Environmental stories tagged with: plantations

Palm oil plantation

Biofuel plantations on tropical forestlands are bad for the climate and biodiversity

Tuesday, 2nd December 2008, 12:44 pm
Keeping tropical rainforests intact is a better way to combat climate change than replacing them with biofuel plantations, a study in the journal Conservation Biology finds.
Kuala Cenaku Indonesia

Preserving Indonesia's Peatland

Monday, 29th October 2007, 5:52 pm
Greenpeace volunteers and a local community are working to stop the destruction of an area of swamp forest in Sumatra, Indonesia, which is to be converted into a palm oil plantation.
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