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FOREST CONSERVATION NEWS TODAY
European Oil Palm Market Causing Indonesian Rainforest Loss
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April 13, 2006
OVERVIEW & COMMENTARY by Dr. Glen Barry, Forests.org
Below is an important update on the global campaign to protect
Indonesia's ancient rainforests from unfettered oil palm
plantation development. It comes from WALHI (Friends of the
Earth Indonesia), an important Indonesian NGO. Their new report
importantly links the rapidly expanding European market for oil
palm for biofuels (which Ecological Internet was amongst the
first to publicize) and other products with wholesale Indonesian
rainforest destruction from oil palm plantations. They are
demanding - as is Ecological Internet in our recent alert at
http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=indonesia -
that the Indonesian government officially cancel the proposed
mega oil palm plantation along the Malaysian border that
threatens the orangutan and other species with extinction.
Earlier loose assurances that the project will not proceed must
be followed by formal government statements, and the area given
permanent protected status that is enforced. Please continue to
take action on this important issue.
g.b.
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Title: European hunger for palm oil triggers expansion of
plantations
Source: Copyright 2006, Friends of the Earth Indonesia (WALHI)
Date: April 12, 2006
MEDIA ADVISORY
Friends of the Earth Netherlands * Sawit Watch * Friends of the
Earth Indonesia (WALHI) * Friends of the Earth England, Wales
and Northern Ireland *
INDONESIA: EUROPEAN HUNGER FOR PALM OIL AND TIMBER TRIGGERS
EXPANSION OF DESTRUCTIVE PALM OIL PLANTATIONS
JAKARTA (INDONESIA), LONDON (UK), AMSTERDAM (THE NETHERLANDS),
12 April 2006 -- A new report released today shows how the
Indonesian government might develop up to 3 million hectares of
oil palm plantations on the island of Borneo, threatening
wildlife and local livelihoods to cater for international demand
for cheap palm oil. [1]
One of the justifications given for this huge plantation project
is the increasing international demand for palm oil to be used
in food, feed and biofuels.
The report reveals how earlier plans to develop a 2 million
hectare plantation on the Indonesian side of the border with
Malaysia, are not yet off the table. Indonesia's initial
proposals to develop the border area had met with international
protest.
The Indonesian president Yudhoyono acknowledged there were
conservation concerns to be taken into account. But the
Indonesian Ministry of Public Works appears to have responded to
this in January 2006 by simply enlarging the area defined as the
"border zone". In this broader area, up to 3 million hectares of
oil palm could be planted, according to the Ministry.
The project still threatens mayhem, damaging wildlife and the
livelihoods of local people in the Kalimantan region. Friends of
the Earth Indonesia (WALHI) and local palm oil organisation
Sawit Watch ('Oilpalm Watch') are calling on the Indonesian
government to officially cancel the border mega-plantation plan.
The new report reveals that the area deemed suitable for oil
palm includes forests used by thousands of people who depend on
them for their livelihoods. In new larger border zone, a special
regulation (Presidential Decree No. 36/2005) would allow the
government to take land away from communities that do not want
oil palm plantations in the name of 'public interest'.
The report shows that those communities who are aware of the new
proposals are strongly opposed to the plans.
Evidence shows that in the last decade, many areas have been
deforested supposedly to make way for oil palm plantations but
have then been abandoned after the timber has been sold. In East
Kalimantan alone, 3 million hectares of forest disappeared for
oil palm concessions. Of those, only 300.000 hectares have
actually been planted with oil palm.
Sixty per cent of the forests converted into oil palm
plantations in 2004-2005 were still good forests, despite the
commitment made by the Indonesian government in 2000 that no
more forests would be converted to palm and pulp plantations.
"Communities should not be forced to change their livelihoods
simply for the benefit of oil palm companies and consumers
overseas. They have not been consulted on these proposals and
certainly have not agreed to abandon their land," said Rudy
Lumuru of Sawit Watch, in the Netherlands to present the report.
'European importing countries should not increase their imports
of palm oil until environmental and social issues are solved,'
added Anne Van Schaik of Friends of the Earth Netherlands. 'This
also means we should be very hesitant to embrace palm oil as a
biomass-solution to the current energy crisis. To start with,
companies and governments should ensure that palm oil used in
food and feedstock is in line with the criteria laid out by the
so-called Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil as soon as
possible," said Van Schaik.
FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
IN INDONESIA:
Sawit Watch: Rudy Lumuru + 62 812 110 1016 Friends of the Earth
Indonesia (WALHI) Rully Syumanda + 62 813 199 66998
IN EUROPE:
Friends of the Earth Netherlands (Milieudefensie) + 31 20
5507333 Friends of the Earth in London: Alison Dilworth + 44 20
7566 4084 or + 44 7952 993283
NOTES TO EDITORS:
[1] The report "The Kalimantan Border Oil Palm Mega Project" can
be downloaded as pdf from www.milieudefensie.nl/globalisering
and from www.foenl.org
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