It’s the 20th anniversary of palm oil watchdog RSPO – but 20 years of failure is nothing to celebrate
Today (8 April), the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RPSO) – the main voluntary certification scheme for palm oil – will be 20-years-old
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Ronni Ancona for World Environment Day: “EIA makes the kind of difference I’d make if I could”
EIA supporter Ronni Ancona talks about her passion for the natural world and for our work to safeguard it
World Wildlife Day 2021 is all about forests – so here’s what EIA is doing to save them
Today (3 March) is UN World Wildlife Day and this year’s theme is Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People and Planet
Forests Week: A poster child for deforestation, palm oil is slowly moving towards sustainability
When we buy our sugar, coffee, chocolate, leather, burgers, soy milk or wooden garden chairs we may be helping to fund deforestation. It's estimated that 53 per cent of those areas cleared in recent decades have been for agricultural commodities, as a result the EU has become a major driver of deforestation
Forests Week: More than two decades pushing back against the theft of the world’s forests
Founded in 1984, we first began working to protect forests in the mid-1990s, through advocating a global forests convention. By the late 1990s it became clear a more direct approach was needed to curb tropical deforestation, we changed tack and began documenting illegal logging in a vital Indonesia orangutan habitat
We can’t afford for palm oil certification to be a fig leaf
A staggering three million hectares of forest in Indonesia and Malaysia have been cleared to make way for oil palm during the past 15 years, and 50–60 per cent of all oil palm expansion in the two countries has occurred at the expense of natural forests