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August 5, 2019

FSC to sanction Korean-Indonesian company

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) has sanctioned Korean-Indonesian conglomerate Korindo for clearing tropical forests in Indonesia to produce palm oil. Although the Korindo Group isn’t being expelled from the certification scheme, the company must rapidly improve its forestry operations to meet FSC standards.  FSC’s investigation was prompted when the environmental nonprofit group Mighty Earth filed a complaint two years ago saying that the Korindo Group companies violated the FSC’s Policy of Association by exceeding the 10,000 hectares deforestation threshold across its oil palm operations over the previous five years.  Satellite imagery ...

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