Sentences with phrase «oil plantation results»

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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She thinks the dire situation is the result of the high commercial value of many of Borneo's tree species, years of overexploitation, forest fires, the growth of oil palm plantations, and the lack of government control because of vested interests in the logging and palm industries.

Rapid deforestation, mainly due to the oil palm industry and other agricultural plantations, illegal pet trade and poaching by killing mothers so their young can be taken, has resulted in the population in Borneo decreasing by more than 50 percent.

Most of the fires are the result of slash - and - burn practices — a cheap way to clear land and destroy native forests for palm oil and timber plantations.

This perilous situation is a result of a devastating combination of habitat loss (mainly to create lucrative oil - palm plantations) and poaching (to feed the black market for rhino horn).

For the study, researchers surveyed palm plantations, nurseries, forests and cleared land in Sumatra, the Indonesian island where tropical forests have been replaced by palm oil plantations, resulting in significant species declines.

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«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.

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.

Malaysia's forest loss was partly offset by a 25,978 sq km gain in vegetation cover resulting from natural recovery, reforestation, and establishment of industrial timber and oil palm plantations.

(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.

Conversion to oil palm will drastically reduce species richness (recent research has shown that conversion of primary rainforest to an oil palm plantation results in a loss of more than 80 percent of species).