Living Planet, Deutsche Welle 15 September, 2011, Brazil hopes to become a major player in the global palm oil industry - despite evidence from Malaysia and Indonesia that palm oil cultivation can damage rain forests and wildlife habitats.
As demand for biofuels continues to grow, oil palm could become a dominant crop in the Amazon - despite evidence that palm cultivation can be bad for the environment. Some estimate that 98 percent of the rain forests of Malaysia and Indonesia - the world’s largest producers of palm oil - will be gone by 2022 largely due to palm oil cultivation.
But palm oil cultivation is gathering support in Brazil, which hopes to be the third or fourth largest producer of palm oil in the world within the decade.
It’s not even in the top ten right now. But Europe could play a role in Brazil's growing palm oil industry.
(Source : DW Living Planet)
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