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EU beef, palm oil imports help fuel illegal logging, campaign group says - TRFN [1]

Forests the size of a football field were illegally cleared every two minutes between 2000 and 2012 to supply European consumers with beef, soy beans, leather and palm oil, a campaign group said on

Publication Date: 
18/03/2015
Reuters [2]
Tags:
Forests [3], Deforestation [4], Palm Oil [5], Illegal Trade [6], Brazil [7], Indonesia [8], European Union (EU) [9]

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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/reuters
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forests
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/deforestation
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/palm-oil
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/illegal-trade
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/brazil
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/indonesia
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/european-union-eu