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It's old news that many people are unhappy with Rainforest Alliance working with corporations that seem largely at odds with the spirit of the certification (you can read my post «Discontent with certifications» from more on this topic).

Across the way, a canopy of mist hovers over one of the world's most ancient rainforests, an expanse of some 465 square miles that is more than 100 million years old.

In Indonesia and Malaysia, where some 85 % of the world's palm oil is produced, more than 16 million hectares of land — rainforest, peat bogs and old rubber plantations — have been taken over by oil palm, and there is no sign of the industry slowing down.

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The rainforests around Cairns have plants and species of animals that have been around for more than 100 million years — making the Wet Tropics the oldest continually surviving rainforest on earth.

The rainforest of Cairns and the Wet Tropics have flora and fauna that have been found here for more than 100 million years making this the oldest continually surviving rainforest on earth.

The rainforests around Cairns have plants and animals that have been around for more than 100 million years making the Wet Tropics the oldest continually surviving rainforest on earth.

At more than 135 million years old, Daintree is the oldest rainforest in the world.

Taman Negara, Malaysia's premier national park covers four thousand square kilometres of rainforests and is estimated to be more than 130 million years old!

The Old Manor Hotel is a converted sugar plantation only a few steps from the Five Star Guest House, but more tastefully cultivated to mesh with the rainforest that creeps down from the mountain.

Across the province, gaze up at majestic mountains (many of them rising more than 3,000 m / 9, 843 ft), and explore ancient old - growth forests.Visit the Great Bear Rainforest.

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Millenials may well consider anything that predates the 1980s «ancient», but for something ultra-long in the tooth — more than 100 million years old, that is — look no further than the World Heritage - listed Daintree Rainforest.

AM: Learn more about the world's oldest rainforest at the Daintree Discovery Centre and walk along Cape Tribulation beach — where the Great Barrier Reef meets the Daintree.

Actress Daryl Hannah was arrested this afternoon in West Virginia along with NASA climatologist James Hansen, local activist Michael Brune of Rainforest Action Network, Goldman Prize winner Judy Bonds, 94 - year - old former U.S. Representative Ken Hechler and more than a dozen others.

But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.