Sentences with phrase «oil palm plantations»

A number of elephants were killed in oil palm plantations in Sumatra, while South Africa reporting a new record in rhino killing.

(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.

The elephant in the room for Malaysia and Indonesia is what happens should Brazil make good on its goal to establish 5 million hectares of oil palm plantations on long - ago deforested lands?

Producing these fuels has a huge impact on the environment, with an estimated 100,000 orangutans killed on oil palm plantations on Borneo.

Besides using fire for land - clearing, oil palm plantation companies — at least in Indonesia, in many cases — will ask for primary [natural] forests rather than secondary forests (or logged forests) for their concessions.

The study, conducted at two sites in Sumatra and Kalimantan by scientists at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), found that mature oil palm plantations store less than 40 tons of above - ground biomass on average over their 25 - year lifespan.

Clearing of these ecosystems produces substantial carbon emissions, which outweigh the climate benefits of oil palm plantations established in their place.

Large areas of tropical lowland forests have been replaced by oil palm plantations, with major impact on environment and people.

An interdisciplinary team of scientists from the University of Göttingen, the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig and Bogor Agricultural University in Indonesia has now performed a complete and multidisciplinary assessment of all ecosystem functions in oil palm plantations as compared to lowland forests.

Biodiversity of rainforests should not be compared with oil palm plantations says palm oil council chief

After decades of unsustainable logging, which depleted timber stocks and undermined the viability of traditional forestry management, Malaysia's forests are increasingly being converted for industrial oil palm plantations.

Combining a new database of Indonesian oil palm plantations with satellite imagery of deforestation, the investigators measured the amount of natural forest that was cleared in each of those plantations between 2000 and 2015.

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.

From using sensors to monitor conditions on oil palm plantations more closely to harnessing the potential of blockchain to make the notoriously complex palm oil supply chains more transparent, Webber says that «technology will be the key to sustainable palm oil».

To act as a forum for open discussion and sharing of experience with innovations and improvements in: oil palm plantation practices, extraction mill management practices, responsible procurement, and product traceability and verification throughout the supply chain

Sustainable palm oil is defined by the eight principles and criteria against which oil palm plantations are certified.

New York - based investors are eyeing Cameroon's rainforests for industrial - scale oil palm plantations.

EIA translated their resolution (see below), in which they demand that the government suspend all land transfers to large oil palm plantations until conflicting regulations are modified and it's guaranteed that no more primary forest is cut down in the Amazon.

The resolution calls on the government of Peru to suspend all land transfers to large oil palm plantations until all conflicting regulations regarding land use are modified, and until it is guaranteed that no more primary forest will be cut down in the Amazon.

Helicopter over a forest supplanted by a mature oil palm plantation and it will look verdant from the sky.

Since oil palm plantations are typically planted on a 25 - year cycle, a carbon payback time exceeding 25 years makes palm - oil biodiesel a larger source of emissions than conventional petroleum.

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.

Certification reduces forest loss, but more needs to be done to make oil palm plantations truly sustainable.

The planting of oil palm plantations leads to the loss of natural forests and peat lands and plays havoc with ecosystems and biodiversity.

Of approximately 11 million hectares of oil palm plantations globally, about 6 million hectares are found in Indonesia1 (in 2006)- and counting.

The development of large single - crop oil palm plantations has led to clear - cutting primal rain forest in much of the conventional palm industry in Indonesia and Malaysia.

Due to the increase in demand, rainforests in Malaysia and Indonesia are cut down and are replaced with African oil palm plantations.

Until companies actually implement their commitments and start making changes on the ground, critically important forests, wildlife, and local communities will remain at risk from expanding oil palm plantations.»

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

«One unexpected research result comes from one of the new studies conducted in a drained oil palm plantation on peat in Indonesia,» says Hergoualc» h.

Such plans for expanding roads and oil palm would either have to be cancelled, or relocated to vacant degraded non-forest lands (the idea of relocating oil palm plantations to degraded non-forest lands has been proposed by the World Resources Institute, under the name POTICO).»

International NGOs are denouncing the charges brought against Nasako Besingi, a leader in the fight against a project by U.S. agribusiness giant Herakles Farms to develop oil palm plantations in Cameroon.

Some of these are likely linked to forest management cycles (as for Category 1), and others may be due to changes outside the forest, e.g. oil palm plantations or other agriculture plantations.

A joint report by EIA and JPIK exposing how timber logged illegally in and around a rogue oil palm plantation is being certified legal under Indonesia's flagship timber certification system.

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.

Track the expansion of largescale agricultural commodity development that threatens forest governance and preservation in emerging frontier areas, particularly oil palm plantations

That so many oil palm plantations in Kalimantan were developed on fire - induced deforested land offers much nuance in the debate over whether oil palm is the main driver of deforestation in the region.

Aceh Governor Zaini Abdullah officially revoked the business permit for a company developing a controversial oil palm plantation in a peat swamp in Sumatra, concluding a case that had tested Indonesia's commitment to a moratorium on new concessions in peatlands and rainforests.

(11/08/2007) Officials from the Indonesian ministry of agriculture and the palm oil industry are distributing materials that misrepresent the carbon balance oil palm plantations, according to accounts from people who have seen presentations by members of the Indonesian Palm Oil Commission.

News broke recently in the Jakarta Post that two Peruvian oil palm plantations located in Peru's Amazon region of Ucayali, Plantaciones de Pucallpa and Plantaciones de Ucayali, plan to sell land they control in the Peruvian Amazon...

(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).

TIMBY («This Is My Back Yard») is an innovative smartphone application that helps citizens monitor and report illegal logging and destructive oil palm plantation expansion in Liberia.