plantations
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Plants growing in oil palm plantations were much more likely to contain wasps than those found in logged forest.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
The team examined young Macaranga pearsonii trees growing in both logged forests and oil palm plantations.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
Beyond the fort, roughly 100 plantations were worked by around 270 European planters and an enslaved population of about 5,000 people, up and down the Berbice River in present-day Guyana, she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
The region lost almost 160,000 hectares of forest area in 2025, more than one-third of the nationwide figure – much of it to make way for plantations and monocrop agriculture.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
While the masters enjoyed the life of wealth in Europe, the daily routine of the plantations was left in the hands of the overseers.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
