plantation
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Oil palm plantations and other plantation forestry are also widespread in the region.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
The orangutan pair had been under observation since July after being spotted in a plantation area near a forest in West Kalimantan, a local natural resources conservation agency said in a statement.
From Barron's ● Sep. 5, 2026
After being sold multiple times across state lines, her last owner, a Mississippi plantation owner named Robert Smith moved West to begin a Mormon community in Utah.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Jang's body was found near a palm tree plantation on Jeju last week.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
“I’m from the Tanner plantation in the Richland District. This boy’s from Possum Moan.”
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
Oil palm plantations and other plantation forestry are also widespread in the region.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
Today, large-scale fires are often associated with the expansion of industrial plantations and other commercial land use.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
As a young man, by his account, he smuggled diamonds, oversaw coconut plantations, dynamited fish, captained schooners and hunted killer cannibals in the New Guinea jungle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Pine plantations are started with several hundred seedlings an acre.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
These Sabbath-day dances are the long custom among the plantations and farms of this Colony; but I have never seen the like.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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