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What is the limit to oil palm expansion?

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Conservation

Publication Date
2016-08-05

In recent years, the palm oil industry has enjoyed meteoric growth as palm oil has become the most widely used vegetable oil on the planet. It’s found in everything from nail polish to Kit Kats. This boom, however, has come at the expense of the vast tracts of forests that have been cleared to plant oil palm.

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http://conservationmagazine.org/2016/08/limit-to-oil-palm-expansion/