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The impacts of oil palm on recent deforestation and biodiversity loss [1]

Palm oil is the most widely traded vegetable oil globally, with demand projected to increase substantially in the future. Almost all oil palm grows in areas that were once tropical moist forests, some of them quite recently. The conversion to date, and future expansion, threatens biodiversity and increases greenhouse gas emissions. Today, consumer pressure is pushing companies toward deforestation-free sources of palm oil. To guide interventions aimed at reducing tropical deforestation due to oil palm, we analysed recent expansions and modelled likely future ones. We assessed sample areas to find where oil palm plantations have recently replaced forests in 20 countries, using a combination of high-resolution imagery from Google Earth and Landsat.

Original Source [2]

Publication Date: 
27/07/2016
Varsha Vijay [3], Stuart L. Pimm [4], Clinton N. Jenkins & et al [5]
PLoS ONE [6]
1-19
Tags:
Oil Palm [7], Deforestation [8], Tropical Forests [9], Biodiversity [10], Endangered Species [11], Indonesia [12], Asia [13], Africa [14], South America [15], Carbon Dioxide [16]

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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/impacts-oil-palm-recent-deforestation-and-biodiversity-loss
[2] http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0159668
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/varsha-vijay
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/stuart-l-pimm
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/clinton-n-jenkins-et-al
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/plos-one
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/oil-palm
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/deforestation
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tropical-forests
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/biodiversity
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/endangered-species
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/indonesia
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/asia
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/africa
[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/south-america
[16] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/carbon-dioxide