Indonesia In 2015 this forest growing on peatland on the island of Borneo was burned to clear the land for oil palms. ... Palm oil production is far more mechanized in Asia than in Africa.

Environmental concerns mount as palm oil production surges Environmental concerns mount as palm oil ... In Indonesian Borneo, Kalimantan, oil palm plantations have expanded from 13,140 ...

Demand for palm oil is driving deforestation in Borneo, as trees are cleared to make way for the planting of oil farm plantations, which will send carbon dioxide, a global-warming gas, into the ...

The palm oil industry was responsible for at least 39% of forest loss on the biodiversity-rich island of Borneo between 2000 and 2018, data from a research firm based in Indonesia shows.

Between 1980 and 2014, global palm oil production increased from 4.5 million tonnes to 70 million tonnes, and is expected to increase. Indonesia is the largest producer of palm oil, followed by ...

Expanding palm-oil production is driving rain-forest destruction in the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo, also known as Kalimantan, according to a study by researchers at Stanford and Yale ...

Malaysia's Sabah state, on Borneo island, is looking to revolutionise its palm oil industry with a decade-long initiative that will ensure all growers adopt ethical standards and are certified as ...

The palm oil industry was responsible for at least 39% of forest loss in biodiversity-rich Borneo island between 2000 and 2018, data from an Indonesia-based research firm shows. The Center for ...