Sentences with phrase «oil palm plantation»

Conversion to oil palm will drastically reduce species richness (recent research has shown that conversion of primary rainforest to an oil palm plantation results in a loss of more than 80 percent of species).

Oil palm plantation companies are still eating away at the Leuser Ecosystem, one of Indonesia's last best rainforests, despite a provincial ban on forest clearance to make way for the...

Logs from clearcut Bikam Forest Reserve, which will be turned into an oil palm plantation.

Biopact passed along the suggestion that environmental organizations could buy their own oil palm plantation and use the profits to purchase and protect some segments of tropical rain forest.

Without consumer support for sustainable palm oil, including paying the slight premium that it fetches, the whole thing could come crumbling down, with potentially devastating consequences for the biodiversity of Borneo (where the majority of palm oil is produced) and the orangutan in particular, as well as climate change due to increasing carbon emissions when carbon - storing rainforest is turned into oil palm plantation.

It's means oil palm plantation can absorb around 3,420,000 ton / ha / year.

Yes, I agree when deforestation of peat land converter to oil palm plantation, Co2 released to the atmosphere caused global warming but in the other hand when Oil Palm Plantation already established, it also can absorb Co2 through photosynthesis.

So, if we compare carbon stocks in the biomass between a natural forest and oil palm plantation, the carbon stored in the oil palm plantation is much lower (182 / tons in pristine forest vs. 24 tons / ha just in the aboveground biomass; see Hergoualc» h and Verchot 2011, Global Biogeochemical Cycles) as is productivity.

Land cleared for an oil palm plantation in Indonesia.

A new report explores innovative steps being taken by several of the industry's largest firms to improve social and environmental practices Oil palm plantation in Riau.

Helicopter over a forest supplanted by a mature oil palm plantation and it will look verdant from the sky.

TIMBY («This Is My Back Yard») is an innovative smartphone application that helps citizens monitor and report illegal logging and destructive oil palm plantation expansion in Liberia.

JAKARTA — Two years after he announced a freeze on new oil palm plantation permits, President Joko Widodo of Indonesia finally appears to be on the verge of putting it...

The need to do so will only grow more urgent as the number of such operators continues to increase, expanding their share of Indonesia's oil palm plantation area to 60 percent by 2030.

Oil palm plantation expansion at the expense of natural forest in the Malaysian state of Johor.

Here rainforest in Borneo is being cleared and burned for an oil palm plantation.

At a 7 percent tax rate for carbon, the present value of tax revenue for the Indonesian government ranges from $ 476,000 to $ 752,000, whereas the oil palm plantation generates $ 495,000.

Healthy forest and an oil palm plantation.

(10/05/2010) A UK - based cosmetics firm is severing ties with its palm oil supplier after a story in The Observer reported the Colombia - based company sought the eviction of peasant farmer families to develop a new oil palm plantation, reports the Guardian.

A joint report by EIA and JPIK exposing how timber logged illegally in and around a rogue oil palm plantation is being certified legal under Indonesia's flagship timber certification system.

A report highlighting the criminal activities of an oil palm plantation company operating in Kalimantan, Indonesia, and the failures of various levels of government to properly investigate and prosecute..

An activist opposing deforestation by an oil palm plantation company allegedly received multiple death threats.

«One unexpected research result comes from one of the new studies conducted in a drained oil palm plantation on peat in Indonesia,» says Hergoualc» h.

Substantial N2O emissions from peat decomposition and N fertilization in an oil palm plantation exacerbated by hotspots

Besides using fire for land - clearing, oil palm plantation companies — at least in Indonesia, in many cases — will ask for primary [natural] forests rather than secondary forests (or logged forests) for their concessions.

They assessed the deadwood contributions across a «disturbance gradient» - a range of landscapes including pristine forest, logged forests of increasing severity, and oil palm plantation.

The team sampled 23 streams in Borneo as part of the SAFE (Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystems) Project, which investigates environmental changes across a gradient from primary forest to oil palm plantation.

Dr Pfeifer and her colleagues assessed the deadwood contributions across a «disturbance gradient» — a range of landscapes including pristine forest, logged forests of increasing severity, and oil palm plantation.

One of the largest ecological experiments on the planet, SAFE takes advantage of the conversion of the region to oil palm plantation to assess the impact of change on the local ecosystems.

«Together with a 50 - hectare permanent plot in the Danum valley conservation area and the Sabah Biodiversity Experiment, the SAFE project means that we can now study the entire gamut of land use in the region, from pristine forest to fragmented forest and restored forest, to oil palm plantation.

Oil palm plantation on Sumatra, Indonesia.

Speaking at the Deza (Oil Palm) festival on Saturday, the president lauded the chiefs for releasing 50 - acre land for oil palm plantation.

Smallholders at Cargill's oil palm plantation, PT.

Over the past few days, Feronia Inc., a Canadian - based company majority - owned by European and US development banks, has been pressuring local communities to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that would endorse the company's continued operation and expansion of oil palm plantations within their territories.

With the aid of government agencies, large firms have been seizing swaths of land in forest areas that were traditionally under ancestral tenure and rapidly converting them to mono - crop rubber and oil palm plantations.

From using sensors to monitor conditions on oil palm plantations more closely to harnessing the potential of blockchain to make the notoriously complex palm oil supply chains more transparent, Webber says that «technology will be the key to sustainable palm oil».

Sustainable palm oil is defined by the eight principles and criteria against which oil palm plantations are certified.

The commissioner said that for oil palm, government had commenced the raising of 220, 000 improved oil palm seedlings for distribution to 250 farmers for cultivation on 500 hectares of Oil palm plantations.

To make room for oil palm plantations and other crops, companies will raze existing trees (the source of future peat) and drain the water to dry out the soil.

A comparison of the performance of certified versus noncertified oil palm plantations over a 15 - year period showed that certification reduced the rate of deforestation by 33 % — a significant reduction, yet most of the certified areas already retained little residual forest.

«Reduced ecosystem functions in oil palm plantations: Scientists assess environmental effects of forest conversion.»

Large areas of tropical lowland forests have been replaced by oil palm plantations, with major impact on environment and people.

The planting of oil palm plantations leads to the loss of natural forests and peat lands and plays havoc with ecosystems and biodiversity.

An interdisciplinary team of scientists from the University of Göttingen, the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig and Bogor Agricultural University in Indonesia has now performed a complete and multidisciplinary assessment of all ecosystem functions in oil palm plantations as compared to lowland forests.

Scientists travelled to Peninsular Malaysia where they spent two years studying communities of frog species in four oil palm plantations and two areas of adjacent forest.

Oil palm plantations in Malaysia are causing threatened forest frogs to disappear, paving the way for common species to move in on their turf, scientists have revealed.

There, scientists of Göttingen University and the UFZ investigate the consequences of the conversion of lowland rainforests into oil palm plantations.

They found that in oil palm plantations, eleven out of 14 ecosystem functions showed a net decrease, some with an irreversible global impact.

«We found that nearly a billion metric tons of above - ground carbon stocks in Peru are at imminent risk for emission into the atmosphere due to land uses such as fossil fuel oil exploration, cattle ranching, oil palm plantations and gold mining,» Asner said.

She thinks the dire situation is the result of the high commercial value of many of Borneo's tree species, years of overexploitation, forest fires, the growth of oil palm plantations, and the lack of government control because of vested interests in the logging and palm industries.