oil palm
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"The peat is drained by extractive plantations, monoculture plantations, whether oil palm or pulpwood," Greenpeace Indonesia forest campaigner Belgis Habiba told AFP in Pontianak.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
Drained peatlands, industrial timber estates and oil palm plantations can leave landscapes more vulnerable to burning, with fires often recurring in the same areas.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
In Indonesian Borneo, or Kalimantan, oil palm plantations threaten durian diversity by leaving less room for diverse species of durian to be cultivated.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2024
In the 2010s there was gargantuan oil palm, timber and large-scale plantation expansion across Indonesia.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2024
Those crops prove to be ones like West African yams, oil palm, and kola nut—plants that were already believed on botanical and other evidence to be native to West Africa and first domesticated there.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
