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Indonesian National Strategic Area loses thousands of hectares of forest in 2017

22.01.2018 Almost 7,000 hectares of forest were destroyed in the Leuser Ecosystem, in the western Indonesian province of Aceh, in 2017

Top US plywood importer in league with one of the world's dirtiest timber companies

19.10.2017 Products made from the rainforests of Malaysian Borneo, supplied by a firm known to have bulldozed intact forests, abused indigenous people and propped up the regime of a billionaire kleptocrat

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

Illegal palm oil concession generates flood of timber, greenwashed by Indonesia’s flagship certification scheme

26.06.2017 A new report reveals how company previously exposed has continued operating illegally, by clearing after permits expired and beyond the boundaries of its concession

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

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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