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Invasion of the oil palm: western Africa's native son returns, threatening great apes
2014-07-28 21:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: As palm oil producers increasingly look to Africas tropical forests as suitable candidates for their next plantations, primate scientists are sounding the alarm about the destruction of ape habitat that can go hand in hand with oil palm expansion. A study recently published in the Cell Press journal Current Biology sought to take those warnings a step further by quantifying the overlap in suitable oil palm land with current ape habitat. Its a huge worry, said lead author Serge Wich of oil...
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