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Victory as palm oil company vows to stop felling rainforest

2015-06-13 23:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Independent: A major palm oil company blamed for cutting down swathes of the rainforest has said it will stop clear-felling trees, in a move hailed by campaigners as a major breakthrough. Astra Agro Lestari (AAL), a subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate Jardine Matheson, announced a moratorium less than a month after The Independent on Sunday highlighted a campaign by pressure groups to make guests of the luxury Mandarin Hotel chain another Jardine Matheson firm aware of deforestation by AAL in...

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