And we all need to do much more to make ALL Palm Oil Sustainable. The June report from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) found that “palm oil is damaging global biodiversity, negatively impacting 193 species assessed as threatened on the IUCN Red List affected”. But further reading of the report also brings to ...
A typology of Saudi Arabia’s wetlands. Despite its extremely arid climate, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which is the largest country on the Arabian Peninsula, harbors a broad spectrum of wetland types (Newton 1995), which have been classified into eight distinct wetland systems (Tinley 1994):. Coastal systems, including freshwater marshes, mangroves, coral islands, and mudflats.
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JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia reaffirmed that it is working, in the framework of Vision 2030 and the National Transformation Program 2020, to build a sustainable renewable energy sector that includes industries, services, technology localization and qualified human resources.
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Thanks to ETC members who are helping us gather information on the impact of COVID-19 In this rapidly-changing situation, we want to focus on collaboration within the industry to gather the most helpful resources and information. ETC is committed to providing accurate and timely information and we appreciate those members who are helping us.
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Oil palm natural diversity and the potential for yield. On November 2014, palm oil was valued as a vegetable oil with the lowest production costs by the international commodities markets 5, e.g., US$ 700 and US$ 850 per metric ton of oil palm and rapeseed oil, respectively.
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Proceedings of the 11th Conservation Workshop for the Fauna of Arabia, and the First Conference on Biodiversity Conservation in the Arabian Peninsula, 31 Jan - 4 Feb 2010. Edited by Philip Seddon ...
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Human overpopulation (or population overshoot) is when there are too many people for the environment to sustain (with food, drinkable water, breathable air, etc.).In more scientific terms, there is overshoot when the ecological footprint of a human population in a geographical area exceeds that place's carrying capacity, damaging the environment faster than it can be repaired by nature ...
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Global palm oil production increased 15-fold between 1980 and 2014, fueled by the oil’s low production costs and versatility and by the crop’s high yield. Demand for palm oil is expected to continue to increase at an annual rate of about 1.7 percent until 2050. However, oil palm development is one of the key drivers of tropical forest loss. For instance, in Indonesia and Malaysia, it ...
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The environmental impacts of the palm oil industry are widely recognised. Unsurprisingly, many people, including many conservation pundits, consider oil palm a major evil. What is less widely recognized is the extent to which this industry has benefited people. Oil palm development, if well-planned and managed, can provide improved incomes and employment and generate investments in services ...
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At the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Hawai‘i in September 2016, IUCN’s Members established the IUCN Oil Palm Task Force to undertake a situation analysis on oil palm and biodiversity conservation in the context of sustainable development. The task force released its report in June 2025.. Learn More. Situational analysis [ also available in French ]
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Palm oil is here to stay IUCN report "Palm oil and biodiversity" June 2025 Photo: IUCN. Oil palm produces up to nine times more oil per unit area than other major oil crops. To mitigate biodiversity loss, effective policies and programs are needed to stop the clearing of native tropical forests for new oil palm plantations.
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IUCN Oil Palm Task Force Abstract: The situation analysis primarily focuses on oil palm in the context of biodiversity conservation based on literature published before 31 January 2025, and aims to provide a constructive pathway to addressing sustainability challenges in the palm oil industry.
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The IUCN report, Oil palm and biodiversity, is an objective analysis of palm oil impacts on global biodiversity and possible solutions.Given other oil crops require up to nine times as much land to produce than palm oil, its replacement would significantly increase the total land area used for vegetable oil production to meet global demand.
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2009-07-28· IUCN and NCWCD partner to conserve biodiversity in Saudi Arabia Tue, 28 Jul 2009 Building on a 20-year-partnership in protected areas management, the National Commission for Wildlife Conservation and Development (NCWCD) has extended the partnership with IUCN Regional Office for West Asia (ROWA).
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2017-08-25· Palm Oil’s Threat to Biodiversity in Indonesia Posted on August 25, 2017 August 26, 2017 by ericaeller Habitat loss and degradation is the leading cause of loss to biodiversity and Indonesia’s terrain has become one of the most notorious examples of this.
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he situation analysis primarily focuses on oil palm in the context of biodiversity conservation based on literature published before 31 January 2025, and aims to provide a constructive pathway to
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2008-02-21· IUCN West Asia/Middle East (WAME) Regional Office has signed a new memorandum of understanding with the National Commission for Wildlife Conservation and Development (NCWCD) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to provide technical support in the field of biodiversity conservation focusing the technical support on the CBD.
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IUCN works across a wide range of themes related to conservation, environmental and ecological issues. Below you can explore all the themes by clicking on their titles.
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IUCN is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from qualified women and men. To apply online for any of the numbered positions below, click on the position to open the vacancy announcement and press "apply". Applicants are asked to create an account and submit their profile information including their CV and to upload a letter of motivation.
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1112 AP56 Preliminary Investigation on Biodiversity and its Ecosystem in Oil Palm Plantation Mathews J, Yong K.K. and Nurulnahar B. E IOI Research
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use biological resources in the future. Therefore, with this First Saudi Arabian National Report on Biodiversity that provides both information on the status of biodiversity and presents the overall plan for implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Kingdom has taken an important step in ensuring its natural heritage.
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5 Pictures of the area DEFINITION OF ECOSYSTEM. An ecosystem is an environment with animals, and also reproduce. Ecosystems provide us with food, shelter, water, and medicine. Saudi Arabia is the desert, the desert has very little precipitation about 100mm a year, there are a lot
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THE STATUS AND DISTRIBUTION OF FRESHWATER BIODIVERSITY IN THE ARABIAN PENINSULA The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ Regional Assessment. About IUCN IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, helps the world find pragmatic solutions to our most pressing environment and development challenges. IUCN’s work focuses on valuing and conserving nature,
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The impacts of oil palm on recent deforestation. Palm oil is the most widely traded vegetable oil globally, with demand projected to increase substantially in the future. Almost all oil palm grows in areas that were once tropical moist forests, some of them quite recently. The conversion to date, and future expansion, threatens biodiversity and
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The European Union (EU) Commission issued a Supplementing Delegated Regulation Directive 2025/2021 of the EU RED which prohibits the use of crude palm oil (CPO) or crude palm oil as a source of biofuels in the region recently. They reasoned that oil palm cultivation had caused excessive deforestation. That is why the use of CPO []
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Biodiversity of Saudi Arabian Red Sea Coral Reefs The Red Sea is one of the most understudied areas in the world in terms of marine biodiversity, and yet the high level of endemism indicates that additional evolutionary partitions await discovery. Beginning in late 2012, we plan to operate a series of regional research cruises to complete a survey of reef fauna over the next three years
Get PriceTHE NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR CONSERVATION OF BIODIVERSITY IN THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA Prepared and Issued by the National Commission for Wildlife Conservation and Development Dul Al-Hijja 1425 H / January 2005 Supervision Prof. Dr. Abdulaziz Hamid Abuzinada General Coordination Mr. Yousef bin Ibrahim Al-Wetaid Scientific Revision and Translation
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“With access to all the critical elements low-cost finance, land availability, high solar irradiance and locally-based, skilled resources there is no reason why Saudi Arabia cannot achieve some of the lowest PV levelized costs of electricity in the region,” highlights Dr. Bkayrat, who will be sharing insights on solar-powered
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Humans are transforming Earth’s natural landscapes so dramatically that as many as one million plant and animal species are now at risk of extinction, posing a dire threat to ecosystems that
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Myanmar’s palm oil industry heads for a sustainable path. Fuelled by a need to meet Myanmar’s demand for cooking oil and reduce the high cost of palm oil imports (which cost the country $376 million in 2012 from Indonesia and Malaysia), to date over 140,000 hectares of oil palm have been planted and 400,000 hectares allocated to over 40 local and three international companies.
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Liberian Palm Oil and Rubber: Palm oil development is one of the major drivers for deforestation in the country. The area under palm oil concessions was estimated to cover 19% of Liberia's land
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Mandated by the member governments of the ITTO, IUCN will update and revise the previous version of the ITTO guidelines, and will help optimize the contribution of tropical production forests to global biodiversity conservation. Link to further information. IUCN press release (2 May 2006)
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The IUCN Cat Specialist Group has added 276 documents on Felidae research and other wild cat literature to their library as at 2025 Mar 27. 113 documents were published in 2017 and 5 in 2025. To find documents on a particular topic, type a keyword into the Search bar eg 'leopard 2017' or 'conservation'.
Get PriceDownload PDF Here. Palm oil or tuna: intent or results by Dr Margi Prideaux, International wildlife policy writer, negotiator and academic. Palm oil giants have been burning tropical rainforest, opening up massive peat swamps and installing extensive networks of canals across Indonesian and Malaysian rainforests for decades.
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Papua New Guinea is richly endowed with natural resources, but exploitation has been hampered by rugged terrain and the high cost of developing infrastructure. Agriculture provides a subsistence livelihood for 85% of the population. Mineral deposits, including oil, copper, and gold, account for nearly two-thirds of export earnings. The economy
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Indonesia became a net oil importer in 2004 because of declining production and lack of new exploration investment. The cost of subsidizing domestic fuel placed increasing strain on the budget in 2005, and combined with indecisive monetary policy, contributed to a run on the currency in August, prompting the government to enact a 126% average
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By Mongabay Already facing an onslaught of threats from logging and conversion for agriculture, forests worldwide are increasingly impacted by the effects of climate change, including drought, heightened fire risk, and disease, putting the ecological services they afford in jeopardy, warns a new paper published in the journal Nature Climate Change.
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