Palm Oil, Coconut and Soybean Drive More Species Extinction than Previously Thought

Palm oil, coconut and soybean drive more species extinction than previously thought

Oil crop supply chains drive global biodiversity loss -study « Carbon Pulse

The cultivation of oil crops generated a global extinction risk equivalent to the loss of 1.5% of global species by 2020, according to a study that examined the impacts of crop expansion.

Palm, Coconut and Soybean Drive Most of the Biodiversity Loss Hidden in Everyday Products

Open a kitchen cupboard, a bathroom cabinet, a bag of animal feed, and you are looking at a ledger of extinction. The margarine, the lipstick, the bar of soap, the chicken raised on soy meal: nearly all of it traces back to a handful of oil crops grown thousands of miles from where the finished thing gets used. Coconut, oil palm, soybean. Cheap, versatile, everywhere. And, according to a new global accounting, responsible for far more lost speci…