Jul 11, 2014 · Palm oil growers are setting their sights on Africa as they amp up production. More than half of the land that's been set aside for plantations in Africa overlaps with ape habitats, researchers...

Aug 12, 2015 · Almost all the areas most suited for palm oil in Liberia (96 percent), Sierra Leone (86 percent), Congo (81 percent) Gabon (80 percent) are prime habitat for great apes.

Oil palm is the most productive (per hectare) commercially grown vegetable-oil crop, but despite this, the economic benefits of oil palm development for tropical countries are offset by negative and costly impacts on the environment.

May 13, 2024 · Clearing land for palm oil plantations has been a major driver of deforestation, the greatest threat to the survival of critically endangered orangutans.

Jul 21, 2014 · Here, we analyze the potential impact of oil palm development on Africa’s great apes. Current great ape distribution in Africa substantially overlaps with current oil palm …

Jul 28, 2014 · As palm oil producers increasingly look to Africa’s tropical forests as suitable candidates for their next plantations, primate scientists are sounding the alarm about the destruction of ape habitat that can go hand in hand with oil palm expansion.

Apr 1, 2016 · Cameroon, with its vast bio-diverse forests and key great ape habitat, is being eyed as a prime site for oil palm production, making it a center of agro-industry development in Africa. Conservationists hope to avoid mistakes made in Asia.

Although we recognize the importance of the oil palm industry for socio-economic development, we are deeply concerned that the rapid development of industrial-scale oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) plantations in tropical Africa at the current time is taking place in the absence of strategic land-use planning and without suficient consideration for ...

Forest clearing for palm oil plantations and illegal logging are driving massive deforestation. That habitat destruction is exposing wildlife to more conflict with humans.

More than half of Borneo's orangutans have perished in the last 20 years; their habitats destroyed to make way for palm oil plantations.