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Indonesia’s oil palm maps remain hidden from public view. Why?

Mongabay.com 23 Mar 2016
Rainforest in Costa Rica. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

New Rainforest Alliance head: technology could improve commodity certification

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Mar 2016
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Mato Grosso leading the fight against climate change and deforestation (commentary)

Daniel Nepstad 10 Mar 2016

Indonesia’s war on maritime slavery continues

Cory Rogers 3 Mar 2016

Market-based conservation programs slow deforestation in Chile, study finds

Peter Mellgard 29 Feb 2016

Oil palm plantations need to protect orangutans (commentary)

Erik Meijaard 22 Feb 2016

Indonesia could collaborate with RSPO, official study finds

Jonathan Vit 19 Feb 2016

Is this Malaysian palm oil firm still destroying forest in Borneo — and selling to Wilmar?

Jonathan Vit 9 Feb 2016

How can banks spur the palm oil industry toward sustainability?

Pek Shibao 8 Feb 2016
Human-wildlife conflicts could potentially be reduced with the introduction of fully certified palm oil for Sabah. Photo shows an elephant stranded in a smallholder’s farm. Photo and caption courtesy of LEAP.

Do poor environmental practices affect palm oil firms’ bottom lines on a scale meaningful for investors and financiers?

Pek Shibao 1 Feb 2016

What’s preventing palm oil investors from going green?

Pek Shibao 28 Jan 2016

Do palm oil financiers care about sustainability?

Pek Shibao 26 Jan 2016

Is eco-certification the solution to forest destruction?

Saul Elbein 14 Jan 2016

Rainforest Alliance hires Global Forest Watch head as President

Mongabay.com 13 Jan 2016

The year in rainforests: 2015

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2015
Young orangutan orphaned by the palm oil industry when its mother was killed in a plantation in Central Kalimantan. This orangutan was one of the lucky ones -- it ended up in a rehabilitation center rather than dying of starvation or being sold into the pet trade.

Greenwashing? RSPO audits rife with ‘mistakes and fraud,’ report finds

Jonathan Vit 16 Nov 2015
Oil palm in Sabah

With fires wreaking havoc across Indonesia, Malaysian state targets greener palm oil

Mongabay.com 8 Nov 2015

Four major US brands to drop controversial sustainable forestry certification scheme

Mike Gaworecki 5 Nov 2015
Rainforest in Sabah, Malaysia. Malaysia has reported a steep increase in forest cover to FAO, a result of changing how it classifies forest cover.

U.N. data suggests slowdown in forest loss

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Sep 2015

Moratoria beat certification to reduce deforestation for soy, palm oil, cattle

Sean Mowbray 14 Jul 2015

Greenpeace responds to Tropical Forest Trust on moving ‘Beyond Certification’

8 Jul 2015

Do we need to move ‘beyond certification’ to save forests?

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Jun 2015

Lack of stock data and incentives to collect it stymie Indonesian tuna fisheries on path to sustainability

Melati Kaye 17 Jun 2015

Consumers willing to pay sharp premium for wildlife-friendly palm oil, claims study

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Jun 2015

PepsiCo, Walmart, investors call for stronger palm oil standard

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Jun 2015

Malaysian state eyes 100% certified palm oil by 2025

Mongabay.com 30 May 2015

Fisheries in developing countries stall on the path to sustainability

Rebecca Kessler 8 May 2015

Palm oil certification body to establish stronger voluntary standard

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 May 2015

‘Zero Deforestation’ not necessarily the answer, environmentalists warn

Pek Shibao 27 Apr 2015

Growing need for deforestation-free rubber as tire demand destroys native forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Apr 2015

Tracking companies’ zero deforestation commitments

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Mar 2015

Who’s funding palm oil?

Pek Shibao 19 Mar 2015

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