KOTA KINABALU: There is a need to work with industries outside protected areas to ensure orang utan in Borneo, now surviving in mixed landscapes, can thrive in the long run, say experts.
In an article published on online journal Frontiers in Forests and Global Change earlier this month, they highlighted the need for peaceful coexistence between people and orang utan in non-protected areas, which include oil palm, timber, acacia and rubber landscapes.
“This is because since 2008, researchers have found that orang utan are travelling through varied forest and farm-type landscapes to find food and mates, as they use forest patches in non-protected areas as a critical linkage to protected forest, ” said Pongo Alliance project director Felicity Oram, one of the co-authors of the article.
Wednesday, 06 Jan 2021 05:43 PM MYT
IOI Corporation Bhd group MD and CEO Datuk Lee Yeow Chor said the seed oil sector is also equally important for the socio-economic development of a country, similarly in the same way that palm oil has been important for Malaysia and Asia. Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 6 It is prime for the palm oil industry to collaborate more comprehensively with competing seed oil producers, offering a multi-oils solution as a way for a sustainable industry in post-pandemic.
IOI Corporation Bhd group managing director and chief executive officer Datuk Lee Yeow Chor said the seed oil sector is also equally important for the socio-economic development of a country, similarly in the same way that palm oil has been important for Malaysia and Asia.
Sustainability the key mantra for palm oil industry 06 Jan 2021 / 21:47 H. Pix for representational purpose only.
KUALA LUMPUR: Amidst the continued allegations premised on the sustainability of the palm oil industry arising mostly from nationalistic sentiment to protect their edible oils industry, palm oil producers acknowledged that the sustainability issue cannot be ignored and they have to level up their game for the longer term.
But while most agreed to the notion, some believed that instead of addressing the issues in the west where the “noise” came from, the palm oil industry should just focus on its neighbouring market – China and India.