Charlie Jaay explores a terrifying crisis within a crisis — misplaced and misleading tree-planting initiatives which, rather than mitigating the climate emergency, compound it, threatening communities and ecosystems. Each year, 10 million hectares of natural forest are lost worldwide, while fast growing industrial monoculture plantations of uniform species rapidly expand.Continue Reading
Kelantan, Malaysia – When Sia Beng Hok goes to check his rubber and batai (Moluccan albizia) trees, he makes sure he has a rifle on the backseat of his four-wheel drive. His plantations – all 5,000 hectares (12,355 acres) of them – sit on forest reserve land in Kelantan state,Continue Reading
Sustainable loans made to fund agribusinesses’ African and Asian rubber plantation expansion sidestep environmental and human rights concerns while enabling deforestation, anti-corruption campaigners said. Increasingly, governments and anti-money laundering bodies are highlighting the risks arising from human trafficking, modern slavery and environmental crime that present themselves in agribusinesses’ supply chains.Continue Reading
A significant portion of orangutan habitat in Indonesia lies within corporate concessions, but industrial tree companies, like pulp and paper, don’t have strong enough safeguards and commitment to protect the critically endangered apes, a new report says. According to the report by Aidenvironment, there are 6.22 million hectares (15.37 millionContinue Reading
Sri Lanka has imposed a ban on palm oil imports and ordered oil palm plantations in the country to be replaced with rubber trees and other crops over the next decade, citing adverse environmental and social impacts. The decision is based on recommendations from a 2018 report by a panelContinue Reading
