Palm oil’s ecological footprint extends to distant forests, study finds

Mongabay
Dec 21, 2017, 7:48 am98 pts
Palm oil, a leading driver of tropical deforestation, may be also wreaking enormous damage on forests well outside established plantation areas, a new study has found. The study, published Dec. 20 in Nature Communications, focuses on two decades’ worth of ecological data from Malaysia’s Pasoh Research…

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