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Are US investors aware of the legal risks of forest crimes?

12.07.2018 Climate Advisers examine the potential for investors in the US to be prosecuted for forest crimes that took place in other jurisdictions

The Coming Storm: Toxic mix of dodgy firms, impunity and collusion threaten Congo's rainforests

12.03.2018 Earthsight report released today documents the destruction of the forests of the Congo Basin for industrial palm oil and rubber plantations

Luxury US yachts being supplied with suspect Burmese teak

19.10.2017 There is rampant illegality and corruption in the logging industry in Myanmar. So why do two US firms continue to import large quantities of teak?

Firms filmed exploiting peatland forest in West Kalimantan

29.08.2017 An Indonesian company and its Chinese partner pushed ahead with an industrial wood plantation,  flouting a moratorium on the drainage and exploitation of lands

Palm oil encroaching on protected areas in Chiapas, Mexico, driving “clandestine” deforestation

29.06.2017 Illegal oil palm development is playing a leading role in deforestation in the Mexican state, according to a government source interviewed by a reporter for Mongabay

Illegal agricultural plantations driving disappearance of ‘Intact Forest Landscapes’ worldwide

26.01.2017 More than 7 per cent of the area of these uniquely valuable ‘untouched’ forests were degraded or cleared between 2001 and 2013

PNG Prime Minister says SABLs are being cancelled…but is it more of the same?

20.12.2016 The Government failed to cancel controversial and destructive large-scale agricultural leases, more than three years after promising to do so

Pulp giant ‘misinterprets’ peat canal blocking decree, constructs canal

19.12.2016 Pulp and paper giant April has carved a 3 km canal through carbon-rich peatlands in Sumatra in violation of Indonesian government regulations

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