While many studies have shown the loss of biodiversity when rainforests are converted to oil palm plantations, researchers at the University of Massachusetts of Amherst are the first to show far ...

The international research team established 52 tree islands of varying sizes and diversity of planted trees in a conventional industrial oil palm plantation in Sumatra, Indonesia. This innovative ...

Palm oil is found in half the products sold in supermarkets and in biofuels. Around 50 per cent of the world’s supply is grown in Indonesia, mostly on massive plantations. Government land concessions ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Indonesia’s Supreme Court has upheld a $61 million fine against palm oil company PT Rafi Kamajaya Abadi for fires on its oil palm plantation ...

JAKARTA – A call by the Indonesian President to expand oil palm plantations has drawn backlash from environmental and farmers’ groups, which warn that his comments may set back efforts to curb ...

Global demand for palm oil has resulted in huge expansion of the palm plantations needed to produce it, causing widespread tropical deforestation and species loss. To address this, researchers ...

In Borneo, this is predominantly for plantations of oil palm trees used to produce palm oil, approximately three-quarters of which are located where pristine forest grew in the 1970s ...

Among the top 10 Malaysian oil palm plantation companies, Chandran noted that all of them have experienced a decrease in yield per mature hectare, when compared with from 2015 to 2022. However ...

Tania Li receives funding from Canada's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. She is currently a visiting research fellow at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University.