Showing posts with label palm oil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label palm oil. Show all posts

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Industrial scale palm oil production is coming to Africa and it’s bad news for the rainforest of Cameroon.

Palm oil is the world’s cheapest edible oil and global demand is booming. That’s why a U.S. corporation called Herakles Farms is pushing ahead with plans to plow down an area of primate rainforest ten times larger than Manhattan to create a palm oil plantation in Cameroon.


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