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Palm oil firm desecrates religious sites and clears forest in Liberia
20.10.2016 A major palm oil firm has desecrated religious sites and polluted water supplies in Liberia, in the latest in a series of rights violations
Sugar plantation caught with illegal timber in wildlife sanctuary
17.10.2016 Cambodian authorities seized more than 1,000 logs on the property of a Chinese-owned sugarcane plantation
‘Furtive’ avocado production destroying natural forests in Mexico
13.10.2016 The Mexican state of Michoacán is losing up to 1,000 hectares of forest each year due to illegal expansion of avocado farms
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
Rising deforestation for agriculture in Peru indigenous reserve
29.09.2016 Satellite analysis identified “rapidly increasing” deforestation due to agriculture and cattle ranching in protected indigenous forests
Analysis shows more than a third of deforestation in Argentinian hotspots is illegal
09.09.2016 More than 20,000 hectares of forest were destroyed illegally in four northern provinces in the first half of 2016
