JAKARTA, Indonesia, Feb. 28 / CSRwire / - The Tropical Landscapes Finance Facility (TLFF) today announced its inaugural transaction, a landmark US$ 95 million Sustainability Bond to help finance a sustainable natural
rubber plantation on heavily degraded land in two provinces in Indonesia.
As a result, Fox says that Chinese investors have been able to move in and secure sometimes questionable deals that allow them to develop
rubber plantations on lands once populated by leopards, monkeys and tigers.
Not exact matches
The main Indian immigration came during the nineteenth century, when indentured Indian laborers came to work
on the
rubber plantations, and now the population of Singapore is about six and a half percent Indian.
Instead of maple syrup, i poured in hill honey sourced from my neighbour's
rubber plantation in Kerala; the bananas were grown
on our farm and the brown sugar was replaced with powdered jaggery (unrefined cane sugar)... i added some orange rind and left out the cinnamon...
Take your seat
on a tricycle tuk - tuk to be whisked through villages, rice fields, and
rubber plantations.
Located
on the beautiful island of Koh Mak, Bamboo Hideaway is a cosy, boutique style resort built in an aging
rubber tree
plantation using natural materials.
on the back of a gentle, majestic Asian Elephant, through the jungle across palm and
rubber plantations, and up Naga Mountain, offering panoramic vistas
Inkaterra Hacienda Concepcion is located
on what was once a cocoa and
rubber plantation.
In another, a blazing orange ceiling spans a
plantation room in which verandas open
on either side to reveal surreally opposing landscapes — to the right, a Louisiana Mississippi River Road
plantation, and to the left, a south Vietnamese
rubber tree grove.
And Marc Ona, the 2009 recipient from Gabon, is facing the possibility of prison for publicly speaking out
on the linkage between environmental destruction and governmental corruption, particularly in land giveaways for oil palm and
rubber plantations.
Today, Ona's fight to expose Olam's environmentally destructive
rubber tree
plantation projects continues: «Development strategies can not be imposed
on a people without their advice.
The Sleep
On Latex toppers are made with 100 % natural latex, sourced from
rubber tree
plantations in Sri Lanka, which is then processed into latex foam using the Dunlop process.