of rough logs (>$500 m) and sawn timber (>$70 m) from the region peaked in 2014. We do not find beef and palm oil in top-ranking trade links, because these commodities are predominantly traded out of countries with a relatively low malaria incidence, such as Brazil and Malaysia....
The article further shows that Chile is not an isolated case of deforestation by afforestation, which has occurred in other countries alike. Based on the findings, it raises the question of the extent to which the Chilean example could be replicated in other countries through afforestation by ...
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For instance, separate spillover events of Nipah virus in Malaysia and Bangladesh were linked to forest habitat fragmentation and degradation, and the creation of alternative anthropogenic habitat and food sources, bringing the pteropid bat reservoirs in closer proximity to susceptible domestic pigs and...
We particularly highlight the impact of expanding oil palm cultivation in the region, as two Southeast Asian countries, Indonesia and Malaysia, are the world's largest palm oil producers. In addition, recorded changes in the environment as a result of oil palm expansion in the region are ...
2021). Similarly, Indonesia and Malaysia are the main hubs of deforestation to service the EU's overconsumption of palm oil (Goldman et al. 2020). Across Africa, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana and increasingly Nigeria and Cameroun are the leading countries deforested by EU cocoa imports (Fountain and...
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An article appearing on a US-based Internet newspaper claims that Malaysia is destroying its forests three times faster than all Asia combined, for palm oil plantations.Asian Correspondent
the study area in Indonesia and Malaysia, respectively, lacking clear Sentintel-2 images (Supplementary Table7). Consequently, our maps are more accurate for mainland Southeast Asia than for insular Southeast Asia (Supplementary Tables2and3), where rubber area (and hence associated deforestation) ...
(28 countries), China, Malaysia and Indonesia, sub-Saharan Africa, and the rest of the world. We also collapsed the 57 commodity sectors into 18 sectors (i.e., paddy rice, wheat, coarse grains, oilseeds, raw sugar, grazing livestock, non-grazing livestock, forestry, extractive industries,...