Fires burn off forest cover and natural grasses to create cattle pasture in the Maya forest in Guatemala. Credit: Jennifer Devine, CC BY-ND 4.0 Fires burn off forest cover and natural grasses to ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) is expected to issue a new standard for its member companies to abide by when it holds its annual ...

Travel funding for this project was provided by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. PERAK, Malaysia—When Herzuza Dongkin turned her scooter off the paved road and into her small oil palm ...

KAPUAS HULU, Indonesia — A palm oil company is rapidly clearing rainforest inside a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve that’s home to orangutans and sun bears, adding to concerns over Indonesia’s efforts to ...

He highlighted several MPOGCF conservation initiatives, including the Lower Kawag Orangutan Habitat Restoration Project in Sabah, which involves restoring 2,500 hectares of forest, planting native ...

While this has signaled the widespread regulation of the palm oil industry and a major enforcement push against deforestation ...

Palm oil is one of the most versatile ingredients in food, found in a diverse range of products from chocolate to pizza dough to instant noodles. But it’s also a deforestation-linked commodity, and is ...

If your business uses leather, rubber, wood, beef, palm oil, soy, or paper, then you may need to comply with the EU Deforestation Directive (EUDR), a new rule intended to ensure that no goods traded ...

A new report calls on palm oil-buying firms to take serious steps to address systemic imbalances in the distribution of profits across the supply chain. Smallholder farmers produce nearly one-third of ...

After a tip about unsustainable logging at a Malaysian state-run oil palm plantation, former Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN) Fellow Low Choon Chyuan launched a yearlong investigation, ...