An Amazonian indigenous-rights organization here filed a complaint on Dec. 5 with the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), an international palm-sector stakeholders group whose members pledge to uphold environmental and social standards. The Federation of Native Communities of the Ucayali (Feconau) alleges that a plantation operated by RSPO member Plantaciones de Pucallpa, a Peruvian company, has cleared mature forest in the ancestral territory of the Shipibo-Konibo community of Santa Clara de Uchunya, in the Ucayali region. “You can’t implement monocrop palm plantations in highly biodiverse forests,” says Feconau President Robert Guimaraes, who traveled to the December climate summit in Paris to present the case to international donors—among them officials from Norway and Germany, which are funding Peruvian efforts to reduce... [Log in to read more]