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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
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
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
Two million hectares of Bolivia burns following Morales’ expansion of agriculture frontier
11.09.2019
Local NGOs and Amnesty International call for suspension of Supreme Decree 3973 allowing “controlled burns” and investigation into perpetrators responsible for forest fires crisis
Prosecutor targets ‘ringleader’ Dennis Melka in Peru cacao case
19.08.2019 It comes after staff at Melka firm sentenced for links to illegal deforestation
