Palm oil giant announces deforestation freeze amid NGO campaign

Mongabay
By Philip JacobsonJun 12, 2015, 4:21 am167 pts
Palm oil giant Astra Agro Lestari has announced an immediate moratorium on land clearing, less than a month after the launch of an environmental campaign targeting one of its sister companies, the Mandarin Oriental hotel chain. The prohibition applies to Astra Agro's own plantations as well as to those of its…

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