Sentences with phrase «oil palm plantations between»

(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).

Not exact matches

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.

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.

The immediate negative effects of palm oil plantations are clear: loss of critical land and water resources for forest - dependent communities; increased conflicts between customary land owners and palm oil companies; and mass deforestation resulting in habitat loss for some of the world's most engendered species.

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.

The report also estimates that in Malaysia alone between 72,000 and 200,000 children work on palm oil plantations.

We've written about the connections between deforestation, the possible extinction of the orangutan, and the expansion of plantation - based palm oil production a number of times.

So, if we compare carbon stocks in the biomass between a natural forest and oil palm plantation, the carbon stored in the oil palm plantation is much lower (182 / tons in pristine forest vs. 24 tons / ha just in the aboveground biomass; see Hergoualc» h and Verchot 2011, Global Biogeochemical Cycles) as is productivity.

But the country lost 15 million acres, or 16 percent, of its forest cover between 2002 and 2012, largely due to rampant conversion to palm oil plantations.