The internet is teeming with articles that tell of the atrocities wreaked on Mother Nature by the palm oil industry around the world. The hubbub makes it difficult to hear a voice of reason that can ...

About 35 per cent of Malaysian palm oil plantations will be 19 years or older by 2027. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...

Southeast Asia’s tropical forests are renowned for their biodiversity, but at the same time face significant threats from the expansion of oil palm plantations. With global demand for palm oil rising, ...

He highlighted several MPOGCF conservation initiatives, including the Lower Kawag Orangutan Habitat Restoration Project in Sabah, which involves restoring 2,500 hectares of forest, planting native ...

Having “islands” of trees peppered across oil palm plantations can boost the biodiversity of the landscape while maintaining crop yields, a new study shows. Researchers found that biodiversity and ...

AMHERST, Mass. – The global demand for palm oil—the most widely consumed vegetable oil on the planet, in everything from instant noodles to lipstick—is driving worldwide tropical deforestation. While ...

By Bernadette Christina and Ashley Tang KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Indonesia's move to pause biodiesel expansion and ...

If conservation areas are administratively interpreted as “unproductive land”, Indonesia risks engineering a policy ...

Anglo-Eastern Plantations is a family holding company involved in palm oil plantations which has had a generational change of management, hopefully leading to a change in strategy. The dividend has ...

The Indonesian government has rejected a proposal made by a prominent university to reclassify oil palms as a forest crop. The proposal was ostensibly meant to resolve the problem of illegal ...