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Home > Media > News > Study concludes conservation NGOs might be better off working outside RSPO
2016-07-28 In News

Study concludes conservation NGOs might be better off working outside RSPO

Being delivered at processing plant, harvested palm oil fruit grown to be exported to the west for use in processed food stuffs, cosmetics, household cleaning products and more. Palm oil plantations are cutting down and burning primary and secondary forests vital as habitat for wildlife including the critically endangered Sumatran and Borneo orangutans, Sumatra, Indonesia
Being delivered at processing plant, harvested palm oil fruit grown to be exported to the west for use in processed food stuffs, cosmetics, household cleaning products and more. Palm oil plantations are cutting down and burning primary and secondary forests vital as habitat for wildlife including the critically endangered Sumatran and Borneo orangutans, Sumatra, Indonesia

Study suggesting NGOs reconsider their relationship to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO).

On a related note, SOCP Founding Partner the PanEco Foundation resigned its membership to the RSPO in May 2016.

Study concludes conservation NGOs might be better off working outside the RSPO

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