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Global brands’ zero-deforestation pledges prove hollow as 50 million hectares of forest vanish
12.06.2019 An area twice the size of the UK has been cleared for agribusiness globally since 2010 as illegal cultivation practices of multinational firms add to forest destruction
As EU demand for its cocoa surges, illegal deforestation threatens to destroy 'critical forest corridor' in Nigeria
31.05.2019 Afi River Forest Reserve is losing 'large tracts' of primary forest believed to be a result of illegal land clearing for cocoa cultivation
EU needs new laws to ban global deforestation in product supply chains
23.05.2019 Respondents surveyed in 25 countries believe EU should introduce laws to outlaw goods being sold that harm the environment and the result of deforestation
Governor and businessmen in Colombia accused of land grabbing and illegal deforestation
08.05.2019 Business connections of Guaviare governor Nebio Echeverry Cadavid alleged to be behind displacement of locals and illegal oil palm cultivation
Oil palm expansion in the Philippines leading to illegal deforestation and rights abuses
29.04.2019 Indigenous groupd and civil society denounce illegal clearing of pristine forests and rights violations by oil palm companies
Bolloré loses defamation appeal against media company that exposed SOCFIN’s rights violations in Cameroon
22.04.2019 French documentary revealed poor working conditions and child labour at Socapalm, a Socfin palm oil subsidiary in Cameroon
Bolivia approves GM soy cultivation for biofuel use, stoking fears of more illegal forest loss
09.04.2019 South American country to persist with an alarming upward trend of forest loss, more than 50% of which was illegal in 2017
Not a single company on track to meet 2020 zero-deforestation deadline
27.03.2019 Forest 500 report shows no palm oil, soy, cattle or timber firm that committed to eliminate deforestation from supply chains by 2020 will meet that goal
Military open fire on DRC communities protesting oil palm development
22.03.2019 Tensions between local communities in DRC and Canadian oil palm company Feronia have escalated in recent months
