The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), an international organisation that monitors and promotes sustainable farming of palm oil, is launching investigations into five of its members in the wake of the forest fires in Indonesia. It is asking these members to submit digital maps of their plantations in Kalimantan and Sumatra within the next 48 hours for its investigation. RSPO will compare these maps against the published mapping of the forest fires by NASA as part of its investigation. Read More
