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Illegal Deforestation Monitor
IDM tracks illegalities relating to conversion of forests for export-oriented agribusiness, the largest driver of global deforestation Continue reading
Deforestation in the Chaco spikes in the wake of “illegal” presidential decree stripping back environmental safeguards
31.01.2018 Satellite imagery points to an increase last October after Paraguay’s president issued a potentially illegal decree allowing cattle ranchers to evade restrictions
Greenpeace alleges political collusion behind illegal deforestation for soy in Argentina
23.01.2018 Alejandro Jaime Braun Peña, a politically-connected businessman, accused of illegally clearing native forest in the province of Salta
Indonesian National Strategic Area loses thousands of hectares of forest in 2017
22.01.2018 Almost 7,000 hectares of forest were destroyed in the Leuser Ecosystem, in the western Indonesian province of Aceh, in 2017
Colombian community activist who stood up to plantation firms is shot dead
22.12.2017 A community leader in Colombia who campaigned against the incursion of plantation companies into land and forests has reportedly been assassinated
Illegal deforestation hit big ag firms where it hurt – in the pocket
22.12.2017 A new analysis of three major agricultural firms implicated in illegal deforestation reveals how it affected profitability and huge losses for investors
Shots fired at Peru's environmental defenders
21.12.2017 Shots reportedly fired at members of a community and indigenous peoples’ organisation investigating land invasions by an oil palm company
Big ag trader drops Guatemalan firm linked to toxic spill
21.12.2017 US agribusiness giant Cargill has suspended its business relationship with oil palm firm that caused toxic spill, impacted food security of thousands of families
Illegal plantations threaten Sumatran tiger with extinction
07.12.2017 Fewer than 600 of the species remain in the wild and expansion of illegal oil palm plantations into Indonesian national parks may lead to its extinction
