Mongabay: United Cacao didn't need authorization to clear its plantation near Tamshiyacu, said a court in Loreto, Peru, resolving for the time being one of a series of questions about the legality and environmental sustainability of companies connected with plantations entrepreneur Dennis Melka.
Forest along an Amazon tributary near where the controversial Cacao del Peru Norte cocoa plantation is being developed. Photo by Morgan Erickson-Davis.
A regional court in Loreto, Peru recently ruled that the...