Sentences with phrase «oil plantations make»

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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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».

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

To make room for oil palm plantations and other crops, companies will raze existing trees (the source of future peat) and drain the water to dry out the soil.

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

In deforested areas, layers of peat — sometimes dozens of meters deep — become flammable as they dry out, which is sometimes exacerbated by deliberate draining in order to make them more suitable for palm oil and timber plantations.

The increased market for red palm oil has led to a huge increase in the amount of forest being cleared in Malaysia to make room for new palm plantations.

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.

Vast tracts of forests in Indonesia are being burned to make way for plam oil plantations.

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

Clearing Indonesian rainforests to grow Palm oil plantations to make something that is not even necessary?

They are made from organic bamboo, harvested from wild groves, rather than plantations, and are finished with an organic flax seed oil.

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.

The owner of Indonesia's largest conglomerate has been accused of participating in the illegal deforestation of Borneo's Ketungau peat swamp to make way for oil palm plantations.

RSPB highlighted their current work in forests, focusing on their international campaigns like the Orangutan Tropical Peatland Project, whose on - the - ground work is making a difference to places like the Harapan and the Sabangau rainforests, on the front line of advancing wave oil palm which is driving deforestation and the corrupt conversion of forest for plantation concessions.

Harmful climate emissions are released when land is deforested to make way for oil palm plantations.

The clearing of rainforests and carbon - rich peatlands for new plantations is releasing globally significant carbon pollution, making Conflict Palm Oil a major driver of human induced climate change.

According to the prevailing economic wisdom, it makes perfect sense for us to clear vast swathes of tropical rainforest to make way for oil palm plantations and soya beans, to pursue the last few -LSB-...]

There are many underlying causes for these fires, including the draining of swampy peat soils to make way for palm oil and pulpwood plantations and the use of illegal slash - and - burn practices by farmers

When forests are cleared and burned to make way for palm oil plantations, they release their stored carbon back in to the atmosphere contributing to global climate change.

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.

Since 2011, several industries have been clearing Liberia's precious forests to make way for industries ranging from rubber plantations to destructive palm oil companies.

But whatever it's called, it's clear that palm oil production is leading to massive deforestation due to carbon - emitting activities like slashing and burning the forest to make way for palm plantations, as well as habitat loss for a wide variety of species like orangutans, tigers, rhinoceros, and elephants.

Deforestation a Much Larger Issue Than Fossil Fuels in Many Places And it would be even more poignant had he been speaking about production of palm oil in Indonesia and Malaysia, where due to greenhouse gas emissions associated with land conversion from rainforest to plantations, the emissions from the fuel made from these crops can be nearly 10 times as much as from conventional fossil fuels.

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.

Oil palms have become a hugely successful crop, thanks to increasing worldwide demand, though it is also a highly controversial crop due to the vast tropical deforestation that occurs in order to make room for palm plantations.

Just a week later, the camera is activated yet again — by a bulldozer clearing that exact spot, presumably to make room for an illegal palm oil plantation.

Not only are the plantations such a severe threat to Orangutan habitat that the animals could be the first great ape (in modern times) to go extinct, but biodiesel made from palm oil can have carbon emissions greatly higher than that of petro diesel.

Oil palm plantation companies are still eating away at the Leuser Ecosystem, one of Indonesia's last best rainforests, despite a provincial ban on forest clearance to make way for the...