date:Aug 03, 2018
Palm oil now provides 35 percent of the world's vegetable oil, according to GreenPalm. There are between 12 and 13 million hectares (about 460,000 to 500,000 square miles) of palm oil tree plantations in the world, and that number continues to increase.
Whenever a biodiverse area is destroyed and replaced with a monoculture, it's devastating to the environment. Significant deforestation has occurred in Indonesia and Malaysia as well as other areas of the world to make way for palm oil plantat