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Bolivia legalises and expands ‘savage’ deforestation for China and Russia beef deals
16.08.2019 New decree is said to violate landmark Mother Earth law by opening up an additional 4.5 million hectares to cattle ranchers in El Beni
Global appetite for avocados drives deforestation in Mexico
30.07.2019 Rise in exports leaves authorities tackling growing number of illegal operators
Karuturi Global’s Ethiopia return stokes fears of deforestation and evictions
27.06.2019 Indian firm gets green light for agribusiness plantations with new land deal, but NGOs believe move will cause forest destruction and displacement of local communities
EU firms buying timber from wanted suspect at centre of $30m Ukrainian bribery case
03.06.2019 A slew of companies are purchasing wood from a supplier owned by the wife of Ukraine’s former forestry chief, even though a criminal case against the couple is ongoing
Brazilian authorities bust corruption scheme behind “extensive” illegal deforestation for cattle
17.05.2019 More than a dozen law enforcement agents and cattle ranchers arrested over corruption, money laundering and illegal deforestation
Malaysian politician under fire for suspect oil palm deal near UNESCO site that led to alleged illegal deforestation
13.05.2019 Sarawak Governor Abdul Taib Mahmud is accused of granting favourable leases to firm which later allegedly carried out illegal deforestation of timber
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
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
Bolivia approves GM soy cultivation for biofuel use, stoking fears of more illegal forest loss
09.04.2019 South American country to persist with an alarming upward trend of forest loss, more than 50% of which was illegal in 2017
