The World Wildlife Federation (WWF) released analysis of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) showing only a handful of member producers are making adequate progress towards the goal of becoming 100 percent sustainable. Read more below. Read more from Sustainable Brands Read more about Borneo Forest and Climate Policy...
North Sumatra villagers demand farmers be released, customary land be returned, after 16 arrested in conflict with TPL, a plantation company affiliated with APRIL. Read more below. Read more from Mongabay Read more about Borneo Forest and Climate Policy Protesting community members. Photo by Sapariah Saturi Dozens of villagers from...
Mongabay.com is partnering with the Skoll Foundation ahead of the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship to bring a series of perspectives that aim to answer the question: How do we feed the world and still address the drivers of deforestation? Read more below. Read more from Mongabay Read more about...
APRIL, the Indonesian paper and pulp giant, continues to disregard indigenous community rights for the sake of profit and unrelenting palm oil plantation development. Read more below. Read more from redd-monitor.org Read more about Borneo Forest and Climate Policy ********** Once again, an Indonesian pulp and paper company is clearing...
Australian groups come under fire over misguided trade mission to Japan. Read more below from the Bruno Manser Fund. Read more about forest and climate policy in Borneo (TOKYO, JAPAN / HOBART, AUSTRALIA) Australia’s Wilderness Society and the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) have come under fire over a clumsy move...
Sarawak Report has received an explosive dossier from sources close to Taib, detailing a powerful conspiracy to depose the Chief Minister at the next PBB Party Convention, due in May. The high-level defectors will maintain a pretence of unity during the coming federal election, expected in March, but have collected...
(GENEVA/ BERN, SWITZERLAND) Twenty MPs file motion to freeze Malaysian potentate’s assets held by Swiss banks; Attorney General urged to declare the family of Sarawak Chief Minister Taib Mahmud a criminal organization. Twenty Swiss MPs have filed a motion in parliament that calls for an immediate freeze of assets held by Swiss...
Research published in 2012 provided a better understanding of tropical deforestation’s contribution to greenhouse gas emissions. Two studies — one published in Science and the other published in Nature Climate Change, concluded that while deforestation now accounts for a lower share of global emissions relative to the late 1990s, it still represents roughly 10...
The Eyes on the Forest report [PDF] finds that APRIL and its suppliers cleared at least 140,000 hectares (346,000 acres) of natural forest between 2008 and 2011 in Riau, accounting for 27 percent of all forest loss in the province during the period. Some of the area cleared by APRIL and its...
Penan leaders issue stern warning to loggers. “We will do everything necessary to protect our forests”: Penan leaders from Sarawak’s Middle Baram region (Photo : www.bmf.ch) It could well have been a plot from Joseph Conrad’s novel, Heart of Darkness. Except that, instead of the African Congo, the clashes between...
