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Luxury hotel chain linked to destruction of rainforests
2015-05-19 07:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The Mandarin Oriental hotel chain has landed in environmentalists' crosshairs for the practices of its sister company Astra Agro Lestari, a rapidly expanding palm oil producer with fully developed plantations on an area larger than Singapore. The new She's Not a Fan campaign a play off Mandarin's celebrity-fan endorsement drive launched yesterday with a petition calling on Astra to stop destroying forests and elephant habitat and follow industry titans in pledging to purge its supply chain of...
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