‘It Isn’t Us.’ Palm Oil Cultivators Reject Blame for Mangrove Forest Loss

‘It Isn’t Us.’ Palm Oil Cultivators Reject Blame for Mangrove Forest Loss

First came the findings, now come the quibbles. The findings: Daniel R. Richards and Daniel Friess, two geographers from Britain’s University of Sheffield and Singapore’s National University, respectively, argue in a recently published paper that the primary driver of mangrove forest destruction in Malaysia has been extensive deforestation by palm…