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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 742, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140712
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Palm oil; Certification; Sustainability; Endangered large mammals; Borneo; Sumatra
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Tropical forests inhabited by endangered orangutans, rhinos, tigers, and elephants in South-east Asia are threatened by deforestation, including oil palm expansion. Certification has been proposed to label sustainable palm oil production. However, from a remotely sensed time-series and imagery analysis (1984-2020), we discovered that most of the currently certified grower supply bases and concessions in Sumatra and Borneo are located in the 1990s large mammals habitat and in areas that were biodiverse tropical forests less than 30 years ago. In light of this dramatic evidence, we suggest that certification schemes claim for the sustainable production of palm oil just because they neglect a very recent past of deforestation and habitat degradation. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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