Home News U.S. Sport TV&Showbiz Australia Femail Health Science Money Video Travel Fashion Finder Wires Home Login After Asia, palm oil faces Site Enter your search Web backlash in Africa Like Follow By AFP DailyMail MailOnline PUBLISHED: 03:54 GMT, 28 December 2016 | UPDATED: 03:54 GMT, 28 December 2016 Follow +1 DailyMail DailyMail 26 shares DON'T MISS Look away now, Its lower cost has made it popular in commercial food production, but after Harry! Intimate new photos being blamed for deforestation in Asia, palm oil plantations are now getting emerge of Prince's a similar rap in Africa. girlf riend Meghan Markle during wedding with ex- The sheer scale of land required is having an impact in Gabon, Cameroon husband Trevor and the Congo Basin, environmentalists say. Engleson Sheerly a With financing coming from American, European and Asian agri-businesses, mistake? Christina Milian f orgoes palm bunches are cultivated then cut from trees and sent to factories where wearing a bra in sheer dress but oil is extracted by hot pressing. ends up revealing her Spanx at Live By Night premiere That's a camera flash Not impressed! Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn glare daggers through Meryl Streep's Golden Globes anti-Trump speech Didn't appear impressed 'Boy or girl?' Retired f ootballer Steven Gerrard teases the sex of his baby as pregnant wif e Alex shows off her bump in wild animal print bikini 'We did it everywhere!' Sienna Miller gets VERY cosy with co- star Ben Affleck at Live By Night premiere... as she details their NINE Its lower cost has made it popular in commercial food production, but after HOUR steamy sex being blamed for deforestation in Asia, palm oil plantations are now getting scene a similar rap in Africa ©Xavier Bourgois (AFP/File) 'Come and reassure me': But the production process accelerates deforestation, contributes to Married Nicola McLean gets VERY climate change and threatens fauna and flora in vulnerable areas, flirty with Jamie opponents argue. O'Hara as she invites him into her bed and reveals However the companies say that palm oil is not only less expensive than they've kissed BEFORE soya or sunflower oil but requires much less land to produce and provides much-needed jobs. Amal Clooney wears pretty floral mini as she cosies Gabon -- where forest covers 80 percent of the territory -- is feeling the up to husband George... ahead of brunt. impassioned political speech at T he White Helmets Brainforest and Mighty, two environmental groups, investigated the screening activities of Olam, an agri-business from Singapore, which said it has George Michael planted 58,000 hectares of palm trees in Gabon. 'tried to end his relationship with Fadi Fawaz "It is estimated that Olam has deforested 20,000 hectares in its Gabonese repeatedly in the concessions of Awala et Mouila since 2012," the groups said in a report 18 months bef ore his death and had released in mid-December. "Investigators on the scene witnessed and filmed even BANNED him bulldozers knocking down huge trees en masse." f rom his house' Who needs the Olam said palm trees had been planted on 25,000 hectares of land which gym? Lisa Appleton strips down to her had previously been forested, but that this had been "highly logged and lingerie as she enjoys an al f resco degraded secondary forest" and represented just 0.1 percent of Gabon's workout in the forests. park She used to be a pro bodybuilder In response to the report Olam published advertisements touting the almost 'I nearly died of 11,000 jobs it has created, the 1,100 hectares of food crops planted and 251 pneumonia at kilometres (150 miles) of roads built. Christmas': Chris Evans reveals his temperature - A wider impact - soared to 106 degrees as he f ell ill on holiday in But the impact appears wider. In their report, the environmental groups Barbados expressed fears that the Congo Basin, considered the lung of Africa, could 'We'll try f or go the same way as forests in Sumatra, Indonesia and on Borneo. another baby bef ore we plan our wedding': "A few decades ago, these places were almost entirely covered with forests, Emmerdale couple a paradise for orangutans, rhinos, elephants and exotic birds. Today, only Charley Webb and Matthew 20-30 percent of the forest cover exists." Wolf enden want to expand their f amily The report was released in Libreville when an environmental film festival honoured the French documentary "Et Maintenant Nos Terres" (And Now Our 'T his is deeper than a body Land). transf ormation': Khloe Kardashian flaunts 'spiritual Its directors, Julien Le Net and Benjamin Polle, chronicled how villages in and Cameroon and Senegal were being affected by what they called "land grabs" emotional' weight loss in incredible by multinational companies. bef ore and af ter snap In southwest Cameroon 244 farmers have filed a trespassing complaint Charlotte against a company that intends to plant 20,000 hectares of palm trees. McKinney showcases her incredible figure in Hearings in the case against Sustainable Oils Cameroon, formerly a a saucy skintight LBD at Mad subsidiary of American company Herakles Farms, were postponed after Families party reports of unrest in the area in November. Never one to disappoint in the glamour stakes Greenpeace has asked Cameroon not to renew the company's concession Where DID you go which expired at the end of November, and it cited "six years of illegal my lovely? Sad tale foresting, trampling of locals' rights, unfulfilled investments and of how the writer behind the Sixties' destruction of forest". most unlikely hit lost the blonde who inspired it - A petition signed by 180,000 people against renewal of the contract was and missed out on sent last week to Cameroon President Paul Biya, Greenpeace said. millions La La Land leads The government has not yet made a decision but Greenpeace said it hoped it the BAFTA nominations with a would hear the voices of "thousands of Cameroonians". whopping 11 nods... as Emma Stone competes against Meanwhile the plantations of Socapalm, a subsidiary of the Luxembourg Meryl Streep and company Socfin in which the family firm of French businessman Vincent Natalie Portman f or Best Actress Bollore owns a large minority stake, were targeted by protests in November. Anthea Turner reveals how a "No to pollution and massive environmental destruction" read one banner, medium let her while another urged the company to open a dialogue with residents. talk to her dead sister and warned husband Grant "More than 5,000 hectares has been used," a resident called Ebeneser Bovey would cheat on her Ekango told AFPTV at the time, complaining there wasn't enough land to Scarily accurate plant the staple crop cassava. "What do we eat?" T he King of her castle: Mollie castle: Mollie Greenpeace, which has complained that Socfin concessions have included shows off her golden glow in lace old-growth forests, applauded the company publishing in December a bra top and semi- responsible management policy commits to "eliminating deforestation". sheer crochet shorts as she embraces a tousled look on holiday 'It's all lovely and cool': Sherlock star Martin Freeman gushes about 'brilliant' ex Amanda Abbington... weeks af ter revealing their shocking split 'I had to def end my stance': Rebecca Ferguson will no longer be perf orming at Donald Trump's inauguration f ollowing disagreement over song choice Billie Lourd seen f or first time since f uneral of mother Carrie Fisher and grandmother Debbie Reynolds as With financing coming from American, European and Asian agri-businesses, she steps out with beau Taylor palm bunches in Gabon, Cameroon and the Congo Basin are cultivated then Lautner cut from trees and sent to factories where oil is extracted by hot pressing ©Isaac Kasamani (AFP/File) Was Kim Kardashian heist an INSIDE job? 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