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After decades of lawlessness, could the seafood industry finally be ready for change?
Are we on the cusp of changing the destructive seafood industry forever?
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Cancelling Myanmar’s new coal plants could save 7,100 lives a year
Yangon, 4 May 2017 - Approximately 7,100 lives could be saved every year if Myanmar cancels its massive plan to build coal-fired power plants, and instead invest on renewable energy to meet the country’s electricity demand. This is according to a report launched today by Greenpeace Southeast Asia, EcoDev/ALARM, Myanmar Green Network, Paung Ku, EarthRights…
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Six years of moratorium: How much of Indonesia’s forests have been protected?
Jakarta, 4 May 2017 – During the six years since its declaration, the area protected under Indonesia’s moratorium on new licenses in primary forest and peatland has undergone ten revisions, which saw it cut by 2.7 million hectares, an area around five times the size of Bali. During this time, fires and deforestation have also…
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Myanmar Coal Report 2017
COAL : A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS IN MYANMAR
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Major palm oil company promises to protect forests
There's been a major development in our campaign to protect Indonesia's forests.
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Palm oil giant IOI moves to eliminate deforestation and human rights abuses from supply chain
The IOI Group, one of the world’s largest palm oil traders, has today made a significant commitment to address deforestation and exploitation throughout its supply chain.
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Greenpeace tells ASEAN: Act on plastics pollution in region’s oceans
Greenpeace is asking ASEAN governments to stiffen policies on waste management to arrest the rising rate of waste being dumped into the ocean and finding their way to the open seas.
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How the people are wresting back control from global food corporations
It is our food, our future.
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Defending Mother Earth to the death
Yu Patmi (48 years old) was an ordinary village woman. But there was nothing ordinary in her determined struggle to defend her home village in Kendeng Highland in Central Java against destruction by cement industry.