plantation
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Greenpeace also named Malaysian plantation group Kuala Lumpur Kepong, whose subsidiary PT Menteng Jaya Sawit Perdana managed land in Indonesia where 19 haze source points were recorded.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
RHB maintains an overweight rating on the Southeast Asia plantation sector.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
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
When he left his father’s modest-sized plantation at Montpelier in Virginia to attend Princeton in 1769—Aaron Burr was a classmate—the youthful Madison had confessed to intimations of imminent mortality, somewhat morbidly predicting his early death.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
English authorities and the monarchy were prominent participants in the centuries-long slave trade which saw millions of Africans enslaved and forced to work, especially on plantations in the Caribbean and the Americas.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
While it is normal to contrast the vast plantations of the South with the scrabbly small farms of New England, the patroons of New York were also vast landowners.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
A portrait of the actor David Harewood hangs at the family's stately home, Harewood House in northern England, after it was discovered that his ancestors had worked on Lascelles family sugar plantations in Barbados.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026
El Nino is associated with strong drought in Indonesia, where tracts of forest and plantations have been burning in biodiverse Borneo and the South Sumatra region for months.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
Starting in fall 1793, British troops began ar- riving in Saint Domingue to reenslave people and return them to their sugar plantations.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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