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Drone Footage Captures Shocking Reality Rainforest Destruction
2015-06-04 15:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Recent drone footage from the nonprofit Forest Heroes, which works to end global deforestation, shows that, despite recent efforts to reduce deforestation, it is still happening. The drone footage below shows an Indonesian rainforest cleared for a palm oil plantation by the company, Astra Agro Lestari. Global Canopy Programme's website Forest 500 identifies, ranks and tracks the governments, companies and financial institutions worldwide that together could virtually eradicate tropical deforestation....
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Indonesia: This palm oil company just bulldoze rainforest
2015-05-22 00:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: In the last two years, a series of companies have made bold commitments to halt deforestation in their supply chains (see this story for the context). But producing products like palm oil without clearing ecologically important rainforest isn`t easy: It`s much easier to get rich quick by exploiting natural resources. Though most companies have agreed to rein in their operations, forests are still being razed. Here, courtesy of a video from activist group Forest Heroes, you can see the results...
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Primary rainforest cleared massive palm oil plantations in Peru
2015-05-20 22:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Two palm oil plantations have recently been established in Peru, supplanting primary forest. Satellite imagery analysis shows extent of the massive development, which is led by a group of companies tied to plantation entrepreneur and United Cacao CEO Dennis Melka. Photo courtesy of the Environmental Investigation Agency. More than 9,400 hectares of closed-canopy Amazonian rainforest has been removed for two oil palm plantations in the Peruvian region of Ucayali since 2011, according to scientists...
Asia Pulp And Paper (APP) And Rainforest Alliance To Discuss APP's Progress On Zero Deforestation At RISI's Asian Conference!
2015-05-20 07:28:53| pulpandpaperonline Home Page
RISI, the leading information provider for the global forest products industry, is excited to have Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP) and Rainforest Alliance come together to discuss APP's Progress on Zero Deforestation
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Eyes In The Sky: Styrofoam Drones Keep Watch On Rainforest Trees
2015-05-19 22:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: A couple of toy planes are out to catch illegal loggers and miners in the Amazon. It's an awesome responsibility. Every year, illegal logging and mining in the Peruvian Amazon destroy tens of thousands of acres of rain forest. The deforestation in remote parts of the jungle is difficult to detect while it's going on. But now there's a new way to keep an eye out: with a pair of drones. Carlos Castaneda, the coordinator of the Amazon Basin Conservation Association's Los Amigos conservancy concession,...
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