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Investigations out of EIA's U.S. office have also come across RSPO failures as part of research to understand the roots and financing of new, illegal deforestation for oil palm and other agro-commodity crops in the Peruvian Amazon.

This briefing was submitted to the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market along with a sign - on letter from over 60 indigenous organizations and NGOs from Peru, Europe, and the United States calling for United Cacao to be removed from trading on AIM for its breaches of AIM rules and ongoing illegal deforestation for palm oil and cacao in the Peruvian Amazon.

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The Orangutan snack was a spoof on KitKat for a campaign last year against Nestle and HSBC over the two company's dealings with Indonesian palm oil producer Sinar Mas, whom Greenpeace accused of illegal deforestation.

He noted that «This is in preparation for our deforestation program in terms of degradation which is as a result of illegal small scale mining.

Other reasons for the rebound in deforestation include illegal logging and the invasion of public lands adjacent to big infrastructure projects in the Amazon, such as roads and hydroelectric dams.

«While it has been shown that deforestation rates are lower in protected areas than in certain non-protected areas in Indonesia, mounting demands for timber and agricultural products along with weak enforcement are changing this situation, resulting in illegal logging and agricultural encroachment within Indonesia's protected areas,» said Asst Prof Cook.

Commercial agriculture is responsible for more than 70 per cent of tropical deforestation, half of which is illegal, says forests expert Sam Lawson, an independent researcher who has analysed local and government data from around the world (bit.ly / ForestTrends).

Making all deforestation «illegal» «The Wilmar commitment sets a new global standard for industry and creates new constituencies in forest countries among the private sector for improved land - use policies and improved law enforcement,» said Frances Seymour, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and an expert in forest policy.

These are classified in three groups, one Issues involving the global community are global warming, biodiversity and ecosystem losses, fisheries depletion, deforestation, water deficits, maritime safety and pollution, second Issues requiring a global commitments are massive step - up in the fight against poverty, peacekeeping, conflict prevention, combating terrorism, Education for all, Global infectious diseases, digital divide, natural disaster prevention and mitigation and third Issues needing a global regulatory approach are reinventing taxation for the twenty - first century, biotechnology rules, global financial architecture, Illegal drugs, Trade, investment, and competition rules, Intellectual property rights, E-commerce rules, International labor and migration

Los Katios National Park was placed on the Danger List at the request of Colombia so as to help mobilize international support for the preservation of the property which is threatened by, notably, deforestation in areas inside and around the property due to the illegal extraction of timber.

The official statement on drivers of deforestation agreed to by parties to the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2013 does not specifically address illegal conversion for commercial agriculture.

Our undercover investigations expose transnational wildlife crime, with a focus on elephants and tigers and forest crimes such as illegal logging and deforestation for cash crops such as palm oil.

Alliance for Forest Conservation and Sustainable Use, «WWF / World Bank Forest Alliance Launches Ambitious Program to Reduce Deforestation and Curb Illegal Logging,» press release (New York: World Bank / WWF, 25 May 2005); certified area from Alliance for Forest Conservation and Sustainable Use, «World Bank / WWF Alliance for Forest Conservation & Sustainable Use: Questions & Answers,» World Bank / WWF, at www.worldwildlife.org/alliance, viewed 30 July 2007; new protected area from Alliance for Forest Conservation and Sustainable Use, «WWF / World Bank Alliance Targets,» at www.worldwildlife.org/alliance, viewed 30 July 2007.

The owner of Indonesia's largest conglomerate has been accused of participating in the illegal deforestation of Borneo's Ketungau peat swamp to make way for oil palm plantations.

Illegal and legal deforestation, driven by cattle ranching, soy production for livestock feed and logging for timber and charcoal, continues to be a significant problem in Brazil today.

The code includes an amnesty programme for illegal deforestation that occurred before 2008 on «small properties» in a move environmentalists warned would make illegal deforestation more culturally acceptable.

However, numerous studies show that failure to address the true drivers of deforestation — high demand for wood products, expansion of industrial agriculture, illegal and unplanned forest conversion, conflicts over land and resources, and extractive activities — will generally undermine any effort to «protect» forests through «payment for ecosystem services» schemes such as REDD.

Experience in past decades shows that deforestation for agriculture and illegal logging is following suit with better access.

Together, the projects being developed collectively by Cacao del Perú Norte S.A.C. (operating a cacao plantation in Loreto), Plantaciones de Ucayali S.A.C., and Plantaciones de Pucallpa S.A.C. (both operating oil palm plantations in Ucayali), are responsible for over 11,000 hectares of illegal deforestation, mainly of primary tropical rainforest.

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE UNTIL 10 SEPTEMBER 2014 AT 20:01 EDT / 11 SEPTEMBER 2014 AT 00:01 GMT Editor's Note: The full report as well as supplementary materials are available at https://www.forest-trends.org/publications/consumer-goods-and-deforestation/ WASHINGTON, DC (11 September 2014)-- A comprehensive new analysis released today says that nearly half (49 %) of all recent tropical deforestation is the result of illegal -LSB-...]

Peru has come under fire as a country where some of the worst deforestation of the Amazon is taking place as a result oil drilling, gold mining, illegal logging and land clearance for farms.

The bill now advances to the Senate for review, and must ultimately be signed by President Rousseff, who has vowed to veto any measure containing amnesty for illegal loggers or allowing new deforestation.

The new code, which will face a final vote in February or March before going to President Dilma Rousseff for approval, would maintain the headline 80 percent figure in the Amazon, but grant amnesty for illegal deforestation through July 2008 on properties up to 400 hectares (1000 acres)(some greens fear worry the deadline may shift in the future).

«British supermarkets are driving rapid destruction of the Amazon rainforest by using meat from farms responsible for illegal deforestation», says Adam.

From a political perspective, these tax credits have three very powerful constituencies: 1) All taxpayers 2) Major companies looking to reduce their tax burden while doing something good for the environment 3) Landowners, farmers, ranchers, and the forest products industry (these groups will be eligible for tax credits for reforestation or agricultural changes on their own land; organizations such as the National Farmers Union, the American Forest and Paper Association, the National Alliance of Forest Owners, United Steelworkers, and many others have already been advocates for protection of tropical forests and cracking down on illegal logging as a way to level the playing field by ensuring products on the global market don't come from deforestation.)

After a surge in illegal deforestation, Brazil's carbon emissions have risen for the third year running, according to a new study

On the land - use front, Brazil reiterated its promise to end illegal deforestation and restore 12 million hectares of forest by 2030 — mostly by continuing to implement its Forest Code, which was overhauled two years ago and amended last year to create incentives for the country's six million private landowners to join the Rural Environmental Registry System (Cadastro Ambiental Rural / «CAR»), which is linked to a satellite monitoring system that tracks land use.

Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot, speaking on behalf of the 25 member states after their recent meeting on the situation in Burma, called on the EU Commission «to produce specific proposals to address the issue of illegal logging, including opportunities for decreasing deforestation in, and export of, teak from Burma».

Although Brazil is the country that, for the past ten years, has been offering major reductions in greenhouse gas emissions due to the fight against illegal deforestation in the Amazon, we must do more!

Illegal logging is driving the lion's share of deforestation in the world's rain forests, and organized crime is to blame for almost all of it.

With the help of this system, known as Project Monitoring Deforestation in the Amazon (PRODES), along with improvements in land management on a local and federal level, that has allowed for illegal logging practices to slow in recent years.

To ensure they are effective, REDD schemes need to prioritise securing indigenous land tenure, clamp down on industrial offenders of illegal logging, and agree real reductions in deforestation — with penalties for failure that bite.

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