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Experts question benefits of Colombian forestation project led by top oil trader

Carla Ruas 23 Dec 2024
Amazon Rainforest

Brazil paper and pulp industry invests in blockchain to comply with EUDR

Karla Mendes 16 Dec 2024

Peru’s modern history of migration and settlement

Timothy J. Killeen 12 Dec 2024

The calm before the storm: The first half of the 20th century in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 14 Nov 2024

World’s biggest deforestation project gets underway in Papua for sugarcane

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Sep 2024

In Mexico, avocado suppliers continue sourcing from illegally deforested land

Maxwell Radwin 21 Aug 2024

Palm oil company fined for cheating; Sulawesi farmers to reap their due rupiah

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Jul 2024

Sumatra pulp & paper giants violate zero-deforestation pledge, activists allege

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Jul 2024

Sugarcane megaproject poses latest threat to Papua’s forests, communities

Hans Nicholas Jong, Sarjan Lahay 19 Jun 2024

#AllEyesonPapua goes viral to highlight threat to Indigenous forests from palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Jun 2024

Beyond deforestation, oil palm estates pose flood and water contamination risks

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 May 2024
Industrial oil palm development outside Balikpapan

Latest palm oil deforester in Indonesia may also be operating illegally

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 May 2024

Snack giant PepsiCo sourced palm oil from razed Indigenous land – investigation

Andrew Wasley, Aramís Castro, Elisângela Mendonça 18 Apr 2024

Report links H&M and Zara to major environmental damage in biodiverse Cerrado

Dimitri Selibas 17 Apr 2024
Deforestation for oil palm plantations in Sabah in 2012.

PalmWatch platform pushes for farm-to-fork traceability of palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Mar 2024

Palm oil deforestation persists in Indonesia’s Leuser amid new mills, plantations

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Mar 2024
The people of Tebing Tinggi Okura, Riau, protest against the clarity of 20% plasma plantations for them.

Sumatra community faces up to ‘plasma’ disappointment after palm oil policy shift

Suryadi 4 Mar 2024
A vast chunk of protected forest is being carved out of Beng Per Wildlife Sanctuary. Sources claim Santana Agro is responsible. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

In Cambodia, an official’s cashew factory churns out timber from a protected forest

Gerald Flynn & Phoung Vantha 20 Feb 2024
Deforestation for oil palm in East Kalimantan, Indonesia in 2016. Photo courtesy of Linus.

Palm oil deforestation makes comeback in Indonesia after decade-long slump

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Feb 2024
Army officers try to extinguish fires in peatland areas in Central Kalimantan.

2023 fires increase fivefold in Indonesia amid El Niño

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jan 2024

Activists slam ‘independent’ probe by Indonesian palm oil giant into violations

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Dec 2023

As RSPO celebrates 20 years of work, Indigenous groups lament unresolved grievances

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Dec 2023

Indonesian police slammed after protester demanding rightful land is shot dead

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Oct 2023

Deforestation for palm oil continues in Indonesia’s ‘orangutan capital’

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Sep 2023

El Niño leads to more fires and toxic air pollution in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Sep 2023

Kellogg’s latest to freeze Indonesian supplier over palm oil violations

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Sep 2023

Court ruling spares Papua forest from further clearing for palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Sep 2023

Indonesia permit payoff raises alarm about palm oil industry corruption

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Aug 2023
A worker fertilizing on oil palm plantation in Papua, Indonesia.

New farmers foundation supports deforestation-free products in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Aug 2023

‘Sustainability is a continuous journey’: Q&A with RSPO’s Joseph D’Cruz

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Aug 2023
The last pocket of forest in Botum Sakor National Park is threatened by new roads, some of which are demarcation boundaries for parcels of forested land that have been awarded to Cambodian senator and tycoon Ly Yong Phat's family. Photo by Gerald Flynn/Mongabay.

Cambodia awards swath of national park forest to tycoon Ly Yong Phat’s son

Gerald Flynn & Meng Kroypunlok 26 Jul 2023
An oil palm plantation adjacent to a forest in East Kalimantan.

Indonesia slammed for ‘bowing down’ in amnesty for illegal oil palm estates

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Jul 2023

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