Sentences with phrase «by oil palm expansion»

No civil society or indigenous groups have been invited to participate in the commission, essentially excluding the voice of the people most affected by oil palm expansion in the Peruvian Amazon.

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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.

«The overwhelming cause of this biodiversity loss is land - use change, driven by the expansion of agriculture and plantations for crops such as oil palm.

Forest Heroes created the slogan «She's not a fan,» with images of endangered Sumatran elephants, one of the animals threatened by the loss of habitat associated with the expansion of palm oil plantations.

«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.»

In a December 2013 warning to potential investors in a US$ 90 million initial public offering for PT SSS, EIA revealed an independent evaluation of the firm's prospectus showed illegal clearance of forest areas and direct threats to orangutan habitat posed by planned expansion of the firm's oil palm plantations.

But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.

Indonesia's parliament, however, pushed legislation, including a major palm oil bill that could become law in 2018, that threatened to undermine those goals by loosening restrictions on plantation expansion.

The research, conducted by an international team of scientists from a range of institutions, is presented in a series of seven academic papers that estimate change in land use and greenhouse gas emissions from oil palm expansion in the three countries, review the social and environmental impacts of palm oil production, forecast potential growth in the sector across the region, and detail methods for measuring emissions and carbon stocks of plantations establishing on peatlands.