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RSPO's plans for 2018 build on a milestone 2017, where the first ever RSPO Next — that is, a stricter variation of RSPO rules that prohibit deforestation and peatland development, among other things — was attained by Malaysian firm United Plantations and Colombian company Daabon; and zoos and aquariums all over the world started a movement to educate consumers on sustainable palm oil.

In general, the palm oil industry has been linked to deforestation, habitat degradation, climate change, animal cruelty and indigenous rights abuses as the land and forests must be cleared for development of plantations.

These risks require additional due diligence in sourcing, education and training to ensure the palm oil in our supply chain is not associated with deforestation, child or forced labor, or plantation expansion on carbon - rich peatlands.

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.

Rapid deforestation, mainly due to the oil palm industry and other agricultural plantations, illegal pet trade and poaching by killing mothers so their young can be taken, has resulted in the population in Borneo decreasing by more than 50 percent.

Combining a new database of Indonesian oil palm plantations with satellite imagery of deforestation, the investigators measured the amount of natural forest that was cleared in each of those plantations between 2000 and 2015.

Unilever was also a player in palm oil trader Wilmar's recent agreement to adopt a no - deforestation policy, which prohibits its suppliers from establishing plantations on lands with large amounts of carbon — like peat soils — or lands with a high conservation value (ClimateWire, Dec. 8, 2013).

It was thought that the main threat to orangutans was habitat loss, due to deforestation and oil palm plantations.

The palm oil industry in SE Asia is linked to major issues such as deforestation, habitat degradation, climate change, animal cruelty and indigenous rights abuses in the SE Asia, as the land and forests must be cleared for the development of the oil palm plantations.

There were many environmental issues — deforestation rates that were higher than Brazil, many communities losing their land to palm oil plantations, and massive pollution and congestion in the main cities and reliance on coal rather than on clean renewable energy like solar.

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They are converting pete land forests — a ground zero for deforestation and climate change — that have a lot of carbon in the soils — into plantations for paper and palm oil.

Without the safeguard, REDD monies projected to help developing countries protect their remaining forests and reduce the 25 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation, forest degradation and peatland destruction could instead allow industrial - scale logging and replacement of tropical forests with pulp or palm oil plantations.

But the organisations say biofuels policies are expanding palm oil plantations, and this has devastating and often irreversible consequences including land grabs, hunger, rising greenhouse gas emissions and deforestation.

Consumers of the thousands of products that contain palm oil need to continue to let manufacturers know that palm oil grown on plantations free from deforestation and peatland degradation is important to them.

Drilling the crude oil, coal and natural gases from an beneath the earth has a number of environmental challenges such as extensive land deformation and deforestation; which leads to a wastage of productive land that can be used as a plantation to boost the economy, water catchments and to grow human food.

«Our study suggests... [the] initiative will not significantly reduce deforestation in northern Sumatra and will have little impact on orangutan conservation,» David Gaveau of the University of Kent, UK, and the Wildlife Conservation Society Indonesia Program told environmentalresearchweb, «because firstly a large amount of forest inside the proposed REDD project area is protected de facto by being inaccessible; and secondly much of northern Sumatra's lowland forests will remain outside of REDD and will be exposed to the combined expansion of high - revenue oil palm plantations and road networks.»

The owner of Indonesia's largest conglomerate has been accused of participating in the illegal deforestation of Borneo's Ketungau peat swamp to make way for oil palm plantations.

RSPB highlighted their current work in forests, focusing on their international campaigns like the Orangutan Tropical Peatland Project, whose on - the - ground work is making a difference to places like the Harapan and the Sabangau rainforests, on the front line of advancing wave oil palm which is driving deforestation and the corrupt conversion of forest for plantation concessions.

EIA revealed the details and irregularities of oil palm plantations in the Peruvian Amazon owned by Grupo Melka and Grupo Romero in the investigative report, Deforestation by Definition, yet weak laws and enforcement allows for continued violations.

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

A biologist by training, Putra has dedicated himself to removing the illegal palm oil plantations that are driving deforestation around his home.

Preliminary work suggests that carbon offsets through «avoided deforestation» mechanisms — whereby landowners and communities receive payments for preserving ecosystems that would otherwise be converted — could generate income comparable to that of oil palm plantations.

The immediate negative effects of palm oil plantations are clear: loss of critical land and water resources for forest - dependent communities; increased conflicts between customary land owners and palm oil companies; and mass deforestation resulting in habitat loss for some of the world's most engendered species.

Together, the projects being developed collectively by Cacao del Perú Norte S.A.C. (operating a cacao plantation in Loreto), Plantaciones de Ucayali S.A.C., and Plantaciones de Pucallpa S.A.C. (both operating oil palm plantations in Ucayali), are responsible for over 11,000 hectares of illegal deforestation, mainly of primary tropical rainforest.

«Of the 15 - 16 percent of deforestation in Kalimantan associated with rapid conversion to industrial plantations, 11 - 13 percent is attributed to oil palm.

In southeast Asia, a dramatic collapse in the price of palm oil (60 percent off its peak in March 2008) and rubber (down 54 percent from its high in July 2008) is causing a shake - out in the plantation sector, which has become one of the leading drivers of deforestation in the region.

A biologist by training, Rudi Putra is dismantling illegal palm oil plantations that are causing massive deforestation in northern Sumatra's Leuser Ecosystem, protecting the habitat of the critically endangered Sumatran rhino.

This week we are focusing on the long term impacts of palm oil production, including the effects of tropical deforestation on climate change, toxic waste pollution from processing plants, and forced labor at palm oil plantations.

Palm oil has received lots of heat recently for its massive impact on deforestation in many tropical countries — but groups like the World Wildlife Fund have demonstrated that palm oil plantations can actually increase carbon sinks when properly managed.

We sit down with 2014 Goldman Prize winner Rudi Putra to discuss his work to dismantle illegal palm oil plantations that are causing massive deforestation in northern Sumatra's Leuser Ecosystem, in order... Read More

Deforestation is the conversion of forest to another land use — this includes conversion in «invaluable» forest areas - e.g. palm oil plantations and other uses.

Bearded pigs in Malaysian Borneo appear to have adapted to oil palm plantations, a key driver of deforestation in the region, but still depend heavily on adjacent forests as their...

What is clear is that oil palm is not the only factor and that palm plantations are established after a process of degradation and deforestation has transpired.

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But whatever it's called, it's clear that palm oil production is leading to massive deforestation due to carbon - emitting activities like slashing and burning the forest to make way for palm plantations, as well as habitat loss for a wide variety of species like orangutans, tigers, rhinoceros, and elephants.

We've written about the connections between deforestation, the possible extinction of the orangutan, and the expansion of plantation - based palm oil production a number of times.

Deforestation a Much Larger Issue Than Fossil Fuels in Many Places And it would be even more poignant had he been speaking about production of palm oil in Indonesia and Malaysia, where due to greenhouse gas emissions associated with land conversion from rainforest to plantations, the emissions from the fuel made from these crops can be nearly 10 times as much as from conventional fossil fuels.

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And, according to the Ecosystem Climate Alliance, when it comes to aspects of the REDD forest protection scheme the European Union is actively blocking protecting intact forests from being converted to plantations: The ECA says the blocking by the EU — with the support of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Equitorial Guinea and the Republic of Congo — of language to prevent forest - to - plantation conversions essentially means that «industrial - scale logging and replacement of tropical forests with pulp or palm oil plantations could be funded by money intended to help developing countries reduce the 25 % of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, forest degradation and peatland destruction.»

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Oil palms have become a hugely successful crop, thanks to increasing worldwide demand, though it is also a highly controversial crop due to the vast tropical deforestation that occurs in order to make room for palm plantations.

Moreover, a large proportion of deforestation is not taking place for subsistence agriculture, but for cattle ranching, oil palm plantations, timber extraction and other commercial enterprises — many of which are supplying raw materials to the rich world.

We sit down with 2014 Goldman Prize winner Rudi Putra to discuss his work to dismantle illegal palm oil plantations that are causing massive deforestation in northern Sumatra's Leuser Ecosystem, in order to protect the habitat of the critically endangered Sumatran rhino.

(04/27/2012) Developers in Indonesian Borneo are increasingly converting carbon - dense peatlands for oil palm plantations, driving deforestation and boosting greenhouse gas emissions, reports a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.