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Palm oil production in Sabah, Borneo.

Palm trees have been felled and the gorund is ready for a new ones to be planted. In the back ground is the forest, presumably second generation rain forest. Much of the original rain forest in Sabah, the Malaysian side of Borneo, has been turned into palm oil production on an industrial scale. Palm oil is in nearly everything – it’s in close to 50% of the packaged products we find in supermarkets, everything from pizza, doughnuts and chocolate, to deodorant, shampoo, toothpaste and lipstick. Palm oil has been and continues to be a major driver of deforestation of some of the world's most biodiverse forests, destroying the habitat of already endangered species.

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Kristian Buus
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Sustainable rice, rubber, palm oil and forest conservation in South East Asia.
Palm trees have been felled and the gorund is ready for a new ones to be planted. In the back ground is the forest, presumably second generation rain forest. Much of the original rain forest in Sabah, the Malaysian side of Borneo, has been turned into palm oil production on an industrial scale. Palm oil is in nearly everything – it’s in close to 50% of the packaged products we find in supermarkets, everything from pizza, doughnuts and chocolate, to deodorant, shampoo, toothpaste and lipstick. Palm oil has been and continues to be a major driver of deforestation of some of the world's most biodiverse forests, destroying the habitat of already endangered species.