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Late last month, an Indonesia-based wildlife foundation shared footage showing an orangutan writhing on the ground on a palm oil plantation in West Kalimantan, one of Indonesia's hardest-hit provinces.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

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

We’re on the premises of what was formerly a plantation, so the house is surrounded by lovely groves of orange trees and coconut palms.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

In Indonesia, the Dutch moved to cripple industry ahead of the Japanese advance, targeting oil wells on Sumatra and Borneo, road and rail networks on Java, and infrastructure on rubber plantations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

"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

Oil palm plantations and other plantation forestry are also widespread in the region.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

Today, large-scale fires are often associated with the expansion of industrial plantations and other commercial land use.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

When the nation split during the Civil War, Northerners could no longer get cane from those plantations along the Mississippi, so they had to go across the ocean—to paradise: Hawaii.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson