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18/01/2010 (Environmental Leader) - With new figures showing that only 1 percent, or about 15,000 tons, of sustainable palm oil available on the market is being purchased, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) says it will implement a buyer’s scorecard over the next six months that will indicate whether or not the companies have fulfilled their commitments to purchase it.

18/01/2010 (Ghana News Agency) - The Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam District is currently negotiating with some Chinese investors to establish a permanent oil market to purchase palm oil produced in the District.

17/01/2010 (BBC News) - The decline in the world's biodiversity is approaching a point of no return, warns Hilary Benn. In this week's Green Room, the UK's environment secretary urges the international community to seize the chance to act before it is too late.

17/01/2010 (The Star Online), Kota Kinabalu - Orang utan conservationists are upset with World Growth, a US non-governmental organisation, for “dismissing” the threat posed to the ape population by oil palm plantations.

16/01/2010 (Mongabay.com) - The Malaysian palm oil industry has been broadly accused of contributing to the dramatic decline in orangutan populations in Sabah, a state in northern Borneo, over the past 30 years. The industry has staunchly denied these charges and responded with marketing campaigns claiming the opposite: that oil palm plantations can support and nourish the great red apes. The issue came to a head last October at the Orangutan Colloquium held in Kota Kinabalu. There, confronted by orangutan biologists, the palm oil industry pledged to support restoring forest corridors along rivers in order to help facilitate movement of orangutans between remaining forest reserves across seas of oil palm plantations. Attending NGOs agreed that they would need to work with industry to find a balance that would allow the ongoing survival of orangutans in the wild. Nevertheless, the conference was marked by much of the same rhetoric that has characterized most of these meetings — chief palm oil industry officias again made dubious claims about the environmental stewardship of the industry. However, this time, there was at least acknowledgment that palm oil needs to play an active role in conservation.

16/01/2010 (PTI), New Delhi - Continuing their slide for the second straight week, edible oil prices fell up to Rs 200 per quintal at the wholesale oils and oilseeds market on selling by stockists, triggered by higher imports and weak global trend.

15/01/2010 (Mongabay.com) - A company in Uganda is pressuring the environment ministry to allow it to log a protected forest reserve to establish a palm oil plantation, reports The New Vision.

14/01/2010 (Mongabay.com) - New report documents billions of dollars in losses from Indonesia's reforestation fund between 1989 and 2009.

14/01/2010 (Flex News Food) - India reclaimed its position as number one edible oil importer in 2009, with purchases up 35 percent to a record 8.4 million tonnes on lower oilseed output and an appreciating currency.

13/01/2010 (All Africa), Kampla - Many food and cosmetics companies, including Unilever, Nestle, Kraft and Burger King, are driving the demand for palm oil supplies, because of the need for products that contain non-hydrogenated solid vegetable fats.

14/01/2010 (Bernama), Sandakan - The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) is making efforts to include palm oil smallholders in the scheme to avoid marginalising the poorer sector of the industry.

15/01/2010 (FOSFA.org) - The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) ended the year 2010 with strong growth in both the production and use of RSPO-certified sustainable palm oil. Compared to 009, numbers doubled, in many cases even tripled compared to the year before.