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Cluster of ripe, reddish-orange oil palm fruits (Elaeis guineensis) with dark tips, tightly packed together. Borneo deforestation Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) “The Orangutan Conservation Conundrum”
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Oil palm fruits
A close-up of the fruits of the oil palm (Elaeis guineensis).
© Wong Hock weng/Shutterstock.com
Borneo deforestation
Satellite images showing deforestation in Borneo from 2000 to 2018.
M.C. Hansen et al., University of Maryland, Google, USGS, NASA
Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis)
W.H. Hodge

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“The Orangutan Conservation Conundrum”
John Rafferty of Encyclopædia Britannica discusses the challenges that oil palm cultivation...
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