Launched in 2008, the FCPF was among the first multilateral funds to support countries in their efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+). After eight years of financial support for REDD+ readiness, the first countries are finalizing national REDD+ strategies and seeking funding for investments to implement programs to reduce deforestation and degradation […]
Para leer en espanol haga click aquí. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Colombian environmental authority, CORMACARENA (Corporación para el Desarrollo Sostenible del Área de Manejo Especial la Macarena), has ordered oil palm company Poligrow Colombia Ltda (Poligrow) to suspend operations due to alleged environmental infractions, and has initiated a sanctioning process against it. Operating out of Mapiripán, […]
Updated July 13, 2016 News broke recently in the Jakarta Post that two Peruvian oil palm plantations located in Peru’s Amazon region of Ucayali, Plantaciones de Pucallpa and Plantaciones de Ucayali, plan to sell land they control in the Peruvian Amazon through a trust services company, La Fiduciaria S.A., despite ongoing prosecutions against these companies […]
WASHINGTON, D.C./LIMA – Maps published today confirm that land transferred by two oil palm plantations to a Peruvian trust services company, which is now auctioning off these properties, is located in illegally deforested Amazon rainforest. EIA mapped the properties transferred to the trust to show the scale, location, and corporate connections of the clear-cut Amazon […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) today announced that the FSC chain of custody (CoC) certificate issued to Austrian-based timber company Holzindustrie Schweighofer (Schweighofer) has been suspended. This action by Quality Austria, the certifying body that had granted Schweighofer’s FSC CoC certificate, means Schweighofer can no longer market its wood products with the […]
ワシントンD.C. – 日本の大手商社がヨーロッパに残る最後の広大な原生林での違法伐採に拍車をかけていることがワシントンD.C.を本拠地とする環境調査エージェンシー（EIA）の新しい報告書で明らかになった。「偽上の住宅：日本の新築住宅の犠牲になる欧州の原生林／Built on Lies: New Homes in Japan Destroy Old Forests in Europe」と題する報告書では、オーストリア企業シュバイクホファー社（Holzindustrie [...]