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WWF - Orangutans and oil palm plantations
Impacts of oil palm development on orangutans The development of oil palm plantations causes the fragmentation of forests, which reduces the natural habitat of orangutans. There are about 25,000 km2 of oil palm plantations ...
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RE: Palm plantation in Kalimantan
Indonesia has huge land areas of abandoned, unproductive palm oil plantations and degraded forest areas that would be suitable for oil palm ... palm. Mr. President, your country's long-term well-being depends upon maintaining and restoring rainforests. Please cancel the Kalimantan project and ensure new oil palm plantations ...
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Oil Palm Campaign
Oil Palm ... (12 minutes) The impact of oil palm in the Oro Province and the challenges faced by landowners and organisations who are trying to stop the expansion of oil palm plantations in the region. stream now or download mp4 PALM ...
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Rainforest Portal Rainforest Conservation Links: Destruction/Oil Palm
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 plantations from the World Rainforest Movement ... whose habitat have been reduced for conversion of forest for oil palm plantations and transmigration Added: Jun. 16, 2003 | Rate It Palm oil - rainforest in your shopping http://www.foe.co.uk/ ...
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Climate Change Blog: Oil Palm Biofuel Campaign Yielding Results
Main | Deadly Climate Change Now Inevitable » October 7, 2007 Oil Palm Biofuel Campaign Yielding Results The global campaign to ensure ... Quoting the WSJ concerning Indonesia, "the arrival of new palm-oil plantations has meant jobs and opportunities for many Dayak families [ ... | May 15, 2008 11:04 AM In Ecuador most of our palm plantations grow on previously cleared agricultural land or logged secondary ...
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Solidarity South Pacific - News - PNG Oil Palm Plantation Action
CDC in London, unfurling a banner which proclaimed 'PLANTATIONS ARE CORPORATE COLONIALISM AND ECOCIDE'. After chaining up their entrance doors we left, seeing ... in the expansion of oil palm plantations in Papua New Guinea. Wild, diverse, exuberant living forest systems are cleared and replaced by ecologically sterile monocultures. Oil Palm, in Milne Bay Province ...
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'SUSTAINABLE PALM OIL' ADVERT FALSE, SAYS WATCHDOG - Friends of the Earth Scotland
The draining and deforesting of peatlands in South-East Asia, predominantly to make way for palm plantations, releases huge amounts of soil carbon into the atmosphere, accounting for a massive 8% ... should 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 hectares, ...
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Friends of the Earth: 'Sustainable' palm oil advert false, says Advertising Standards Authority
The draining and deforesting of peatlands in South-East Asia, predominantly to make way for palm plantations, releases huge amounts of soil carbon into the atmosphere, accounting for 8 per cent ... to the environment from Malaysia's palm oil plantations." To meet growing international demand for palm oil, Indonesia and Malaysia plan to double their oil palm plantations area to 18-22 million hectares, ...
foe.co.uk

WWF - Forest conversion: Impact of agriculture and plantations
This wood often comes from plantations that replace native forests (click on image to see larger version). The graph shows the steady increase in oil palm plantations for Indonesia, Malaysia and other countries until 2004. © WWF What's happening? We all know that plantations and agriculture farming, including livestock production ...
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palm oil | Greenpeace UK
South ... throughout the palm oil industry which will support a moratorium on further deforestation in Indonesia to grow new plantations. As ... palm oil plantations, company executives told us that they wouldn't be forced into a quick decision on the matter. Read more » Tags: successes, unilever, palm ...
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