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Palm oil firms in Peru plan to clear 23,000 hectares of primary forest
2015-03-07 22:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Companies in Peru are planning to clear more than 23,000 hectares of primary rainforest in the northern Amazon in order to cultivate oil palm, according to NGOs. Operations on two plantations called Maniti and Santa Cecilia which would involve clearing more than 9,300 hectares of primary forest could start imminently following a recent government decision. Weve done an extensive analysis of satellite images of the project area and conclude that 84.6% of Maniti and Santa Cecilia is primary...
Palm oil wrongly targeted
2015-02-28 07:13:17| Livestock - Topix.net
Oil palm plantations have been unfairly implicated by non-government organisations as the primary driver of deforestation, but the crop takes up only 0.1 per cent or 15.6 million ha worldwide. On the other hand, the livestock industry in 2012 utilised 31 per cent or 4.7 billion ha of the world's total land area 300 times more land area than that used by the palm oil industry, says Malaysian Palm Oil Council chief executive officer Dr Yusof Basiron.
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Palm oil major makes deforestation-free commitment
2015-02-03 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: IOI Corporation officially committed to what its subsidiary, palm oil trader IOI Loders Croklaan, pledged last November: it will no longer source palm oil linked to deforestation and human rights abuses. This week IOI Group clarified that it will comply with IOI Loders Croklaan's zero deforestation policy. The move came after IOI was aggressively targeted by campaigners for its links to deforestation and controversies over conflicts with local communities. One of those campaign groups immediately...
Palm oil giant launches online platform to support zero deforestation push
2015-01-22 15:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Wilmar, the world's largest palm oil company, has unveiled a tool it says will help eliminate deforestation from its global supply chain. The tool is an online dashboard that maps the company's supply chain, including the names of locations of its refineries and supplier mills. The system greatly increases transparency around Wilmar's palm oil sourcing, a key component to the zero deforestation policy it signed in December 2013. Public disclosure of its supply chain is a major departure from...
PepsiCo: Sum Of Us Doritos palm oil attack is 'patently false'
2015-01-19 21:15:30| Beverages - Topix.net
Sum Of Us' spoof ad features a love story centered around Doritos, ending in a shock discovery that the brand destroys forests during production - an ad PepsiCo has coined a 'public relations stunt' PepsiCo has slammed a campaign from Sum Of Us against its Doritos brand that suggests the chips contain unsustainable palm oil. Consumer activist group Sum Of Us launched a campaign against the Frito-Lay Doritos brand in December and recently published a spoof advert suggesting Doritos contained unsustainable palm oil sourced through deforestation.
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