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21/2/2013
Industrial oil palm plantations are spreading from Malaysia and Indonesia to the
Congo raising fears about deforestation and social conflict.
A new report by The
Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK), dramatically entitled The Seeds of ...
30/1/2013
Deep in the vast
rainforest of the Democratic Republic of
Congo, chainsaws are buzzing. Heavy machinery rumbles and growls, as loggers slice their way through the forest.Three newly published investigations have confirmed that much of ...
25/1/2011
Oil palm plantations in Sabah, Malaysia. The palm oil industry maintains its product is "greening the planet" but the reality is more complex.
The commercial shows a typical office setting. A worker sits drearily at a desk, shredding ...
15/2/2010
A survey of 78 forestry concessions in Peru found that 46 (59 percent) were in breach of their concession
contracts, reports the International Tropical
Timber Organization (ITTO).
Monitoring conducted by Peru's Agency for Supervision of ...
27/12/2009
2009 may prove to be an important turning point for tropical forests.
Lead by Brazil, which had the lowest extent of deforestation since at least the 1980s, global forest loss likely declined to its lowest level in more than a decade. ...
6/3/2009
Democratic Republic of
Congo authorities have signaled their intention to reverse forest reforms and expand industrial logging, a statement from major environmental groups said Friday.
"Congolese government authorities are ... signalling ...
21/1/2009
The
Congo rainforest, the second largest tropical forest in the world, has been handed a temporary lifeline after two-thirds of
timber concessions were cancelled this week.
The government of the Democratic Republic of
Congo has ripped up ...
19/1/2009
The Democratic Republic of
Congo government has cancelled nearly 60% of
timber contracts in the world's second-largest tropical
rainforest.It follows a six-month review of 156 logging deals aimed at stamping out corruption in the sector ...
8/10/2008
Democratic Republic of
Congo will cancel more than two-thirds of its logging
contracts due to under a World Bank-back initiative to reduce corruption in the forestry sector, according to the Central African country's environment ...
4/1/2008
From the air the forests of the Democratic Republic of the
Congo (DRC)
stretch as far as the eye can see, broken only by distant, shining ribbons of
rivers and streams. Dense, deep, seemingly impenetrable, the forests of the
Central ...
6/10/2007
The World Bank is preparing to launch its Forest Carbon Partnership Facility
(FCPF) which aims to catalyse the market for carbon emissions credits from
avoided deforestation see Update 56. However many forestry experts are
unconvinced, ...
4/10/2007
At the heart of central Africa's great
rainforests lies Kisangani, a small
city in the Democratic Republic of
Congo (DRC) some 1,300 miles from the mouth
of the
Congo River. The town began as a Belgian trading post, Stanleyville, and ...
12/4/2007
Despite government and World Bank assurances to the contrary. a new report
from Greenpeace finds that illegal logging is rampant in the Democratic Republic
of
Congo (DRC).
The report, Carving up the
Congo, reveals that in spite ...