Reafforestation in China and India

Image source: The Economist Here is an interesting chart if ever there was one. The Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) — a reliable source, one would think — has published data on the annual rate of deforestation over the past decade which shows that some countries are bucking the trend and have become net reafforestors [...]

Chunky KitKats are back with a clear conscience

Image source: ecofriendlymag.com Breaking news in The Guardian yesterday is that you can now have a break, and have a KitKat, and do so with a clear conscience. The article entitled: Nestlé uses NGO to clean up palm oil supply chain reports on how a company with USD100 billion in revenues will bow to pressure [...]

Greenpeace takes on Nestle over Indonesian rainforest destruction

An article published in The Guardian the other day describes how Nestlé is ‘fighting a PR battle with Greenpeace over claims that it is continuing to source palm oil from Sinar Mas, the Indonesian company accused of illegal deforestation and peatland clearance’. Greenpeace alleges that plantation expansion by Sinar Mas is endangering orangutans by encroaching [...]