Longitudinal visualization of changes in oil palm coverage of two exemplary plantations of CorpPalm (MGRS Tile 50 NNM). Credit: Communications Earth & Environment (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025 ...

The global demand for palm oil—the most widely consumed vegetable oil on the planet, in everything from instant noodles to lipstick—is driving worldwide tropical deforestation. While many ...

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Human-wildlife coexistence in oil palm plantations is achieved when a balanced or a negotiated compromise on how to exist together between humans and wildlife is considered, implemented and enforced.

Plantations are used to grow the oil palm tree, which is used to produce palm oil. This is found in food products, cosmetics, detergents and to a small extent biofuel.

Over the past few weeks, a special task force set up to bring order into the palm oil sector has confiscated more than 300,000 hectares of plantation in 19 provinces without going through legal ...

Boustead Plantations’ shares surged Thursday with a key shareholder stepping in with an offer for the palm-oil producer after another company withdrew from a stake-acquisition deal.

Surveying miles of palm trees swaying softly in the tropical breeze in southwestern Ghana, Lim Peng Hor points proudly to a terraced slope of felled trunks that cuts through the lush landscape.

A little girl holds palm oil fruit collected from a plantation in Sumatra, Indonesia, Nov. 13, 2017. An Associated Press investigation has found many palm oil workers in Indonesia and neighboring ...

Also read → How governments are getting a handle on palm oil. A yield comparison between the two formats was made. Researchers noted that palm can be planted at 150 palms per hectare of plantation, ...

Oil palm plantations are driving massive downstream impact to watershed Date: May 2, 2024 Source: University of Massachusetts Amherst Summary: The global demand for palm oil -- the most widely ...