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[Orangutan Outreach] Indonesia looks to Papua to expand palm oil plantations: Greenpeace Southeast Asia political advisor Arief Wicaksono applauded Anlgo-Dutch food and consumer goods giant Unilever, which said this month it backed a moratorium on further palm oil deforestation in Indonesia and intended to use only fully traceable palm oil by 2015.

 [SHAKEN BUT NOT STIRRED!!!] SLAVERY TODAY ~ A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER!!!:     From young boys forced to endlessly weave intricate wool rugs in India to teens who are beaten and starved on cocoa plantations in the Ivory Coast, to a woman from Cameroon who was lured into forced domestic slavery by a suburban couple living outside Washington, DC, the stories in the book are heartbreaking.

[Cut Global Warming] Greenpeace orang-utans swing into action against Dove: The report, entitled Burning up Borneo, accuses Unilever of contributing to this destruction by continuing to buy from these suppliers, and doing nothing to prevent the massive expansion of the palm oil industry further into Indonesia’s peatland forests.

[greenstate] Greenpeace campaigner: Peatland forest destruction continues in ...: Xinhua: Peatland forests in Indonesia are continuously destructed by palm oil industry, although the government has stopped issuing new permits for new plantations at peatland ecosystem, a Greenpeace campaigner said here Monday. Hapsoro, Greenpeace campaigner for the Southeast Asia, said that the Greenpeace team has found a new plantation opened without permits on peatland forest in Indonesia’s Riau province at Sumatra Island.

[The Bali Times] Greenpeace Wants Moratorium on Oil Palm Expansion in Indonesia: JAKARTA ~ Greenpeace called this week for a moratorium on the expansion of oil palm plantations in Indonesia’s rainforests and peatlands, warning that soaring world demand is creating an environmental crisis.

[Orangutan Outreach] Greenpeace: Forest destruction for palm oil continues in Indonesia: JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Indonesia’s peat land forests are still being cut down to make way for palm oil plantations despite government pledges to stop the destruction, the environmental group Greenpeace said Monday.

 [BALI NEWS INFORMATION - News and Weather for Bali, Indonesia - Welcome to Bali through Bali Travel News - Bali Newspaper - Bali Tourism News | Bali Blog - Bali travel forum visa news polling guide places to visit Bali hotels accommodation villas - Real time news and weather reports for Bali and Indonesia with links to local newspaper websites and the Bali Travel Forum] Greenpeace: Peatland forest destruction continues in Indonesia: Hapsoro, Greenpeace campaigner for Southeast Asia, said that the Greenpeace team has found a new plantation opened without permits on peatland forest in Indonesia’s Riau province at Sumatra Island.

 [pittsburgh bloggers - All Blog Headlines] Greenpeace wants moratorium on palm oil expansion in Indonesia (AFP): Greenpeace has called for a moratorium on the expansion of palm oil plantations in Indonesia's rainforests and peat-lands, warning that soaring world demand is creating an environmental crisis.(AFP/File/Nabiha Shahab)" border="0" //aAFP ...

 [olyecology weblog] 344 - Earth's Tree News: The enhanced destruction of forests that would result from the commercialization of GE trees will take a very high toll, not only on wildlife and biodiversity, but on forest-dependent and indigenous communities and women. You cannot say that you support the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities, and that you are committed to biodiversity protection, yet simultaneously allow the release of GE trees.

[Branding Blog By Brand Identity Guru] Greenpeace Fires Off On Dove Brand and Others: Gamble, Dove soap, Nestlé, Kraft and Burger King, are driving the demand for palm oil used in food and cosmetics products such as Pringles, KitKat candy, Oreo cookies, and Philadelphia Cream Cheese. The Indonesian peatlands, unique tropical forests whose dense soil can be burned to produce energy and are being destroyed to make way for palm oil plantations, are some of the world’s great carbon sinks and their destruction already accounts for four percent of annual global emissions.

 [The Responsible Marketing Blog] Responsible or not? Unilever: We started work on sustainable palm oil ten years ago by developing and sharing our own guidelines and good practices with growers and suppliers, leading to the setting up of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil in 2004. Through the RSPO, we have continued to work hard to build an industry consensus on criteria for sustainable palm cultivation.

[Green Blog] Dove beauty products causes forest destruction, species extinction ...: Being one of the biggest users of palm oil on the planet, Unilever must stop buying palm oil from these companies and call for a halt on the destruction of Indonesian forests to grow palm oil.”

[Borneo Blog] “Green” Palm Oil But Forest Destruction Remains - Report: As palm oil prices boom, Malaysia has mounted a campaign to counter allegations that the crop is responsible for habitat destruction, air pollution from slash-and-burn farming, and pushing orangutans towards extinction.

 [Greenpeace UK - Forests] Dove story: how you're helping to change Unilever's mind on palm oil: As one of the world's biggest users of palm oil in its Dove soap and Persil products, Unilever has a huge influence on how suppliers operate. It is essential that the company pushes for a moratorium, as Greenpeace UK director John Sauven pointed out this morning, "Unilever's commitment to sourcing sustainable palm oil will be meaningless unless its suppliers stop trashing Indonesia’s rainforests - this is why the moratorium is so important.

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