oil palms
Equatorial fat source
Oil palms are tropical trees cultivated for their fruit, which yields palm oil—one of the world's most widely used vegetable oils.
The oil appears in foods, cosmetics, and biofuels.
Oil palm plantations have driven massive deforestation in Southeast Asia, making the crop controversial despite its economic importance: Vast tracts of rainforest have been cleared for oil palms.
- frondsDivided leaf blades
- kernelSeed or essential core
- IndonesiaSoutheast Asian archipelago nation
- redPrimary color, warm
- land clearingRemoving growth from terrain
harvesting · plantations · pericarp · orangutans · rhinoceros beetle · milling · refinery · Malaysia · smallholders · plantation workers · bunches · leaf · deforestation · fruit · cosmetics · habitat loss · pressing · equatorial
- palm oilkernel, dura, frond, fronds, trunk
- palm trees
- tropical plantshibiscus, bougainvillea, frangipani, mahogany, banana tree
oil palmsprimary forest
Undisturbed natural woodland
wildlife corridors · natural habitat · rainforest · native forest · old-growth forest
oil, palm, palms, palmist, palmistry, palmate, palmetto, palmar, oleaginous