The Greenpeace International report \u2018License to Clear\u2019 details evidence of systematic violations by the Indonesian Government regarding plantation and forest release permits in the Papua region. The report also finds that clearing forest for palm plantations in West Papua could release huge amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, undoing previous climate action. <\/p>\n\n
New Zealand is the world\u2019s biggest importer of palm kernel expeller – a product of the palm industry used as supplementary feed for New Zealand\u2019s 6.5 million dairy cows. Greenpeace Aotearoa is calling on the New Zealand Government<\/a> to phase out supplementary feeds like palm kernel expeller (PKE).<\/p>\n\n This report urges national and provincial governments in Indonesia to seize a fleeting opportunity to intervene in a vast area slated for deforestation for palm oil in Papua Province. Since 2000, forest estate land released for plantations in Papua Province has totalled almost a million hectares \u2013 an area almost twice the size of the island of Bali. <\/p>\n\n