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Fires burning inside palm oil concessions linked to major household brands
Fires have broken out inside palm oil concessions in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, belonging to suppliers to some of the biggest household brands in the world,
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Girl power at its finest: The women of Greenpeace Tim Cegah Api
Meet the individuals and groups putting their lives at risk to save Southeast Asia’s fragile forests and the wildlife that inhabit it.
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Celebrating Malaysia Day away from home, for the sake of our forests
Witnessing Greenpeace Forest Fire Protection Team, in action.
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Preventing and extinguishing forest fires without fires
The forest fire crisis of 2015, one of the worst crises in Indonesia’s history is still fresh in our memory. The disaster in Sumatra and Kalimantan led to the destruction of around 2.6 million hectares of forests and peatlands, causing 103,000 premature deaths of people in the region and increasing the Orangutans’ risk of extinction.…
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HSBC Stop funding forest fires in Indonesia
Kuala Lumpur, 14 Feb 2016 -- Dissatisfied Malaysian customers today presented HSBC with a mock cheque to the value of 228,434 signatures urging the bank to “Stop Funding Forest Fires in Indonesia”. The HSBC customers were joined by activists from Greenpeace and other Malaysian civil society organizations including members of Pertubuhan Pelindung Khazanah Alam Malaysia…
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Time for IOI to lead from the front
IOI released a statement concerning the Greenpeace demand that it hold it suppliers to account for destroying Indonesia’s forests and failing to prevent fires.
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Greenpeace statement on law enforcement in forest and peatland fire cases
Jakarta, September 5 2016 -- Indonesia’s response to forest fires is being hampered by a crisis in law enforcement. Not only have police failed to reinstate over a dozen dropped investigations into pulpwood and oil palm plantation companies in Riau [1] but over the weekend an angry mob held fire investigators hostage at a palm…
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As dangerous business practices go unpunished, Indonesia’s fires and haze return
New maps released today by Greenpeace for Riau and West Kalimantan show that many fires are occurring on industrial plantation concessions in the same areas that burned last year.
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Mapping transparency: Essential to stopping Indonesia’s fires
A briefer on Greenpeace Indonesia’s initiative to support transparency and the public interest through the Kepo Hutan map platform.
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Community dam in Kalimantan builds a solution to Indonesian forest fires and climate change
Greenpeace together with CIMTROP and SOB today took bold direct action showing the way towards a future grounded in rainforest and peatland restoration, tackling the causes of this year’s disastrous fires.