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Illegal operations common feature of palm oil-driven conflicts
20.12.2016 Conflicts between communities and companies and between communities and the government, have proliferated across areas of Indonesia targeted for plantations
Riau network urges government to prosecute forest encroachment
16.12.2016 Analysis of plantations suggests majority of oil palm sites operating without permission
“Sustainable” palm oil has a legal problem
01.12.2016 RSPO has a simple mission: to oversee a system that certifies palm oil against an agreed set of rules, allowing that palm oil to be traded as “sustainable”
Investigation raises doubts over police decision to drop forest fire prosecutions
23.11.2016 A decision by Indonesian police to drop a criminal investigation into the use of fire to clear forest dubbed fundamentally flawed and contrary to the evidence
Why voluntary policies will not stop deforestation
21.11.2016 It is essential that the corporate zero deforestation movement is harnessed to push for the necessary actions by governments
Conversion of national park threatens orangutans and elephants
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
121 palm oil mills linked to illegal land in Riau
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
Illegal cocoa and palm plantations cause $111m damage in Peruvian Amazon
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
Indonesian coalition pushes for transparency over decision to drop forest fire cases
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
