Oil palm plantations are no substitute for tropical rainforests
Monday, September 15, 2008 - 10:15
in Biology & Nature
The continued expansion of oil palm plantations will worsen the dual environmental crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, unless rainforests are better protected, warn scientists in the most comprehensive review of the subject to date.
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