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Palm oil expansion endangering rare frogs in Malaysia
2013-06-05 01:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Expansion of the palm oil industry in Malaysia is destroying key habitat for endangered frogs, putting them at greater risk, finds a new study published in the journal Conservation Biology. Over a two-year period, Aisyah Faruk of the Zoological Society of London and colleagues documented the impact of oil palm plantations on the peat swamp frog (Limnonectes malesianus), an amphibian that inhabits streams and swamps in lowland forest areas in Peninsular Malaysia. According to the researchers, the...
Controversial palm oil project halted in Cameroon
2013-05-24 07:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: An American company has halted work on a controversial palm oil project in Cameroon due to opposition from local communities and environmentalists, reports Reuters. Herakles Capital, a U.S.-based investment firm, said it has stopped development of its 73,000-hectare oil palm planation and laid of 690 workers pending a government review of the 2009 deal that granted the land to the firm. The move came weeks after an order from the Forestry Ministry and a day after a joint report from Greenpeace...
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Palm oil company violated RSPO standards, evicted from sustainability body
2013-05-13 04:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has evicted Indonesian palm oil giant Dutapalma Nusantara for violating key principles for sustainability. Dutapalma Nusantara, which is also known as Darmex Agro or Duta Palma, was found to have violated three RSPO principles: converting deep peat for a plantation, clearing forest without a high conservation value (HCV) assessment, and using fire to open land. The company repeatedly failed to address the issues, which were raised by the Indonesia...
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Indonesian palm oil giant cutting deforestation from supply chain
2013-05-13 03:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Indonesian palm oil giant Golden Agri-Resources (GAR) is continuing to reduce deforestation under its 2011 forest conservation policy despite ongoing forest destruction by other palm oil producers in the sector, finds a new assessment by Greenomics, an Indonesian activist group. However the report finds GAR's operations are not completely deforestation-free. Using a combination of satellite data and legal documents filed with the Ministry of Forestry, the Greenomics report [PDF] shows that GAR-owned...
Indonesia: Court rules for palm oil company in controversial deforestation case
2013-05-05 15:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: An Indonesian court has ruled in favor of plantation company PT Kallista Alam in a lawsuit brought against the governor of Indonesias Aceh province for revoking the companys license to develop palm oil plantations in a protected peat swamp forest. The Banda Aceh Administrative Court said the governors earlier decision to revoke the permit was not legally binding as the case that led to the permits cancellation was still being considered by Indonesias Supreme Court, Mongabay-Indonesia reported...
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