Sentences with phrase «oil plantations destroy»

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

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.»

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Most of their forest habitat has been destroyed by logging, palm oil plantations, and other development.

Expanded logging and oil - palm plantations have increasingly destroyed their natural habitats.

Today, almost all palm oil is produced in, and exported from, Indonesia and Malaysia where rainforests are being destroyed to make way for oil palm plantations.

Orangutans are endangered because their habitat — the rainforests of Indonesia — is being destroyed to make way for palm oil plantations.

As giant chunks of Indonesia's forests are destroyed to make way for palm oil plantations, the government and the businesses that operate in Indonesia need to move as fast as possible to sustainable production methods, as well as make sure that rights over the forest are legally and transparently established.

10,000 hectares of forest near Lake Victoria are about to be destroyed for oil palm plantations: the Ugandan government is awarding land on Buvuma Island to international investors.

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.

«It emerged at the international level, through the combination of, among others: (1) the conservationist interests of big environmental NGOs in the North, (2) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the North seeking low - cost alternatives to supposedly «offset» their continued and excessive emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases, (3) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the South seeking to obtain financial resources for the «protection» of forests in their countries, (4) the interests of corporations that could profit from market - tradable «offset» credits, including through speculation on secondary (derivatives) markets, which would allow them to continue destroying the forests for the extraction of timber, minerals or oil, the establishment of monoculture plantations, etc., thus expanding their business opportunities, and (5) the interests of consultants and other actors involved in financial capital markets who want to turn «unexploited» forests into a new market for this type of capital, through the commercialization of «environmental services» such as carbon sequestration, among others.»

Relegated to ever smaller fragments of forest, wild orangutans began to face starvation as their food sources were depleted, forcing them to venture into newly established oil palm plantations where they feed on the young shoots of palms, destroying the tree before it produces any oil seeds.

But many wetlands are being destroyed or degraded because their rich soil and their location in flat tropical lowlands or along coasts make them attractive for industrial operations such as aquaculture and oil palm or timber plantations.

Meanwhile, more than 100,000 hectares of peatland forests are destroyed each year for oil palm and agricultural plantations.

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.

More than 100,000 hectares of peatland forests are destroyed each year for oil palm and agricultural plantations.

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