MONT PEKO NATIONAL PARK, Ivory Coast (AP) — Park rangers in the world's top cocoa producer, Ivory Coast, are waging a campaign to protect national forests from the illegal farming of the raw ...

Cocoa grown illegally in a Nigerian rainforest heads to companies that supply major chocolate makers As the world’s demand for chocolate grows, farmers in Nigeria are moving into protected areas of a ...

AidEnvironment suggested Mondelez’s policies have “symptoms of systemic weaknesses”, including untraceable sourcing.

This cocoa-growing settlement was all but destroyed last year by Ivorian forest agents, leaving farmers to rake through their beans amid broken concrete and other remnants. By Joe Bavier, Maytaal ...

Accra - WWF´s West Africa Forest Programme Office (WAFPO), West Africa Fair Fruit (WAFF) and the Ghanaian timber manufacturing company John Bitar & Company Limited (JCM) are working on a joint project ...

Cocoa production in Côte d’Ivoire began in the 1950s in forests bordering Ghana, and progressively shifted west as trees were removed and soil exhausted. Côte d’Ivoire lost 217,866 hectares of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - In Mont Peko National Park, thousands of leafless Iroko and Samba trees tower over a sea of lush plantations like headstones, a testament to the heavy environmental cost Ivory ...

Conservationists have flagged logging activity by a company in Cameroon that’s clearing forest near a national park in apparent breach of its permits. A campaign since 2017 to convince farmers in Côte ...

BALEKO-NIEGRE, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - The Ivory Coast is clearing tens of thousands of cocoa farmers from protected forests, threatening exports from the world's top grower and leading to complaints ...