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Grocery Giant Commits to Zero-Deforestation Policy for Palm Oil Sourcing
Safeway, the second biggest U.S. grocery chain, has become the latest company to establish a policy that excludes deforestation-linked palm oil from its products. Safeway will ask its suppliers to...
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Indonesia’s Orangutan Action Plan Failing to Save Great Red Apes
We are now over six years into the 10 year action plan implemented by Indonesia to conserve orangutans and their habitats but unfortunately there is little progress to be found. Not a single orangutan...
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Save Sarawak’s Rivers Network (SAVE Rivers) Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SAVE RIVERS would like to thank the Chief Minister Tan Sri Adenan Satem for paying attention to the plight indigenous community who are protesting against the construction of mega...
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Malaysia Imperils Forest Reserves and Sea Turtle Nesting Ground for...
Plans for building a liquefied natural gas plant and a steel coil mill threaten one of Malaysia’s only marine turtle nesting beaches and a forest home to rare trees and mammals inside Tanjung Hantu...
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APRIL Continued Destroying High Conservation Rainforest Up Until January Pledge
An investigation revealed that Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL) continued to source fiber produced by destruction of high conservation value forests in Sumatra all the way until it...
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Palm Oil, Political Interests, and Land Use in Indonesian Borneo
Palm oil has long been a source of conflict in areas with tropical rainforests. This is especially true in Indonesia where thousands of acres of vital rainforests and other habitats have been degraded...
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Despite Campaign, Girl Scout Cookies Still Aren’t Deforestation Free, Say...
Girl Scout cookies still aren’t necessarily free of rainforest destruction and social conflict despite a high-profile campaign that caused the company to adopt a comprehensive zero deforestation...
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Indonesia’s Biological Wonders Are Worth the Fight
Indonesia is one of the most wonderful places on Earth but it has such a poor record of conservation and environmental management that environmentalists can’t help but complain. But no matter how upset...
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WWF Accuses APRIL of Breaking Sustainability Commitment by Logging Rainforest...
The World Wide Fund for Nature has accused Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL), a Singapore-based pulp and paper giant, of breaking its recent conservation commitment by destroying...
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Indonesia’s Forests Increasingly Empty of Wildlife
With the disappearance of birds, mammals and other species from forests, the “empty forest” syndrome is becoming an increasing reality in Indonesia. Read more below to find out the effects people are...
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