IDM tracks illegalities relating to conversion of forests for export-oriented agribusiness, the largest driver of global deforestation Continue reading
26.10.2016 The EU will not meet their commitments without concerted action to reduce its role in the trade, production and consumption of products grown on land that has been deforested
20.10.2016 A major palm oil firm has desecrated religious sites and polluted water supplies in Liberia, in the latest in a series of rights violations
19.10.2016 NGOs affiliated with the Mount Leuser National Park Rescue Coalition have urged Indonesia's president to take immediate action to stop illegal deforestation
17.10.2016 Cambodian authorities seized more than 1,000 logs on the property of a Chinese-owned sugarcane plantation
14.10.2016 More than half of palm oil mills in Riau may be linked to illegal plantations, according the chairman of a parliamentary commission in the Sumatran province
13.10.2016 The Mexican state of Michoacán is losing up to 1,000 hectares of forest each year due to illegal expansion of avocado farms
10.10.2016 Peru’s National Forest and Wildlife Service chief reveals that deforestation by two illegal cocoa and oil palm plantations in the Peruvian Amazon has causes widespread damage
06.10.2016 An NGO alliance is taking the provincial police in Sumatra to the Central Information Commission over the decision to drop cases against plantations
29.09.2016 Satellite analysis identified “rapidly increasing” deforestation due to agriculture and cattle ranching in protected indigenous forests
27.09.2016 Organisations in Indonesia have released footage showing evidence of the criminal use of fire to clear forests