Mongabay: Greenpeace has just accused one of the world's most controversial oil palm companies, Herakles Farms, of colluding with top government officials to sell off illegally logged timber to China. According to a new report from the environmental group, a stealth agreement between Cameroon's Minister of Forestry, Ngole Philip Ngwese, and Herkales Farms-through a shell company-could torpedo the country's agreement with the EU for better timber management.
"This was a deliberate attempt to hide an illegal...