Greening the world with palm oil?  |  Forest Stewardship Council - FSC  | Timber of Sarawak  |  Timber of Sabah  |  Gunung Gading National Park | Kuching Wetlands National Park | Tanjung Datu National Park | Loagan Bunut National Park | Lambir Hills National Park | Batang Ai National Park | Gunung Mulu National Park |
| Niah National Park | Similajau National Park | General Information to National Parks in Sarawak | Kubah National Park and Matang Wildlife Centre  |  Semenggok Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre (Semenggoh Nature Reserve)

 

 

 

| POIC Palm Oil Industrial Cluster | Pulp Mill | Palm Oil | Oil Palm | Fertilizer | Photo | Business Link | Destruction of Rain Forest  |

Destruction of natural rainforest to grow oil palm

Forest Reserve (Left) and Oil Palm Plantation (Right)

In between Malaysian Government Forest Reserve and a Private Oil Palm Plantation is a narrow open track.

Compared to a healthy forest (Left), oil palm plantations (Right) store less carbon, house less biodiversity, and are more prone to erosion than natural forests.
Palm oil and deforestation

Virgin rain forest cleared and planted with oil palm.

What is left is an lonely tropical tree, Seraya, standing tall among the oil palm plants. (photo left)

 

 

 

 

Map from :
Sabah Forestry Department
http://www.forest.sabah.gov.my

 
 

 
  A Sabah Forest Reserve was in bad shape after illegal clearing and squatters for 2 decades. More than 7,000ha of the reserve was illegally cleared and planted with oil palm in the 1980s and 1990s.

Ulu Kalumpang Forest Reserve on Sabah’s east coast is in the process of being rehabilitated after years of illegal clearing and degradation by illegal squatters – thanks to the Sabah Forestry Department.

The Sabah Cabinet has allowed Sabah Forest Department to clear illegal plantations and replant mixed indigenous plant species in the Ulu Kalumpang Forest Reserve.

The rehabilitation efforts needed heavy police presence as the illegal squatters had attempted to attack the rehabilitation workers. On January 1, 2010 an excavator operator was shot at by a squatter.

Director of Sabah Forest Department  Datuk Sam Mannan said that due to nearly three decades of  “meek environmental leadership”, some 8,000ha of regenerating forest was cleared and degraded, and the habitat for Sabah’s iconic wildlife such as orang utan and Borneo pygmy elephants destroyed.

“Rivers in the forest reserve turned into open sewers used by squatters,” he said, adding that the situation only changed after Datuk Musa Aman took over as Chief Minister in 2003.


The Star Online
http://thestar.com.my

  
 

 

  
Southeast Asia is expanding oil palm plantations at the cost of tropical rain forest. Is oil palm a valuable route to sustainable development or a costly road to environmental ruin?

Environmental groups have long expressed concern about over-logging and deforestation in  the island of Borneo.
 

Old palm plantations threatens rich biological diversity—while also offering the finance needed to protect forest.

Old palm plantations offers a renewable source of fuel, but also threatens to increase global carbon emissions.

Oil palm expansion can contribute to :

1) deforestation,

2) peat degradation,

3) biodiversity loss,

4) forest fires and

5) a range of social issues.

But oil palm is also :

1) major driver of economic growth and

2) source of alternative fuel.

 | INDEX : New Oil Palm | 十二月 19, 2011 10:29:21 下午

counter hit make