Sentences with phrase «oil plantations not»

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.

Not exact matches

To trace the palm oil used in each ingredient, from plantation to processing plant, and to ensure it was kept segregated at every stage, would be a logistical nightmare, prohibitively expensive... well, it's simply not possible right now if manufacturers want to get their cakes mixed and baked and sold in time for Christmas day.

Our certifications verify the palm plantations we source from are not developed by removing rain forests, but by converting pre-existing agricultural land to palm oil production.

When you purchase Tropical Traditions Virgin Palm Oil, you are supporting small scale family producers in Africa, and NOT large corporate plantations in South East Asia.

These risks require additional due diligence in sourcing, education and training to ensure the palm oil in our supply chain is not associated with deforestation, child or forced labor, or plantation expansion on carbon - rich peatlands.

When I first read about the wonderful benefits of coconut oil, I asked my wife Marianita, who grew up on a coconut plantation in the Philippines, if there was a more natural way to extract the oil from the coconut, so that we didn't have to buy the refined coconut oils found in all the stores here in the Philippines.

But oil - palm plantations still aren't getting as much as they could out of their plants.

Noting that, «responsible palm oil production can play an important role in improving the lives of the local communities,» Wilmar says it is working with the government to ensure its plantations don't overlap with the national park.

The researchers also found that certification did not affect fire occurrence in these plantations or the amount of carbon - rich peat swamp forests cleared and drained for oil palm.

When I first read about the wonderful benefits of coconut oil, I asked my wife Marianita, who grew up on a coconut plantation in the Philippines, if there was a more natural way to extract the oil from the coconut, so that we didn't have to buy the refined coconut oils found in all the stores here in the Philippines.

Forest Heroes created the slogan «She's not a fan,» with images of endangered Sumatran elephants, one of the animals threatened by the loss of habitat associated with the expansion of palm oil plantations.

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

The post doesn't mention the new road to the Pacific or the ethanol plant and sugarcane plantations; or the planned road from Cruzeiro do Sul, Brazil to Pulcallpa, Peru and the multiple big hydro - energy dam constructions it will support; or the new Peruvian oil leases in indigenous reserves; or the BR$ 35 million worth of oil exploration in the Juruá watershed in Acre; or the Madeira River complex of big hydroelectric projects in Rondonia near Bolivia.

«When the peat is cleared, the natural nitrogen found in the soil is not available for plants, so to ensure that the young oil palms thrive, intensive fertiliser is added during the first three to four years of the plantation.

Substantial N2O emissions from peat decomposition and N fertilization in an oil palm plantation exacerbated by hotspots

«Our study suggests... [the] initiative will not significantly reduce deforestation in northern Sumatra and will have little impact on orangutan conservation,» David Gaveau of the University of Kent, UK, and the Wildlife Conservation Society Indonesia Program told environmentalresearchweb, «because firstly a large amount of forest inside the proposed REDD project area is protected de facto by being inaccessible; and secondly much of northern Sumatra's lowland forests will remain outside of REDD and will be exposed to the combined expansion of high - revenue oil palm plantations and road networks.»

Greenpeace, for example, explains that the new plant in Singapore is likely to cause more environmental problems, not fewer, by increasing demand for new palm oil plantations that displace environmentally sensitive forests or wetland areas.

Unlike logged forest, which has the capacity to support at least some orangutans, oil palm plantations are not viable habitats for orangutans.

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 Guardian article, «Palm oil risk to Africa as prospectors eye swaths of land,» describes how plantations not only fail to deliver on the promise of jobs, but also hamper food security in the long run:

Putra realized that in addition to anti-poaching efforts, his work could not be complete without addressing a much larger threat rapidly outpacing conservation: habitat destruction from illegal palm oil plantations.

What is clear is that oil palm is not the only factor and that palm plantations are established after a process of degradation and deforestation has transpired.

From the ground, you would not suspect anything more than just another palm oil plantation, the aerial view however reveals an SOS distress signal.

And despite Agricultural Ministry statements to the contrary, the trees in palm oil plantations won't absorb even a fraction of the emissions the old forest did: Policy Is Short - Sighted and Factually Inaccurate Gatot Irianto, head of the research and development at the Agriculture Ministry said,

Did the palm oil come from some Malaysian plantation that is not treating its people ethically?

Because the widespread burning of rainforest land in Indonesia — in order to plant more palm oil plantations — is creating so much smoke and trans - boundary haze pollution that it's affecting neighboring nations, not to mention devastating its own country.

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 knowPlantations 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 knowplantations on the peaty soils underlying the forests of much of Kalimantan in more specific terms, in case you don't already know the story.

Though Indonesia and Malaysia seem hell bent on chopping down their rainforests and replacing them with palm oil plantations, a new study in the journal Conservation Letters shows that selling carbon credits from the intact forests could be just as profitable as converting them to agriculture, and go a long way towards preserving biodiversity (not to mention stopping the orangutan from going extinct): In the article, report lead author Oscar Venter of the University of Queensland says that oil palm plantations currently threaten some 3.3 million hectares of forest in Kalimantan (the Indonesian part of the island or Borneo).

The finding that oil palm plantations store less carbon than natural forest are not a surprise, but the new figure is lower than earlier estimates.

Biodiversity of rainforests should not be compared with oil palm plantations says palm oil council chief

Moreover, a large proportion of deforestation is not taking place for subsistence agriculture, but for cattle ranching, oil palm plantations, timber extraction and other commercial enterprises — many of which are supplying raw materials to the rich world.

But you don't have to grow oil palms in vast plantations and in an unsustainable manner; which is where the RSPO comes in.

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.

Amphibians such as frogs are especially vulnerable to these alterations, and depend upon a variety of aquatic sites for reproduction that are typically not found in the relatively drier conditions of oil palm plantations.

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