Tag: Malaysia - Page 2
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More Evidence Palm Oil Plantations Are Bad for Biodiversity: Have Two-Thirds Lower Ant Species Than Forests
One more on the fact that, despite EU proposals to the contrary, palm oil plantations are not the same as forest, having far lower levels of biodiversity: Mongabay points out new research in the journal Basic and Applied
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Malaysian Indigenous People Paid by Poaching Syndicates to Kill Tigers
Here's one more on the organized crime and the illegal wildlife trade connection: Economic Times reports that Malaysia's indigenous forest people are being paid by crime syndicates to poach tigers to meet
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EU May Classify Palm Oil Plantations as 'Forests' in Sustainable Biofuels Scheme
A leaked draft version of a European Commission report on implementation of EU sustainable biofuels plans would permit classification of palm oil plantations as intact forest, EU Observer reports. The
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Malaysian Rainforest Tribes Establish 'Peace Park' to Push Back Loggers
Here's one solution to holding back loggers: Bruno Manser Fonds reports seventeen Penan communities in Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia have proclaimed a new tropical forest reserve on their lands. The newly inaugurated Penan Peace
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Borneo Tribesmen Armed with Blowpipes Block Roads, Stop Palm Oil Plantations
Here's a very concrete example of how roads into rainforests can bring indigenous people into the
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Greenpeace Accuses New Zealand Dairy Giant of Destroying Rainforest via Palm Oil Use
First it was the Brazilian cattle industry and global shoe brands which Greenpeace outed for their aiding and abetting deforestation and, therefore,
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LUSH Cosmetics Tells Palm Oil to Suds Off
Photo credit: Olivier Bruchez LUSH Cosmetics is washing its hands off palm oil, and it's encouraging other multinational corporations to lather up to something else. Found in food products, biofuels, and many cosmetics, palm oil has been pilloried for
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Palm Oil Plantations Store Even Less Carbon Than We Thought, New Study Shows
It should be no great surprise to regular TreeHugger readers that one of the big issues with Indonesia and Malaysia converting more and more land to palm oil plantations and claiming that the biodiesel produced is
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Malaysia's Big Agro-Forestry Fail: Land Converted to Rubber Plantations Still Classified as Protected Forest
Hopefully you're aware of the astonishingly high rate of deforestation in Malaysia and Indonesia -- due in large part to logging and conversion of land to plantation agriculture. In Malaysia, 82% of remaining forest cover is
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China Makes Big Sustainable Palm Oil Commitment, Pledges Greater Foreign Investment
China's purchases of palm oil for use in, well, just about everything, account for one-third of global purchases so when the nation commits to greater support of sustainably produced palm oil you should pay
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Rainforest Destroying Palm Oil Hiding in Far More Products Than Previously Thought
A bit more than a year ago, Lloyd wrote about how palm oil is in everything and since then more and more voices have detailed just how environmentally devastating the Indonesian and
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Palm Oil Plantations Orphan Baby Orangutans & Leave Them Nowhere to Call Home
Hopefully you already are aware of the plight of orangutans in Borneo and Sumatra as logging and palm oil plantations continue to rapidly destroy their habitat. The rate of deforestation and habitat loss is so great that
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Seventh Generation Buys Sustainable Palm Kernel Oil Credits, For Its Entire Product Line
TreeHugger has given Seventh Generation plenty of coverage for its line of eco-friendly cleaning products and recycled paper products. Now it's worthwhile pointing out that the Burlington, Vermont-based company
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Logging, Palm Oil and Human Rights in Borneo: Malaysian Government Pushes Ahead By Ousting Indigenous Leaders
Image: Assembly of Upper Baram River headmen in 2006 (top left corner: the late Kelesa Naan, former headman of Long Kerong; top right corner: Bilong Oyoi, the deposed headman of Long Sait). Photo: The Bruno Manser Fund In a move to seize control of land
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Malaysia and Indonesia To Expand Domestic Palm Oil Biodiesel as Commodity Price Drops
I know I finger-wag at Indonesia and Malaysia quite frequently over the way in which palm oil is cultivated. Not only are the plantations such a severe threat to Orangutan habitat that the animals could be the first great ape (in
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Stair of the Week: Folded Stair by Kevin Low
Malaysian architect Kevin Low likes small projects; after working around the world on everything from master plans to high end condos, he still designs mailboxes. The folded stair was designed to bring natural daylight into the middle of a long, narrow
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Orangutan Could be First Great Ape to Become Extinct
According to new research published in the conservation journal Oryx, due to rapid declines in population because of habitat loss the orangutan could be the first of the great apes to become extinct.
