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Misinformation
campaigns by both corporations and environmental groups threaten to
undermine efforts to conserve biodiversity and reduce environmental
degradation, argues a new paper published in the journal Biotropica.
Growing concerns over climate change and unsustainable resource
extraction have put companies that exploi...t the environment in the
spotlight. Some firms have responded by taking measures to reduce their
environmental impact. Others have alternatively engaged in
sophisticated marketing campaigns intended to mislead consumers on
their environmental performance, maintaining that
environmentally-destructive practices are instead benign. At the same
time some activist groups have been guilty of exaggerating claims of
environmental misconduct in order to boost support for their campaigns
and therefore their fundraising efforts.
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The Bay Area Tropical Forest Network (BATFN) is an informal social network in the San Francisco Bay Area broadly interested in tropical forest conservation and ecology.

This month's meeting will feature a short presentation by Kim Carlson on "Oil palm plantation expansion in Indonesian Borneo: Tipping points and tradeof...fs" followed by introductions and discussion. Kim is an exchange scholar at Stanford and also a Ph.D. candidate in the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

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