Palm oil, produced from the oil palm, is a basic source of income for many farmers in South East Asia, Central and West Africa, and Central America.It is locally used as cooking oil, exported for use in much commercial food and personal care products and is converted into biofuel. It produces up to 10 times more oil per unit area than soybeans, rapeseed or sunflowers.
The author then provides a historical and current context of tropical rainforest deforestation and degradation. Maps are provided showing the forest cover loss from 2000 to 2014 in these select regions. The author then presents a more detailed discussion about the role of cattle, soybeans, and palm oil, along with the role of timber, pulp and ...
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Palm Oil in Costa Rica in Playa Palo Seco & Around Skip to Content ... Those travelers who've seen the devastation caused by palm-oil cultivation in Indonesia, Malaysia and elsewhere – deforestation, the destruction of primary forests and habitats of endangered animals – will look at these kilometers of palm-oil plantations with some dismay. There are ways of producing palm oil in a ...
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Human impact on the environment or anthropogenic impact on the environment includes changes to biophysical environments and ecosystems, biodiversity, and natural resources caused directly or indirectly by humans, including global warming, environmental degradation (such as ocean acidification), mass extinction and biodiversity loss, ecological crisis, and ecological collapse.
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Oil-induced environmental degradation in the Nigeria's Niger Delta: The multiplier effects . Article (PDF Available) · January 2009 with 1,537 Reads How we measure 'reads' A 'read' is counted ...
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The problems are more acute in Indonesia, and these have been well documented in numerous publications such as Losing Ground: The human rights impacts of oil palm expansion in Indonesia (Marti, 2008) and Land is Life: Land rights and oil palm development in Sarawak (Colchester et al., 2007). For many indigenous peoples who have used their land ...
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As recently as the 1960s, about 80 percent of Indonesia was forested. Since then, however, demand for commodities like pulp, paper, plywood and palm oil has combined with corruption, political croneyism, uncertainty about land rights and poorly enforced policies to create the conditions for a massive land and resource grab by large corporate interests.
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C.whereas under the 2030 Agenda On Sustainable Development, the EU is committed to promoting the implementation of sustainable management of all types of forests, to halting defor
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However, in a timid response to calls from the European Parliament and several European governments, the Commission recognises that legislation may be necessary to sever the link between deforestation and European consumption, in particular of commodities like soy, palm oil, beef, coffee and cocoa.
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Palm Oil is the most consumed vegetable oil across the world. It is used in everyday products that I can guarantee you’re using; toothpaste, shampoo, cosmetics, confectionery and baked goods are prime examples of the ways we are contributing to the destruction and demolition of nature across Asia.
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Palm oil, produced from the oil palm, is a basic source of income for many farmers in South East Asia, Central and West Africa, and Central America.It is locally used as cooking oil, exported for use in much commercial food and personal care products and is converted into biofuel. It produces up to 10 times more oil per unit area than soybeans, rapeseed or sunflowers.
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2020-03-29· Palm oil is literally everywhere in our foods, cosmetics, cleaning products and fuels. It’s a source of huge profits for multinational corporations, while at the same time destroying the livelihoods of smallholders. Displacement of indigenous peoples, deforestation and loss of biodiversity are all consequences of our palm oil consumption.
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The guilty secrets of palm oil: Are you unwittingly contributing to the devastation of the rain forests? Does your shopping basket contain KitKat, Hovis, Persil or Flora? If so, you may be
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2008-12-11· Today palm oil production is the largest cause of deforestation in Indonesia and other equatorial countries with dwindling expanses of tropical rainforest. Indonesia’s endangered orangutan
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on palm oil and deforestation of rainforests such as deforestation of primary and secondary forests and the destruction or degradation of peatlands or other ecologically valuable habitats, whether directly or indirectly, and does not cause a loss in biodiversity, foremost of all endangered animal and plant species, has not given rise to changes in land management practices which have
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2017-03-26· [ READ NEXT: Palm Oil Destruction, Degradation and Devastation] PS. Making this list was incredibly difficult. A lot of companies lay low on their Palm Oil stance. If I happened to get something incorrect, please let me know so I can adjust accordingly. This kind of
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Palm oil is a small ingredient in the U.S. diet, but more than half of all packaged products Americans consume contain palm oil—it’s found in lipstick, soaps, detergents and even ice cream. Grown only in the tropics, the oil palm tree produces high-quality oil used primarily for cooking in developing countries.
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The palm oil industry is valued at $62 billion in 2016, producing 70 million tons of palm oil each year of which, so far, 20% has been certified with the RSPO standard. However, some studies appear to show that forest loss trends aren’t slowing down.
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2013-01-07· The extraction of oil is responsible for the deforestation, degradation, and environmental devastation of lands across the globe. The oil extraction process results in the release of toxic drilling by-products into local rivers, while broken pipelines and leakage result in persistent oil spillage.
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2010-05-24· Most palm oil exported to the United States one million tons in 2008/2009 is extracted from the hard kernel at the center of the fruit, and processed into a variety of ingredients for food
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Human impact on the environment or anthropogenic impact on the environment includes changes to biophysical environments and ecosystems, biodiversity, and natural resources caused directly or indirectly by humans, including global warming, environmental degradation (such as ocean acidification), mass extinction and biodiversity loss, ecological crisis, and ecological collapse.
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None of these proposed solutions are easy, but strong political will, collaboration between different government departments and levels of government (national, provincial, district), as well as a clear understanding of the social, economic, and environmental benefits should help break the link between environmental degradation and oil palm
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The wholesale destruction of rainforests on Borneo for the palm oil plantations of Bumitama Gunajaya Agro (BGA) is threatening the survival of orangutans. BGA is a member of the RSPO the organization issuing the label for supposedly “sustainable” palm oil. Please call for a stop to deforestation and an end to palm oil imports NOW!
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More than 100 organizations from five continents signed on to this open statement from Friends of the Earth International and the World Rainforest Movement, denouncing the failure of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil to eliminate the violence and destruction that oil palm plantations cause in the territories where they are established.
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With decades of environmental devastation and human rights violations, palm oil has been under the scrutiny of environmentalists, NGOs, and consumers for quite a while.Certifying bodies like the Roundtable of Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO), Malaysian Sustainable Palm Oil (MSPO), and more recently the Palm Oil Innovation Group (POIG),
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Palm oil is the leading cause of orangutan extinction. It’s in 50% of all household and food products sold in the West. It’s an ingredient in shampoo, toothpaste, detergent, frozen microwave dinners, cookies, peanut butter, lotion, makeup and much more!
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OIL EXPLOITATION AND CONFLICT IN THE NIGER-DELTA REGION OF NIGERIA 27 composed of thirty main streets very straight and 120 feet wide, apart from an infinity of small intersecting streets. The houses are close to one another, arranged in good order. These people are in no way inferior to the Dutch as regards cleanliness; they wash and scrub
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The Amazon, central Africa, the Mekong. These are home to some of the world’s most species-rich, culturally significant and stunningly beautiful forests. But large swaths of these forests, and many others around the world, may not be there in 15 years if we don’t do more to save them.
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Does your shopping basket contain KitKat, Hovis, Persil or Flora? If so, you may be contributing to the devastation of the wildlife-rich forests of Indonesia and Malaysia, where orangutans and other species face extinction as their habitat disappears. It's an invisible ingredient, really, palm oil. You won't find it listed on your margarine, your bread,
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As the palm oil tree only grows in the tropics, nearly 90% of global production comes from Indonesia and Malaysia. Palm oil plantations globally now cover around 15 million hectares and growing. Forest destruction for palm oil expansion is spreading quickly in SE Asia and to other rainforest regions in Central Africa and Latin America.
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The full report, “Deforestation, Forest Degradation, Biodiversity Loss, and CO2 Emissions in Riau, Sumatra, Indonesia” and a summary report “How Pulp and Paper and Palm Oil from Sumatra increases Global Climate Change and Drives Tigers and Elephants to Local Extinction” is available at worldwildlife.org
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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 increases greenhouse gas emissions. Today, consumer pressure is pushing companies toward
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In Indonesia, which is home to the world’s largest mangrove forests, and the world’s mangrove destruction hotspot in absolute terms, aquaculture production is expected to grow by 7 per cent per year until 2030, with government targets even higher. Another rising deforestation driver is palm oil. Despite efforts to satisfy production
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The ship is carrying 27,000 metric tonnes of crude palm oil for the Wilmar company destination Rotterdam, Netherlands. Greenpeace is protesting against the destruction of Kampar Peninsular's peatland forest by pulp and paper and palm oil industries and is calling for the Indonesian Government to implement a moratorium on deforestation. Peatland
Get PriceThe following is the established format for referencing this article: Obidzinski, K., R. Andriani, H. Komarudin, and A. Andrianto. 2012. Environmental and social impacts of oil palm plantations and their implications for biofuel production in Indonesia.
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Breaking the Silence: Violence against women in and around industrial oil palm and rubber plantations; Support this declaration! Chico Mendes in the Standoff Against the False Solutions of Green Capitalism* Sign the statement! RSPO: 14 years failing to eliminate violence and destruction from the industrial palm oil
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Palm oil and agriculture. Agri-business is responsible for massive rainforest destruction as forests are cleared or burned to make way for cattle ranches, palm oil or soya plantations. Irreplaceable rainforests are converted into products that are used to make toothpaste, chocolate and animal feed. Indonesia’s peatlands only cover 0.1% of the
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2012-11-13· Deforestation and Its Extreme Effect on Global Warming. From logging, agricultural production and other economic activities, deforestation adds more atmospheric CO2 than the
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