Sentences with phrase «for oil palms»

The warm, humid climate of the tropics offers perfect growth conditions for oil palms.

The only forests in question are the tropical rain forests in Southeast Asia, cleared for oil palms.

A WWF 2012 report analysing the incremental financial costs and benefits of RSPO certification for oil palm growers.

This report provides an independent review of available scientific information and published literature on impacts of the use of tropical peat for oil palm cultivation in Southeast Asia.

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

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.

Carlson et al. asked how effective this is by assessing the impact of certification schemes for oil palm in Indonesia.

Though often illegal, the forests are cut down both for a booming pulp and paper industry as well as to clear land for oil palm plantations, which supply diverse industries from biofuel to soap to cosmetics.

The researchers also found that certification did not affect fire occurrence in these plantations or the amount of carbon - rich peat swamp forests cleared and drained for oil palm.

For oil palm plantations to be labelled «sustainable, they must include a riparian zone — a buffer of forest land immediately bordering streams — of at least 30 metres.

Today, almost all palm oil is produced in, and exported from, Indonesia and Malaysia where rainforests are being destroyed to make way for oil palm plantations.

But when peat forests are drained and burned for oil palm and other agricultural plantations, they release massive amounts of greenhouse gases (GHG) into the atmosphere.

Some of the last Sumatran elephants roam the forest of Sepintun — a habitat that is being trashed for oil palm, pulp and rubber plantations.

10,000 hectares of forest near Lake Victoria are about to be destroyed for oil palm plantations: the Ugandan government is awarding land on Buvuma Island to international investors.

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.

Harmful climate emissions are released when land is deforested to make way for oil palm plantations.

Peatlands need to be drained in order to be suitable for oil palm cultivation.

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

To commit to no conversion of primary forests and high conservation value areas, as well as to limit the conversion of natural forests for oil palm plantations to the highest extent possible,

This editorial was targeted for the business community in Indonesia; specifically companies that already own forest land and are considering clearing it for oil palm.

In a July 29th editorial we argued that in some cases, preserving ecosystems for carbon credits could be more valuable than conversion for oil palm plantations (known as sawit kelapa in Indonesia), providing higher tax revenue for the Indonesian treasury while at the same time offering attractive economic returns for investors.

And Marc Ona, the 2009 recipient from Gabon, is facing the possibility of prison for publicly speaking out on the linkage between environmental destruction and governmental corruption, particularly in land giveaways for oil palm and rubber plantations.

Economic returns from converting verdant rainforests into furniture, paper, and wood chips — and then using the land for oil palm plantations — have swiftly diminished the availability of sites for reintroduction, while dramatically boosting the number of orangutans in need of rescue.

According to the prevailing economic wisdom, it makes perfect sense for us to clear vast swathes of tropical rainforest to make way for oil palm plantations and soya beans, to pursue the last few -LSB-...]

Their hope is that the data can contribute to the identification of high - carbon stock areas that would be «no - go» zones for oil palm under the state's new certification standards.

Investigations out of EIA's U.S. office have also come across RSPO failures as part of research to understand the roots and financing of new, illegal deforestation for oil palm and other agro-commodity crops in the Peruvian Amazon.

Industrial agriculture is also a big threat, with several areas of the plateau suitable for oil palm plantations.

In a July 29th editorial we argued that in some cases, preserving ecosystems for carbon credits could be more valuable than conversion for oil palm plantations, providing higher tax revenue for the Indonesian treasury while at the same time offering attractive economic returns for investors.

(11/12/2013) Some 3.5 million hectares (8.7 million acres) of forest in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Papua New Guinea was converted for oil palm plantations between 1990 and 2010, finds a comprehensive set of assessments released by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO).

In Borneo's Tanjung Puting National Park, ancient trees are being felled for oil palm plantations.

Meanwhile, more than 100,000 hectares of peatland forests are destroyed each year for oil palm and agricultural plantations.

But this is the really short version in regards to climate change: When you chop down the forests grown on peat and drain the land to depths sufficient for oil palm cultivation, the soil starts oxidizing and releasing massive amounts of CO2.

To meet its biodiesel goal, the European Union, under cropland constraints, is increasingly turning to palm oil imported from Indonesia and Malaysia, a trend that depends on clearing rainforests for oil palm plantations.

Land cleared for an oil palm plantation in Indonesia.

Peatlands conversion for oil palm a «monumental mistake» for Indonesia's long - term prosperity, sustainability

(06/04/2009) Indonesia's decision earlier this year to allow conversion of up to 2 million hectares of peatlands for oil palm plantations is «a monumental mistake» for the country's long - term economic prosperity and sustainability, argues an editorial published in the June issue of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

This data set provides the boundaries for oil palm plantations according to the Republic of the Congo Ministry of Agriculture.

The model was then used to create a number of scenarios to predict the future impacts of forest clearing and peat burning for oil palm conversion.

More than 100,000 hectares of peatland forests are destroyed each year for oil palm and agricultural plantations.

The concern is that under the CDM, carbon finance is used to perversely subsidize conversion of carbon - dense peatlands for oil palm plantations, a process that generates substantial greenhouse gas emissions, thereby undermining any potential carbon dioxide savings from use of palm oil - based biodiesel.

Each year hundreds of thousands of hectares of peatlands are drained and cleared for oil palm and timber plantations on Indonesia and Malaysia.

Environmentalists say the EPA's ruling is actually conservative, noting that a larger area of rainforest and peatland has been converted for oil palm plantations than assumed by the EPA.

(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.

(12/17/2007) Researchers have confirmed that converting peat forests for oil palm plantations results in a large net release of carbon dioxide, indicating industry claims that palm oil helps fight climate change are unfounded, at least when plantations are established in peatlands.

Last week the Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM), a state agency, announced that the last stands of keruing paya (Dipterocarpus coriaceus) in Peninsular Malaysia were wiped out when Bikam forest reserve in Perak was cleared for oil palm plantations.

Not exact matches

Additionally, prices for its major commodity exports - crude oil and palm oil - have dropped sharply and its currency, the ringgit, is trading close to its lowest levels since the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s.

Malaysia's shares and currency have been hit with a toxic brew of declines in the prices of its commodity exports, especially palm oil and crude oil, as well as what may be the country's worst - ever political scandal, which has spurred protests calling for the removal of the prime minister from power.

Prices for major commodity exports crude oil and palm oil have dropped sharply and its currency, the ringgit, is trading close to its lowest levels since the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s.

The Orangutan snack was a spoof on KitKat for a campaign last year against Nestle and HSBC over the two company's dealings with Indonesian palm oil producer Sinar Mas, whom Greenpeace accused of illegal deforestation.