Old and New Oil Palms

Old palm oil trees (which have been injected with poisons to kill them) stand without their leaves beside new palm oil trees which have been planted and have begun to grow at 'New Britain Oil Palm Limited', near Kimbe, West New Britain Island. The older trees have been killed off due to them becoming too tall to harvest, and not producing enough fruits.

Unique identifier: GP01N4G

Type: Image

Shoot date: 24/09/2008

Locations: Oceania, Papua New Guinea

Credit line: © Greenpeace / Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

Containers

Shoot:

Deforestation Documentation Papua New Guinea

The Greenpeace ship Esperanza arrived in Jakarta to help launch the Forests for Climate initiative, Greenpeace’s pioneering solution to reduce deforestation, tackle climate change, preserve global biodiversity, and protect the livelihoods of millions of forest-dependent people. Forests for Climate (FFC) is Greenpeace’s landmark proposal for an international mechanism to fund sustainable and lasting reductions of emissions from tropical deforestation in participating countries in order to meet commitments for the second phase of the Kyoto Protocol.
Greenpeace is calling on the Indonesian government to implement an immediate moratorium on all forest conversion, including expansion of oil palm plantations, industrial logging, and other drivers of deforestation.

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