Tag: palm oil

March 9, 2022

TWS2021: Palm oil plantations reduce migratory bird abundance

Mexican palm oil plantations in Mexico are associated with a lower diversity of birds migrating south from Canada and the United States for the winter. Birds have been declining for...

April 25, 2019

Coming north, blackpoll warblers leave threatened landscape

As blackpoll warblers (Setophaga striata) start to return to the Great Lakes Basin on a stopover to Alaska and northern Canada, attention is turning to their wintering grounds in South...

Rubber plantations
April 29, 2015

Hungry Tire Industry Treads On Southeast Asian Species

The expansion of rubber tree plantations to feed the tire industry could have “catastrophic” impacts on biodiversity in protected parts of Southeast Asia. While rubber plantations have long had a...