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Saturday, 10 December 2011 |
 Much has been written on palm oil and its supposed link to deforestation and animal extinction. Most of the “reports” have been emotive with mouth frothing hyperbole. The following report originally published in Planet Earth Online, in our view, brings some semblance of rational thinking and reasoned inquiry to a controversial subject.
Throughout the tropics, rainforest is being cut down at an alarming rate fothe extraction of tropical timber. Much of these cleared over forests are replanted with palm oil. This, alleged the green groups, has a devastating effect on the plants and animals that lived there, driving many species into extinction.
But we need much more research into the benefits and costs of different tactics, as at the moment many efforts to conserve forest biodiversity are working in the dark.
'Some conservationists just focus on protecting the biggest possible number of forest species, particularly charismatic animals,' says Dr William Foster, a zoologist at the University of Cambridge and the lead author of the paper, which was published in a recent special edition of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
'But we wanted to look, not just at how many forest species are being lost, but also at how you can arrive at a sustainable oil palm landscape that delivers reasonable ecosystem services and doesn't constantly need vast amounts of pesticides and fertiliser to keep producing.'
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Written by Tim Wilson
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Friday, 02 December 2011 |
Deforestation Watch aka Melbourne Zoo watch is pleased to republish an expose by the Institute of Public Affairs on the questionable palm oil campaigns run by the Melbourne Zoo and the Auckland Zoo.
“Zoos in Australia and New Zealand are running political campaigns against palm oil based on dodgy ‘facts’”, Director of the Intellectual Property and Free Trade Unit at the Institute of Public Affairs, Tim Wilson, said recently.
Mr Wilson’s comments follow the release of Exposed: The inaccurate and inappropriate campaign by Zoos Victoria, a new report released by the Institute of Public Affairs today looking at the claims of zoos against palm oil and the actual evidence supporting these claims.
“Following our research, attacks by zoos, most notably Zoos Victoria, against palm oil aren’t based on factual evidence. Out of the twelve anti-palm oil ‘facts’ claimed by Zoos Victoria only two have been found to be accurate, eight are false and two cannot be substantiated. Similar claims are also being made by Auckland Zoo”
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Written by Bill Law
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Saturday, 26 November 2011 |
Environmentalists have long decried the destruction of Indonesia's rainforests, first for timber and more recently for palm oil.
The logging was a one-time deal that mostly benefitted the country's corrupt elite and foreign corporations.
But does palm oil have the potential to generate new wealth for this nation of 250 million people? Are there benefits from these plantations for local people?
There is one key fact that is often overlooked in the debate.
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