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Nature 451, 16 (3 January 2008) | doi:10.1038/451016a; Published online 2 January 2008

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Strategies and alliances needed to protect forest from palm-oil industry

Oscar Venter1, Erik Meijaard2 & Kerrie Wilson3

  1. The Ecology Centre, School of Integrative Biology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
  2. The Nature Conservancy, Tropical Forest Initiative and Orangutan Conservation Services Program, Balikpapan, East Kalimantan 76100, Indonesia
  3. The Nature Conservancy, 60 Leicester Street, Carlton, 3053, Australia

Lian Pin Koh and David S. Wilcove propose in their Commentary 'Cashing in palm oil for conservation' (Nature 448, 993–994; 2007) that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) should purchase and operate oil-palm plantations, and that they should use the revenue generated to expand the network of private reserves in Indonesia and Malaysia.

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