One feels sorry for BHP and RIO except when one remembers that BHP, RIO and Xstrata negotiated the MRRT without FMG, Hancock, or any of
the other iron ore miners like Atlas, Mt Gibson, and BC Iron.
Even without the palm oil, it faces a myriad of
other threats, from raids by bush meat hunters trapping and shooting primates, antelopes and elephants, to incursions from illegal loggers and
miners prospecting for
iron ore.