extractoon of palm oil from plantations

                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
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  • Why do oil palm plantations erode?
  • While oil palm plantations are not large users of pesticides and fertilizers overall, the Indiscriminate application of these materials can pollute surface and groundwater sources. Erosion occurs when forests are being cleared to establish plantations, and can also be caused by planting trees in inappropriate arrangements.
  • How does oil palm plantation change the world?
  • Large-scale conversion of tropical forests to oil palm plantations has a devastating impact on a huge number of plant and animal species. Oil palm production also leads to an increase in human-wildlife conflict as populations of large animals are squeezed into increasingly isolated fragments of natural habitat.
  • Why are oil palm plantations destroying Indonesia's forests?
  • Oil palm plantations are contributing to the rapid disappearance of Indonesia’s forests, and to numerous resulting conflicts over land ownership and use. Many of these disputes involve Indigenous people that live in and around the forests.
  • Why does palm oil decompose?
  • These soils are naturally wet, which keeps the peat from decomposing, but when forests are converted into palm oil plantations the peat dries out, leading them to rapidly degrade and release their carbon into the atmosphere. Globally, almost all oil palm is grown on lands that were once tropical moist forests.