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K Global Ventures to develop palm oil plantation in Guinea
2014-07-31 01:00:00| Food Processing Technology
The Republic of Guinea has selected Malaysia-based K Global Ventures (KGV) to develop a palm oil plantation in the country.
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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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...
How Palm Oil Ravages Rainforests, Endangers Wildlife & Destroys Communities
2014-07-18 16:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Agriculture plays a massive role in todays global economy. Its easy to not realize that your salads fresh tomatoes are likely flown in from the Netherlands, its asparagus is picked by a Peruvian farmer and the dressing has palm oil harvested in Indonesia. Our complicity in an agricultural system that ships food products across the world via air, land and sea becomes a political decision, one that impacts the environment on a global scale. And palm oil, a popular ingredient in nearly 75 percent...
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New palm oil sustainability manifesto met with criticism from environmentalists
2014-07-11 22:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: This week several palm oil giants - Sime Darby Plantation, Musim Mas Group, Kuala Lumpur Kepong Berhad (KLK), IOI Group Corporation Bhd, Cargill and Asian Agri/APICAL - announced new environmental criteria for palm oil production. The companies, which have long been targeted by campaigners for forest destruction and social conflict, say the initiative goes beyond the industry-leading standard set by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), but two prominent environmental groups quickly disagreed,...
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