Sentences with phrase «oil palm areas»

However, in none the streams sampled in oil palm areas in this study, did the presence of a 30 metre riparian zone reduce the damage to fish biodiversity.

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Carrefour published its Sourcing Policy on Sustainable Palm Oil in 2014 which includes the RSPO standard and additional criteria such as protection of peat lands and high carbon stock areas.

«According to the World Wildlife Fund, an area the equivalent size of 300 football fields of rainforest is cleared each hour to make way for palm oil production.

With the aid of government agencies, large firms have been seizing swaths of land in forest areas that were traditionally under ancestral tenure and rapidly converting them to mono - crop rubber and oil palm plantations.

Just one area of concern for your Australian readers is advocating consumption of palm oil - 87 % of world consumption is sourced by our nearby neighbours via deforestation in Malaysia and Indonesia - the equivalent 0f 300 football fields is cleared every hour.

He continued: «These growers are often located in areas where there is an urgent need for growth in the uptake of RSPO - certified sustainable palm oil.

Unbeknown to the majority of farmers, feed manufacturers and compounders, the production of these oils can have a devastating impact not just on the climate and environment, but on economic stability and communities in the areas where palm oil is grown.

Palm oil is native to the tropical areas of Africa, where it grows wild.

Just put a teaspoon or so of olive oil in your palm and add a drop of lavender essential oil, rub palms together to mix and add a little warmth, and apply to nipple area after a feeding.

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.

Large areas of tropical lowland forests have been replaced by oil palm plantations, with major impact on environment and people.

Scientists travelled to Peninsular Malaysia where they spent two years studying communities of frog species in four oil palm plantations and two areas of adjacent forest.

ZSL, together with collaborators from Queen Mary University of London, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and University of Malaya, continues to work closely with Malaysian palm oil producers in determining if simple modifications to agricultural practices may bring some of the forest species back into areas planted with oil palm and allow them to survive and reproduce in plantations.

Scientists only found this species in forest areas, and if palm oil plantations continue to take over, the peat swamp frog, along with its forest home, could be a thing of the past.

After studying high - resolution satellite imagery and compiling records from local and regional government agencies, the authors concluded that all land leased for palm oil production in Indonesia added up to an area the size of Greece.

The greatest danger, he says, is if oil reaches the lowest area of Loreto, where large, marshy areas covered with palm trees are one of the most important carbon stores in the region.

In rural areas where guerrillas and drug traffickers have long been in control, researchers are now on the scene — but so are cattle ranchers, miners, and palm oil planters.

«Together with a 50 - hectare permanent plot in the Danum valley conservation area and the Sabah Biodiversity Experiment, the SAFE project means that we can now study the entire gamut of land use in the region, from pristine forest to fragmented forest and restored forest, to oil palm plantation.

Tenera palms contain one mutant and one normal version, or allele, of Shell, an optimum combination that results in 30 % more oil per land area than dura palms.

«The discovery of Shell indicates a clear path toward more intensive use of already planted lands, and thus should lessen pressures to expand the land area devoted to oil palm, notably onto endangered rainforest land — a major concern for the environment and a rallying point for activists in recent years,» says Robert A. Martienssen, Ph.D., scientific co-founder of Orion Genomics, who is also a professor of plant genetics at CSHL.

Ngansou and other villagers in the area have embraced the planned palm oil plantations as a welcome addition to a region that mostly survives on growing cassava, bananas, yam and coco, as well as the declining bush meat trade.

In deforested areas, layers of peat — sometimes dozens of meters deep — become flammable as they dry out, which is sometimes exacerbated by deliberate draining in order to make them more suitable for palm oil and timber plantations.

For example, it will be possible to check which palm oil company is operating in a specific area of Indonesia where images have shown recent forest destruction.

«It may be possible to protect, and even encourage, wildlife in these areas at relatively low and sustainable economic costs without heavily impacting palm oil production.»

They used these rules to identify which areas promoted biodiversity at the least cost to oil palm companies.

In the last two decades, the area of palm oil plantations has expanded nearly eight times in Indonesia alone, according to a recent Agriculture Department Foreign Agricultural Service report.

The areas investigated on Sumatra ranged from pristine forest regions through to oil - palm monocultures, and in Germany from unmanaged beech forests to heavily exploited conifer forests.

We expected to see a gradient from least affected in the selectively logged areas, to heavily impacted for the streams in oil palm plantations.

Again I move the oil between my palms and then scrunch it from ends upward, avoiding the scalp area, which already has its own natural oil and doesn't need more.

The lightly pigmented formula conceals dark circles while keeping the area smooth and hydrated thanks to a blend of amino acid - rich proline and palm oil.

I wanted to bring alive everything I loved about my hometown area in Southern California since I was a kid: the sunsets, the palm trees, the mist on June mornings, the greenbelts, the way the bright - green ice plant meets the sand, the ocean - facing restaurants and how it always smells a little like suntan oil and open grills when you're walking down the sidewalk in a beach town.

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However, given the potential future expansion of oil palm plantations and other land developments onto selectively logged lands, the fate of much of Southeast Asia's biodiversity may ultimately hinge on whether the conservation community can overcome the opportunity cost of oil palm or can encourage the implementation of large - scale landscape planning in order to reliably protect areas critical for biodiversity.

Despite the significant obstacle to conservation that oil palm plantations represent, the area under logging concessions still dwarfs that under oil palm.

Given their potential cost - effectiveness, logged forests represent an opportunity to increase connectivity between protected areas and to enlarge existing parks, two goals that are becoming increasingly urgent in Southeast Asia as existing parks are illegally degraded or become increasingly isolated by conversion of adjacent areas to oil palm plantations and other agricultural lands.

«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.»

Critics, however, say companies have merely «exported» their deforestation by purchasing massive amounts of timber, soybeans, and palm oil from areas where deforestation is rife — undermining efforts to slow deforestation by promoting sustainable sourcing of raw materials.

Greenpeace, for example, explains that the new plant in Singapore is likely to cause more environmental problems, not fewer, by increasing demand for new palm oil plantations that displace environmentally sensitive forests or wetland areas.

It creates new opportunities to analyze production areas and mills on a global scale, as well as to focus attention on new areas where palm oil production is having an impact on forests.

Given the area reportedly planted in oil palm and pulp, the gap could easily be met by this «conversion timber.»

Brands seems to have good intentions with this commitment, which will require the company to buy palm oil exclusively for cooking purposes that protects all forests and peatlands, swampy areas of carbon - rich soil.

JAKARTA — More than a hundred palm oil and pulp companies in Indonesia have pledged to restore a combined area of peat forest the size of the state of Connecticut,...

A computer illustration created by the wildlife activist group WWF - Indonesia using Google Earth provides a tour of Sumatran rain forest areas at risk of destruction by logging companies and palm oil producers.

With oil palm plantations covering vast areas of once - rainforest of Southeast Asia — primarily Indonesia and Malaysia — and encroaching into other tropical countries around the world, many now see palm oil as a scourge rather than a savior.

The designation could increase the area of forest conserved within oil palm plantations provided it has high conservation significance, such as serving as habitat for endangered species like orangutans, Sumatran tigers, and rhinos.

The criteria include: using natural pests and composting in place of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers whenever possible; implementing no - burn policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and cut the risk of fires spreading into forest areas; sparing forests with high conservation value from development; taking measures to reduce air pollution; and creating catchment ponds to prevent palm oil mill effluent — a byproduct — from entering waterways where it would damage aquatic habitats.

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,

Scientists estimate that converting a forest area into an industrial palm oil plantation results in the death or displacement of over 95 % of the orangutans who originally lived in the area.

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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.