Sentences with phrase «from 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.

Not exact matches

Instead of maple syrup, i poured in hill honey sourced from my neighbour's rubber plantation in Kerala; the bananas were grown on our farm and the brown sugar was replaced with powdered jaggery (unrefined cane sugar)... i added some orange rind and left out the cinnamon...

Red Dust (Warner Archive), the 1932 jungle melodrama starring Clark Gable as a rubber plantation foreman in East Asia and Jean Harlow as the street smart showgirl who takes a powder from «Say - gone» (as they call the future Vietnamese city of Saigon) and lands upriver in his primitive plantation manor, is as sexy, frank, and grown - up as pre-code cinema gets.

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.

The vegetation change from tropical profusion to gentle sprawling rubber plantations, fragrant spice gardens, to cool emerald hills carpeted with the world famous Ceylon Tea.

Inland, between Chong Lad and Klong Hia piers, you'll find the island's best views atop the Ko Yao Viewpoint, reached via a steep pathway that the landowner Khun Coco hacked out from his rubber tree plantation.

When the French brought hevea (rubber tree) seeds from Brazil to Indochina, rubber tree plantations became central to the Cambodian's mythology.

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.

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.

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.

These gloves are made in a responsible fashion using rubber from FSC certified plantations.

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

The Sleep On Latex toppers are made with 100 % natural latex, sourced from rubber tree plantations in Sri Lanka, which is then processed into latex foam using the Dunlop process.

This is what the report finds: The work was done by researchers from the National University of Singapore and looked at policies favoring rubber plantation over traditional slash - and - burn (swidden) agriculture.