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Inadequate enforcement enables illegalities to flourish in Brazil’s beef supply chain

27.07.2017 Brazilian environment agency Ibama found that the world’s biggest meatpacker, JBS, had bought livestock raised in illegally deforested areas in the state of Para

Corporate giants exposed to palm oil sourced from illegal clearances of Sumatran rainforest

25.07.2017 Some of world’s biggest companies including Pepsico, Mars, Unilever and Nestlé may have sourced palm oil from illegally deforested land

Huge ag investments by Africa’s richest man threaten expansion of illegal deforestation in Nigeria

17.07.2017 Secretive billionaire Aliko Dangote intends to invest nearly $5 billion in expanding oil palm, soy and sugarcane production in West Africa

Choice Cuts: how European & US BBQs are fuelled by a hidden deforestation crisis in South America

05.07.2017 How European & US BBQs are fuelled by a hidden deforestation crisis in South America

Indonesian government finances palm oil companies ignoring its laws

29.06.2017 Banks owned by the Indonesian government are funding illegal activities by large-scale palm oil companies that are undermining high-profile policy commitments

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

Ag drives deforestation in Atlantic Forests back to 2005 levels

28.06.2017 A 58% increase in deforestation rate in the Atlantic Forest with the majority of the 29,000 hectares deforested between 2015 and 2016 cleared illegally

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