oil palm

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For instance, 10.8% of Borneo's land area had been converted to oil palm monocrops by 2015.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2024

A long-running experiment led by Göttingen University, Germany, and including the IPB University, Bogor and Jambi University in Indonesia, has investigated how ecological restoration promotes biodiversity recovery in oil palm plantations in Sumatra.

From Science Daily • Nov. 18, 2024

In Indonesian Borneo, or Kalimantan, oil palm plantations threaten durian diversity by leaving less room for diverse species of durian to be cultivated.

From Salon • Jul. 22, 2024

In the 2010s there was gargantuan oil palm, timber and large-scale plantation expansion across Indonesia.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 28, 2024

Some, including African rice, have remained virtually confined there; others, such as African yams, spread throughout other areas of sub-Saharan Africa; and two, the oil palm and kola nut, reached other continents.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond