"With the growing climate threats facing Pacific atolls, it's critical to figure out where these abandoned plantations are ...

MalaysiaA worker harvests palm fruit on a plantation in Sarawak, one of two Malaysian states on the island of Borneo. These mature trees are about 25 years old, which means they will soon be cut ...

In Borneo, this is predominantly for plantations of oil palm trees used to produce palm oil, approximately three-quarters of which are located where pristine forest grew in the 1970s ...

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

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 ...

“Oil palms are trees, right ... Banner image: An oil palm plantation adjacent to tropical forest in Borneo, where a “triple hotspot for biodiversity, carbon and threat, [means] there is ...

Tamil Nadu is home to 50% of India’s palm trees. Their cultural and ecological importance is highlighted by their status as the state's official tree. Rev Godson Samuel has made it his mission ...

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 ...

In a breakthrough step, four Malaysian palm oil companies (IOI Corporation Berhad ... that aims to improve the protection of threatened wildlife in the Heart of Borneo. In what has been described as a ...

Known for its biodiversity, Borneo’s Kinabatangan River is the ... that elephants don’t do any significant damage to mature palm trees (though young crops must be protected from them) and ...