Drainage systems required for plantations (oil palm plantations in Borneo are often established in swamp forest) may lower water tables, affecting neighboring forest areas. Further, destruction of ...

IndonesiaIndonesia’s palm oil frontier is on the island of New Guinea; forests and peatlands on Borneo ... The map Stewart holds is even more sobering. This section of plantation covers nearly ...

A palm oil company is gearing up to expand into critical orangutan habitat in Indonesian Borneo, raising alarms over the ...

KUALA LUMPUR: The palm oil industry was responsible for at least 39% of forest loss on the biodiversity-rich island of Borneo between 2000 and 2018, data from a research firm based in Indonesia shows.

An Indonesian palm oil company has relinquished over a thousand hectares of its plantation back to the community marking a breakthrough with respect to the workings of the Roundtable on Sustainable ...

Using satellite imagery, they measured oil palm coverage across 144 plantations on the northern tip of Borneo. They analyzed data from 2017 to 2023 spanning the period before, during, and after ...

Borneo has lost almost 40% of ... The companies that sell palm oil have a choice, they can produce it on existing plantations OR they can cut down more rainforest. I have a choice too….