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Countries that import Indonesian timber, pulp and paper products have driven the ... much of Indonesia's increased palm oil production. Importing half of Indonesia's pulp and paper exports, China is a major driver of Indonesia's exports (and, by extension, production) of pulp and ...
www.globaltimber.org.uk


Carbon Credits in Indonesia Could Affect Climate Change, Orangutan Survival
Indonesia, “and only one of them has a genuine interest in palm oil production.” As the palm oil industry continues to ramp up, survival of orangutans – along with gibbons, tigers ... -scale oil palm plantations. “If we can trade the carbon,” Singleton said, “it can be as economically beneficial as palm oil. The peat lands are worth more under carbon trade than palm oil ...
greatapetrust.org


Nature Conservation News
Sumatra orangutans in the highest known density. Additionally, the coastal swamp forest is a natural protection against flood waves. Palm oil production has not to be stopped, but new plantations shall be established on fallow land -- an approach mainly small palm oil producers will benefit ...
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PanEco partners
Oxfam supports the pilot study for sustainable palm oil production, which is part of PanEcos programme to save the last peat swamp forests of Aceh ...
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Proboscis Monkey Blog
Malaysia are looking for alternatives, according to the BBC correspondent in Kuala Lumpur Jonathan Kent. Palm oil is made from the fruit of the oil palm ... has lost much of its ancient rainforest to palm oil plantations, and Malaysian companies are thought to be behind moves to expand palm oil production in Indonesia. Conservation groups say that could ...
proboscismonkey.org


Agrofuels - ASA complaint
Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC) entitled "Gift from Nature, Gift for Life". The advertisement was broadcast on the BBC and makes claims about the sustainability of palm oil production which FoE believes is misleading. The complaint can be downloaded below and provides background information into the deforestation associated with the expansion of palm oil. ...
foeeurope.org


'SUSTAINABLE PALM OIL' ADVERT FALSE, SAYS WATCHDOG - Friends of the Earth Scotland
ENDS Notes to Editors: [1] The Malaysian Palm Oil Council brings together the Malaysian palm oil ... consist of plant-based agrofuels like palm oil. To meet growing international demand for palm oil, Indonesia and Malaysia plan to double their oil palm plantations area to 18-22 million ...
www.foe-scotland.org.uk


Friends of the Earth: 'Sustainable' palm oil advert false, says Advertising Standards Authority
Research shows that 86 per cent of all deforestation in Malaysia between 1995 and 2000 was attributed to palm oil development, ... production of agrofuels. European Heads of State agreed in March 2007 that, by 2020, ten percent of transport fuels in Europe should consist of plant-based agrofuels like palm oil. In addition, palm oil ...
foe.co.uk


Science and the Environment Bulletin: Cooking Oil and Climate Change
Tests will also be performed to determine the feasibility of ... for use in rice-bran processing, Malaysia and Colombia for palm oil, Pakistan and India for rapeseed and soya, and various others for ...
www.ec.gc.ca


Rainforest Portal Rainforest Conservation Links: Destruction/Oil Palm
Added: Jun. 22, 2007 | Rate It Bitter Fruit of Oil Palm, The http://www.wrm.org.uy/plantations/material/oilpalm.html introduction to the social and environmental impacts of oil palm ... | Rate It Palm oil - rainforest in your shopping http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/biodiversity/case_studies/palmoil_index.html Friends of the Earth details how demand for palm oil, a vegetable oil present ...
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