Oil palm plantations are driving massive downstream impact to watershed https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/05/240502153115.htm

Oil palm plantations are driving massive downstream impact to watershed https://phys.org/news/2024-05-oil-palm-plantations-massive-downstream.html

#environment #water #PalmOil

Oil palm plantations are driving massive downstream impact to watershed

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.

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In the last few years it is likely that PepsiCo has been using in its production palm oil from deforested land claimed by the Shipibo-Konibo people in eastern Peru, a new investigation has found.

by Andrew Wasley, Aramís Castro, Elisângela Mendonça
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/snack-giant-pepsico-sourced-palm-oil-from-razed-indigenous-land-investigation/

#News #Environment #Conservation #Investigation #IndigenousPeoples #FoodIndustry #PalmOil #LandRights

Orangutans are being killed as their environment is being removed to grow palm oil

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68942123
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68942123

#HerbalMedicine #PalmOil #Vegan #AnimalRights #VeganFood

Wounded orangutan seen using plant as medicine

It is the first time a creature in the wild has been seen using a medicinal plant to treat a wound.

^{By Georgina Rannard (BBC News)}