Plantations in danger

The timbers of some species is very valuable.

It was made in tobacco plants.

It's one of the tens of thousands of mom and pop grow ops in B.C.

In 1985, Indonesia had less than 2,500 square miles of palm oil plantations.

Insecticides are currently the main method of beetle control on commercial farms.

Saint Domingue was also the wealthiest and most prosperous, for the plantation owners at least, colony of all the colonies in the Caribbean.

Upon my arrival in New York, I decided they were children of sugar plantation workers.

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A fungus known as rust, or roya in Spanish, is attacking coffee plantations from Mexico to Peru.

During 2010 Michael Eavis received a donation from British Waterways of timber from the old gates at Caen Hill Locks in Wiltshire.

In this sense, large plantations such as Validebağ and Emirgan assume a special significance to local people.

It's a cat that lives in trees, and at night it comes down and it prowls the coffee plantations.

It is mainly produced in China from plantations and is marketed as Litsea cubebea , with production estimates between 500 1,500 tonnes of oil per annum.

Global Witness wants to see a fall in consumer demand for products linked to violence such as timber, soya and palm oil.

Yes, you are right, it is I. In point of fact it is the radical party, that is the only possible explanation, since we are in fact able occasionally to think in terms of new and possible, or indeed impossible concepts.

Since most plantations use harmful agro chemicals, the children working on them are directly exposed to these threats.

The show reflected the concerns and issues of Thais on the rubber plantations and in rural villages of the southern provinces.

A former child worker from Mindanao, Pitang, shares her experience in the plantations during a recent public forum organized by EILER

As regards the suggestion made by Mrs Fernex in the two resolutions, first in her oral question and then in her statement, that an embargo should immediately be placed on the import of unprocessed timber and tropical hardwoods from Sarawak, the Commission considers that we need, for the time being, to assess the effect of the very strict restrictions on the export of unprocessed timber recently imposed by the Malaysian authorities themselves.

The exponential growth of palm oil plantations is to a large degree an unintended consequence of economics, and food and energy policies elsewhere in the world.

With that in mind, I wish to say that perhaps, in this righteous anger we have to some extent overshot our target, and so although this is not my usual style I wish to defend the Commission we must not forget that the blame principally attaches to our national governments who again and again exert massive pressure.

While stricter enforcement of rules against deliberate fires in Indonesia s 1999 Basic Forestry Law and the 2014 Law on Plantations will help, far more needs to be done.

This industry was carried on principally in Germany, and the Dutch and English cinchona plantations in Java, Ceylon and India were the chief sources where the raw material was supplied.

Twenty years later, they covered 21,621 square miles, and by 2025 the Indonesian government projects plantations will cover at least 100,000 square miles.

However, the Commission will shortly be proposing that, during the next revision of the Community rules relating to the Washington Convention, the first measures to control trade in threatened species of wood be included.

If that statement is anything other than hypocrisy, why has the proposal for action from the Commission's first draft, for controlling trade in certain types of tropical timber, been omitted from the final proposal ?

Last August, from the window of a jet high over the Indonesian island of Sumatra, I counted nearly a dozen plumes of smoke rising from the vast jungles and plantations below.

But the Union of Concerned Scientists, in its report Recipes for Success, notes that the increased profits that accompany improved yields can spur further expansion of plantations.

Mid December of 2014 saw severe monsoon along the east coast of peninsular Malaysia, with crippling floods and landslides tearing into the forest, palm oil plantations, farms, villages, towns and cities.

I consider the Dutch proposal of setting the date at 1995 to be far better, but if we wish to put that proposal into effect then we must now come toegether importers, exporters, environ mental experts, the industries concerned to define in detail the individual country forestry programmes based on the tropical forest action programme, the code

And, like coal, peat stores massive amounts of carbon, which is released into the atmosphere when the land is burned, cleared, and drained to make way for plantations.

Fires associated with clearing land for oil palm plantations in the Indonesian province of Riau release massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere and spread health harming haze across the landscape.

Philip Taylor, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Colorado s Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research who works with Townsend and has done extensive research in the tropics, says most palm plantations don t produce the yields they are capable of.

Last month, the Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education Research (EILER) published a baseline study which confirmed the prevalence of child labor in mines and plantations in various parts of the country.

The report says that what s behind that race to profit is consumer demand for electronic goods, tropical timber, beef, oil and thanks to the ubiquity of palm oil in modern products even mundane things such as toothpaste and peanut butter.

In 2011, the Philippine National Statistics Office reported that there were 5.5 million working children in the country, 2.9 million of whom were working in hazardous industries such as mining and plantations.

The Commission has rightly indicated its concern at the new strategy adopted by cocaine traffickers in the Andean countries, which aims to counter the American offensive through diversification of coca producing areas, notably by establishing such areas in tropical Africa.

In plantations, trucks pick children up from their homes and bring them to makeshift tents located in nearby provinces to stay and work for periods lasting from two weeks to a month without their parents.

When forests are cleared to make way for oil palm plantations, the area is usually burned, and most of Riau s massive fires burn on peat swampy layers of partially decayed vegetation that spreads up to 60 feet deep beneath most of the province s forests.

The deaths of environmental activists like Chota are not the result of obscure disputes in wild, faraway places. They are a direct consequence of the developed world s unrelenting demand for products like hardwood, palm oil, rubber, natural gas, and beef, and of poor regulation in the markets that supply them.

Researchers estimated that in 2012 nearly 70 percent of the carbon released during the transformation of Sumatran rainforests into palm plantations came from peatlands, a 75 percent increase over their portion of emissions in the 1990s and an indication that palm is increasingly expanding into peat.

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