Sarawak Plantation group owns 13 oil palm estates, with total land size of 42,182 ha. In addition, the group has another estate of 412 ha (planted 405 ha) under a joint venture with a Sarawak ...

A research team led by the University of Oxford has carried out the most comprehensive assessment to date of how logging and conversion to oil palm plantations affect tropical forest ecosystems.

What this means: “Coconut oil used to be essential to atoll economies, but today most coconut palm plantations are abandoned and overgrown,” lead author Michael Burnett from UCSB said in a ...