PepsiCo’s second palm oil policy published
Following two years of escalating public outcry over its use of Conflict Palm Oil, PepsiCo released a new palm oil policy. Environmental and human rights organizations immediately labeled it as…
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RAN publishes Conflict Palm Oil Progress Report
RAN launched its Conflict Palm Oil progress report and Snack Food 20 scorecard, exposing how major snack food brands, including PepsiCo, continued to lag behind on palm oil commitments.
PepsiCo’s first palm oil policy falls short
PepsiCo made its first public palm oil pledge but the commitment had critical gaps that fell short of the global benchmark for responsible palm oil procurement.
New Year, New Palm Oil Mill Threatens the Leuser Ecosystem
As we welcome the new year, RAN field investigators have discovered a highly concerning new palm oil mill being constructed directly adjacent to the Leuser Ecosystem. Worse, the mill belongs to a controversial, repeat-offender palm oil company…
Breaking: New Road Construction and Deforestation for Palm Oil in Critical Elephant Corridor
Field investigations have once again revealed new land clearing and roading within some of the most important remaining lowland rainforests in Indonesia.
PHOTOS: Desperate Orangutans Rescued as Snack Brands Remain Silent About Sourcing Conflict Palm Oil From Singkil-Bengkung rainforests
As major snack food brands continue to drag their feet, there is a very real and growing danger that the Sumatran orangutan could become the first member of the great apes, humankind’s closest living relatives, to be pushed to extinction in the wild.
Fifteen environmental NGOs demand that sustainable palm oil watchdog does its job
BANGKOK: As members of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), the world’s largest palm oil certification system, meet in Bangkok for their 17th annual meeting, the world is in the midst…
Halloween Candymakers Caught Red-Handed Using Illegal Conflict Palm Oil Grown in ‘Orangutan Capital of the World’
***For Immediate Release October 29, 2019 Halloween Candymakers Caught Red-Handed Using Illegal Conflict Palm Oil Grown in ‘Orangutan Capital of the World’ Undercover field investigations expose major chocolate brands Nestlé,…
Major Brands Again Caught Sourcing Deforestation-Linked Palm Oil
Just weeks after a major undercover field investigation by RAN exposed global food brands as sourcing illegally grown palm oil from within Indonesia’s nationally protected Rawa Singkil Wildlife Reserve, RAN is releasing fresh evidence of deforestation in the region connected to many of the same brands through a different supplier, PT Laot Bangko.
Reuters: Asian palm oil giants take action over green group’s rainforest probe
Two Asian palm oil traders that supply to a list of major consumer brands are investigating two mills accused this week of buying from an illegal plantation in Indonesian rainforest that is home to endangered orangutans.
