In some ways oil palm is indeed a wondrous crop.
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Neat rows of oil palm seedlings stretched toward the horizon.
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About 3% of the fires occurred on oil palm plantations.
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Farmers Unite says on its website it is a global coalition of oil palm small farmer associations and other supporting organizations, and that it speaks for more than 7 million oil palm smallholders across the world.
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Farmers Unite says on its website it is a global coalition of oil palm small farmer associations and other supporting organisations, and that it speaks for more than 7 million oil palm smallholders across the world.
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Signs warning about pythons are dotted among the rows of oil palm.
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Indeed, some oil-palm firms wish for more snakes on their plantations.
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KL), the world's biggest oil palm planter by land, and IOI Corp (IOIB.KL).
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About 4,000 years ago, the Bantu people started farming oil palm and grains.
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Once the land was opened up, vast monoculture oil palm plantations were planted.
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Their affairs with loggers and oil palm plantations are filtered through the government.
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Environmentalists blame much of the forest destruction on land clearance for oil-palm plantations.
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Oil palm originated in West Africa and was used there for thousands of years.
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Borneo, the world's third largest island, has about 8.3 million hectares of oil palm plantations.
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Oil-palm plantations provide homes for 65-90% fewer species of mammal than natural forests.
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In the past year, this oil palm plantation had encroached on Adi's pristine research site.
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In 2019, the total area planted with oil palm in Malaysia was about 5.9 million hectares.
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Environmentalists put much of the blame for forest destruction on land clearance for oil-palm plantations.
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Rubber, however, pales in comparison to oil palm, a major driver of deforestation and illegal logging.
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Malaysia aims for 70% oil palm areas to have received MSPO certification by February, Kok said.
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Oil palm plantations (5%), energy (4%) and property, investment and others (10%) account for the balance 19%.
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Across Indonesia, media outlets routinely report stories of oil-palm harvesters getting gobbled up by enormous pythons.
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Globally, humans get half of their fat from oilseeds like cotton, sunflower, rapeseed, coconut, and oil palm.
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Mahathir also said Malaysia was focused on improving productivity and yields of oil palm, rather than expanding land.
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In the late 2000s, Liberia signed a series of agreements with oil palm companies to cultivate vast plantations.
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Bornean orangutans, for example, can survive, at least temporarily, in logged forests, Acacia plantations, and oil palm plantations.
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Wetlands continue to be destroyed in southeast Asia and the Congo region, mainly to plant oil palm trees.
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At least six of the signatures were from people who had died before the oil-palm companies arrived.
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"In many places across Indonesia and Malaysia, the land is drained extensively for oil palm agriculture," Smith said.
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Here, in Indonesia, oil palm plantations have been one of the largest drivers of deforestation in the last decade.
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The June survey included responses from GAPKI, the Indonesia Palm Oil Board, and the Indonesian Oil Palm Research Institute.
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The vehicle sits against a backdrop of oil palm seedlings and trees, which stretch for miles across the countryside.
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Honduras is the third-largest producer of African oil palm in Latin America, exporting some $300 million worth in 2015.
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Founded in 1969, Korindo has pulp and paper and renewable energy businesses, as well as timber and oil palm plantations.
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They don't convert the fertile land into biodiversity-devastating fields of a single monoculture, like sugar cane or oil palm.
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Millions of acres of rainforest, particularly in Indonesia and Malaysia, have been destroyed to make way for oil palm plantations.
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Oil palm is the most productive of all oil yielding crops so replacing it with another would only displace biodiversity loss.
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"By and large, we can say that the oil palm industry has always been the major driver of deforestation," Gaveau said.
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Wayunisih had taken a day off from working on the oil palm estates and Puteri had skipped school for this trip.
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Slashing and burning the existing forests to make way for oil-palm cultivation had a perverse effect: It released more carbon.
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The farmer planted oil palm on the carbon-rich peatland and then registered the land in his name for a nominal fee.
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"As far as the eye can see, an area that was once peatland has been converted into oil palm plantation," Nurbaya said.
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Vast tracts of peat in Indonesia, for instance, have been drained for oil-palm production, leading to fires and rapid carbon release.
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Their way of life has come under threat by the recent clearing of forests for logging, oil palm plantations and hydroelectric dams.
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MPOC's board includes representatives from plantation companies, including Sime Darby Plantation Bhd, the world's biggest oil palm planter by land, and IOI Corp.
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Joe Fassler writes in Smithsonian magazine: As destructive as the oil palm is to the environment, it may be better than the alternatives.
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The company signed a 63-year concession in 2009 to develop 220,000 hectares of land in northwest Liberia into oil palm and rubber plantations.
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The company signed a 63-year concession in 13 to develop 220,000 hectares of land in northwest Liberia into oil palm and rubber plantations.
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According to a recent report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, at least eight species of snake thrive on oil-palm plantations.
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Deforestation has been a problem in Boreno for decades, as its rainforests have been burned and slashed to make way for oil palm plantations.
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These days, Indonesia and Malaysia make up 20203% of all palm oil production, but the oil palm species used actually originated in West Africa.
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Oil palm trees are evergreen and perennial, they produce oil all year around, and can happily grow in soils that many other plants can't.
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The tenacious root structures of the African oil palm make it hard for other plants to flourish, even after the crop cycle is done.
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Villagers had burned it all down, clearing the way for a lucrative crop whose cultivation now dominates the entire island: the oil-palm tree.
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Over 1.5 million children are thought to be working in tobacco, rubber and oil palm plantations in Indonesia, according to the International Labor Organization.
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But over the course of nearly four decades, logging and subsequent massive oil palm plantation expansion have slowly eaten up their entire, unprotected rainforest.
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The commodity is under scrutiny because the producers in Indonesia and Malaysia have in the past cleared forests to make way for oil palm cultivation.
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We expect higher earnings at Genting's Malaysian L&H and oil-palm plantation businesses, which together contributed around 40% of its consolidated EBITDA in 1H17.
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The world's exploding population has made it profitable for big business to raze forests so it can plant mega crops like soy and oil palm.
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Oil palm trees usually produce more in the third and fourth quarters of the year, with output peaking between August and October in recent years.
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The European Commission last month said the use of palm oil in motor fuel should be phased out because oil palm cultivation led to deforestation.
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And the oil palm industry is fraught with tension, with many communities claiming their land has been taken without their free, prior, and informed consent.
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Sime Darby had signed a 63-year concession in 2009 to develop 13,000 hectares of land in northwest Liberia into oil palm and rubber plantations.
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By 2015, the entire buffer forest was gone, and the land planted with oil palm by a private company, without proper consultation with the Batek.
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Indonesia is the world's biggest producer of palm oil and environmentalists blame much of the country's forest destruction on land clearance for oil-palm plantations.
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Rainforests in Indonesia continue to be converted into human settlements, oil palm plantations, logging concessions, pulp and paper plantations, mines, and other industries that require clearcutting.
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Alternative crops require much more land to generate the same amount of oil as oil palm plantations, and they use more CO2 intensive fertilizer and pesticides.
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"Expanding oil palm plantations in the tiger range countries has been one of the main causes of forest conversion and habitat fragmentation and loss," Joshi said.
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The Bonn-based FSC did, however, find that Korindo had converted forests to establish oil palm plantations in Indonesia, destroying trees with a high conservation value.
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Genting's ratings reflect its continued strong market position in the Malaysian and Singaporean gaming markets and meaningful diversification in the oil palm plantations and energy sectors.
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Natural forests provide climate, water and biodiversity benefits that oil palm, rubber, timber and other man-made plantations, especially in the tropics, do not, Petersen said.
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And along with using less land, the oil palm gobbles up significantly fewer pesticides and chemical fertilizers than coconut, corn or any other vegetable oil source.
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In Brazil, rainforest is burned to make room for cattle ranches and crop farms, but in Indonesia, oil palm is the main industry driving the fires.
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We expect earnings to be supported over the longer term by a sustained yield improvement, as Genting's Indonesian oil-palm acreage matures, and healthy palm-oil prices.
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Earlier, the Indonesian Oil Palm Research Institute said it expects palm oil production next year to rise by 6.6 percent, after falling by 2.3 percent this year.
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Since the 1950s, these animals have faced habitat loss (and the loss of their mothers) due to oil palm farming, tropical timber, coal mining and forest fires.
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The officials told the company that the kind of large-scale oil palm plantations that have contributed to rapid deforestation in Indonesia are not viable in Peru.
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Clear-cut expanses soon gave way to a uniform crop of oil-palm groves: orderly trees, a sign that we had crossed into an industrial palm plantation.
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That said, the data confirmed that the conversion of tiger habitat into farming and urban communities continues to plague the cats—particularly with regards to oil palm plantations.
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The team was following up on satellite images showing "hot spots", or suspected fires, in a concession of PT Andika Permata Sawit Lestari (APSL) oil palm plantation company.
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The oil palm is grown in 43 countries and accounts for 10 percent of the world's permanent crop land -- producing 70 million tons of palm oil each year.
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Based on the government's calculations, the area already issued to oil palm growers could be more than twice as productive "provided they use the right seeds", the president said.
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The report shows macaques do eat lots of oil palm fruits, but they more than make up for it by eating rats, which are responsible for greater crop losses.
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Indonesian President Joko Widodo set up an agency in 2016 to restore about 2 million hectares of damaged peatland, and imposed a moratorium on new concessions for oil palm.
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The concessions have changed traditional cropping, with 80 percent of all agricultural land now given over to six export-focused crops: rice, cassava, maize, sugarcane, rubber and oil palm.
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An oil palm company had commissioned them to survey the area for important environmental and cultural assets that might be impacted should the forest be converted into a plantation.
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Created with organically-derived extra virgin olive oil, palm oil, hemp seed, and jojoba, they're ultra-hydrating, smell amazing, and taste like sugar, thanks to the addition of stevia.
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But late last year, the industry's global watchdog adopted a stricter set of guidelines that included a ban on cutting down forests or converting peatlands for oil palm plantations.
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At least 50% of all deforestation between 2005 and 2015 in Borneo - an island shared by Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei - was related to oil palm development, the IUCN has said.
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He said logging companies have torn down much of the forest where generations of his ancestors have farmed, hunted and fished and replaced the ancient trees with oil palm plantations.
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One of the survivors, Zainul Arifin, who worked at an oil palm plantation in Malaysia, said he was sitting at the back of the boat when seawater started coming aboard.
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The Orangutan Information Centre said the illegal expansion of oil palm plantations, like the one on which Hope and her baby were found, posed a particular threat to the species.
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More than 19963 percent of the Indonesian population lives below the poverty line, and the country wants to build 3 million hectares of oil palm and sugar plantation in Papua.
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Interest from the broader public was catalyzed by environmental campaigns that focused on charismatic animals that were losing their homes to oil palm plantations: most notably orangutans in Sumatra and Borneo.
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He said the government would limit oil palm cultivation at 6.55 million hectares (16.2 million acres) by 2023, reaffirming an earlier target set by the minister in charge of palm oil.
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It noted that Malaysia's Composite Commodity Index, including oil, palm oil and rubber, has surged 41 percent from its 2015 trough, with oil and palm oil both expected to recover further.
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The versatile oil palm is an important cash crop to the two Southeast Asian countries' emerging economies, which both account for over 80 percent of the world's production of palm oil.
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"While the orangutan population has stabilized in large forest areas, their numbers declined in forest patches within oil palm landscapes of the eastern lowlands of Sabah," WWF said in a statement.
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Munoz said the government has ordered oil palm plantations in Peru owned by United Cacao Limited SEZC to halt activities after finding they had illegally cleared primary forest in previous years.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Dozens of Indonesian men, suspected of being hired by an oil palm plantation company, threatened to kill environmental investigators checking on fires on Sumatra island, the environment ministry said.
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The government also expects agriculture to grow by 1.5 percent in 2017 after a projected contraction of 3.3 percent this year, as demand for oil palm and rubber is seen improving.
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Zainul Arifin, one of the survivors, who worked at an oil palm plantation in Malaysia, said he was seated at the back of the boat when it started flooding with seawater.
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In 2010, land-clearing for oil palm plantations in Kalimantan released more than 140 million metric tons of carbon dioxide — about the same as the annual emissions of 28 million cars.
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No wonder the oil palm tree, whose fruit and seeds are used to produce these oils, is in tremendous demand as a crop in West and Central Africa and Southeast Asia.
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IOI admitted to clearing peatlands, in a statement to the RSPO, but denied planting oil palm trees on them, saying it rehabilitated the area by planting "cuttings of an indigenous jungle species".
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Carl Bek-Nielsen, chief executive director of oil palm grower United Plantations Berhad, said this stipulation was key because it should help expand demand for certified palm oil - which lags behind supply.
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COLOMBO, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan shares fell for a fourth straight session on Wednesday, as investors offloaded stocks of beverages and oil palm companies, while a block deal pushed up turnover.
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It also enjoys some diversification benefits from L&H assets in the UK, US and Bahamas as well as other businesses, such as oil-palm plantations, power, property and oil and gas.
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Bottom line: they want to continue clearing large expanses of native forest for oil palm and industrial wood-pulp plantations, and the zero-deforestation agreements are getting in the way of this.
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As the forest to the north is overtaken by oil palm plantations, there are fewer wild deer and boar to hunt and the large catches of river fish have dwindled, he said.
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Jose Angel Flores, 64, was president of the Aguan Unified Farmers Movement (MUCA), a group that opposes agriculture companies that grow African oil palm in a conflict over ownership and use of land.
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Indonesia and Malaysia have former a cartel to develop schemes that could raise prices, perhaps overlooking the broader market trends and the fact that a lot of countries are now planting oil palm.
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Notably, President Jokowi announced a ban on planting in areas burned during the recent blazes, which is incredible given that many of the fires were set to clear land for oil palm plantations.
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Dozens of disputes that have pitted indigenous Malaysian communities against logging and oil palm companies have ended up in court in recent years and several campaigners have been killed, according to rights groups.
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When peatlands are drained or cleared by fire, often to make way for oil palm plantations or farming, the carbon is released into the atmosphere where it traps heat, contributing to climate change.
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Uttama had said the government would guarantee rice prices at 10,000-15,000 baht per ton, cassava and rubber prices at 60 baht per kg, and oil palm prices at 13 baht per kg.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Sime Darby Plantation, the world's biggest oil palm planter by land holdings, is considering exiting its palm and rubber operations in the West African nation of Liberia, industry sources said.
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Agreeing on the importance of bioenergy for self-sufficiency, his opponent Prabowo Subianto said if elected he would also "boost the use of palm oil, palm sugar, cassava and ethanol from sugar (cane)".
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"The aerial photos released by the detained investigators show that some of the burned area had been cleared for planting with oil palm, a common but illegal practice in plantation development," he said.
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"The catastrophic land fires that periodically engulf large swaths of Sumatra, Kalimantan, and most recently, Papua, are concentrated in peatlands that have been converted to industrial oil palm and timber plantations," she said.
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Since the oil palm yields four to ten times more vegetable oil per hectare than any other crop, there is no obvious alternative, according to The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
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"The catastrophic land fires that periodically engulf large swaths of Sumatra, Kalimantan, and most recently, Papua, are concentrated in peatlands that have been converted to industrial oil palm and timber plantations," she said.
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The decade-old Kalangala oil palm project is a public-private partnership set up to address high poverty levels in the area and only a small area of land is disputed, the government said.
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Arevalo's murder had prompted outrage in Peru following other unsolved murders of indigenous activists who had repeatedly faced death threats related to efforts to keep illegal loggers and oil palm growers off native lands.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Malaysia's Sime Darby Plantation, the world's largest oil palm planter by land holdings, said it has submitted a preliminary expression of interest for Indian vegetable oil refiner Ruchi Soya.
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"There is a lot of room to significantly increase the productivity of oil palm cultivation, especially at smallholder level, for instance through the introduction of higher yielding varieties and improved management practices," he said.
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Pinol told the Malaysian and Indonesian officials to keep their palm oil exports to the Philippines at levels that would not hurt the local coconut and oil palm industries, according to the Facebook post.
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This system of land ownership has allowed foreign companies to tap Liberia's rich natural resources for timber, iron ore, rubber, and most recently, oil palm plantation, with critics claiming little benefits reaching the population.
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A year ago Adeline was tending to an oil palm in the plantation when about 290 members of a separatist militia grabbed her, stuffed leaves in her mouth and tied her to the tree.
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Oil-palm trees look like the coconut-palm trees you see on postcards from Florida — they grow to more than 60 feet tall and flourish on the peaty wetland soil common in lowland tropics.
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An aerial view of a oil palm plantation Founder, Jinxi Cheong, explained that image recognition software can figure out the health of a plant based on factors such as the colour of its leaves.
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COLOMBO, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan shares ended steady on Thursday, near an eight-month low hit in the previous session, as losses in oil palm and telecommunications offset gains in banking and diversified stocks.
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She is developing a seasoning with green chili, sesame oil, palm sugar, rice wine vinegar, sesame seeds, and roasted peanuts that could be used as a topping for anything from fish to chicken and salad.
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Under pressure to tighten standards, the 4,300-member Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), introduced tougher rules late last year to include a ban on cutting down forests or converting peatlands for oil palm plantations.
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Indonesia's palm oil industry and plantations are big enough already and "all that's left is how to increase production and (improve) efficiency in terms of land used for oil palm," presidential spokesman Johan Budi said.
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This month, an orangutan that had been stabbed and shot 74 times by an air rifle was found blinded and near death on an oil-palm plantation in Sumatra, along with her month-old baby.
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Trade-offs London-based Equatorial Palm Oil (EPO), a company producing palm oil in Liberia, said in a report that "oil palm development is Liberia's best chance to alleviate the chronic poverty of its rural population".
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KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Sime Darby Plantation Berhad, the world's largest oil palm planter by land holdings, said on Friday its first-quarter profit slumped 89 percent due to lower palm prices and reduced margins.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An international green certification body said Indonesian member firm Korindo Group breached its rules on clearing forests to grow oil palm but would not be expelled after a two-year probe.
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"One of the big findings of this report is that deforestation is not driven by sexier issues such as large-scale oil palm (plantations) or dams, but widespread small-scale agriculture," said Matt Finer, MAAP's director.
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All oil palm plantations in Tawau, Lahad Datu, and Kinabatangan will be suspended from March 25-31, while palm processing factories will be suspended from March 27-31, according to a government notice released on Tuesday.
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"Palm oil is decimating South East Asia's rich diversity of species as it eats into swathes of tropical forest," report lead author and Chair of IUCN's Oil Palm Task Force Erik Meijaard said in a statement.
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Streck said the biggest threat to forests among agricultural commodities probably comes from beef, because the area logged for cattle ranching is nine times larger than to grow oil palm, yet has received far less attention.
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Small, Well-Diversified Palm Operations: TBLA owned around 2001,500 hectares of planted oil palm acreage at end-September 2017, and is one of the smallest palm oil companies in Fitch's rating universe in terms of planted area.
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The suit relates to the 2014 acquisition of a 100 percent equity stake in Asian Plantation Ltd, an oil palm plantation group listed on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market, via a voluntary conditional cash offer.
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Oil palm plantations, mainly in Malaysia and Indonesia, cover an area roughly the size of New Zealand, and demand is expected to grow as more countries ban trans fats, which the WHO wants banned globally by 2023.
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Reuters reported last week, citing sources, that Sime Darby Plantation, the world's biggest oil palm planter by land holdings, is considering exiting its palm and rubber operations in Liberia due to lower-than-expected return on investment.
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The findings have sharpened concerns about what climate change will mean for the region's marine life, already struggling with plastic pollution, runoff from oil palm plantations, damage to reefs by dynamite fishing and the loss of mangroves.
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In 2018, the government went further, halting the issuance of new permits for oil palm plantations and shifting the focus to higher productivity on existing plantations, said Varkkey, who has researched transboundary haze for more than 15 years.
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KLONG SAI PATTANA, Thailand (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In Klong Sai Pattana, a rural community carved out of an illegal oil palm plantation by land rights campaigners, new arrivals are given a one-year trial run at being farmers.
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We expect the expansion of Kotagala's more profitable palm oil operations to support cash flow, but we do not expect a significant contribution in the medium-term as its oil palm plantation are still in an immature stage.
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Korindo holds a total of 160,0003 hectares (619 square miles) of oil palm concessions in eight areas of Papua and Maluku, according to the report, and an estimated 900,000 hectares of logging areas that could also be converted.
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Growing oil palm promised big profits 25 years ago but has turned out to be a "false dream" for many smallholders, said Marianne Martinet of The Forest Trust, a non-profit that works with large plantations, consumers and smallholders.
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On other islands, the habitats of animals unique to the region — including orangutans, Sumatran rhinos, and tigers — are also disappearing as farmers burn trees and drain peat swamps to make way for African oil palm trees and food crops.
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Zero-deforestation agreements A remarkable development in the last two years is that scores of corporations producing or using oil palm, wood pulp, soy, beef and other commodities have declared their intent to halt or sharply curtail forest destruction.
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Under pressure to tighten standards, the 4,500-member RSPO - which includes producers, traders, buyers and green groups in more than 90 countries - introduced tougher rules in late 2018 to include a ban on felling forests for oil palm plantations.
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"We should all embrace each others' conservation stories," said Utteridge, who cited the example that efforts to save the Sumatran tiger could also stop a habitat that is rich in plant life from being turned into oil palm plantations.
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"Land use change from forest to cash crops such as oil palm and rubber plantations ... has a surface warming effect, adding to climate change," Alexander Knohl, a co-author of the study published in the journal Biogeosciences, said in a statement.
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Like many ageing oil palm growers in Southeast Asia, the 22004-year-old struggles to make ends meet from his 270 hectares (217 acres), and his adult children have little appetite for the physically demanding work and dwindling financial rewards.
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When a new Malaysian government announced in October 2018 a cessation of oil palm expansion to keep forest cover at 50 percent, and to transition all production to 100 percent sustainability, the EU didn't even bother giving them a chance.
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LIMA (Reuters) - Deforestation in Peru has slowed since peaking at nearly 180,000 hectares (700 square miles) in 2014 when swaths of the Amazon were illegally cleared for oil palm plantations, the head of the country's forest service said on Friday.
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Pinol said in a Facebook post on March 22 that he was seeking a temporary ban on Malaysian and Indonesian palm oil because local coconut and oil palm farmers were impacted by "extremely low" prices due to "dumping" of the commodity.
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The maps mark a breakthrough in forest monitoring that allows researchers to distinguish between natural growth and oil palm, rubber, timber and other plantations, according to Transparent World, a Russian non-profit, and the U.S.-based World Resources Institute (WRI).
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KOTUMA, Sierra Leone (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sierra Leonean farmer Bockarie Swaray was sitting on his porch one morning when he heard a deep whirring noise and jumped up to see a bulldozer fell his banana, oil palm and kola nut trees.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Malaysia's Sime Darby Plantations, the world's largest oil palm planter by land size, on Thursday said it had completed its exit from Liberia, transferring full ownership of its palm oil concession to a local company.
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What that means, looking at that range of products, is based in plant ingredients—like soybean oil, palm oil, and vegetable oil—but it hasn't always meant entirely plants: Becel, for example, is a blend of vegetable oils with buttermilk powder.
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The ministry said a group of up to 100 men detained seven investigators for about 12 hours on the weekend and threatened to burn them alive and dump their bodies in a river at an oil palm plantation in Rokan Hulu, Riau province.
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To survive on the outside, Mr. Tarip has planted rubber and oil palm on some of his customary land, which he owns because of his indigenous status, even though he knows the crop is responsible for destroying his old way of life.
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The Batek, a hunter-gatherer people known to range for weeks in trackless rainforest, were deeded with a tuft of eight acres of "communal" forest; Kuala Koh, which sat adjacent to a massive forest, was now completely encircled by oil palm plantations.
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As of the end of October, about 58.3% of 5.85 million hectares (14.5 million acres) of land under oil palm cultivation had achieved MSPO certification, Chew Jit Seng, the chief executive of the Malaysian Palm Oil Certification Council, said at an industry conference.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Malaysia's Sime Darby Plantation, the world's largest oil palm planter by land holdings, sees palm oil prices ranging between 2,500 and 2,600 ringgit per tonne in the first half of the year, managing director Mohd Bakke Salleh said on Thursday.
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The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), a Switzerland-based group of governments, conservation organizations and scientists, has said oil palm expansion is a major driver of deforestation and degradation of natural habitats in parts of tropical Asia and Central and South America.
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The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), a Switzerland-based group of governments, conservation organisations and scientists, has said oil palm expansion is a major driver of deforestation and degradation of natural habitats in parts of tropical Asia and Central and South America.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Malaysia's Sime Darby Plantations, the world's largest oil palm planter by land holdings, on Thursday said its second-quarter net profit rose by 23.9170 percent versus a year ago, on the back of improvements in fresh fruit bunch production (FFB).
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An endangered orangutan who rescue workers named Hope was found blinded and near death last week on an oil palm plantation in Indonesia after she was stabbed and shot 74 times by an air rifle, according to the Orangutan Information Centre, a conservation group.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Orangutan populations in forest patches found in oil palm estates in the eastern Malaysian state of Sabah fell as much as 30% in 15 years, but the overall population of the species in the area is stable, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Malaysia's Sime Darby Plantation Berhad, the world's largest oil palm planter by land size, on Friday posted a 75% slump in its third-quarter profit and said it sees minimal boost to its annual performance from the recent rally in palm prices.
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"By uncovering cavities in oil palm trunks where rats seek shelter during the day, one group of pig-tailed macaques can catch more than 3,000 rats per year," said lead study author Anna Holzner of the University of Leipzig and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig.
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Winner of the "Wildlife Photojournalist: Single Image" Category: "Palm-Oil Survivors" by Aaron "Bertie" Gekoski, UK/USAImage: Aaron "Bertie" GekoskiIn this image taken by Aaron "Bertie" Gekoski, three generations of elephants are seen crossing the terraces of an oil palm plantation in Borneo that's being prepped for re-plantation.
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"It's very remote but what we've seen in south-east Asia is that these once-remote areas have been dried out and converted to oil palm plantations and rice plantations and other forms of industrial agriculture causing a huge release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere," Lewis told Reuters.
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A study published in May that looked at the production of the top 10 global crops -- barley, cassava, maize, oil palm, rapeseed, rice, sorghum, soybean, sugarcane and wheat -- found that because of the climate crisis, the world has already seen a reduction of 35 trillion calories every year.
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After leaving Bumitama in 2011, he had become the head of his village's microfinance group, which gave him access to records that helped explain how his former employer had been able to so thoroughly take over the village and its land in the early years of the oil-palm boom.
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"We expect that our results will encourage both private and public plantation owners to consider the protection of these primates and their natural forest habitat in and around existing and newly established oil palm plantations," said Anja Widdig, the senior author affiliated with the University of Leipzig, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) in Leipzig.
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