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Genes sequenced for three oil palm species; improvements in yield, disease resistance mooted
Biofuels Digest Biofuels DIgest —
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In Malaysia, Orion Genomics and the Malaysian Palm Oil Board announced the comprehensive genetic sequence of three different varieties of oil palm. This genome sequencing of E. oleifera and E. guineensis includes the pisifera and dura palms, typically used as the paternal and maternal line for oil palms, ...15 hours ago -
Orangutan Rescued From Oil Palm Plantation
Orangutan Foundation —
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Last Sunday the Orangutan Foundation responded to reports of a young female orangutan isolated in a tree in an oil palm plantation. The young female orangutan climbed the Banyan tree when we arrived in the oil palm plantation area at Pandu senjaya village, Pangkalan Lada. Uduk ...1 day ago -
RSPO Dispatch: Cargill’s message to local communities – We have no time for you
The Understory : Understory.RAN.org —
Authority: 534
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) was founded to create a path towards sustainability in the palm oil industry. A voluntary process, oil palm producers, traders, buyers, and NGO’s have joined up to find an alternative to the massive forest destruction, social conflict, and climate chaos the booming ...5 days ago -
Orangutan Adoption Diary -Brian’s future is looking Rosy
Cooler Choice —
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Brian Diary, October 27th 2009 by Hudi WD I am pleased to tell you that the adoption process between the female Bornean orangutan, Rosa and the infant orangutan, Brian is going very well. Brian was confiscated from an oil palm plantation and was taken to the Lamandau River Wildlife Reserve where he was ...6 days ago -
RSPO Dispatch: Tough times, but RSPO is still intact
The Understory : Understory.RAN.org —
Authority: 534
Contrary to a number of sensationalist media reports leading up to this year’s Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil, the RSPO is not breaking up. At the core of the controversy has been the effort to include a commitment by all members of the RSPO to reduce their Green House Gas (GHG) emissions. After two years of ...1 week ago -
RSPO Dispatch: Oil palm is not development
The Understory : Understory.RAN.org —
Authority: 534
The RSPO is the world’s largest annual meeting of oil palm industry, environmentalists, human rights advocates, and, most importantly, community members. Today, I watched as a community member from Borneo stood up in front of oil palm producers, NGOs, and technocrats, identified himself as a victim of oil palm ...1 week ago -
Alternative Energy: not necessarily the magic solution
Trends Updates —
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The current mantra is to ‘reduce greenhouse gas emissions more than 25 percent by 2020 — and more than 80 percent by 2050.’ While these attempts will curb our dependence on fossil fuels, doing ‘everything possible to promote alternative energy’ may also entail ‘financial, political, and technical pressures ...1 week ago -
Zoo offers action-packed Orangutan Caring Week
World Zoo Today —
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A special birthday party for four-year-old orangutan Madju and the launching of a nationwide ‘Don’t Palm Us Off’ campaign on Saturday 7 November (10am – 3pm) will mark the start of Orangutan Caring Week (7 – 14 November) at Auckland Zoo. Party-goers can enjoy free face painting, check out orangutan-related ...2 weeks ago -
Commodity Colonialism – Oil Palm development in Papua New Guinea
The Understory : Understory.RAN.org —
Authority: 534
A new, hard hitting, RAN case study on Cargill’s oil palm operations in PNG, ‘Commodity Colonialism’ , is now available for download HERE . Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a nation that does not easily fit with our society’s dominant ideas of development, property, and conservation. Many Papuans have little ...2 weeks ago -
Small Farmers Fight Land Theft in Colombia
The LA Progressive —
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Much of what has happened in Colombia in the past 20 years is the violent theft of land, a major reason why Colombia has the second highest number of internally displaced people in the world.2 weeks ago -
Logged rainforests can support as much biodiversity as virgin forest within 15 years
Thaindian News —
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Washington, October 21 (ANI): A new study by researchers at the University of Leeds, UK, has found that logged rainforests can support as much plant, animal and insect life as virgin forest within 15 years, if properly managed.Because trees in tropical climates soak up large amounts of carbon dioxide, restoring logged ...2 weeks ago -
Success from natural handmade soap
PinoyBusiness.ORG - Home —
Authority: 136
Darlene Del Mundo, 34, has always been very fond of soaps and aromatherapy. And this passion eventually led her to her business. Del Mundo said that her family always tries soap from different brands, but they would only make their skin dry. Her family has skin asthma, and so they thought their skin’s reactions to ...4 weeks ago -
Land owners sue Pelita and Sarawak Government
The Broken Shield —
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Sibu – Nearly 200 NCR land owners in Kanowit have now filed a legal action in the Sibu High Court Registry against Pelita Holdings Sdn Bhd, the Sibu Superintendent of Lands and Surveys and the State... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]4 weeks ago -
Agrofuels Are Not Low Carbon
The Understory : Understory.RAN.org —
Authority: 534
Evidence is mounting about the social and environmental consequences of industrialized biofuels, aka agrofuels. A new paper from RAN concludes that we cannot grow our way out of our oil addiction. Because of agrofuels’ impacts on climate change, direct and indirect land use impacts, fossil fuel inputs, and the ...5 weeks ago
