Palm oil can be found in food and cosmetics everywhere: in fact, half of the world's population uses palm oil in food. But public awareness about the loss of wildlife through deforestation caused by palm oil crops is growing, ...
Environment
Nov 14, 2018
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In order to avoid water conflicts and to stimulate food production in sub-Saharan Africa, large-scale land acquisition should be regulated and focus on food production. These are the conclusions of a new doctoral thesis from ...
Environment
Nov 9, 2018
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Zero-deforestation commitments within the palm oil industry risk being undermined by a lack of monitoring within production landscapes—meaning the deforestation of tropical forests home to Critically Endangered wildlife ...
Environment
Nov 6, 2018
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Indonesian palm oil farmer Kawal Surbakti says his livelihood is under attack, but the threat is not from insects or hungry orangutans eating his prized crop.
Environment
Sep 24, 2018
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Protected riverbank habitats within areas of oil palm cultivation can play a key role in reducing the negative impacts on tropical bird numbers but need to be increased in size, new research from the University of Kent has ...
Ecology
Aug 7, 2018
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Going into debt with nature is a dangerous thing. When our stocks of water, land and clean air are spent – we don't have a second planet to borrow from. But that's exactly the way that Earth is heading. 1 August 2018 marks ...
Environment
Aug 1, 2018
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Palm oil production has "decimated" animal and plant life in Malaysia and Indonesia, and threatens pristine forests in central Africa and South America, a leading international conservation group warned Tuesday.
Environment
Jun 26, 2018
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The world's largest palm oil trader is still linked to deforestation in Indonesia despite committing five years ago to stop logging the archipelago's vast tracts of jungle, Greenpeace said Monday.
Environment
Jun 25, 2018
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There is little evidence that a certification scheme for palm oil plantations is improving protection of critically endangered orangutans in Borneo, researchers say.
Environment
Jun 13, 2018
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Dozens of French farmers blocked access to 13 refineries across the country on Monday to protest plans to import palm oil for use in biofuels, a move they denounce as unfair competition which jeopardises their livelihood.
Environment
Jun 11, 2018
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