August 31, 2007

Palm oil and sustainable conservation

There's a good chance we'll discuss this paper later in the semester, but since it came out in yesterday's Nature, I thought I'd post a link to it now:

Koh, L.P., and D. W. Wilcove. 2007. Cashing in palm oil for conservation. Nature 448:993-994

Tropical forests in southeast Asia are under threat from oil-palm growers. This is an opportunity to combine sustainable economic growth with biodiversity conservation, argue Lian Pin Koh and David S. Wilcove.
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