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Sinar Mas firm to invest $1.6 billion in Liberian palm oil
Monrovia :: Liberia | 1 month ago
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Franky Oesman Widjaja, the CEO of Golden-Agri Resources Ltd. (GAR), a key Sinar Mas Group business unit, said that the company would disburse the funds over eight to 10 years. So far, we have put in about $100 million, he said during a meeting with
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PH agencies asked to release Opol palm oil scandal
By Gerry Albert Corpuz Butuan City, Philippines –An international alliance peasant movements in Asia and its fraternal allies in the Philippines had asked the Philippine government to
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Q&A: Fighting to Save Africa's Richest Rainforest
Yaoundé :: Cameroon | 5 months ago
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Protests against a controversial palm oil plantation in the Korup National Park, Africa's oldest and richest rainforest in terms of floral and faunal diversity, in Mundemba, southwest Cameroon will continue despite the arrests and intimidation of
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CAMEROON: Campaigners oppose industrial palm oil plantation
Yaoundé :: Cameroon | 5 months ago
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Campaigners oppose industrial palm oil plantation Clearing a rainforest for palm oil plantation. Campaigners opposed to a large palm oil plantation in a rainforest covering part of the Korup National Park in southwestern Cameroon say up to 45,000
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Green Blog: Mapping Cameroon's Motley Canopy
Douala :: Cameroon | 6 months ago
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World Resources Institute The Interactive Forest Atlas 3.0 maps forests through a collation of data on land use. From above, the forests of Cameroon seem to sweep across the land in an unending carpet of green. The forested swath is the second-
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Aan the orangutan pulls through surgery after being shot over 100 times by palm oil plantation thugs
London :: United Kingdom | 7 months ago
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An endangered orangutan is now recovering from surgery after being shot more than 100 times with an air rifle in a cruel attack...Road to recovery: Aan after surgery which saw 100 lead pellets removed from her body...The brave orangutan is now
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New report debunks investors' effort to greenwash
New York City :: NY :: USA | 8 months ago
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Cameroonian Law, opposed by locals since 2010 and has just pulled out of the industry's sustainable certification scheme (2). Claiming it is addressing a dire humanitarian need, Herakles Farms intends to establish a massive 73,000-hectares palm oil
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Japan to invest in palm oil plantation in Jambi
Murata :: Japan | 8 months ago
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The province currently operates 515,300 hectares of palm oil plantations. The director of the Asia Fair Society Planning Organization, Murata Takuyo, said Sunday during a visit to the province that he came all the way from Japan to directly observe
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New government regulation threatens forest protection
Jakarta :: Indonesia | 9 months ago
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Law on Spatial Planning and Forest Utilization Permits in 2007 can own their concessions in state forests. Plantation and mining companies that have the privilege to acquire forested areas are only those who already have licenses from local
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Letter: Responsibility and palm oil prosperity
Jakarta :: Indonesia | 12 months ago
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We have heard about the massive killing of orangutans in Kalimantan earlier this year being deemed harmful to local palm oil plantations...Of course, we should not forget the deforestation activity itself, which greatly discouraged Indonesia's carbon
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