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SOS Amazon: the Brazilian government wants to open up the forest to mining.

1 September 2017 Michela Marchi

President Michel Temer has abolished a nature reserve the size of Denmark to allow mining. The Brazilian president, Michel Temer, has taken steps to abolish the National Reserve of Copper and Associates (Renca), opening up a protected area of 46,000 square kilometers of forest, between the northern states of Amapà and Parà, to mining. It …

Child labor on Indonesian palm oil plantations

30 November 2016

Women working long hours for as little as $2.50 a day with no healthcare or pension. Children as young as eight doing hard physical labor, at the expense of school. Toxic chemicals causing serious injuries to workers without adequate safety equipment. According to a new report published today by Amnesty International, that’s the price we’re paying for cheap palm oil.