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WWF - Orangutans and oil palm plantations
Habitat conversion from natural forests to oil palm plantations has been shown to have a devastating impact on tropical forests, along with plants ... baby orangutans over the past decade. Forest fires are set deliberately to clear land for plantations. Not only do fires destroy vast areas of orangutan habitat, but thousands of these slow- ...
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RE: Palm plantation in Kalimantan
Please cancel the Kalimantan project and ensure new oil palm plantations are only planted in previously cleared and unused areas. You have a unique responsibility to care for your country's rainforests, and the world is watching with the hope that you will demonstrate the wisdom and ...
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Oil Palm Campaign
PALM OIL FREE PRODUCTS LISTING If you would like to help out, ... waterways. Within a global context, with climate change now threatening all ecosystems on the planet, the palm oil industry is making a significant contribution to global warming (See Agence France-Presse article). ...
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Rainforest Portal Rainforest Conservation Links: Destruction/Oil Palm
World Rainforest Movement Added: Jun. 22, 2004 | Rate It Deforestation, Forest Degradation, Biodiversity Loss and ... rise and pristine rainforests are being clear-cut and burned to make way for palm oil plantations Added: May. 16, 2008 | Rate It Real Cost of Agrofuels: Food, Forest and the ...
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Climate Change Blog: Oil Palm Biofuel Campaign Yielding Results
Suggest Otherwise is Delusional | Main | Deadly Climate Change Now Inevitable October 7, 2007 Oil Palm Biofuel Campaign Yielding Results The global campaign to ensure biofuels are not produced at the expense ... . A... Posted by: Biofuels | May 15, 2008 11:04 AM In Ecuador most of our palm plantations grow on previously cleared agricultural land or logged secondary forests. For every tree that ...
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Solidarity South Pacific - News - PNG Oil Palm Plantation Action
CDC in London, unfurling a banner which proclaimed 'PLANTATIONS ARE CORPORATE COLONIALISM AND ECOCIDE'. After chaining up their entrance doors we left, seeing little point ... well over a decade CDC has been the major player in the expansion of oil palm plantations in Papua New Guinea. Wild, diverse, exuberant living forest systems are cleared and replaced by ...
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'SUSTAINABLE PALM OIL' ADVERT FALSE, SAYS WATCHDOG - Friends of the Earth Scotland
Earth International has welcomed a ruling today by the UK advertising watchdog that describing palm oil as ``sustainably produced'' is misleading. A new refinery under construction in Scotland [3] would ... The draining and deforesting of peatlands in South-East Asia, predominantly to make way for palm plantations, releases huge amounts of soil carbon into the atmosphere, accounting for a massive 8 ...
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Friends of the Earth: 'Sustainable' palm oil advert false, says Advertising Standards Authority
Your email address News by RSS? Press release 'Sustainable' palm oil advert false, says Advertising Standards Authority 9 January 2008 Friends of the Earth has ... . The draining and deforesting of peatlands in South-East Asia, predominantly to make way for palm plantations, releases huge amounts of soil carbon into the atmosphere, accounting for 8 per cent of ...
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WWF - Forest conversion: Impact of agriculture and plantations
You & forest conversion What is causing forest conversion? Forest conversion: Impact of agriculture and plantations It's all in your breakfast: coffee beans and tea are often grown on land that ... (click on image to see larger version). The graph shows the steady increase in oil palm plantations for Indonesia, Malaysia and other countries until 2004. WWF What's happening? We all ...
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palm oil | Greenpeace UK
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