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Surprising habitat: camera traps reveal high levels mammal diversity in oil palm plantations
2014-07-21 19:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: At first the forest seems still, with only the sounds of busy insects and slight movement of wind betraying activity in the patchy undergrowth. Then, curiously, a Malay civet (Viverra tangalunga), an animal resembling half cat and half weasel, scampers out to claim its prize: a stick smeared with margarine and honey. CLICK! Sensing the animals body heat, a camera trap strapped to a nearby tree captures an image of this creature's inquisitive behavior. After more than four and a half years of...
Malaysian palm oil giant loses PNG case, plantations declared illegal
2014-05-24 09:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Papua New Guinea's National Court has declared two leases held by Malaysia-based Kuala Lumpur Kepong Berhad (KLK) null and void, and ordered the government to cancel the licenses to convert nearly 40,000 hectares of rainforest and community forest for oil palm plantations, reports the Rainforest Action Network (RAN). The case gained widespread attention after last year's Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) conference when members from affected communities met with KLK. That meeting failed...
Converting Peat Swamp to Palm Oil Plantations Contributes to Climate Change
2014-04-15 07:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental Leader: Converting peat swamp forests in Southeast Asia into industrial oil palm and pulpwood plantations releases emissions, threatens biodiversity and ultimately accelerates climate change, according to a guest column by a Princeton professor and PhD candidate at the university. As trees are stripped from peat swamp to make room for oil palm plantations, the peat is drained and the decomposition releases a large amount of carbon emissions into the atmosphere, David Wilcove, professor of public affairs...
Indonesia: Logging giant suspends operations fend off plantations from fire
2014-03-16 00:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Indonesian Pulp & paper giant Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL) says it has suspended operations at a concession in Riau Province in order to shift staff toward fighting back fires that threaten its plantations. In a statement issued Friday, APRIL said its plantations on Pulau Padang, a peat island off the coast of Sumatra, are at risk due to fires illegally set outside its concessions. "The fires are starting outside our forest concessions but with the heavy, circular winds,...
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U.S. Banks Financing Rainforest Destruction for Palm Oil Plantations
2013-11-22 15:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: A new report names major U.S. and European banks that are financing land grabs in Indonesia for palm oil production--which is harming the rainforest and the lives of the people who live there--and the investors who are profiting from the business. Palm oil producers in Indonesia are clearing tropical rainforests to plant their oil palm trees, obliterating the homes of endangered animals like orangutans, pygmy elephants and Sumatran tigers. The report, released Thursday by Friends of the Earth,...
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