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Covid-19 compounds local ire against palm oil firms in West Africa

16.07.2020 A new wave of alleged abuses by Wilmar, Socfin and others sees renewed calls for action

Cameroon women denounce "destruction" of forests and community by agribusiness giants

01.04.2020 Local women fight back against controversial palm oil, rubber firms accused of destroying community way of life and responsible for widespread deforestation 

The decline of monarch butterflies in Mexico shows need for greater forest protections

01.04.2020 Deforestation is a possible contributing factor to the drop

Indirect supply chains pose major deforestation risk for global cocoa industry

26.03.2020 Study emphasises threats major firms face in not having a full picture of suppliers

Critics round on Bolivia authorities for prioritising agribusiness over deforestation crisis

31.01.2020 New legislation in Santa Cruz and Beni could see millions of hectares of forest destroyed for agribusiness

UK-based Equatorial Palm Oil under fire for alleged malpractice in Liberia

31.01.2020 Report calls for due diligence law to monitor UK-registered firms operating overseas

Mystery shrouds firm set to clear 60,000 hectares of Cameroon forest for palm oil

20.12.2019 Camvert Sarl named as company behind a planned palm oil development that locals and activists fear will put communities and native forests at risk 

Record forest fires are fanning the flames of Nicaragua’s deforestation crisis

18.12.2019 Weak governance and an expanding export-oriented agribusiness model fuel outbreak

UN deadline looms for Peru to revisit law threatening 100,000 hectares of Amazon

14.11.2019 A proposed new law in Ucayali would remove safeguards for 3.5 million hectares of forest

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