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• Weekend wibble: Newborn orang-utan at Perth Zoo!

  
  Hoyden About Town — Authority: 139
  There’s a new baby orangutan at the Perth zoo! *dies of teh cute* There’s video of the new arrival here at the West , including a keeper who is obviously completely smitten with the orangs. Transcription of the video by the marvellous Quixotess : Clarissa Phillips [in voiceover, over adorable footage of ...
  17 hours ago

• Greenwash, blackwash: two faces of conservation evil

  
  ConservationBytes.com — Authority: 116
  Beware false prophets, and especially those masquerading as conservationists (or at least ‘green’) when they are not, in fact, doing anything for conservation at all . But this blog site isn’t about typical greenie evil-corporation-making-a-mess-of-the-Earth sermons (there are plenty of those); it’s instead ...
  19 hours ago

• Oil palm workers still below poverty line, despite Ministers statements

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  On October 19th, Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Tan Sri Bernard Dompok told parliament that oil palm harvesters and rubber tappers are living above Malaysias national poverty line, according to a story in the Malaysian Insider . But now representatives of the workers are saying Dompok lied.
  2 days ago

• Conservationists do ‘deal with the devil’ to save orang-utans

  
  World Zoo Today — Authority: 146
  Agreement sought with palm-oil industry to create ape-saving forest corridors By Lewis Smith Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/ Wildlife campaigners have made “a deal with the devil” in a bid to save the orang-utan from being driven into extinction. They have teamed up with the palm-oil industry, widely ...
  4 days ago

• Orangutans still for sale in jakarta animal markets

  
  World Zoo Today — Authority: 146
  Source: The Jakarta Globe By Jonathan Walsh Interview with Pak Sanusi, Songbird Salesman Pak Sanusi has had his own stall in the Jalan Pramuka bird market since 1992. His father started the business and not only passed on a passion for songbirds, he passed on the family business as well. But what lurks behind the ...
  4 days ago

• Indonesian Palm Oil exports hampered by Negative Campaign

  
  Quantum Indonesia Translogistic — Authority: 112
  Negative campaign of Indonesia crude palm oil (CPO) still too often in Europe which affecting the CPO exports, after the global crisis. "CPO exports should recover as the impact of the global crisis began to overcome their respective consumer countries, but because of the negative campaign of palm trees, the ...
  5 days ago

• Conservationists do deal with the devil to save orang-utans

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 573
  Agreement sought with palm-oil industry to create ape-saving forest corridorsLewis Smith, The Independent 16 Nov 09;Wildlife campaigners have made "a deal with the devil" in a bid to save the orang-utan from being driven into extinction. They have teamed up with the palm-oil industry, widely condemned by ...
  6 days ago

• Sustainable Palm Oil Farmers Earn $2.1M Through GreenPalm

  
  Memmis.com News Agency — Authority: 165
  The GreenPalm certificate trading scheme, which supports sustainable methods in palm oil production, has hit a major target.
  6 days ago

• Sumatra hunger strike: the last recourse for a forest community

  
  The Understory : Understory.RAN.org — Authority: 501
  Here in Riau, Indonesia, signs of the struggle to save the last of Sumatra’s forest is everywhere. Daily, the papers cover stories of timber and oil palm companies destroying forests, engaging in corruption, driving land conflicts, sponsoring violence, and marginalizing indigenous peoples. Today, on the way to a ...
  6 days ago

• Candles and children

  
  DIYFather.com - It's great to be a dad! — Authority: 127
  Lighting a candle at home to celebrate a birthday, get in the mood for Christmas or even to save a bit on your next power bill is a nice thing to do. Children are often drawn to the magic of the flame and enjoy the sense that something special is happening. Apart from the usual hazards of an open flame near children ...
  6 days ago

• RSPO Dispatch: Duta Palma destroys rainforests and lives

  
  The Understory : Understory.RAN.org — Authority: 501
  On the first day of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) Pak Jamaluddin was quiet. He said the air conditioning of Kuala Lumpor gave him the flu. He seemed lost among the groups of palm producers, with their Blackberries and dark suits. Exhausted from the canoe rides, bad roads, the concrete maze of Jakarta, ...
  1 week ago

• Handmade Soap Facts

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 510
  How many people know what soap really is?? Several of the cleansing bars that you buy at the store, for example, are detergents-and not soaps at all. They are called syndet bars, or synthetic detergent bars. They are made from synthesized chemicals and are usually much harsher than soap. Detergents contain petroleum ...
  1 week ago

• "Responsible" palm oil producers pledge not to develop endangered Sumatra rainforest

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Members of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), an initiative developing criteria to improve the environmental performance of palm oil, agreed to declare the Bukit Tigapuluh Ecosystem in Sumatra a high conservation value area. The decision, voted on by RSPO General Assembly members at the groups annual ...
  1 week ago

• So Promising....Until You Read the Ingredients

  
  Chic & Green — Authority: 136
  The Classic Cleanser is one of several FranBrand items with large amounts of Palm Oil and an incomplete ingredients listing. There has been quite a bit of publicity over Fran Dreschers newly released line of natural skin care called FranBrand . Drescher, a cancer survivor, wanted to ...
  1 week ago

• Blackwashing by NGOs, greenwashing by corporations, threatens environmental progress

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Misinformation campaigns by both corporations and environmental groups threaten to undermine efforts to conserve biodiversity and reduce environmental degradation, argues a new paper published in the journal Biotropica . Growing concerns over climate change and unsustainable resource extraction have put companies ...
  1 week ago

• Sustainable Palm Oil Farmers Earn $2.1M Through GreenPalm

  
  AQUACHANNEL — Authority: 142
  GreenPalm, the certificate trading programme designed to promote sustainable palm oil production by enabling producers to earn more by producing sustainably, has reached an important milestone. Just 12 over months after trading in GreenPalm certificates began, palm oil producers who are members of the programme and ...
  1 week ago

• Palm biodiesel exports rise despite NGO attacks

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 573
  The Star 12 Nov 09;KUALA LUMPUR: Local palm biodiesel exports to the European Union (EU) and the United States have continued to rise this year despite the ongoing attacks on palm oil greenhouse gas (GHG) emission issues as well as anti-palm oil campaigns by non-governmental organisations, said Malaysian Palm Oil ...
  1 week ago

• Three Oil Palm Genomes Sequenced Completely

  
  Nerdy Science Blog — Authority: 416
  Palm oil is the world most consumed edible oil.  Palm oil is also used as important source of biofuel. The Genome of oil palms, the plant that produces palm oil, had been sequenced by consortium led by Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB), Orion Genomics and the Advanced Biotechnology and Breeding Centre.  The sequence ...
  1 week ago

• Import of sensitive items rise 30 percent in April-August

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Mumbai, Nov 11 (IANS) Imports of sensitive items in the first five months this fiscal rose over 30 percent to about Rs.22,430 crore, compared to Rs.17,200 crore during the corresponding period last year, data released Wednesday by the commerce ministry showed.Gross import of all commodities during the period under ...
  1 week ago

• Palm oil developers push into Indonesias last frontier: Papua

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Oil palm developers in the Indonesian half of New Guinea are signing questionable deals that exploit local communities and put important forest ecosystems at risk, alleges a new report from Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and Telapak.
  1 week ago

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