Large areas of tropical forests and other ecosystems with high conservation values have been cleared to make room for vast monoculture oil palm plantations – destroying critical habitat for many endangered species, including rhinos, elephants and tigers.
Palm oil: environmental impacts
Oil palm plantation, Sabah, Malaysia.
The establishment of vast monoculture oil plam plantations has a number of environmental impacts.
The two most serious are:
The two most serious are:
- large-scale forest conversion
- loss of critical habitat for endangered species
