24 February 2023
There will be no new land clearing or deforestation for oil palm plantations, says Malaysia Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof.
15 November 2022
On the ground and in the courts, members of the Moi indigenous group are resisting oil palm expansion in West Papua, Indonesia
5 July 2022
LANDac International Conference 2022 Session Summary
13 June 2022
Much of the landscape of Indonesia’s East Kalimantan province has been transformed, its formerly vast forests razed for logging, monocrop agriculture and open-cast coal mining.
A recently published study analyzes how waves of extractive industries have affected the inhabitants of one village in the
2 June 2022
Fires have swept through large swaths of peatland forest in the western part of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island since the start of the year, an area that usually sees much smaller, controlled fires.
Environmental activists say they suspect the fires might be linked to palm oil companies with plantations
9 March 2022
For years, people have settled illegally in national parks around Indonesia, clearing the land and farming it in the hope they will eventually be granted legal title to it.
While the authorities’ default response has been to evict them, a new government program is taking a more collaborative
17 February 2022
The Indonesian government’s decision to revoke permits for plantation firms to operate in forest areas could lead to lawsuits filed by the companies, environmental law experts say.
The permits were rescinded at the start of the year, not because of any environmental violations, but rather because
10 February 2022
The Indonesian government has rejected a proposal made by a prominent university to reclassify oil palms as a forest crop.
The proposal was ostensibly meant to resolve the problem of illegal plantations operating inside forest areas, and would have redefined plantations as forests, and new
6 December 2021
With the Indonesian government refusing to renew a three-year ban on issuing licenses for new oil palm plantations, experts are warning of a deforestation free-for-all.
The end of the moratorium means companies can once again apply to develop new plantations, including clearing forests to do.
This
12 August 2021
IPNEWS – Monrovia: Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) and Milieudefensie, a Dutch NGO, have accused the oil palm company Golden Veroleum Liberia (GVL) of not living up the full commitment of the memorandum of understanding it signed with communities in within its concession areas. At a press
3 August 2021
The global thirst for palm oil has never been more ravenous. Caught between it and a multigenerational war on Thailand’s poor are the farmers of the Southern Peasants’ Federation, who simply want a piece of land to call their own.
Main photo: Palm tree jungles and the mountains of Surat Thani
23 July 2021
A new report highlights systemic social and environmental problems that continue to plague the Indonesian palm oil industry and ripple far up the global palm oil supply chain.
The report looked at local and Indigenous communities living within and around 10 plantations and found that their human