Rising unemployment was a serious concern in Borneo in the late 1990s and early 2000s and ethnic conflict raged in parts of Kalimantan during this time. The sudden rise of the oil palm in the late ...

The oil palm tree, Elaeis guineensis ... MAITRE IndonesiaIn 2015 this forest growing on peatland on the island of Borneo was burned to clear the land for oil palms. Air pollution from fires ...

A new oil palm plantation being developed in Indonesian Borneo (West Kalimantan) has relinquished community lands to which it had gained a government permit. The company PT Agro Wiratama, a member of ...

four Malaysian palm oil companies (IOI Corporation Berhad, TH Group, Kwantas Corporation Berhad, and Perbadanan Kemajuan Pertanian Selangor) have announced the Malua Wildlife Conservation Agreement – ...

An oil palm plantation in Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo Island. Image by Rendy Tisna/Mongabay Indonesia. Indonesia’s palm oil-producing regions on the giant islands of Sumatra and ...

The Southeast Asian island, home to some of the world’s strangest and most iconic creatures, is a dream for a growing number ...

Palm oil comes from the oil palm tree, which is native to West Africa ... such as the critically endangered orangutan of Borneo. However, the International Union for Conservation of Nature ...

Borneo has lost almost 40% of its forest in the last 10 years to Palm oil. One of the animals most affected by this habitat loss is the orangutan. For Seven Worlds, One Planet we filmed a mother ...

Coconut palms now represent over half of the tree cover on these low ... For instance, 10.8% of Borneo's land area had been converted to oil palm monocrops by 2015. Meanwhile, coconut palms ...

Palm oil is made from the fruits of the African oil palm tree. Although it orginates from ... Endangered species including the orangutan, Borneo elephant and Sumatran tiger are being pushed ...