New report spotlights financiers of palm oil giant clearing Liberia’s forests

Mongabay
Jul 17, 2018, 7:17 pm662 ptsHot
An Indonesian-owned plantation company operating in Liberia has come under renewed scrutiny for allegedly clearing hundreds of hectares of protected forestland, including chimpanzee habitat, wetlands and river buffer zones. Between 2010 and 2016, Golden Veroleum Liberia (GVL) cleared and planted some 150 square…

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