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Spurred by investor-friendly law, palm oil firms sue to get licenses back

Proposal could redefine palm oil-driven deforestation as reforestation in Indonesia

Across Latin America, palm oil violations abound — with little accountability

Endangered chimps ‘on the brink’ as Nigerian reserve is razed for agriculture, timber

‘Land mafia’ makes its mark in a Sumatran village’s fight against oil palm firm

Mongabay’s coverage of palm oil in 2021

Indigenous leader sues over Borneo natural capital deal

Indonesian peat restoration has more benefits than it costs, study finds

Holding agriculture and logging at bay in the Congo peatlands

‘Forests will disappear again,’ activists warn as Indonesia ends plantation freeze

Lack of resolution mechanisms allow palm oil conflicts to fester in Indonesia

At a ‘certified’ palm oil plantation in Nigeria, soldiers and conflict over land

Report: Orangutans and their habitat in Indonesia need full protection now

Indonesian official busted over alleged bribe for palm oil permit

Palm oil firm that dried out its land held not liable for fires that followed

One in five hectares of oil palm in Indonesia is illegal, report shows

Bornean communities locked into 2-million-hectare carbon deal they don’t know about

Data-driven platform looks to clear up fog of palm oil traceability

Indigenous Papuans won their forest back from a palm oil firm, but still lack land title

Deforestation notches up along logging roads on PNG’s New Britain Island

Green groups call for scrapping of $300m loan offer for Borneo road project

Fate of Malaysian forests stripped of protection points to conservation stakes

In a sea of oil palms, even monitor lizards need islands of natural forest

Loss of oil palm permits leaves Papuan villages uncertain and fearful

Links to coal mining add to Indonesian palm oil sector’s risk for buyers

Remnant forests struggle to survive amid oil palm plantations, study shows

When a tree falls in the forest, you can still hear the birdsong

Oil palms alone can be damaging; with other crops, the benefits abound

Borneo’s bearded pigs and traditional hunters adapted to oil palms. Then came swine fever

Palm oil firms in Papua hit back with lawsuit after permits are revoked

Calls mount for Indonesian ban on new palm oil plantations to be extended

Highway cutting through Heart of Borneo poised to be ‘very, very bad’

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