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It says it's sustainable, but the palm oil industry is still destroying the rainforest

Posted by Richardg — 2 September 2013 at 4:26pm - Comments
An excavator creates a canal in Riau Province, Indonesia, despite heavy smoke
All rights reserved. Credit: Ulet Ifansasti / Greenpeace
An excavator creates a canal in Riau Province, Indonesia, despite the heavy smoke caused by the forest fires

The palm oil industry is desperate to paint itself as sustainable. Yet for the last couple of years, palm oil plantations have been the number one cause of deforestation in Indonesia.

Article tagged as: forest fires, indonesia, palm oil, rspo, sumatra

Slideshow: devastating fires sweep through Sumatran forests

Posted by Angela Glienicke — 26 July 2013 at 4:48pm - Comments

Sitting in my comfortable office chair and watching these terrible images come through the picture desk, I feel a desperate need to stop this destruction. The devastating forest fires that swept through Sumatra recently caused record breaking air pollution in parts of Malaysia and Singapore.

Article tagged as: forest destruction, forest fires, indonesia, peatlands, slideshows, sumatra

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