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Asian governments backing deforestation in Gabon and Cameroon

22.03.2018 An extract from Earthsight's The Coming Storm report exposes the connections between the Singaporean and Chinese governments and two of the projects which have cleared the most forest to-date

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

Illegal plantations threaten Sumatran tiger with extinction

07.12.2017 Fewer than 600 of the species remain in the wild and expansion of illegal oil palm plantations into Indonesian national parks may lead to its extinction

The making of a palm oil fiefdom

11.10.2017 The story of money, power and politics behind the devastation of a forest-rich district in Indonesian Borneo

Introducing: Indonesia for Sale

10.10.2017 The investigative series Indonesia for Sale, launching this week, will shine new light on the corruption behind Indonesia’s deforestation and land rights crisis

Plantation firms defy moratorium to continue clearing Sumatran rainforest

27.09.2017 Oil palm plantation firms are continuing to clear rainforest in the Leuser ecosystem on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, in defiance of a moratorium on deforestation

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

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