Will oil palm's homecoming spell doom for Africa's great apes?

Current Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 1659-1663

  Wich, Serge A ^a,b   Garcia Ulloa, John ^c   Kühl, Hjalmar S ^d,e   Humle, Tatanya ^f   Lee, Janice S H ^c   Koh, Lian Pin ^g  

^a School of Natural Sciences and Psychology   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELAEIS; HOMINIDAE; PONGO; PONGO PYGMAEUS;

BIOFUEL; PALM OIL; VEGETABLE OIL;

AFRICA; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GORILLA; ORANGUTAN; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PROCEDURES; TREE;

AFRICA; AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOFUELS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GORILLA GORILLA; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PLANT OILS; PONGO; TREES;

EID: 84905003440     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.05.077     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. D.S. Wilcove, X. Giam, D.P. Edwards, B. Fisher, and L.P. Koh Navjot's nightmare revisited: logging, agriculture, and biodiversity in Southeast Asia Trends Ecol. Evol. 28 2013 531 540
2. M.B. Wahid, S. Abdullah, and I. Henson Oil palm - achievements and potential Plant Prod. Sci. 8 2005 7 13
3. U.M. Persson, and C. Azar Preserving the world's tropical forests - a price on carbon may not do Environ. Sci. Technol. 44 2010 210 215
4. E.B. Fitzherbert, M.J. Struebig, A. Morel, F. Danielsen, C.A. Brühl, P.F. Donald, and B. Phalan How will oil palm expansion affect biodiversity? Trends Ecol. Evol. 23 2008 538 545
5. E. Meijaard, and D. Sheil Oil-palm plantations in the context of biodiversity conservation S.A. Levin, Encyclopedia of Biodiversity Second Edition 2013 Academic Press Waltham 600 612
6. S. Wich, Riswan, J. Jenson, J. Refisch, and C. Nellemann Orangutans and the Economics of Sustainable Forest Management in Sumatra 2011 UNEP/GRASP/PanEco/YEL/ICRAF/GRID-Arendal http://www.grida.no/publications/ organgutans-sumatra/
7. S.A. Wich, D. Gaveau, N. Abram, M. Ancrenaz, A. Baccini, S. Brend, L. Curran, R.A. Delgado, A. Erman, and G.M. Fredriksson et al. Understanding the impacts of land-use policies on a threatened species: is there a future for the Bornean orang-utan? PLoS ONE 7 2012 e49142
8. H. Buckland The Oil for Ape Scandal: How Palm Oil Is Threatening Orang-Utan Survival http://www.foe.co.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/oil-for- ape-full.pdf 2005
9. Environmental Investigation Agency The Politics of Extinction: The Orangutan Crisis: The Destruction of Indonesia's Forests 1998 Environmental Investigation Agency London 53
10. Greenpeace Palm Oil's New Frontier: How Industrial Expansion Threatens Africa's Rainforests 2012 Greenpeace Amsterdam
11. L.P. Koh, and J. Ghazoul Spatially explicit scenario analysis for reconciling agricultural expansion, forest protection, and carbon conservation in Indonesia Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107 2010 11140 11144
12. E. Meijaard, D. Buchori, Y. Hadiprakarsa, S.S. Utami-Atmoko, A. Nurcahyo, A. Tjiu, D. Prasetyo, Nardiyono, L. Christie, and M. Ancrenaz et al. Quantifying killing of orangutans and human-orangutan conflict in Kalimantan, Indonesia PLoS ONE 6 2011 e27491
13. G. Yamakoshi Dietary responses to fruit scarcity of wild chimpanzees at Bossou, Guinea: possible implications for ecological importance of tool use Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 106 1998 283 295
14. T. Humle, and T. Matsuzawa Oil palm use by adjacent communities of chimpanzees at Bossou and Nimba Mountains, West Africa Int. J. Primatol. 25 2004 551 581
15. K. Hockings, and T. Humle Best Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Mitigation of Conflict between Humans and Great Apes 2009 IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group Gland
16. IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group Industrial Oil Palm Expansion in Great Ape Habitat in Africa http://www.primate-sg.org/position-statements/ 2014
17. J.M. Linder African primate diversity threatened by "new wave" of industrial oil palm expansion Afr. Primates 8 2013 25 38
18. W.F. Laurance, L.P. Koh, R. Butler, N.S. Sodhi, C.J.A. Bradshaw, J.D. Neidel, H. Consunji, and J. Mateo Vega Improving the performance of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil for nature conservation Conserv. Biol. 24 2010 377 381
19. J. Garcia-Ulloa, S. Sloan, P. Pacheco, J. Ghazoul, and L.P. Koh Lowering environmental costs of oil-palm expansion in Colombia Conserv. Lett. 5 2012 366 375
20. B. Gingold, A. Rosenbarger, I. Muliastra, F. Stolle, I. Sudana, M. Manessa, A. Murdimanto, S. Tiangga, C. Madusari, and P. Douard How to Identify Degraded Land for Sustainable Palm Oil in Indonesia 2012 World Resources Institute Washington, DC http://www.wri.org/publication/identifying-degraded- land-sustainable-palm-oilindonesia
21. F.E. Putz, and K.H. Redford The importance of defining 'forest': Tropical forest degradation, deforestation, long-term phase shifts, and further transitions Biotropica 42 2010 10 20
22. N. McCormick, M. Jenkins, and S. Maginnis Biofuels and Degraded Land: The Potential Role of Intensive Agriculture in Landscape Restoration 2014 IUCN Gland 43
23. Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations FAOSTAT http://faostat3.fao.org/faostat-gateway/go/to/home/E 2013
24. World Bank The World Bank Group Framework and IFC Strategy for Engagement in the Palm Oil Sector 2011 International Finance Corporation Washington, DC 91
25. R. de Leon, T. Garcia, G. Kummel, L. Munden, S. Murday, and L. Pradela Global Capital, Local Concessions: A Data-Driven Examination of Land Tenure Risk and Industrial Concessions in Emerging Market Economies http://www. rightsandresources.org/documents/files/doc-6301.pdf 2013
26. M. Ancrenaz, A. Marshall, B. Goossens, C. van Schaik, J. Sugardjito, M. Gumal, and S. Wich Pongo pygmaeus IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, Version 2013.1 2008 IUCN Gland
27. B. Fruth, J.M. Benishay, I. Bila-Isia, S. Coxe, J. Dupain, T. Furuichi, J. Hart, T. Hart, C. Hashimoto, and G. Hohmann et al. Pan paniscus IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, Version 2013.1 2008 IUCN Gland
28. J.F. Oates, C.E.G. Tutin, T. Humle, M.L. Wilson, J.E.M. Baillie, Z. Balmforth, A. Blom, C. Boesch, D. Cox, and T. Davenport et al. Pan troglodytes IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, Version 2013.1 2008 IUCN Gland
29. M.W.L. Robbins Gorilla beringei IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, Version 2013.1 2008 IUCN Gland
30. I. Singleton, S.A. Wich, and M. Griffiths Pongo abelii IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, Version 2013.1 2008 IUCN Gland
31. P.D. Walsh, C.E.G. Tutin, J.F. Oates, J.E.M. Baillie, F. Maisels, E.J. Stokes, S. Gatti, R.A. Bergl, J. Sunderland-Groves, and A. Dunn Gorilla gorilla IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, Version 2013.1 2008 IUCN Gland
32. IUCN/UNEP The World Database on Protected Areas 2012 UNEP-WCMC Cambridge
33. National Imagery and Mapping Agency Vector Map (VMAP) Level 0 http://egsc.usgs.gov/nimamaps/ 2000
34. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis/FAO Global Agro-Ecological Zones, Version 3.0 2012 International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Laxenburg http://webarchive.iiasa.ac.at/Research/LUC/GAEZv3.0/
35. World Resources Institute Congo Basin Forest Atlases http://www.wri.org/ our-work/project/congo-basin-forest-atlases 2013
36. J. Junker, S. Blake, C. Boesch, G. Campbell, L.d. Toit, C. Duvall, A. Ekobo, G. Etoga, A. Galat-Luong, and J. Gamys Recent decline in suitable environmental conditions for African great apes Divers. Distrib. 18 2012 1077 1091
37. R Development Core Team R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing 2008 R Foundation for Statistical Computing Vienna