plantation
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Oil palm plantations and other plantation forestry are also widespread in the region.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
The orangutan pair had been under observation since July after being spotted in a plantation area near a forest in West Kalimantan, a local natural resources conservation agency said in a statement.
From Barron's ● Sep. 5, 2026
After being sold multiple times across state lines, her last owner, a Mississippi plantation owner named Robert Smith moved West to begin a Mormon community in Utah.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Some trees were planted in Costa Rica, but the defendants did not maintain the plantation or fund infrastructure to help with harvesting, prosecutors said.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
A ferryman purchased from a neighbor in 1767, he was listed as the chief cook by 1787 in plantation records.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
Beyond the fort, roughly 100 plantations were worked by around 270 European planters and an enslaved population of about 5,000 people, up and down the Berbice River in present-day Guyana, she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
In Borneo's West Kalimantan province, at lest 15 of the animals have been rescued from flames and haze since July, some stuck in plantations after fires cut off access to their forest home.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
Oil palm plantations and other plantation forestry are also widespread in the region.
From Science Daily ● 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
Slowly, Japanese women joined men on the sugar plantations.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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