Mongabay: Environmentalists have thwarted plans to establish an oil palm plantation in the Tanoe forest wetlands of southern Cote d’ Ivoire (Ivory Coast), reports AFP. In announcement Friday, Palmci, the country’s largest palm oil company, blamed environmental groups for scuttling the project. “Palmci has decided to abandon this project in the face of the refusal of certain NGOs to accept the coexistence of environmental preservation and the development of economic activity,” the company …