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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.
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 ...
JAKARTA — A palm oil company is gearing up to expand into critical orangutan habitat in Indonesian Borneo, raising alarms over the survival of the critically endangered great apes.
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over palm oil plantations in East Kalimantan – the Indonesian part of the island Borneo. Palm oil is the most widely-produced tropical edible oil. It ...
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 ...
Oil palm production in Borneo is booming, resulting in major deforestation and putting Critically Endangered orangutans at risk. But the industry and conservationists have historically not worked ...
Chart showing annual palm oil production by Malaysia and Indonesia from 1964-2006. Click to enlarge. An Associated Press investigation found evidence of workers opening up rainforest land for new ...
Sarawak Oil Palms Bhd (Sarawak Oil Palms) aims to grow its fresh fruit bunch (FFB) production by 5 per cent year-on-year in ...
KUCHING (Oct 14): Sarawak hopes to become a major player in the production of mechanised oil palm harvesters, following the unveiling of the ‘Lipan’ harvester in Miri recently, said Premier ...
Kuala Lumpur THE palm oil industry was responsible for at least 39 per cent of forest loss in biodiversity-rich Borneo island between 2000 and 2018, data from an Indonesia-based research firm shows.