Who is Still Tied to Indofood?
Companies cannot pretend that Indofood’s palm oil is sustainable. Joint venture partners, brands, palm oil traders and financiers must take further action to send Indofood the message that its exploitative practices are not acceptable. Here is who has yet to cut ties to this notorious food giant.
Mother Jones: We Need To Talk About Palm Oil
“Emma Lierley, forest policy director at the Rainforest Action Network (RAN), echoed this sentiment. “The same problems are still happening in this industry,” she said. “Deforestation is continuing, threatened species…
Elephants are Dying for Palm Oil in the Leuser Ecosystem
New satellite data obtained by RAN has revealed steady, continued deforestation taking place within one of the most critical lowland rainforest habitat corridors left in Indonesia. Located inside the globally important Leuser Ecosystem on the island of Sumatra, the active forest clearance is taking place in a palm oil concession operated by a plantation company called PT Nia Yulded (PT NY) and is occurring despite a presidential moratorium banning any further forest clearance for palm oil, which has included a special emphasis on the need to protect the biologically diverse forests of the Leuser.
Elephant Corridor Has Been Cleared by Indonesian State Company Despite Moratorium on Palm Oil by President
GPS: 4° 31′ 9.792″ N, 97° 45′ 9.234″ E
New satellite data obtained by RAN has revealed that a month after President Jokowi announced a three-year moratorium on the issuance of palm oil permits, as well as a review of existing permits, the Indonesian government-linked palm oil company PT Perkebunan Nusantara I (PTPN I) has continued to clear forests within an important corridor for the endangered Sumatran elephant inside the Leuser Ecosystem. PTPN I is operating in breach of the moratorium on forest destruction in the Leuser Ecosystem and should be subject to an investigation by the Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry.
A Message of Indigenous Resistance and Inspiration From the Amazon
I am Nemonte Nenquimo. My name means Many Stars. My people are the Waorani and our forest is our home. I am a Waorani woman and a mother.
Palm Oil Giant FELDA Sanctioned Over Forced Labor, Human Trafficking
Major brands Procter & Gamble, Hershey’s, and Unilever linked to illegality and labor abuses CONTACT: Emma Rae Lierley, emma@ran.org, +1 425-281-1989 San Francisco, CA – Malaysian palm oil giant FGV…
Stop the Olympics from destroying the rainforests
RAN and our partners — TuK Indonesia and WALHI — have been investigating a giant logging and palm oil company called Korindo, which has been cutting down rainforests in Indonesia. Korindo’s timber supply chain extends into some of the most biodiverse tropical ecosystems in the world, including the home of the critically endangered Bornean orangutan.
INVESTIGATIVE REPORT: Rainforest defenders, torture and banks
What do human rights abuses, 2020 Olympics and banks have in common? Wrongfully arrested and tortured by police for defending their own land… These are just a couple of the unimaginable human tragedies we’ve discovered in the rainforests of North Maluku, Indonesia.