Palm oil production is the primary threat to orangutans, pushing these magnificent creatures towards extinction. The demand for palm oil, a versatile ingredient in numerous products, from food to ...

These native forests are home—the only home—for the arboreal Sumatran orangutan. During the process in which land is cleared for palm oil plantations, orangutans are either displaced to lower quality ...

Nearly 150,000 critically endangered Bornean orangutans perished from 1999 to 2015, and although the main culprits were logging and hunting, palm oil was a major factor. It also exacerbates ...

Rows of oil palms replace rain forest near Borneo’s Gunung Palung National Park. Vast expanses of orangutan habitat have been lost to palm oil, used for cooking, food products, and cosmetics.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A surge of deforestation for oil palm plantations in a Sumatran orangutan reserve means top consumer brands may be selling products with ...

Effective orangutan conservation requires effective ... of lowland forests to plantation agriculture, particularly for palm oil production, is well documented. Palm oil is so important to ...

Malaysia has said it plans to start giving orangutans as gifts to major trading partners who buy its palm oil. Commodities Minister Johari Abdul Ghani said the country hoped to generate the same ...

Consequently, oil palm companies and logging firms have been able to encroach ... to mitigate the negative impacts of logging and timber plantations on habitats and orangutan populations. For example, ...

Conservationists say unsustainable oil palm plantations threaten the existence of species such as orangutans. City of Chester MP Chris Matheson said he hoped other cities around the world would ...

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 like the Orangutan, pygmy ...

Borneo has lost almost 40% of its forest in the last 10 years to Palm oil. One of the animals most affected by this habitat loss is the orangutan. For Seven Worlds, One Planet we filmed a mother ...