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In the 2000s, the rate decreased slightly; however, by 2007, the annual deforestation rate had reached 1.3 million hectares. [5] In 2006, Indonesia overtook Malaysia as the world’s largest palm oil exporter, having exported over 20.9 million tonnes of palm oil. [12] Presently, only 50% of the original forest cover remains in Borneo.
The production of palm oil requires intensive deforestation and this has led to a gradual loss of flora and fauna in the areas where land is cleared for the cultivation of palm oil. [18] Tropical rainforests in countries including Malaysia and Indonesia have been the most ideal countries to have large palm oil plantations as they provide the ...
In 2007, Masarang opened a palm sugar factory that uses thermal energy to turn the juice tapped daily from sugar palms (Arenga pinnata) into sugar or ethanol, returning cash and power to the community in the attempt to move toward a better future for the people, forest, and native orangutans, while saving 200,000 trees per year from being cut ...
An endangered Bornean orangutan baby has been welcomed into the world at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay in Florida. The baby orangutan was delivered by cesarean section on Saturday, weighing just over ...
There are a number of environmental issues in Florida.A large portion of Florida is a biologically diverse ecosystem, with large wetlands in the Everglades.Management of environmental issues related to the everglades and the larger coastal waters and wetlands have been important to the history of Florida and the development of multiple parts of the economy of Florida, including the influential ...
The president also imposed a moratorium on permits for new palm oil plantations in 2018, intended to stop deforestation amid backlash from consumers worried about the environmental impact of palm ...
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This view is also supported by the United Nations Environment Programme, which states in its report that due to deforestation by illegal logging, fire and the extensive development of oil palm plantations (see Social and environmental impact of palm oil), orangutans are threatened with extinction, and if the current trend continues, they will ...