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Oil-palm farms that spare rainforests menace grasslands instead

Programmes to avoid deforestation could have unintentional impacts on a variety of ecosystems.
A silhouette of a worker harvesting fruit in an oil-palm grove.

Oil-palm plantations threaten rainforests, grasslands and dry forests alike. Credit: Dimas Ardian/Bloomberg/Getty

Efforts to keep oil-palm plantations from crowding out tropical rainforests could threaten biodiversity in other habitats1.

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Nature 612, 192 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-04179-1

References

  1. Fleiss, S. et al. Nature Ecol. Evol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01941-6 (2022).

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