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Malaysian palm oil body encourages fiction over fact
2015-05-17 16:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: In this commentary, David Dellatore, Program Manager at the Sumatran Orangutan Society, questions the value of the Malaysian Palm Oil Council's essay-writing contest which will pay contributors to conclude that palm oil is not a driver of deforestation. Dellatore argues that a solutions-oriented approach is a better use of time and resources. The views expressed are his own. Real science begins with an idea, a hypothesis to test, only which after careful, meticulous research, one works to determine...
Wilmar, Musim Mas supplier caught clearing elephant habitat for palm oil in Aceh
2015-05-12 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A new report provides evidence that a supplier of palm oil giants Wilmar and Musim Mas is bulldozing valuable forests in Indonesias Leuser Ecosystem in violation of the companies zero-deforestation policies. As of April 30, when the reports author, policy development institute Greenomics Indonesia, conducted field checks to verify satellite imagery indicating the destruction, a Mopoli Raya Group subsidiary named Aloer Timur was clearing high-carbon stock (HCS) forest across its concession in...
Palm oil certification body pushes to maintain relevance
2015-05-08 04:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Due to its widening impact on tropical forests yet high profit margins, palm oil is one of the most polarizing crops in the tropics. Scientists and environmentalists warn of the high ecological costs caused by converting peatlands and rainforests for oil palm plantation, but growers and food producers argue that as the highest-yielding oilseed, palm oil is a critical part of the solution to feeding a growing human population as well as a profitable form of land use in otherwise poor areas. As...
Palm oil companies, NGOs endorse new deforestation-limiting toolkit
2015-04-07 00:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Forests not only house many of the world's species, but also much of its carbon. Now, a toolkit has been developed by a group of companies and organizations with the aim of helping other companies and NGOs identify High Carbon Stock (HCS) forests. The toolkit was endorsed last week by major NGOs and plantation companies in Singapore. Today, there is more CO2 in the atmosphere than at any other time in human history, contributing to a plethora of global changes from rising and acidifying seas to...
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Aceh's purge of illegal oil palm at 3,000 hectares and counting
2015-04-06 14:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A joint effort to eradicate illegal oil palm in an area of Indonesia's Aceh province that was devastated by flash flooding in 2006 has dismantled 3,000 hectares worth of plantations and counting. The plantations lie within the protected Leuser Ecosystem (KEL), the last place on earth where the Sumatran rhino, elephant, tiger and orangutan coexist in the wild. "This is being done to protect the people of Aceh Tamiang from ecological disaster," said Rudi Putra, head of HAkA, a local NGO. In...
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