Deforestation Moratorium and Future Shortages of Food Supply Will Require 10 Times More Forest Conversion
The world population of over 6 billion is increasing by 70 to 80 million people annually. Food supply needs to expand to keep up with the additional demand. Land...
How WENGOs Can Contribute to a Better World?
WENGOs can re-align their campaigns by focusing on what developed countries could do in order to make a more meaningful contribution to their objective of reducing global CO2...
Sustainability: New Market for Certified Sustainable Oils and Fats?
Confusion reigns over certified and uncertified oils In recent years, the Western Environmental NGOs (WENGOs) together with producers and buyers of palm oil have attempted to promote the development...
Senseless and Immoral Attacks on Palm Oil by NGOs
A recent report revealed that the EU, through its environmental ministries and commissions is involved in funding up to 70% of the operating budgets of environmental NGOs. These NGOS...
Palm Oil: A Crop of Peace & Prosperity
Recently, the anti-palm oil NGOs voiced their frustration at a leaked EU document that recognizes oil palm as a forest plantation. It is highly...
Copenhagen: Outcome As Predicted
The recently concluded Copenhagen climate summit was viewed by many participants as a failure for its inability to yield sizable reductions in carbon emissions. But for those concerned with...
Look out for the Malaysian Palm Oil Brand
As we approach the year end, thousands of oil palm farmers and smallholders are relieved at the prospect of palm oil prices being maintained at more than RM 2400...
What Deforestation?
Many harsh critiques of the Malaysian oil palm industry do not know that Malaysia had stopped deforesting its pristine natural tropical forests 15 years ago when the country pledged...
Misquoted in The Star Newspaper
Ms Hillary Chew is a respected environmental campaigner for the Star and should not write words as though they were from my statements. I never said that...
Environment Comment
Mr Sean Whyte complained in the media as an NGO that the NGOs are doing a good job telling the truth about the manner that the oil palm industry...