Sentences with phrase «rubber plantations leads»

It looks promising at first, a tarmac road through coconut groves and rubber plantations leads all the way to the small parking area.

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That's the job of the three leads in this deliciously humid love triangle, as rubber plantation manager Clark Gable is caught between randy hooker Jean Harlow (of course) and buttoned - up, married Mary Astor just as the rains begin to fall.

Lead researcher Eleanor Warren - Thomas, from UEA's School of Environmental Sciences, explains that the tire industry consumes 70 percent of all natural rubber grown, and rising demand for tires is behind the plantation boom and subsequent threat to forests.

In southeast Asia, a dramatic collapse in the price of palm oil (60 percent off its peak in March 2008) and rubber (down 54 percent from its high in July 2008) is causing a shake - out in the plantation sector, which has become one of the leading drivers of deforestation in the region.

The report says that despite the widespread perception of slash - and - burn being «a destructive system that leads to forest loss and degradation,» policies that support conversion to rubber plantations (which gets counted as reforestation, even though a plantation forest is hardly the same thing as natural forest) don't have a great environmental benefit.