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World Bank’s IFC suspends lending to palm oil companies

Mongabay.com 9 Sep 2009

46 rescued orangutans returned to the wild by helicopter in Borneo

Mongabay.com 5 Sep 2009

Vietnam outsources deforestation to neighboring countries

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Sep 2009

Retailers Costco and Amazon.com flunk sustainable paper use, WalMart and Target fare little better

Jeremy Hance 27 Aug 2009

New Zealand dairy industry contributing to rainforest destruction, says Greenpeace

Mongabay.com 22 Aug 2009

Rehabilitation not enough to solve orangutan crisis in Indonesia

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Aug 2009

World Bank violated environmental rules in lending to palm oil companies, finds internal audit

Mongabay.com 18 Aug 2009

Issues around palm oil development prove complex, controversial

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2009

LUSH cosmetics launches campaign against palm oil

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Aug 2009

Forest people set up logging blockades in Borneo

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2009

Palm oil producer Wilmar launches plantation in Uganda

Mongabay.com 29 Jul 2009

Chinese companies to be held liable for environmental damage caused overseas

Mongabay.com 23 Jul 2009

Are we on the brink of saving rainforests?

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jul 2009

Palm oil companies trade plantation concessions for carbon credits from forest conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jul 2009

Malaysia’s rainforests being insidiously replaced with plantations of clones

Mongabay.com 20 Jul 2009

China to support greener palm oil

Mongabay.com 15 Jul 2009

China to establish giant oil palm plantation in DR Congo

Mongabay.com 10 Jul 2009

Credit Suisse, UBS, BNP Paribas to help finance cutting of rainforests for palm oil, say NGOs

Mongabay.com 9 Jul 2009

Multinational corporation continues destruction of orangutan habitat in Indonesia

Mongabay.com 9 Jul 2009

Failure to support greener palm oil may lead industry to abandon environmental measures

Mongabay.com 8 Jul 2009

A Tasmanian tragedy? : How the forestry industry has torn an island apart

Jeremy Hance 2 Jul 2009

Brazilian miner Vale signs $500M palm oil deal in the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Jun 2009

UK firm plans to log habitat of critically endangered orangutan for palm oil production

Mongabay.com 23 Jun 2009

Malaysian palm oil chief claims oil palm plantations help orangutans

Mongabay.com 18 Jun 2009

Forest fires burn in Sumatra

Mongabay.com 15 Jun 2009

Malaysian palm oil firms seek 100,000 ha in the Philippines

Mongabay.com 8 Jun 2009

Peatlands conversion for oil palm a ‘monumental mistake’ for Indonesia’s long-term prosperity, sustainability

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jun 2009

Did Malaysia cancel plans for palm oil development in the Amazon?

Mongabay.com 21 May 2009

Asia’s conversion of forests for industrial rubber plantations hurts the environment

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 May 2009

APP, Sinar Mas plan to log habitat of critically endangered orangutans

Mongabay.com 20 May 2009

Environmental campaign blocks palm oil project in Cote d’ Ivoire wetland

Mongabay.com 25 Apr 2009

Can carbon credits from REDD compete with palm oil?

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Mar 2009

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