Report (Part 4): Sustainable Development Convention 200231 octobre 2002 © ICVolunteers and IBEX, Geneva, Switzerland Contenus Tropical Forest: Palm Oil and SoyTime: 30 October 2002, 16:00-17:00 Location: Salle C3 Presenters/ Participants: Thomas Vellacott, WWF Reporter: Zhenying Wu (ICVolunteers) Languages: English Key words: Tropical forest, Indonesia, WWF, plantation, palm oil The world's forests are being destroyed at an alarming rate. A good part of the burned or logged down forests are being transformed into plantations. Lately, the rapid raise in new palm oil and soy plantations has been identified as a major threat to tropical forests, notably in Indonesia. WWF has launched its Forest Conversion Initiative, whose objective is that by 2005 high conservation value forests, freshwater ecosystems, habitats of key species are no longer threatened by the expansion of palm oil and soy in Indonesia. A very big issue is how to provide an economical alternative to logging for the local population, without which no forest protection initiative can be sustained in time. Making a region sustainable is meant not only in the environmental sense, but also in the social and economical ones. The goal of the presence of WWF at this event in Geneva is to meet companies and other NGOs and build awareness in the general public (since palm oil is not usually associated with forest destruction) Surprising Issues Interesting Questions Publié: 2002-10-31 Mis à jour: 2010-1-05 | ||||