Palm oil accounts for about 40% of global demand for vegetable oil as food, animal feed and fuel – about 210m tonnes. “The oil palm presents a serious threat to the biodiversity of the wetlands and the water quality communities depend on,” says Velásquez. Oil palm fields growing at the edges of the national parkAndres Cartagena, 75, a cattle farmer since childhood, has switched to harvesting palm oil. Several young oil palm oil crops were found. Eradicating oil palm crops here would be certain death for us,” Bustamante says.

Source: The Guardian November 27, 2023 21:38 UTC