Oil palms yield more oil per acre than do other crops. But soaring demand for the world’s most popular vegetable oil has led to extensive deforestation and loss of wildlife in Indonesia and ...

over 80% of orangutan habitat has been altered or lost. The effects of palm oil production are not limited to orangutans; they ripple out to other species and the environment. The loss of ...

Professor Jon Lovett collaborated with Indonesian researchers to investigate how Indonesia has developed effective sustainability regulations for its palm oil industry.

Habitat loss is by far the greatest threat to orang-utans ... protected areas and wider forest landscapes connected by corridors. Promoting sustainable palm oil production: In 2004, WWF helped set up ...

Palm oil has been and continues to be a major driver of deforestation of some of the world’s most biodiverse forests, destroying the habitat of already endangered species like the Orangutan, pygmy ...

Palm oil production in Malaysia slumped the most since 2016 as heavy rains and floods disrupted harvesting in the world’s ...

Borneo has lost almost 40% of its forest in the last 10 years to Palm oil. One of the animals most affected by this habitat loss is the orangutan. For Seven Worlds, One Planet we filmed a mother ...

Palm oil is a type of edible ... However, its production has raised environmental concerns, particularly due to deforestation, habitat destruction, and the impact on wildlife, such as orangutans ...

So there’s a huge reliance on palm oil for lots of people’s livelihood. On the flip side, the production of palm ... Without their natural habitat they are at serious risk of extinction.