First large-scale map of oil palm plantations reveals big environmental toll. Posted on March 7, 2011. Filed under: Forestry/Wetlands | Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com March 07, 2011. Distribution of closed canopy oil palm plantations and tropical peatlands in the lowlands of Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo and Sumatra. Click image to enlarge.
PDF | On Jan 1, 2017, Holly Jonas and others published Addressing the impact of large-scale oil palm plantations on orangutan conservation in Borneo A spatial, legal and political economy analysis ...
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First large-scale map of Indonesia oil palm plantations reveals vast destruction of forest and peatlands. By Rhett A. Butler, www.mongabay.com March 07, 2011 Expansion of industrial oil palm plantations across Malaysia and Indonesia have laid waste to vast areas of forest and peatlands, exacerbating greenhouse gas emissions and putting biodiversity at risk, reports a new satellite-based ...
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Satellite reveals age and extent of oil palm plantations in Southeast Asia Preprint (PDF Available) · February 2020 with 91 Reads How we measure 'reads'
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First large-scale map of oil palm plantations reveals big environmental toll. Mongabay. Forest Peoples Programme (2013). Conflict or Consent? FPIC in the Palm Oil Sectore Case Study Series. Greenpeace (2014).
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In the previous MAAP #4, we documented the deforestation of 6,464 hectares (15,970 acres) between 2011 and 2015 associated with a large-scale oil palm project in the central Peruvian (Ucayali region) operated by the company Plantaciones de Pucallpa.. In addition, we found that the majority of this deforestation occurred in primary forests, 1 although there was also clearing of secondary ...
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Satellite reveals age and extent of oil palm plantations in Southeast Asia Olha Danylo1, Johannes Pirker1,2, Guido Lemoine3, Guido Ceccherini3, Linda See1, Ian McCallum 1, Hadi , Florian Kraxner1, Frédéric Achard3, Steffen Fritz 1Ecosystems Services and Management Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Schlossplatz 1, A-2361, Laxenburg, Austria.
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Pro-deforestation group criticizes palm oil giant for sustainability pact . by Rhett A. Butler on 24 March 2011 . World Growth International, a group that advocates on behalf of industrial ...
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deforestation, illegal logging, and the spread of oil palm plantations. Oil palm is one of the most versatile tropical vegetable oils in the world and used in many products. The huge demand for it drives deforestation in Borneo and the destruction of the orangutan’s habitat. Today the Bornean Orangutan is classified as endangered by the IUCN ...
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2011-03-07· First large-scale map of oil palm plantations reveals big environmental toll. Oil palm plantation development has also exacerbated social conflict in
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2011-03-07· First large-scale map of oil palm plantations reveals big environmental toll. Posted on March 7, 2011. Filed under: Forestry/Wetlands Rhett A. Butler, mongabay March 07, 2011. Distribution of closed canopy oil palm plantations and tropical peatlands in the lowlands of Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo and Sumatra. Click image to enlarge.
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First large-scale map of oil palm plantations reveals big environmental toll. Mongabay. Forest Peoples Programme (2013). Conflict or Consent? FPIC in the Palm Oil
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vi The impact of large-scale oil palm plantations on orangutan conservation in Borneo About the authors Holly Jonas (LLM) has a background in public international law, zoology and anthropology. Based in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo since 2010, Holly coordinates Forever Sabah’s Legal Innovation Programme and co-directs Ridge to Reef, a
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A map showing where oil palm plantations are created . A map showing where existing oil palm plantations are, and the plantations that are planning to be produced . A map showing where the majority of palm oil travels to . A map showing the steps in order to produce palm oil. A map showing the forest cover loss in Indonesia and Malaysia from 1900 to estimated 2020. Powered by Create your
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2015-11-19· The new data launched by GFW offers the first detailed look at the extent of industrial concessions in Sarawak. These maps show the presence and extent of industrial forest timber licenses, oil palm concessions and license planted forests (LPF). This data was assembled from official documents in the public domain, including two State Forestry
Get PriceIf large-scale oil palm plantations were to be established, they could yield significant benefits to local authorities. However, such development would induce massive employment-driven migration
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The Bruno Manser Fund recently released a platform that allows us to see the large-scale destruction of Sarawak’s rainforests, peatlands, and traditional lands for use in palm oil plantations, timber concessions, and other environmentally damaging industries. Read more below to find out how they created this platform and how it works.
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2016-08-22· We indicate areas of primary forest and secondary vegetation, 2 recently deforested areas, and oil palm plantation. The images show that large-scale deforestation had begun by June 2012, and by 2015 there was a complete transformation of primary forest and secondary vegetation to large-scale oil palm plantation.
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New global study reveals the ‘staggering’ loss of forests caused by industrial agriculture. By Erik Stokstad Sep. 13, 2025,3:30 PM. A new analysis of global forest loss—the first to
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The research, is the first to examine the three main greenhouse gas emissions across the different age stages of palm oil plantations Decoded: How palm oil plantation contributes to global warming
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While our data only reveal when deforestation in current oil palm plantation area first occurred in the Landsat record and do not reveal intervening land uses, it seems likely that many areas that are now oil palm plantations were previously used for other plantation agriculture or pasture.
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Our analysis reveals that, of this total area, 9,400 ha came at the expense of primary forest and 2,350 ha from secondary forest. Image of the Week 4a. Two large-scale oil palm projects near Nueva Requena in the central Peruvian (Department of Ucayali) began in late 2011 and now cover nearly 12,200 ha. Key data sources: USGS. Map Description
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A top Indonesian official has declared a halt to new oil palm plantations in the country’s heavily forested Papua region in favor of other, “greener,” crops, apparently contradicting his vigorous earlier defenses of the industry. The remarks by Luhut Pandjaitan, the chief minister in charge of
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MODERN OIL PALM CULTIVATION. A modern oil palm plantation needs a grower who has learned how to cultivate oil palms. Growing selected oil palms is not just a matter of picking the fruit; it is a modern crop. The grower must learn how to do his work well. The grower should ask for advice, so that he learns to do better and better.
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2012-06-06· For the first time, cameras have documented wild jaguars with cubs in an oil palm plantation in Colombia, a conservation organization announced today (June 6). This is significant for
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2014-12-16· A new report released today by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), Permitting Crime: How palm oil expansion drives illegal logging in Indonesia, reveals how a widespread culture of corruption and poor law enforcement is generating a flood of illicit timber as plantations
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2011-03-22· This approach could facilitate more environmentally sustainable development in the country. An accuracy assessment of our oil-palm map reveals that 98% of areas we identified to be oil palm is verified to be planted with oil palm; and 85% of areas covered by closed canopy oil-palm plantations could be identified by our mapping approach. In
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A plantation is the large-scale estate meant for farming that specializes in cash crops.The crops that are grown include cotton, coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar cane, opium, sisal, oil seeds, oil palms, fruits, rubber trees, and forest trees. Protectionist policies and natural comparative advantage have sometimes contributed to determining where plantations are located.
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Jakarta, Indonesia (19 July 2025) A new Eyes on the Forest (EoF) report reveals how palm oil illegally grown inside a national park and surrounding areas in Sumatra home to elephants and tigers appears to enter the supply chains of the biggest palm oil producers and traders operating in Indonesia, compromising their deforestation-free pledges and those of their customers.
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2017-08-22· Home / Analysis / A competitive comparison of the 6 largest plantation companies in Malaysia. A competitive comparison of the 6 largest plantation companies in Malaysia By Stanley Lim, CFA on August 22, 2017. Share. Tweet . 3 comments. Palm oil has been a key contributor to the Malaysian economy for the many decades. Malaysia used to be the largest palm oil exporter in the
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2015-05-26· Scenario development. Gunarso et al. [] estimated an increase of 350,000 ha of oil palm plantations between 2000 2005 and 1,800,000 ha between 2006 2010, totaling 2.2 Mha for the decade.Due to the large difference between the expansion rates observed during the first and second half of the decade, we used two estimates for the magnitude of expansion.
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The Indonesian government is failing to protect the rights of Indigenous peoples who have lost their traditional forests and livelihoods to oil palm plantations in West Kalimantan and Jambi provinces.
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First large-scale oil palm plantation in Sarawak began in 1968, in which the newly formed Sarawak Oil Palm Berhad (SOPB) planted a total of 5,000-hectare (50 km 2) oil palm plantations near Miri by employing Indonesian workers at these plantations.
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Latin America palm oil production doubled since 2001 without massive uptick in deforestation. news.mongabay 3 mins read The area of land planted with oil palm has doubled in Latin America since 2001, but a new study finds that most plantations
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Palm oil production is important to the economy of Indonesia as the country is the world's biggest producer and consumer of the commodity, providing about half of the world's supply. In 2016, Indonesia produced over 34.5 million tons of palm oil, and exported nearly 73% of it. Oil palm plantations stretch across 12 million hectares, and is projected to reach 13 million by 2020.
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2017-10-11· Plantations, specifically for oil palm, were the most obvious replacement. The fruit of the oil palm tree yielded an edible fat used in everything from chocolate to laundry detergent and biofuel. The commodity was in increasing demand globally, and the region south of Lake Sembuluh was seen as having great potential for large-scale development
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boosting the development of oil palm plantations in the provinces of Papua, Sumatra and Kalimantan. Oil palm plantations are expected to increase at a rate of 5.22% per year. 21.6 million ha of land will be allocated to plantation development in 2013, of which 9.1 million ha will be allocated to oil palm plantations,
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