coconut_oil
1st February 1971
> Feed: Nexus Newsfeed > Title: That coconut oil you love? Species have gone extinct over it, study says > Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 04:00:00 -1000 > Link: https://nexusnewsfeed.com/article/climate-ecology/that-coconut-oil-you-love-species-have-gone-extinct-over-it-study-says/ [image 1] A new study found that coconut oil production, by some measures, is more destructive than palm oil production, with coconuts affecting 20 threatened species per million liters of oil produced, and palm oil only affecting 3.8 species per million liters.Globally, coconut farms occupy 12.3 million hectares (30.4 million acres) of land, about two-thirds the area of oil palm plantations, with most farms located in Indonesia and the Philippines.Instead of positioning coconut oil as a product that should be ... Links:
