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World's largest palm oil trader criticised for lack of progress on deforestation
2016-01-26 10:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The worlds largest palm oil processor and trader used the Davos gathering of business leaders as an opportunity to talk up progress on its efforts to tackle deforestation in the palm oil sector. Singapore-headquartered Wilmar says it has made significant progress on a commitment it made two years ago to eliminate deforestation, exploitation and peatland development from its supply chain. This includes publishing a list of crude palm oil mill sources that supply its refineries, enabling greater...
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Global deforestation decreasing. Or is it?
2016-01-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ensia: It started, as many things do, with a rumor. In 2013 Matt Finer, a researcher with the Amazon Conservation Association, heard from locals that someone was cutting down rainforest deep in the Peruvian Amazon, far from prying eyes. So Finer and colleagues did something that would have been unheard of 10 years before: Using high resolution satellite imagery, they found a couple hectares of felled trees in a seemingly impenetrable sea of forest. You could just see this little smidge of forest loss...
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Causes of mangrove deforestation in Southeast Asia identified
2016-01-05 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Southeast Asia has the greatest diversity of mangrove species in the world, and mangrove forests provide multiple ecosystem services upon which millions of people depend. Mangroves enhance fisheries by providing habitat for young fishes and offer coastal protection against storms and floods. They also store substantially higher densities of carbon, as compared to most other ecosystems globally, thus playing an important role in soaking up carbon dioxide emissions and mitigating climate change. Despite...
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Hershey Expands Sustainable Sourcing Efforts With New Deforestation Commitments
2015-12-21 04:19:53| pulpandpaperonline News Articles
The Hershey Company recently made new commitments to help prevent deforestation in its supply chain by launching a comprehensive Pulp and Paper Policy and announcing an update on its efforts to trace its global palm oil supply chain
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Deforestation linked to rise in cases of emerging zoonotic malaria
2015-12-18 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A steep rise in human cases of P. knowlesi malaria in Malaysia is likely to be linked to deforestation and associated environmental changes, according to new research published in Emerging Infectious Diseases. The study, led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, is the first to explore how changes in land use are impacting the emergence of the disease. Plasmodium knowlesi is a zoonotic malaria parasite, transmitted between hosts by mosquitoes, which is common in forest-dwelling macaque...
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