In Brazil, Palm Oil Plantations Could Help Preserve the Amazon

In Brazil, Palm Oil Plantations Could Help Preserve the Amazon
June 14, 2011
By Rhett Butler,
Environment 360, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

"In recent years, palm oil development in Malaysia and Indonesia has devastated tropical forests there. With Brazil on the verge of its own palm oil boom, can sustainable cultivation of the crop actually help save the rainforest, rather than hastening its destruction?"

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