EU27 countries in the spotlight for deforestation exposure | SEI

EU imports of cocoa and palm oil drive major global deforestation, new Trase research shows.

Is This Palm Oil Company Operating on Protected Forestland? - Inside Climate News

Friends of the Earth says Astra Agro Lestari’s sourcing methods infringe on protected forests in Indonesia, causing deforestation. The company disputes that.

Tree planting offset project in Sierra Leone: USD 2.5 million from BP but no community consent | World Rainforest Movement

A report documents how a tree planting carbon project in Port Loko, Sierra Leone is violating the country’s community rights laws and risks locking families into 50-year contracts. The British oil company BP has already paid USD 2.

Protecting key biodiversity havens could prevent extinctions

A coalition of ecologists and conservationists has identified almost 17,000 sites worldwide, which if adequately protected could prevent most likely and imminent extinctions.

When Customers and Investors Demand Corporate Sustainability

Through shareholder resolutions, letters, and activism, consumers and shareholders can push companies to clean up supply chains—and their reputations.

Paraquat: banned in Europe, on sale in Indonesia - Geographical

The dangerous pesticides destroying the lives of palm oil plantation workers in Borneo

Wild horses return to Kazakhstan steppes after absence of two centuries

Seven Przewalski’s horses, the only truly wild species of the animal in the world, flown to central Asian country from zoos in Europe

World’s top banks ‘greenwashing their role in destruction of the Amazon’

Institutions alleged to have given billions of dollars to oil and gas companies involved in projects that are harming the rainforests

Deforestation: Stakeholders Seek Amendment Of Forestry Commission Law, Accuse Government, Farmers And Miners

Land rights win for Indigenous peoples in Southwest Papua, but challenges persist

The Knasaimos Peoples in Papua have been granted legal land rights over their customary lands. However, enforcing these rights remains challenging, with a lack of political will and persistent targeting of merbau timber by loggers.

AI or humans? Rainforest seeks partner to police ghost roads

Hidden roads bring commerce and deforestation; now researchers hope AI may slow the destruction

The hidden exploitation behind clean energy's cobalt demand

Activists are raising awareness about the exploitation of Black workers and resources in the Congo, driven by the demand for cobalt used in clean energy technologies.Adam Mahoney reports for Capital B.

Amazon deforestation threatens one of Brazil’s key pollinators, study shows

With their metallic-blue-and-green bodies and iridescent wings, orchid bees aren’t just charismatic bugs.

Vast concessions threaten Malaysia's forest: Report

Vast concessions in Malaysia's forests threaten millions of hectares of rich natural habitats and risk the country's commitment to 50 percent forest cover, a report warned Tuesday.

Indonesian palm oil firm clashes with villagers it allegedly shortchanged

JAKARTA — A dispute simmering for years has erupted into conflict between villagers and a palm oil company on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi over the latter’s failure to abide by a profit-sharing scheme.

Papuans head to Indonesian court to protect forests from palm oil

Campaigners are taking legal action to stop four palm oil companies from clearing vast tracts of forest for plantations.

The global land grab is still taking place, landmark conference finds - Institute of Development Studies

Major land sales organised by states and businesses continue to cause problems for rural communities and indigenous groups, a landmark conference in Colombia has found.

The Other Americans: Child Labor, the Backbone of the Guatemalan Economy

The practice of paying children low wages for physically demanding work benefits the economic elite while forcing those in poverty to attempt to migrate to the United States.

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

JAKARTA — Briantama Asmara first visited the village of Kais in Indonesian Papua, on the island of New Guinea, in 2017 as an university researcher.

Monkeys ‘falling out of trees like apples’ in Mexico amid brutal heatwave

High temperatures in Mexico have been linked to dozens and perhaps hundreds of deaths of howler monkeys

Migratory freshwater fish populations ‘down by more than 80% since 1970’

‘Catastrophic’ global decline due to dams, mining, diverting water and pollution threatens humans and ecosystems, study warns

A new and silent land grab is underway – we must stop it - resilience

Securing land and preventing land grabbing must go hand-in-hand with inclusive, redistributive forms of economic development.

The World Cannot Afford Delays to Anti-Deforestation Rules

Several EU member states are gathering in Madrid this week for the Amsterdam Declarations Partnership (ADP) summit, an alliance of European countries committed to eliminating deforestation in agricultural supply chains by 2025.

Children sweat for perfume and chocolate

At least 10 percent of the world's children are forced to work. The results of their work range from perfume to chocolate.

The Tories' failed environmental pledges, from peat compost bans to beavers

Environmental groups brand the Government 'lethargic' after it fails to pass several pledged green policies before Parliament is prorogued

A Lone Dayak Community’s Last Stand Against Palm Oil| Countercurrents

The Dayak peoples of Borneo have been fiercely resisting the encroachment of palm oil plantations on their ancestral lands for many decades. This article by

Mesmerising microbes: bacteria as you’ve never seen it before – in pictures

Scientist Tal Danino’s incredible images of the microbial world