Amazon palm oil has not lived up to its promise of sustainability (commentary)

Mongabay
May 19, 2021, 8:16 pm224 pts
In the late 2000s and the early 2010s, the Brazilian palm oil industry told us that oil palm plantation expansion would take a different path than in Southeast Asia, where the sector destroyed vast areas of native forests, increased the risk of fire by draining peatlands, and pushed Indigenous and local peoples…

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