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Indonesian palm oil giant clearing peat forest despite RSPO membership, alleges Greenpeace
2013-04-25 06:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A major Indonesian palm oil producer continues to clear rainforests in Sumatra despite being a prominent member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), casting doubts on the body's effectiveness in limiting deforestation, alleges a new report from Greenpeace. The report, titled A Dirty Business, is based on a field investigation itno the Darmex Agro group's operations in Riau province. Greenpeace says the palm oil producer, better known as Duta Palma, has been clearing "hundreds of hectares...
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Greenpeace demands RSPO strengthen standards, expel rogue forest destroyers
2013-04-25 05:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenpeace: Hundreds of hectares of rainforest and tiger habitat protected under the Indonesian governments moratorium have been destroyed, revealed Greenpeace International, following an investigation into Duta Palma, a notorious Indonesian palm oil producer and member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Oil (RSPO). Duta Palma has a long history of deforestation, community conflict, illegality, and non-compliance with RSPO regulations. As recently as 7 April 2013, the district parliament condemned ongoing conflict...
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Greenpeace Activists Board Ship in Protest of Australias Coal Export Boom
2013-04-24 20:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: At sunrise, the six activists left the Rainbow Warrior on inflatable boats and drew up alongside the MV Meister, a ship carrying thermal coal loaded at Abbot point in Queensland. Using steel ladders, they climbed the side of the ship and 18 hours later remain on the vessel. Greenpeace boarded the ship just after it left the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. The six activists come from five countries in the Asia Pacific region where Greenpeace is campaigning to end the age of coal: Australia,...
Australian coal exports are not needed: Greenpeace steps in to halt coal
2013-04-24 09:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenpeace: Greenpeace has campaigned against the expansion of coal exports from Queensland, through the Great Barrier Reef, using every legitimate means we can to stop them going ahead. Weve made detailed submissions, weve triggered Departmental inquiries, weve used Freedom of Information to expose holes in assessments, weve helped 25,000 people make submissions to processes, weve published full page advertisements and weve written large on a beach our call to protect the Reef from coal. All to no...
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Greenpeace activists board Australian coal ship in reef protest
2013-04-24 08:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Six Greenpeace activists boarded a coal ship bound for South Korea near Australia's Great Barrier Reef on Wednesday, protesting against the expansion of the rich Australian coal industry and its impact on the World Heritage site. Environmentalists say the Great Barrier Reef, a popular tourist site worth about A$6 billion ($6.1 billion) a year to the Australia economy, is threatened by dredging, sedimentation and coal port and shipping development. UNESCO will decide in June whether the reef...
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