Greenpeace France warns that tropical forests could be lost to a palm oil bonanza that has already razed millions of hectares of south-east Asia Africa’s tropical forests are threatened by a palm oil bonanza that has already razed millions of old-growth hectares in south-east Asia,Greenpeace France warned on Tuesday.
The NGO called on European palm and rubber plantation giant Socfin, which controls huge tracts of tropical land in more than half-a-dozen African nations, and to join other multinationals in adopted so-called “zero deforestation” policies.
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Source: theguardian.com