The cultivation of oil palm is here to stay. However, a five-year study indicates that creating islands of native trees within oil-palm monocultures increases biodiversity and ecosystem ...

00:45 Tree islands bring biodiversity benefits for oil-palm plantation Global demand for palm oil has resulted in huge expansion of the palm plantations needed to produce it, causing widespread ...

Palm oil plantations have led to widespread deforestation in Indonesia. But now some farmers are turning to a different crop — damar, a kind of anti-palm oil, grown in forest-based farms.