oil palm

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It even exceeds the rate of deforestation due to oil palm production, at least in relative terms, in other parts of the world.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2024

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

Approximately one-quarter of the watershed has been turned into oil palm plantations.

From Science Daily • May 2, 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