Plantations News

RSS
2059 stories

Can carbon credits from REDD compete with palm oil?

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Mar 2009

Greenpeace accuses Sinar Mas corporation of violence toward its protestors

Jeremy Hance 26 Mar 2009

Malaysian palm oil targets the Amazon

Mongabay.com 25 Mar 2009

REDD in Indonesia could evict forest people from their lands, warns U.N. committee

Mongabay.com 23 Mar 2009

Will palm oil drive deforestation in the Amazon?

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Mar 2009

New fire record for Borneo, Sumatra shows dramatic increase in rainforest destruction

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Feb 2009

Indonesia confirms that peatlands will be converted for plantations

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Feb 2009

Deforestation jumps 55% in Vietnam province

Mongabay.com 18 Feb 2009

Indonesia may allow conversion of peatlands for palm oil

Mongabay.com 15 Feb 2009

Indonesian ecolabeling initiative providing cover for rainforest destruction

Mongabay.com 10 Feb 2009

Heart of Borneo conservation initiative at risk from Indonesian development plan

Mongabay.com 4 Feb 2009

Malaysian government says forest reserve ‘plundered’ for oil palm development

Mongabay.com 3 Feb 2009

Beef drives 80% of Amazon deforestation

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Jan 2009

Indonesia lifts ban on logging of natural forests for pulp and paper

Mongabay.com 22 Jan 2009

Secondary forest should become new conservation initiative

Jeremy Hance 19 Jan 2009

Rainforest conservation more important than developing electric cars

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Jan 2009

Shade-grown coffee preserves native tree diversity

Jeremy Hance 23 Dec 2008

Salvage logging offers hope for forests, communities devastated by industrial logging

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Dec 2008

Degraded grasslands better option for palm oil production relative to rainforests, finds study

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Dec 2008

Fall in palm oil price may lead to industry consolidation

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Dec 2008

Oil palm expansion in Indonesian Borneo increased 400-fold from 1991-2007

Mongabay.com 30 Oct 2008

Cellulosic biofuels endanger old-growth forests in the southern U.S.

Jeremy Hance 16 Oct 2008

Snares set by palm oil workers taking a toll on pygmy elephants of Borneo

Mongabay.com 12 Oct 2008

Brazilian government is biggest destroyer of the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 30 Sep 2008

Palm oil firm becomes first to win eco-certification

Mongabay.com 28 Sep 2008

Brazil plans to cut Amazon deforestation to zero by 2015

Mongabay.com 26 Sep 2008

Malaysian oil palm firms eye Papua for expansion

Mongabay.com 26 Sep 2008

Monoculture tree plantations are “green deserts” not forests, say activists

Jeremy Hance 19 Sep 2008

A solution to worldwide fishery collapse?

Jeremy Hance 18 Sep 2008

Teak wood may be improved by greater genetic diversity

Mongabay.com 15 Sep 2008

Malaysian palm oil industry accused of child slavery by the Indonesian government

Mongabay.com 15 Sep 2008

Rainforest conversion to oil palm causes 83% of wildlife to disappear

Mongabay.com 15 Sep 2008

you're currently offline