Eco Business: NGOs see clear next steps on High Carbon Stock forests
“Greenpeace, WWF, the Forest People’s Programme and Rainforest Action Network laud commitments by some companies to protect forest areas classified as ‘High Carbon Stock’, but say challenges still remain.” READ FULL…
No Means No. KLK Out of Collingwood Bay!
This message comes from Adelbert Gangai and George Baure of Collingwood Bay, Papua New Guinea. They are two of many local residents fiercely resisting KLK’s attempted landgrab of the community’s forests. Our…
JOINT NGO MEDIA BRIEFER ON HIGH CARBON STOCK (HCS) APPROACH TO ENDING DEFORESTATION
MEDIA BRIEFER ON HIGH CARBON STOCK (HCS) APPROACH WWF, RAN, FPP, GREENPEACE November 2014 What is the HCS Approach? The HCS Approach is being developed as a tool to help…
Building Labor’s Power to Stop Exploitation of Palm Oil Workers
Petaling Jaya, Malaysia – RAN just finished hosting an inspiring and humbling two-day Palm Oil Labor Principles Workshop outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The intensive discussions involved dozens of representatives from…
Labor Exploitation and Human Rights Abuses within the Palm Oil Sector
Workshop builds consensus for a common set of palm oil labor principles for companies, certifiers and governments Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – This week, a group of international NGOs convened with…
Major Importer IOI Falls Short in Latest Pledge to Eliminate Conflict Palm Oil
Despite sector movement toward more responsible palm oil production, IOI Loders Croklaan new policy does not cover all IOI Group’s plantations and operations. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, November 14, 2014…
Southern Forests Aren’t Fuel
Big energy corporations are clearcutting forests throughout the Southeast United States, chopping the trees into pellets and shipping them to Europe to be burned for fuel. Tell E.U. policymakers to…
Mongabay: Only place where rhinos, tigers, elephants, and organgutans coexist is under threat
“A forest that is the only place where rhinos, tigers, elephants, and orangutans coexist is under threat from planned infrastructure, mining, logging, and plantation projects, warns a new report from…
Epoch Times: Forest Wildlife Coexistence Threatened
“A forest that is the only place where rhinos, tigers, elephants, and orangutans coexist is under threat from planned infrastructure, mining, logging, and plantation projects, warns a new report from…
Report: Global Biodiversity Hotspot Threatened; Fate of Sumatra’s Leuser Ecosystem Depends on Actions by Indonesian President and Palm Oil Giant Musim Mas
Rainforest Action Network releases evidence linking Musim Mas to deforestation in Leuser Ecosystem; says approval of Aceh spatial plan on new president’s desk would be ‘disastrous’ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday,…