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Agribusiness Rush in the MATOPIBA Region.

EU law to reduce deforestation is on a knife’s edge, will leaders act? (commentary)

Etelle Higonnet 25 Apr 2024
Rubber latex collecting into a container in a rubber plantation in Thailand. Image by Eleanor W-T via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

To ease deforestation, natural rubber industry must ‘paddle hard’ (commentary)

Aidan Mock 30 Jan 2024
A coffee cup with beans. Photo by Lotus Head/Wikimedia Commons

U.S. and U.K. lawmakers must wake up to the coffee problem (commentary)

Etelle Higonnet 21 Dec 2023

Everything is traceable – unless you don’t want it to be (commentary)

Aida Greenbury 18 Aug 2021

What stops the rubber industry from being sustainable? (commentary)

Stefano Savi 26 May 2021
Deforestation for oil palm in Malaysian Borneo.

Despite flaws, commodity eco-labels contribute to sustainability (commentary)

Matthias Diemer 14 Apr 2021

Report: Soy, cattle industries trail palm oil, timber on deforestation risk

Ashoka Mukpo 3 Nov 2020

Qualified success: What’s next for Peru’s Operation Mercury?

John Cannon 19 Mar 2020
Sunrise in East Kalimantan, Indonesia in 2019. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Tropical forests’ lost decade: the 2010s

Rhett A. Butler 17 Dec 2019

In surprise move, Brazil has removed restrictions on Amazon sugarcane production

Naira Hofmeister 13 Nov 2019

How rubber farmers can reduce risk and help the environment (commentary)

Arlene Chang 6 Sep 2019
Oil palm plantation in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Can jurisdictional certification curb palm oil deforestation in Indonesia? (commentary)

John Watts; Dan Nepstad; and Silvia Irawan 10 Jul 2019

Chinese banks risk supporting soy-related deforestation, report finds

John Cannon 30 May 2019
Rainforest in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The biggest rainforest news stories in 2018

Rhett A. Butler 30 Dec 2018

RSPO adopts total ban on deforestation under sweeping new standards

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Nov 2018
Rainforest cleared for an oil palm plantation in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Nestlé suspended from RSPO for failing to pay dues, submit progress reports

Daniel Pye 11 Jul 2018
Rainforest in Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Tropical deforestation: the need for a strategy adjustment (commentary)

Dan Nepstad 8 Mar 2018

Rainforests: the year in review 2017

Rhett A. Butler 4 Jan 2018
Two Chaco Chachalacas in Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Photo by Dario Sanches via Wikimedia Commons.

Jurisdictional certification approach aims to strengthen protections against deforestation

Tara MacIsaac 4 Apr 2017

Almost 1M hectares ‘missing’ from land holdings of major palm oil companies

Benji Jones 29 Mar 2017
Cattle at one of the 70,000 suppliers used by JBS, one of Brazil's largest beef producers. Photo courtesy of JBS

Cattle industry lags behind in addressing impact on deforestation

Tara MacIsaac 9 Mar 2017

Will there really be enough sustainable palm oil for the whole market?

Tara MacIsaac 7 Feb 2017

The year in tropical rainforests: 2016

Rhett A. Butler 31 Dec 2016

Complaint against a palm oil company in Papua held in limbo by RSPO

Alice Cuddy 2 Nov 2016

RSPO loses key backer in Australia: ‘We just can’t trust them anymore’

Mongabay.com 28 Oct 2016

Voluntary certification standards have far to go, say experts

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 20 Sep 2016
Mahi mahi. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

$90M to decouple food production from negative environmental impacts

Mongabay.com 27 Mar 2016

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 A. Butler 21 Mar 2016

Indonesia could collaborate with RSPO, official study finds

Jonathan Vit 19 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

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