Satellite images acquired by EIA reveal that the clearing of tropical forests for palm oil has resumed in Indonesia’s West Papua after years of inactivity
The Government of Indonesia has been urged renew its three-year ban on converting its Forest Estate to new palm oil plantations amid mounting fears that it may abandon it
The Government of Indonesia is being urged to extend a national palm oil moratorium due to end in September
The District Court in Makassar, Indonesia, has sentenced the directors of four different Indonesian companies to one year each in prison and a total fine of RP500 million (about £29,000)
Policies seeking to halt the environmental and social damage of palm oil production are proving to be only a partial success, our latest research reveals..
Findings in our report Promises in Practice indicate that although deforestation rates in Indonesia’s Papua and West Papua provinces have fallen to approximately half of what would be anticipated under business-as-usual, deforestation is still happening.