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Palm Oil

Standard Page | 2011-06-21 at 16:04

Palm oil may sound like an exotic industrial product, but in fact it is extraordinarily close to our lives. Palm oil is used as vegetable oil in instant noodles, shortening, biscuits, chocolate, ice cream and all kinds of processed foods. It can...

Palm Oil

Standard Page | 2011-06-21 at 17:05

In 2010, Golden Agri Resources’ biggest claim to fame was being the palm oil arm of the Sinar Mas group, Indonesia’s largest palm oil and pulp and paper supplier – and notorious forest destroyer. This is the same company that had lost its palm...

What We Do

Standard Page | 2010-11-10 at 10:31

Greenpeace is campaigning for zero deforestation, globally, by 2020.

Indonesia: Paradise islands under threat

Blog entry by Suvi Rautio | 2013-05-16

Indonesia is a tropical archipelago rich in biodiversity, home to around 10-15% of the known species of plants, mammals and birds to this earth. It is also a heavily populated country with a host of critical environmental problems and...

Survey team walk through a fire stricken

Image | 2008-06-23 at 15:23

Survey team walk through a fire stricken forest in the Riau region. Palm Oil companies have recently cleared forest and peatlands in preparation for oil palm plantations.

Sixty Greenpeace volunteers

Image | 2008-05-06 at 22:34

Sixty Greenpeace volunteers, many in full orang-utan costumes, are currently overrunning and occupying the Unilever factory in Port Sunlight, near Liverpool. Eight teams of activists have scaled perimeter fences, entered the plant at different...

Orang

Image | 2008-05-06 at 22:41

Orang-utan suited activists scale a Unilever plant to protest Unilever's use of palm oil from Indonesian forests.

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