Tree Huggers

• Monoculture palm oil production has come at the cost of rainforest habitat, particularly in Malaysia and Indonesia.
• Researchers are conducting experimental trials in Malaysian Borneo to see if native trees can be planted in oil palm plantations without significantly reducing palm oil yields.
• While still in the initial stages, the experiment is so far showing there are no detrimental effects to oil palm growth.
• In fact, interplanting with native forest trees may benefit oil palm, with the researchers finding oil palm trees had more leaf growth in agroforestry plots than in monoculture ones.

Well... it's a start.

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