... continued expansion of oil palm plantations will worsen the dual environmental crises of climate change ... , supported higher numbers of species than oil palm plantations." Even this estimate is likely to be optimistic ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- The discovery of a rare bat species in a tiny fragment of rainforest surrounded by an oil palm plantation has demonstrated that even small areas of forest are worth saving.
... in the face of the ever-growing demand for oil palm plantations. He said: "We found that while more species existed in larger forest patches, even small ...
... about the impact of Colombia's ever-increasing oil palm plantations on jaguars. Panthera's scientists are working ... in the shape of large monocultures, like oil palm plantations, are drastically changing the face of the planet ...
Cutting down rainforest to create oil-palm plantations causes canopy-dwelling ant populations to break up into mutually-exclusive territories with very little overlap, according to new research.
... . This study shows that to maximise biodiversity in oil palm plantations, the industry and local governments should ... in major oil palm-producing countries," says Dr Koh. Palm oil plantations currently ...
... Mha of Brazilian land. In Indonesia, 6.5 Mha of land are dedicated to oil palm plantations. By 2025, oil palm plantations are projected to require 16.5 to 26 Mha of land. In China, biofuel ...
... found. The study is the most comprehensive analysis of the impact of oil palm plantations in tropical forests on climate and biodiversity ... ." "Comparing the flora of the rain forest with that of oil palm plantations shows the devastating effect of forest ...
... that they are establishing new soy fields or oil palm plantations on degraded or already cleared lands," Gibbs said, "while environmental groups and some scientists ...
... form of land use in the region," said Laurance. "Oil palm plantations are effectively biological deserts relative ... ," said Butler. "The Brazilian government could require oil palm plantations to establish riparian buffer zones ...
... are being devastated by widespread logging for timber and oil palm plantations. Dr Wood has named a further 15 new species this year, all of which have been discovered ...
... to make way for food production and for oil-palm plantations for biofuel, but now a new study has quantified the resultant carbon emissions for the first ...
... to support much more diverse communities than oil palm plantations but large areas are still being converted. Preventing this needs to be a priority for policy-makers ...
... study on greenhouse gas emissions from oil palm plantations has calculated a more than 50% increase in levels ... that the scale of greenhouse gas emissions from oil palm plantations on peat is significantly higher than previously ...
Conservation science can help protect the variety of living things in tropical landscapes even if they are being turned into oil palm plantations, new research argues.
