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What we learned from two years investigating corrupt land deals in Indonesia

08.05.2019 

And what it says about how to fix the nation’s deforestation and land rights crisis

Bad beef: UK retailers feed illegal deforestation fears as JBS corned beef imports persist

05.05.2019 JBS has faced multiple corruption charges and was fined £6.5m in 2017 for illegal Amazon deforestation yet Sainsbury's, Lidl and Morrisons among supermarkets selling its corned beef

Oil palm expansion in the Philippines leading to illegal deforestation and rights abuses

29.04.2019 Indigenous groupd and civil society denounce illegal clearing of pristine forests and rights violations by oil palm companies

Bolloré loses defamation appeal against media company that exposed SOCFIN’s rights violations in Cameroon

22.04.2019 French documentary revealed poor working conditions and child labour at Socapalm, a Socfin palm oil subsidiary in Cameroon

French retailers failing to comply with due diligence law for soy imports

11.04.2019 Companies including Burger King, E.Leclerc and Lidl among those failing to adequately monitor their supply chains in Latin America

How land grabbers weaponise indigenous ritual against Papuans

28.03.2019 An interview with anthropologist Sophie Chao discussing how plantation firms influence and exploit indigenous communities

Not a single company on track to meet 2020 zero-deforestation deadline

27.03.2019 Forest 500 report shows no palm oil, soy, cattle or timber firm that committed to eliminate deforestation from supply chains by 2020 will meet that goal

Military open fire on DRC communities protesting oil palm development

22.03.2019 Tensions between local communities in DRC and Canadian oil palm company Feronia have escalated in recent months

Sugar industry faces new complaint over Thai firm’s violations in Cambodia

12.03.2019 Over 700 Cambodian families allegedly displaced in 2008 and 2009 to make way for sugar plantations have recently filed a complaint in the UK against Bonsucro

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