmental group Markets for Change (MFC). Furniture, building materials, and paper products were found to be coming at the expense of native forests in Australia and being sold by over 30 businesses in the country, such as Freedom Furniture, Bunnings, Officeworks, Staples, Target, Coles, and Woolsworths. &#8220;Australian families do not want to buy into this destruction. They want to know that the everyday products they buy are not endangering wildlife or leading to increasing climate pollution. Well known retailers need to become part of the solution and not the problem—that means rapidly moving away from using native forests to environmentally responsible plantation timber for their products,” said Tim Birch, CEO of Markets for Change, in a press release. Markets for Change is asking these stores to commit to a procurement policy that would ban products made from native forests or from old growth forest destruction abroad. The organization encourages consumers to purchase products certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) only if products have &#8216;full FSC certification&#8217;, and to avoid products with &#8216;FSC-controlled wood&#8217; or &#8216;mixed source certification&#8217;. According to the report: &#8220;This level of certification is unacceptable because it continues to be given to companies that are undertaking logging operations in native forests in Australia. These logging activities are destroying native forest ecosystems.&#8221; Industrial logging is currently permitted in 76% of Australia&#8217;s nearly 150 million hectares of native forests.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/05/australia-forest-destruction-connected-to-local-products/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-32552</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Carbon labeling good for consumers and business</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/03/carbon-labeling-good-for-consumers-and-business/</link>
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					<pubDate>31 Mar 2011 15:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Consumer Action, Consumption, Environment, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and Mitigation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Want to know how many calories are in a serving from that box of cereal? Simply turn it over and you can read a wealth of information: calories, fat, fiber, nutrients. But what if you’d like to know how much carbon was emitted to produce your breakfast? Currently, you&#8217;re out of luck. But an article [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Want to know how many calories are in a serving from that box of cereal? Simply turn it over and you can read a wealth of information: calories, fat, fiber, nutrients. But what if you’d like to know how much carbon was emitted to produce your breakfast? Currently, you&#8217;re out of luck. But an article in Nature Climate Change argues that labeling products—from food to household products—with their carbon footprint could reduce emissions over time as consumers and companies react to better environmental transparency. A &#8216;carbon footprint&#8217; measures the total amount of greenhouse gases emitted to produce a product or service. &#8220;Even modest changes in the household sector could significantly reduce emissions. A carbon-labeling program could reduce carbon emissions in two ways: By influencing consumer choices and by encouraging firms to identify efficiencies throughout the supply chain,&#8221; wrote Thomas Dietz, a professor of sociology with Michigan State University&#8217;s Environmental Science and Policy Program. The biggest stumbling block for consumers, according to the paper, is not a desire to make greener choices but a dearth in information. &#8220;Providing information would lower this barrier, allowing consumers to make more informed choices without substantial effort,&#8221; explains Dietz Carbon labeling would not only better inform consumers of their choices, but could also help companies save money by finding ways to run their business more efficiently and to be rewarded by consumers for their efforts. Such labeling could also bypass government sluggishness on climate change, as &#8220;private carbon-labeling program for consumer products could help fill&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/03/carbon-labeling-good-for-consumers-and-business/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Bad books: US paper products are breaking the law and devastating rainforests</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2010/11/bad-books-us-paper-products-are-breaking-the-law-and-devastating-rainforests/</link>
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					<pubDate>18 Nov 2010 23:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Consumer Action, Consumption, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Forestry, Forests, Green, Logging, Plantations, Pulp And Paper, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Threats To Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[The article originally listed Candlewick Press as a publisher to avoid due to rainforest destruction, however, the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) has since changed their evaluation of Candlewick Press to &#8216;recommended&#8217; given information the publisher has now shared with RAN about its paper sourcing policies. Everyone knows books are made of paper, but few think [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The article originally listed Candlewick Press as a publisher to avoid due to rainforest destruction, however, the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) has since changed their evaluation of Candlewick Press to &#8216;recommended&#8217; given information the publisher has now shared with RAN about its paper sourcing policies. Everyone knows books are made of paper, but few think of where that paper comes from. However, two new reports may change that. Both the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) and the World Resources Institute (WRI) have found that some paper used in books, including popular children&#8217;s books, is linked to forest devastation in Indonesian, even targeting endangered trees that have been harvested illegally. Books and rainforest destruction The activist group RAN has found that a number of children&#8217;s books are linked to destruction of rainforests in Indonesia, which threatens an incredible variety of species from orangutans to tigers and emits significant amounts of greenhouse gases. The report find that popular titles such as Where the Wild Things Are and Baby Einstein are complicit in rainforest destruction. To help consumers, RAN has a guide that ranks eleven of the US&#8217;s largest children&#8217;s books publishers in terms of impact on forests. &#8220;Kids are starting to make holiday wish lists this week. This guide is a tool to help book-loving families avoid kid’s book publishers that are linked to rainforest destruction,&#8221; said Lafcadio Cortesi of Rainforest Action Network. &#8220;The good news is that many of the country’s largest publishers, six out of the eleven in our survey, are&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2010/11/bad-books-us-paper-products-are-breaking-the-law-and-devastating-rainforests/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Consumers should help pay the bill for &#8216;greener&#8217; palm oil</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2010/01/consumers-should-help-pay-the-bill-for-greener-palm-oil/</link>
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					<pubDate>12 Jan 2010 15:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Bioenergy, Biofuels, Commentary, Consumer Action, Consumption, Environment, Green, Palm Oil, and Sustainability]]>
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							<![CDATA[A version of this article appeared today in the Jakarta Post Palm oil is one of the world’s most traded and versatile agricultural commodities. It can be used as edible vegetable oil, industrial lubricant, raw material in cosmetic and skincare products and feedstock for biofuel production. Growing global demand for palm oil and the ensuing [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A version of this article appeared today in the Jakarta Post Palm oil is one of the world’s most traded and versatile agricultural commodities. It can be used as edible vegetable oil, industrial lubricant, raw material in cosmetic and skincare products and feedstock for biofuel production. Growing global demand for palm oil and the ensuing cropland expansion has been blamed for a wide range of environmental ills, including tropical deforestation, peatland degradation, biodiversity loss and CO2 emissions (Koh &#038; Wilcove 2008; Butler &#038; Laurance 2009; Danielsen et al. 2009). In response to these concerns, a group of stakeholders—including activists, investors, producers and retailers—formed the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO; www.rspo.org) to develop a certification scheme for palm oil produced through environmentally- and socially-responsible ways. It is widely anticipated that the creation of a premium market for RSPO-certified sustainable palm oil (CSPO) would incentivize palm oil producers to improve their management practices. Draining and clearing of peat forest in Central Kalimantan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler. However, the RSPO faces several challenges (Laurance et al. 2009), including the high cost of undergoing certification that currently is entirely borne by producers, and a lackluster demand for CSPO. Following the first shipment of CSPO to Europe in November 2008, less than 3% of the total volume of CSPO produced (~1.05 million tons) had been sold (Butler 2009a). Even after a year, in October 2009, only ~200,000 tons of CSPO (~19%) had been purchased by manufacturers of palm oil products (Butler 2009b). The&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2010/01/consumers-should-help-pay-the-bill-for-greener-palm-oil/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Auckland Zoo bans Cadbury chocolate due to palm oil content</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2009/07/auckland-zoo-bans-cadbury-chocolate-due-to-palm-oil-content/</link>
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					<pubDate>12 Jul 2009 14:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Auckland Zoo has pulled Cadbury chocolates from its shops and restaurants following the candy maker&#8217;s decision to start adding palm oil to its chocolates, reports the Sunday Star Times. The zoo is also removing other products that contain palm oil, due to concerns that its production is driving rainforest destruction across Southeast Asia, putting orangutans [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Auckland Zoo has pulled Cadbury chocolates from its shops and restaurants following the candy maker&#8217;s decision to start adding palm oil to its chocolates, reports the Sunday Star Times. The zoo is also removing other products that contain palm oil, due to concerns that its production is driving rainforest destruction across Southeast Asia, putting orangutans and other species at risk. Cadbury said it made the change to palm oil for economic reasons. Palm oil, described as &#8220;vegetable fat&#8221; on its packaging, is cheaper than cocoa butter. Sumatran orangutan in North Sumatra Rainforest cleared for oil palm agriculture in North Sumatra. Photos taken by Rhett A. Butler in May 2009. Cadbury says it tries to source its palm oil from sustainable sources. It is a member of the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), an initiative that seeks to improve the environmental performance of palm oil. Critics of RSPO say it is little more than a greenwashing scheme to mislead consumers, but supporters, which include prominent environmental groups and orangutan conservation organizations, maintain that the certification program can be a effective way to balance environmental concerns and economic development. Nevertheless sales of RSPO-certified palm oil &#8212; which presently costs about 8 percent more than conventional palm oil &#8212; have been slow, according to industry watchers, who say the economic downturn has led consumers to prioritize thrift over ecological concerns. The Malaysian Palm Oil Council, an industry body, and WWF have warned that lack of interest in &#8220;green&#8221; palm oil, while send&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2009/07/auckland-zoo-bans-cadbury-chocolate-due-to-palm-oil-content/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Small-scale fisheries are &#8220;best hope&#8221; for sustainability in developing world</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2008/09/small-scale-fisheries-are-best-hope-for-sustainability-in-developing-world/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Sep 2008 14:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Animals, Conservation, Consumer Action, Consumption, Endangered Species, Environment, Fish, Fishing, Green, Interviews, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Politics, Subsidies, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Tuna, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Saving fish for the developing world: small-scale fisheries &#8220;best hope&#8221; for sustainability An Interview with Jennifer Jacquet: Small-scale fisheries are &#8220;best hope&#8221; for sustainability in developing world Jeremy Hance, mongabay.com September 8, 2008 Fish stocks are declining globally. While the consumer in the industrial world has yet to feel the full impact of this decline, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Saving fish for the developing world: small-scale fisheries &ldquo;best hope&rdquo; for sustainability An Interview with Jennifer Jacquet: Small-scale fisheries are &#8220;best hope&#8221; for sustainability in developing world Jeremy Hance, mongabay.com September 8, 2008 Fish stocks are declining globally. While the consumer in the industrial world has yet to feel the full impact of this decline, those in the developing world know it well. Local small-scale fishermen are catching less fish to feed growing populations. Jennifer Jacquet of the Sea Around Us Project believes the hope for sustainable seafood lies in these very fisheries. &ldquo;Small-scale fisheries&hellip;discard almost no fish, turn no fish into fishmeal, and use less fuel,&rdquo; Jacquet told Mongabay.com in an interview describing the benefits of supporting small-scale fisheries. She adds that they &ldquo;also provide more jobs than the industrial sector. Worldwide, the small-scale fishery sector provides work to more than 12 million people while the industrial sector employs only half a million.&rdquo; Jacquet explains that when the industrial fisheries of wealthy nations depleted their coastal waters of fish they moved out to &ldquo;the last remaining bountiful fishing grounds, including tropical waters and the deep sea&rdquo;. In the process marine waters that have provided a protein-rich food source to developing nations are suddenly under siege. Jacquet holding a sunflower seastar in Puget Sound &ldquo;These industrial fisheries can out-compete many coastal small-scale fisheries for the same fish. But, rather than feeding local people who rely on fish for survival, the seafood is shipped to food-secure markets in the U.S., Europe,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2008/09/small-scale-fisheries-are-best-hope-for-sustainability-in-developing-world/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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