A new study on certified oil palm plantations and their links to past deforestation has sparked a debate over whether they can be considered sustainable if they’re established on once-forested land.
Global concern has risen around the „sustainability“ of palm oil in terms of global exportation and the impact on the environment in recent years. Therefore, in 2004, stakeholders from palm oil industry sectors including oil palm producers, retailers, banks, investors, nature conservation and developmental NGOs, established the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) with „the objective of promoting the growth and use of sustainable oil palm products through credible global standards and engagement of stakeholders.“
The Indonesian government has lifted a moratorium on the release of captive wild animals, imposed earlier this year as a precautionary measure to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus into wildlife populations.
Palm oil from a company that burned a pristine orangutan habitat in Sumatra has entered the global market due to an oversight, possibly ending up in products made by multinationals such as Nestlé and Mars, according to a new report.
Primary forests in the tropics are declining at an accelerating rate according to analysis of satellite data released last week by the University of Maryland (UMD) and World Resources Institute (WRI). Since 2002, the tropics lost more than 60 million hectares of primary forests, an area larger than the combined land mass of the states of California and Missouri or the island nation of Madagascar.
Die Bewohner von Rukam verkauften 2002 ihr Land an eine Palmölfirma. Sie hofften auf Wohlstand – doch er blieb aus. Stattdessen sind Wälder zerstört und Fischbestände verschwunden. Einige wollen das Blatt nun wenden.
Activists in the Indonesian province of Papua are demanding an investigation into the death of an indigenous man who was reportedly assaulted by a police officer after complaining about his farm being cleared by a major palm oil company.
If one ape in the forest is infected, a whole population could be wiped out, experts say. So orangutans in Indonesia’s rehabilitation centers are staying where they are.
Auch Orang-Utans können mit dem Virus infiziert werden, sagen Spezialisten. Für eine erst kürzlich entdeckte Art könnte es sogar das Ende bedeuten. Schutzstationen in Borneo und Sumatra versuchen zu helfen.
Palm oil has revolutionized the way we produce a variety of foods and cosmetics. But most people are unaware of how destructive this “magical ingredient” is to the natural environment.
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