Sentences with phrase «palm 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.

Global demand is so high (and expected to double by 2020), and the Indonesian government eagerly hands out subsidies to growers, that further burning of the land to clear the rainforest for palm oil plantations is inevitable.

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.

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

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.

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

• 27 percent of new palm oil plantations in Indonesia are created onland that began as tropical rain forest; 1.5 percent of these lands arebeing deforested each year.

In fact, it is likely that despite any added wealth brought in by expanding palm oil plantations on peat soils, the negative effects of climate change will wipe it all away.

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.

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.

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

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.

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Unless we put strict limitations on the industry, efforts to stop climate change will be defeated by massive carbon emissions from palm oil plantations in tropical forests.

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

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

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.»

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...

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.

Cameroon is among a growing list of African nations hoping to follow in the steps of so - called «Asian tigers» like Malaysia and Indonesia, which have made hundreds of billions of dollars by converting huge tracts of rainforest into palm oil plantations.

«Volunteering is the best way to find out if you enjoy researching abroad, even if it's just for a few weeks,» says Aisyah Faruk, who collects her PhD data straight from the Malaysian rainforest, where she researches the effects of encroaching palm oil plantations on frog species.

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

This week we are focusing on the long term impacts of palm oil production, including the effects of tropical deforestation on climate change, toxic waste pollution from processing plants, and forced labor at palm oil plantations.

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.»

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.

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

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.

It is by far the largest palm oil plantation in Congo.

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.

«Our research shows that habitats surrounding palm oil plantations, although they are affected by agricultural activity, still sustain a number of threatened species,» says Chris Carbone, a senior research fellow at the Zoological Society of London.

Getting to Giram Nek Legek is slightly challenging — going through palm oil plantation and villages.

A quintessential White Cube, designed by OMA, was inaugurated on a former Unilever palm oil plantation in Lusanga, DR Congo.

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.

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

NEWS: Leading investor put four major companies on its banned list for links to environmentally destructive palm oil plantations

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 PCN and Grueso used Law 70 to successfully challenge destructive development projects including timber industry logging, African palm oil plantations, mechanized gold mining and industrial shrimping, which devastated local mangroves.

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

Deforestation is the conversion of forest to another land use — this includes conversion in «invaluable» forest areas - e.g. palm oil plantations and other uses.

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.