Forests.org: Oil Palm Links (XML/RSS)

campaigns for regulation to ensure that only sustainably-sourced biofuels can be sold in the European Union, provides information about the link between biofuels and deforestation and other threats to biodiversity and food supplies.

a resistance network that opposes the activities of oil companies in tropical countries, with members in over 50 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America

concerned with oil palm plantation development and deforestation in Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea

Biofuelwatch presents a fully referenced background piece regarding the seriousness of the destruction of Indonesia's peat forests for the global climate (pdf)

report by Forest Peoples Programme and Sawit Watch about the social and environmental impacts of oil palm plantation expansion in Indonesia (pdf)

a report by Greenpeace International that describes the controversy surrounding the development of Indonesian peatlands by the pulp and paper and the palm oil industries (pdf)

a UNEP report which details the state of emergency in Indonesia's National Parks including illegal logging, fire and oil palm (pdf)

a Friends of the Earth investigation into the sustainability claims of Malaysia's palm oil lobby, with a special focus on state of Sarawak (pdf)

WRI project in Indonesia to curb new oil palm plantations from clearing virgin or primary forests by developing diversified revenue streams

a report from Friends of the Earth that discusses the affects of changing land use patterns due to the pressure for more land for biofuels (pdf)

a report published by the African Biodiversity Network about the impacts on biofuel production and plans in Africa, with case studies from Benin, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia; looking at deforestation, other ecosystem destruction, land rights and food sovereignty

a report that calculates CO2 emissions from peat oxidation and peat fires in South East Asia and investigates the causes, likely future trends and options for mitigation strategies; by Delft Hydraulics in cooperation with Wetlands International and Alterra

report by Biofuelwatch about the climate impacts of large-scale biofuel production

introduction to the social and environmental impacts of oil palm plantations from the World Rainforest Movement

a report from the CAO that concludes that the organization lending money to finance palm oil plantation development in Indonesia has not abided by its own rules (pdf)

a report from the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) that describes the way that the Cargill Corporation has ensnared generations of small landholders into working their land as indbted laborers (pdf)

report documents deforestation and degradation of natural forests in a section of Sumatra, Indonesia, and its impacts upon carbon release and climate change (pdf)

a report from Friends of the Earth (Netherlands and Indonesia) that demonstrates how the emerging bio-energy market is contributing to an excessive expansion of the oil palm industry in Indonesia and it shows how sustainability schemes in biofuel policies and palm oil sector initiatives fail to prevent illegal operations, deforestation, carbon emissions, and social conflicts (pdf)

Friends of the Earth details how demand for palm oil, a vegetable oil present in many of the goods we buy, is contributing to the destruction of Indonesia's rainforests

from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), a report that examines what we know and what we don’t know about oil palm developments

a network that supports habitat and resources management for the Orang Rimba (Kubu) in Indonesia, whose habitat has been reduced for conversion of forest for oil palm plantations and transmigration

a blog that provides support to African organizations which are trying to prevent the excessive spread of palm oil plantations

encourages action to protect the orangutan and its habitat

an index of articles from the World Rainforest Movement regarding problems caused by depending upon plantations for carbon sinks as a solution to climate change

the Rainforest Action Network show how demand for palm oil is on the rise and pristine rainforests are being clear-cut and burned to make way for palm oil plantations