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A Beautiful Past, and a Future for the Indonesian Forest Worth Fighting For
I remember when I was a kid, papa always took me back to his hometown to see Oma, my grandmother, every Christmas. The town Papa is from is called Manado,…
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A Deadly Trade-off: IOI’s Palm Oil Supply and Its Human and Environmental Costs
This Greenpeace International investigative report looks at the Malaysian palm oil company IOI Group and its downstream subsidiary in Europe and North America, IOI Loders Croklaan. Despite policies to ensure…
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Cutting Deforestation Out of Palm Oil – Company Scorecard
Click here to download the full report: “Cutting Deforestation Out of Palm Oil.” In 2015, Indonesia was wracked by the worst forest fires for almost twenty years. The disaster, the…
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Intact but Not Untouched: What I Learned From an Indigenous Community’s Fight to Save Canada’s Boreal Forest
A metal-hulled outboard motorboat took me the last two hours of my three-day journey to one of the last intact forests in North America, in Canada’s Boreal forest. In the…
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6 Reasons Stopping Deforestation (Still) Matters
Over the past few years, we’ve gained significant ground in getting major companies to move toward forest-friendly business models. You might think that means deforestation is beginning to be a…
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7 steps companies must take to stop deforestation
What makes a company forest friendly? Since Greenpeace developed a set of criteria last year and stepped up its campaigning, there has been a huge transformation in the palm oil…
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Logging: The Amazon’s Silent Crisis
Governance in the timber sector in the Brazilian Amazon is weak and open to exploitation, allowing criminals launder illegal timber as legal with official documentation. It is estimated that in…
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Driving Destruction in the Amazon
Two years of Greenpeace investigations, summarized in this report, reveal that end users including major global car manufacturers – indirectly or directly source pig iron whose production is fueled by…
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The Ramin paper Trail
A year-long investigation by Greenpeace International demonstrates that Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) is breaking Indonesian law, driving Sumatran tigers and ramin trees closer to extinction, and undermining CITES –…