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Greenpeace reveals the latest stage of its tough gorilla marketing campaign against Nestle to protest the company's use of unsustainable palm oil in its candy bars. This time, protestors dressed in orangutan costumes interrupted Nestle's shareholders meeting and staged themselves outside.

They don't know how many new ones they found, however.

Here is the list: Cuban crocodile, Grenada dove, Florida bonneted bat, Green-eyed frog, Hirola, Ploughshare tortoise, Island gray fox, Sumatran orangutan, Vanquita, White-headed langur.

The State and Federal government announced today that they would "pursue other alternative sources of energy, namely gas, to meet Sabah's power supply needs." Proposed for an undeveloped beach on the north-eastern coast of Borneo, the coal plant, according to critics, would have threatened the Coral Triangle, one of the world's most biodiverse marine ecosystems, and Tabin Wildlife Reserve, home to Critically Endangered Sumatran rhinos and Bornean orangutans. Local fishermen feared that discharges from the plant would have imperiled their livelihood.

Sinar Mas Group, the notorious international palm oil pariah, recently made a remarkable announcement: The company's subsidiary, Golden Agri Resouces (GAR), intends to implement a forest conservation policy. Among other things, GAR's Forest Conservation Policy commits it to a goal of "no new development" on peat lands, High Conservation Value Forest areas or High Carbon Landscapes, respecting Indigenous and local communities, and achievement of RSPO certification for all its holdings by 2015.