Sentences with phrase «for rubber plantations»

Mostly Bs: The purist An aversion to toxins in your body, fear for rubber plantations in South - East Asia and a belief that sperm - have - rights - too is all well and good but it doesn't leave many options open to stopping babies.

GREL in a statement also dispelled reports that it has destroyed some cocoa farms in those regions to make way for rubber plantations.

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Therefore we convert rice field for rubber cultivation and other cash - crops, including horticultural plantations, develop capital intensive production units (in countries like India where the major strength is its labour power), thereby denying majority of people their right to work.

To meet increased demand for palm oil, the government converted colonial rubber and cocoa plantations to oil palm plantations.

For example, at one of their sites in Malaysia, a forest was being cleared to establish a rubber plantation, and progress of the clearing and the resulting land changes could be mapped quickly and updated routinely.

During the late 20th century their numbers were devastated by hunting and the loss of their forest habitat for logging and rubber plantations.

If you're not desperate for a beachfront spot, then try Hill House, found in a shaded rubber - tree plantation setting up a steep hill from Tha Khao beach.

Opt to visit the coastal town of Livingston by boat, go for a swim in a natural hot waterfall, take a sunrise kayak to visit groups of noisy howler monkeys, or take a horseback ride through the rubber plantations combined with a visit to the Shaman Tower.

I peered over the edge and sighed at the lush landscape of verdant highlands almost 800 feet below; a magnificent view of coconut palms, rubber trees and coffee plantations stretched for miles amidst majestic karsts.

A formative experience for Fragoso was the six years he spent developing a rubber plantation in the state of Bahia.

While consumer awareness and sustainability programs for palm oil have come to the attention of the public, rubber plantations have been coasting under the radar.

Lead researcher Eleanor Warren - Thomas, from UEA's School of Environmental Sciences, explains that the tire industry consumes 70 percent of all natural rubber grown, and rising demand for tires is behind the plantation boom and subsequent threat to forests.

A new study from the University of East Anglia (UEA) predicts that between 10.5 and 21 million acres of plantations will be required to meet the projected need for rubber required by the tire industry by 2024.

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

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.

State - sponsored land grabs and repression of activists have increased sharply in Cambodia in recent months, as the country's elite courts investor demand for plantations to grow rubber, sugar and other export crops.

Apparently, the case focused upon Mr. Ona having spoken publicly about the Gabon government's role in providing industry with land for palm oil and rubber plantations.

Since 2011, several industries have been clearing Liberia's precious forests to make way for industries ranging from rubber plantations to destructive palm oil companies.

The toys are made from rubberwood, sustainably sourced from exhausted rubber plantations due for replanting, and hand painted with non-toxic paints.