Palm Oil Continues to Plague Borneo’s Orangutans, Elephants, and Other Icons • The Revelator
The bus from Semporna, Malaysia, to the Kinabatangan Wildlife Preserve wound through an unending expanse of palm agricultural fields. On Borneo oil palm plantations line every road, and it seemed almost no natural forest remained. That agricultural development comes with a cost to this biodiversity hotspot: Of the more than 200 species of mammals and … Read more