The Future Of Endangered Orangutans Is In Your Hands
There has been an overwhelming amount of attention paid recently to the plight of Indonesia’s most iconic species due to habitat loss. Last month the International Union for Conservation of…
Valentine Candy Alert
Did you buy chocolates today for someone you love? Take a quick second to scan the ingredients for palm oil and palm kernel oil. These controversial ingredients are no symbol…
EPA Rejects Palm Oil: Good News for Indonesian Rainforests
Before I started doing environmental work, I’d assumed that biofuel use would have a positive effect on the climate. It turns out the truth about biofuels is much more complex…
Can California’s New Law Stop Slave Labor In Palm Oil?
Whether you’re one of the 3,200 companies that do business in California with at least $100 million in worldwide gross receipts, or a consumer that buys products from anywhere other…
Levi’s Unzips New Policy Excluding Logging Giant Asia Pulp & Paper
Asia Pulp and Paper is having a hard time holding onto customers these days. With the release of its forest products purchasing policy, Levi Strauss & Company has become the…
From The Field: Borneo’s Tanjung Puting National Park And The High Stakes Of The Palm Oil Crisis
Since joining RAN’s forest program over two years ago, I have read and written about the many dire consequences of industrial scale palm oil plantations in Indonesia: one of the…
Exposing APP: Keeping Our Eyes On The Prize
UPDATE: On October 11, 2012, Disney announced a comprehensive paper policy that maximizes its use of environmentally superior papers like recycled and eliminates controversial sources like those connected to Indonesian rainforest destruction….
RAN Staff Finds Deforestation And Violence For Palm Oil Unchecked By The RSPO
As the 9thAnnual Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) meeting wrapped up on the island of Borneo, the crisis stemming from the uncontrolled expansion of palm oil plantations into rainforests…
A Lonely Voice For Forests, People, And The Climate
In an interview, Dr. Marc Ancrenanz of HUTAN notes that oil palm plantations cover a staggering 14,000 square kilometers of Sabah, one of the two states in Malaysian Borneo and…
The Human Cost Of Palm Oil Expansion
“Before we had a happy life,” Ms. Gaong said she tells her grandchildren. “Now it’s a difficult life. There’s nothing left for them.” The recent story in the New York…