FSC-Certified Company Uses Fire to Clear Indonesian Forests
Korindo owns the largest palm oil plantation holdings in Papua and has destroyed 57,000 hectares of rainforest in the province since 2001.
Top 10 banks Financing Biodiversity Loss
Report names HSBC, Bank of America, Mitsubishi Financial, Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, Mizuho Financial, Wells Fargo, BNP Paribas SMBC Group and Barclays.
Indonesia: Area 8 Times of Bali Burned in Last 5 Years
Between 2015 and 2019, 4.4 million hectares of land have burned in Indonesia. Some 789,600 ha of this area (18%) has burned repeatedly.
Forest Fires Linked to Increased Covid-19 Fatalities
Forest Fires Haze: New Greenpeace report reveals alarming health impacts and links to severity of COVID-19.
Greenpeace Finds APP Guilty of Fueling Forest Fires in Indonesia
Greenpeace has proved that between August 2018 and June 2020, around 3,500 ha of peatland was destroyed in three concessions either owned or that are major suppliers to APP.
Mega Rice Project Turns Peatlands into Carbon Bomb
The project will see at least 165,000 hectares of carbon-rich peatlands in Kalimantan transformed into rice fields.