For 20 years we’ve urged China to ban the use of illegal timber – now it’s happening!
China is changing its Forest Law to include a nationwide ban on buying, processing or transporting illegally sourced timber
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Corrupt Indonesian timber company boss jailed for five years and fined more than $180,000
A high court in Indonesia has upheld the conviction, jail term and substantial fine of a major corrupt timber trader
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From tiger trafficking to supermarket plastics – the differences we’ve made in 2019!
As we prepare to get our teeth into a new decade of challenges, here’s a look back at some of the highlights from a busy year in 2019
RSPO gives commitment to investigate palm oil ‘sustainability con’ allegations
A fortnight ago we revealed how consumers are being conned about the sustainability of palm oil – and now the RSPO, the leading industry certification body which we criticised, has pledged to investigate
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Environmental NGOs demand that sustainable palm oil watchdog RSPO does its job
As the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) annual meeting concludes in Bangkok, we and 14 other environmental NGOs call on it to do its job properly
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Open letter to the RSPO following criticisms of ‘Who Watches the Watchmen? 2’ report
We welcome and appreciate the RSPO’s response to our report. We do not accept that there were any ‘glaring inaccuracies’ in it
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