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French firms continue to import high-risk logs from Africa

19.10.2017 Evidence compiled by Earthsight reveals that French companies are importing logs from dictatorships, conflict states and some of the most controversial logging companies

Criminal law left in limbo as illegal clearances continue in Argentina

17.10.2017 A proposed law that would introduce criminal penalties for illegal deforestation is being deliberately held up by government officials, Greenpeace claims

Cambodian NGO protesting land grab by government senator forced to close

13.10.2017 Equiatable Cambodia was supporting communities engaged in land dispute with a sugarcane company but now temporarily closed

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

Ghana’s outdated forestry laws allow deforestation for ag with impunity, study finds

04.10.2017 Ghana lost 75% of its forest cover between 1900 and 2010, and 2% of its forests continue to disappear every year

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

Most slaughterhouses in Brazilian Amazon operating without commitment to monitor their supply chains

26.09.2017 Over half of the slaughterhouses in the Brazilian Amazon are failing to monitor the farms that supply them with cattle

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