Sentences with phrase «oil plantations»

Last week we explored some of the initial impacts of palm oil plantation expansion on tropical rainforests and the people and wildlife who depend on them.

He also approached palm oil plantation owners and reminded them that their actions were against the law.

Instead, these fires were set with the express purpose of clearing the forest — to open the land for soy production and cattle farming in the Amazon and for palm oil plantations in Borneo.

The Feb 13 issue of the Jakarta Post is reporting that Indonesia's Agriculture Ministry will issue a decree allowing businesses to expand palm oil plantations on peatland.

Deforestation Illegal Logging Makes Indonesia World's Third Largest Emitter of Greenhouse Gases Rainforest Preservation Can Be More Profitable Than Palm OIl Plantations Indonesia to Allow More Palm Oil From Peat Lands: Watch Greenhouse Gas Emissions Go Through the Roof Indonesia Scores One for Press Repression & Environmental Destruction - Reporters, Activists Deported

A leaked draft version of a European Commission report on implementation of EU sustainable biofuels plans would permit classification of palm oil plantations as intact forest, EU Observer reports.

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.

CalPERS holds about $ 400 million worth of shares in palm oil plantation companies — investments which bring serious material risks including climate risk, land - rights risk, reputational risk, and stranded assets risks.

As 2014 Goldman Prize winner Rudi Putra says, «We are not against palm oil — we are only against it when palm oil plantations destroy the forest.»

The jobs that are created by palm oil plantations do little to benefit local communities as they are often given to migrant workers and are rife with labor rights violations.

As a major contributor to climate change, deforestation caused by palm oil plantations not only impacts local communities, but the entire world.

What is if not entirely false, but rather entirely short - sighted and misguided, is that continuing to expand palm oil plantations at the expense of the nation's environment, biodiversity, rights of local people and continually rising greenhouse gas emissions will have long term benefits in Indonesia.

Amnesty International has uncovered «systemic» cases of child labour and labour rights abuses in Indonesian palm oil plantations operated by Wilmar, tracing the palm oil back to firms including Nestlé, Unilever and Kellogg — companies that all claim to...

This is part of an ambitious plan by Azur, a Cameroonian palm oil company, to develop a 123,000 - acre palm oil plantation next to the reserve.

Palm oil plantations decimate orangutan populations and threaten other endangered species such as tigers, rhinoceros, and elephants indigenous to Malaysia and Indonesia, the two countries that produce 85 percent of the world's palm oil.

(04/03/2012) Environmentalists were handed a set back in a dispute over a palm oil plantation granted in a protected peat swamp that is home to a population of critically endangered orangutans, reports the Aceh Globe and the Sydney Morning Herald.

In the report Putra describes his work, saying, «My community and I work tirelessly to shut down and destroy illegal palm oil plantations inside the federally protected Leuser Ecosystem, using chainsaws and uprooting illegal oil palms.

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.

The stark reality of the impacts of palm oil plantation expansion in Southeast Asia, where nearly 90 % of the world's palm oil comes from, makes it clear that it does not.»

Palm oil plantation accounted for just 0.2 % of the total loss.

via: Financial Times Indonesia, Deforestation Southeast Asia Paying High Environmental Cost for Palm Oil Rainforest Preservation Can Be More Profitable Than Palm Oil Plantations Pay No Attention to the Whining Indonesian Palm Oil Industry

In fact it's all of those things which make the ongoing and accelerating wholesale rape of Indonesia's forests (largely for agriculture, of which palm oil plantations make up a large part) such a pressing problem.

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In practice, this methodology gave an additional financial boast to new palm oil plantations on the logged peatswamps in Southeast Asia.

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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.

Hopefully you already are aware of the plight of orangutans in Borneo and Sumatra as logging and palm oil plantations continue to rapidly destroy their habitat.

Some of the clearing is believed done by palm oil plantation companies with Singapore connections.

We are not against palm oil — we are only against it when palm oil plantations destroy the forest.

That forest chopped down to grow soybeans or create a palm oil plantation did a

They are protesting the palm oil plantations not the grounds of climate change and carbon emissions like many of us around the globe who are concerned about them, but on the very immediate grounds that the river which the Penan depend on are being polluted and with the dwindling amount of forest area, the future of their food supplies is in jeopardy.

Rudi Putra, a biologist from Indonesia, was awarded the Goldman Prize in 2014 for his work to protect the habitat of the critically endangered Sumatran rhino by physically dismantling illegal palm oil plantations in northern Sumatra's Leuser Ecosystem.

Planting Plantations on Peat a Climate Change Nightmare A new piece in Mongabay lays out the situation of planting palm oil plantations on the peaty soils underlying the forests of much of Kalimantan in more specific terms, in case you don't already know the story.

The Republic of Guinea has selected Malaysia - based K Global Ventures (KGV) to develop a palm oil plantation in the country....

That's because valuable forests are often destroyed to plant palm oil plantations, destroying the habitats of countless species while also threatening the well being and livelihoods of communities that depend on the forest and contributing to climate change.

For example, in West Papua thousands of acres rainforest have been logged to make way for palm oil plantations.

The study, carried out by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) describes how forests converted to palm oil plantations are causing threatened forest dwelling frogs to vanish, resulting in an overall loss of habitat that is important for the conservation of threatened frog species in the region.

Satellite imagery shows how palm oil plantations are displacing peatlands — at tremendous cost to the climate

They were particularly worried about destruction of rainforests to create palm oil plantations.

Draining peatlands and replacing forests with palm oil plantations may cause Indonesian pollution to soar, despite pledges

Yayasan Sabah — the Sabah Foundation, a Malaysian state - owned company — is felling 75,000 hectares of rainforest on the island of Borneo and converting it to lucrative palm oil plantation.

It consists of forest patches that have been highly degraded by timber extraction, which are sewn into a landscape of palm oil plantations and human settlements.

INDONESIA and Malaysia have long denied that their tropical forests are being burned to make way for lucrative palm oil plantations.

The natural forests of Borneo and Sumatra are falling fast due largely to the explosive growth of palm oil plantations; populations of the orangutan, found only in these forests, are in sharp decline.

Greenpeace also claims that Sud - Cameroun Hevea, a company owned mostly by Singapore's GMG, is developing rubber and palm oil plantations that threaten the Dja Faunal Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage site and one of the largest and best protected rainforests in Africa.