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Satellite image of oil palm, agriculture, and forest in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Image credit: Maxar Technologies.

Chocolate giant funds high resolution carbon map to protect forests

Aurora Solá 1 Jun 2021
Global Forest Watch tree cover loss 2001-2021 set on Planet imagery from Jun-Sep 2020.

Science refutes United Cacao’s claim it didn’t deforest Peruvian Amazon

John Cannon 25 May 2021

To save chocolate’s future, ‘start now and go big’ on agroforestry

Cathy Watson 17 May 2021
Deforestation on the United Cacao plantation in 2013. Photo by Leoncio Ramirez via Panoramio.

Peruvian court absolves cacao company of illegal Amazon deforestation after “lobbying effort”

Mongabay.com 18 Dec 2020

Technology innovations look to change the cacao landscape in Colombia

Aurora Solá 10 Nov 2020

Positive ways forward for chocolate industry tainted by deforestation and child labor (commentary)

Marianne Martinet 15 Apr 2020

New report examines drivers of rising Amazon deforestation on country-by-country basis

Mongabay.com 23 May 2019
Rainforest in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The biggest rainforest news stories in 2018

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2018

Peru: Marañón dry forests protected as a regional conservation area

Vanessa Romo 20 Jul 2018

Peru: How chocolate saved a community and a protected area from the drug trade

Vanessa Romo 6 Jul 2018

Chocolate and agroforestry accelerate in El Salvador

Anna-Catherine Brigida 14 Mar 2018

Five instances in which Peru won the battle against deforestation

Milton López Tarabochia 2 Aug 2017

Chimps help farmers ‘plant’ cacao in Guinea

Morgan Erickson-Davis 6 Dec 2016

‘We need more knowledge and more control’: Palm oil expands in Ecuador

Daniela Aguilar 30 Nov 2016

Huge cacao plantation in Peru illegally developed on forest-zoned land

Morgan Erickson-Davis 16 Jul 2016

United Cacao responds to bid to remove company from London Stock Exchange

Morgan Erickson-Davis 12 May 2016

RSPO orders Peruvian palm oil plantation to stop development

Apoorva Joshi 5 May 2016

Illegal deforestation for ‘sustainable’ chocolate continues in Peru

Morgan Erickson-Davis 17 Mar 2016

Dare to explore the spookier side of nature

Brittany Stewart 31 Oct 2015

Lombok’s blooming community forest bears fruit and raises livelihoods – and haj trips

Jay Fajar 7 Oct 2015

Cacao plantation ramping up forest clearing in Peru

John Cannon 9 Sep 2015

Cleaning up cacao: making the chocolate business more sustainable

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Jul 2015

Primary rainforest cleared for massive palm oil plantations in Peru

John Cannon 20 May 2015

Platform provides near-real time analysis of deforestation in non-Brazilian Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Apr 2015

Scientists warn investors on cacao company’s forest destruction in Peru

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Feb 2015

Company chops down rainforest to produce ‘sustainable’ chocolate

John Cannon 20 Jan 2015

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