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 ...

By Louise Hunt The Kinabatangan River is the last major area in Malaysian Borneo’s Sabah state with a semblance of forest ...

A palm oil company is gearing up to expand into critical orangutan habitat in Indonesian Borneo, raising alarms over the survival of the critically endangered great apes. PT Equator Sumber Rezeki (ESR ...

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 ...

Huge tracts of forest have been cleared throughout their range and the land used for agriculture, particularly palm oil plantations. Road development ... Conserving orang-utan habitat: We are working ...

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….

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 ...

Sabah on the island of Borneo is a treasure-house of biodiversity and a popular destination for ecotourism, but in the upper reaches of its rivers there are many oil palm plantations and palm oil ...