Oil palm trees are a highly efficient crop, but they've been grown at the expense of vast stretches of thriving forests, and their spread has resulted in human rights abuses, species declines, and...
Today palm oil production is the largest cause of deforestation in Indonesia and other equatorial countries with dwindling expanses of tropical rainforest. Indonesia's endangered orangutan...
Palm oil is destroying rainforests. But try cutting it out of your life. After spending years reporting on the controversial ingredient, a journalist grapples with her own consumption.
Oil palm plantations currently cover more than 27 million hectares of the Earth's surface. Forests and human settlements have been destroyed and replaced by "green deserts" containing virtually no biodiversity on an area the size of New Zealand. The impact - suffering and death in producer countries, climate havoc
Dec 12, 2019According to one study, palm oil cultivation was responsible for almost half the loss of rainforest in Indonesia between 2003 and 2015, and more than two thirds in Malaysia. Rainforest destruction,...
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Is palm oil destroying rainforests? EPOA fully recognizes the problem of deforestation and continued deforestation for palm oil in particular. Reviewing the causes of deforestation, including the deforestation of rainforests specifically, it is clear that we need to look at palm oil as well as other crops.
Palm oil is now the most widely used oil in the world. Food, household cleaners, personal care and cosmetics all contain it. But the way it's grown is unsustainable. In order to clear land to grow palm, swathes of rainforest are burned, destroying habitat and homes and the fragile rainforest ecosystem.
Palm oil production and deforestation go hand in hand. To build palm oil plantations, producers clear trees in tropical rainforests, destroying the biodiverse regions. Deforestation is a significant contributor to climate change; when the forests are lost, carbon is released into the atmosphere, causing global warming.
One of the animals that has been used an icon to spread the message against unsustainable palm oil production is the keystone species of the Indonesian and Malaysian rainforests, the orangutan. These animals are of vital importance in the ecosystem as many species of seeds are dispersed with the help of the orangutans.
More than 80 percent of the Indonesian rainforest, mangroves and peatlands most vulnerable to being cleared for palm oil production is completely unprotected by the country's Forest Moratorium,...
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